How in the FUCK are these allowed on the roads? I saw one go by me with my own two eyes and it was the BIGGEST thing on a regular old road I’ve ever seen, hands down.
Ah, yes, the apocalypse, where gasoline will be available in abundance and will never ever expire.
They all think they’ll be the warlord running everything and their personal slaves will fetch their gas for them
Ironically in an actual apocalyptic event, this thing would be absolutely less-than-useless
Not even good as a barricade.
Looking fly as fuck stalled out on the side of the road in your luxury BMP.
I present to you: Turbo Kid. The only post-apocalyptic film I have ever seen where they actually use bicycles.
I like the aesthetic but I think that’s a bit too much gore for me these days. Looks like fun ,though.
There’s an alternate history book where one day in 1998 all electronic technology, combustion engines, firearms, and similar technology just stops working for no obvious reasons. Once things stabilize a little one of the factions of survivors equips all their longbow troops with bicycles so they can maneuver quickly where the roads are good, and load their gear on the bicycles to make it easier to transport if they have to go through rougher terrain. The whole book is basically “If the apocalypse happens you’re going to want to be friends with medievalist nerds”.
turbo kid rocked
The ideal apocalypse war car is a stripped down, optimized 1977 Volksvagen diesel Rabbit converted to run on Bio-Diesel, the official hydrocarbon of the post-apocalypse. Capable of 40+mpg in it’s stock configuration, and I’m sure you could push that higher by stripping out extra weight and tuning the engine for efficiency.
Zooming across the wastelands, fighting monsters and saving the innocent
Leaving my mark and the smell of french fries everywhere I go
I have a sketch-book somewhere that was entirely based on “if you had a car after “the apocalypse” what would you actually want?” and it’s all shit like really stripped down hybrid cars with hyper-miler mods, covered in solar panels to power the electric motors to crawl along at a walking pace on sunny days so you wouldn’t use any fuel. I think some of them were sail-cars. Stripped down to be as light as possible so on a day where the wind was high enough you could rig up a big lanteen sail, put the wheels in neutral, and slowly sail down the highway. Others were rigged up so you could have draft animals pull the vehicle, then if you needed to go fast for some reason you could remove the yoke and switch over to using the engine. A couple of them were RVs for flatbed trucks that were basically mobile solar power facilities, just big arrays of solar cells charging batteries for other vehicles.
of course none of this would work long term because high energy capacity batterys are high tech and require rare earth metals and stuff.
dry land sailing is a really cool way to go fast and die young
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind-powered_vehicle
Ooh, that’s cool. There are vehicles that use wind turbines to directly drive the wheels, and you can turn the turbine in to the wind to get power even if you’re going directly against the wind. I hadn’t seen though before.
Where’s my apocalypse movie with this sweet machine?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Blackbird_image.png
Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit apparently there used to be wind-powered rail cars in a few places? I am 100% here for solarpunk wind-sailing trains!
The word punk has any interesting etymology. It started life as a 16th century term for sex worker. Over time it came to mean any criminal or ne’er do well. Punk music got its name from its origins amongst hooligans and anarchists. That’s why the cyberpunk genre got punk appended to it. They were cyber-criminals. Lately when I hear steampunk or biopunk or whatever I wonder where the crime is? Its about an aesthetic more than anything else, kinda like punk music became, heh. But as a hexbear whose mere existence is criminal I have little doubt you’d manage some illegality with your solar trains.
Hexpunk aesthetic
Warlords have failsons too…
I’m positively tickled by the Apocalypse imagery. It’s like somebody unironically watched the Mad Max movies and said God I wish that were me instead of thinking where the
will come from.Gas comes from the gas station!
Come on down to Immorten Joe’s, the finest auto, fuel, and repair shop in the Wasteland!
We have water, snacks, the ever popular mother’s milk, and more for all your hungry wasteland needs! Come pick up our locally sourced ammunition from Bullet Farms, or a rebuilt pre-war SMG for dealing with Vultures.
We pay top dollar for your used vehicles! Come see our selection of finest vehicles for the discerning road warrior.
Remember: You won’t cut your toe at Immorten Joe’s!
The director of MadMax once said that the aesthetic they were going for is something like “Everything is scarce, and because everything is scarce everything is precious”, and that’s reflected in how everything, the cars, the weapons, everyone’s clothes, they’re all very detailed and customized. The machines are priceless and irreplaceable, so if one is damaged they don’t throw it away, they expend as much labor as is needed to get it running again. And once they have it running they customize and adjust everything to be exactly how they want, so when the driver slides in to the seat the machine is like an extension of their body - The clutch handle is just the right distance to naturall fall in to your hand, you’ve added religious symbols and good luck charms, you’ve added decorations so other drivers will know who you are in a fight, you’ve removed all the extra weight and reinforced all the important parts.
And then you get shit like this, that comes out of a workshop, that you’ve never looked under the hood, that’s just completely impractical and useless, That’s an utterly impersonal “status symbol” that you just wrote a check for and will never really use for anything.
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Yeah, i think so. Same idea - the technology and industry to make these things is lost. There will never be any more of them, so each one is priceless.
WH40k used to do it as well, with most space marine armor and weapons being priceless relics hundreds or thousands of years old. Warp-capable spaceships were irreplaceable, Eldar equipment was of great antiquity, the Tech Priests of Mars were hoarding every ancient thing they could get their hands on. Leman Russ tanks might be destroyed, retrieved, and repaired dozens of times. The massive baneblade tanks were truly ancient, and many of the titans are of unknowable antiquity.
It can make for a neat aesthetic. Battletech used it to good effect to explain why the culture of the Mechwarriors is more like ancient knights than modern total-war oriented soldiers. Risking a mech in combat is a huge commitment, better to impose highly formal rules to minimize the risk to the machines, and with the nice bonus of reducing collateral damage.
And that’s why they’re constantly shooting flamethrowers into the sky in the latest one, because everything is so scarce and precious.
No they’re doing that because it’s cool.
Leatherface shredding guitarsolos on a flamethrower is indeed a precious and scarce thing. It’s also just really cool.
The Coma the Doof Warrior is such a cool idea. You’ve got your army of religious zealot soldiers in their war-cars. Most fighting is close in, with thrown weapons, crossbows, or melee. It’s not a shooting war, it’s more like ancient cattle raiders or something. So how do you announce your arrival, cow your enemies, and hype up your troops? A gigantic drum truck with a blind, insane guitarist shredding and unleashing fire!
It’d such a great illustration of how insane the world has become. And, contrary to what many people think, that kind of theatricality and spectacle is done by warlords and irregular armies in the real world. The Liberian civil war is famous for being a nightmare fever dream, with cross dressing soldiers, naked killers, magicians and wizards. Just utterly bizarre and horrifying. Mad Max isn’t really fantasy, it’s just an exaggeration of things that happen in the real world.
The Doof Warrior also continues the theme of disabled people being included in society without question or remark. He appears to have no eyes, possibly a condition he had at birth. No one gives a shit. He shreds, he’s part of the warband, and the War Boys built him an entire goddamn shrine to metal.
The warlords are explicitly rich beyond anyone else’s dreams. This is reflected in how they’re portrayed and in the dialogue and plot. The Bullet Farmer has guns. Lots of guns. While everyone else is using crossbows and dart launchers and hand to hand weapons he’s blazing away with machine guns because he’s rich. He’s the guy who makes the bullets. The People Eater is corpulent. He’s the guy who makes the gasoline. He’s the guy who refines the oil. He’s got a cracking plant built in to his giant limousine tanker. And he’s a bean counter - During the whole chase he’s keeping an exact count of all the machines and fuel used up. And Immortan Joe, of course, has the water. He’s got water, he’s got food. And because of that he has a massive fleet of well equipped vehicles with the soldiers to crew them.
And look at their vehicles. The Giga-Horse, the Bullet Farmers car-tank, the People Eater’s limousine. Rictus Erectus’ monster truck. Even Nux little VWish thingy, it’s his car. He’s modded it to hell and back. He can drive full speed in reverse, or keep going on three tires.
All the detail is baked in to the film. It’s all there.
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The hordes are coming! Brainless
poorsbrownszombies are here to steal your shit! You need to stay safe but mobile. Barricade the doors, weld them shut. Charge over their shambling bodies, let their blood lubricate the axle. You need to survive, you need to protect your family. Bring your ammo, bring your guns, bring your rations, become the atomized hero you were born to be. It’s you and yours against the world. Guzzle the oil, burn the gas, shoot the Other, barricade yourself in, charge in desperation to the next store for loot. They’re coming. They’re coming. They’re coming. You know you can never drive or run fast enough to outlast them forever. They’re here. Rev the engine, burst their skulls under your mighty machine. Here you make your stand! Vomit the lead and fire, breathe in the sulfuric fumes of supremacy! You are a man! Carve your way through the barren wasteland in the name of freedom!WITNESS ME
Motor Spirit
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Yeah nope that wouldn’t even be allowed on the roads in this corner of the planet… I doubt the driver can even see directly in front of the vehicle!
But why does this company even exist, much less these 200k pedestrian death machines? These look like they’ll perform badly both on and offroad too
I like how it’s called the Apocalypse but would be completely useless in any kind of disaster situation
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That’s cool as hell. Please note down their location. If I survive the first couple of days of the rev I want this thing for a command vehicle.
Ooh, for the price of a whole additional car you can get the jet-ski package!
I’m trying to think where you could even use this. Maybe logging roads or something? I feel like the very long wheelbase would make it bad for a lot of kinds of offroading. Don’t get me wrong, I know this thing ever only goes too and from the office.
Yeah I was thinking something like mining or logging. Don’t think I’d want a luxurious interior being mucked up by work boots though. And no one is going to be loading gravel from a bulldozer into the bed of a truck with a paint job worth more than a normal car.
Just yesterday I saw a G Wagon being used for a real job as a tow truck. They’re pretty cool trucks when used as designed.
Edit: I guess the wheels aren’t that crazy big for a functional truck.
they made the 6000 SUX from robocop a real thing
holy shit they took the RAM emblem and flipped the M and rearranged it to say WAR
is that bed liner spray on the logo frame? lmao
and the entire hood - guess it makes a good grippy surface for your war boys to perch on
They’ve got to get that gas efficiency down as far as possible, and that means paying attention to detail. The bedliner generates maximum energy sapping turbulence so you can power all 850 of those horses to get to 85mph in a 65 on the highway.
I’ve actually seen an entire SUV painted(?) in bed liner spray? powder coat? They had indeed covered even the chrome and plastic parts. I wish I had taken a picture.
6000 SUX
Verhoeven is many things, but he’s never wrong.
Ngl it looks cool as shit but also completely useless and incredibly dangerous
lmao they have the mileage listed on there and one is 10 is that even enough to get between gas stations
In America it’s plenty. Capitalism guarantees we have like 3 choices at every intersection.
So after I spend a quarter of a million dollars for a Warlord I have add another couple thousand for the Grizzly diesel package? I don’t even know what that is but I know no self respecting warlord would be without one.
Edit: Check out the live cam. They’re all just standing around. Wasting stupid rich peoples money I approve of at least
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Fuck the G-ride, I want the machines that are making 'em
of course the Dodge Ram version is called “Warlord” and the grill is just the ‘RAM’ logo flipped around to ‘WAR’
rural engineering aesthetics meet car dealership
