Possible pictures of actual Fury Road vehicles
Re: Possible pictures of actual Fury Road vehicles
Furycars, I believe his name is he helped build the cars for the movie, confirmed it was an automatic.
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Perhaps it was damaged, punctured, rusted through, etc. Or, in a world with very little fuel, it would make sense to dump any unnecessary weight. Those look to be 50-100 gallons each. Max has probably a 20 gallon gas tank, plus 50-100 gallons in each of the auxiliary tanks. If Max never encounters a cache of more than enough gallons of gas to justify two spare tanks, then the extra tank would be unnecessary weight and space.flightsuit wrote:I wonder if the switch from dual fuel tanks to one fuel tank will ever be explained?
Or as others suggested, this car isn't exactly the same. It has a different supercharger/blower. Other subtle changes. So, it's a reboot and just different.
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As for the vehicles of the MM series...
The movie has appeared to go from real world survival of terrible situation and evil bad guys, to an exercise in vanity and bigger and badder makes better mentality. Max was eating dog food in MM2. The was minimal vanity in MM1, MM2, MM3. You might see a small skull painted, or a snake painted on a door, or some small graffiti painted here and there... A small skull mounted to a hood... We have now gone to total vanity and impractical mode with MM4.
The more outlandish the vehicles, the less plausible, reasonable, and realistic the film becomes as it slowly becomes a caricature of itself.
Yes, I get it. These guys are gear-heads. They like to work on cars, tinker, scavenge, etc. to make the ultimate vehicles. The better the car, the better the survival rate. And you would need a vehicle capable of driving in the desert, so you'd need a big engine with big tires.
In MM1 the gang were mostly motorbikes and there still was fuel being made and transported for theft. In MM2 the gang was mostly motorbikes, light dune buggies, and some cars and light trucks. All rather fuel efficient, and made sense.
In MM3, they were using large methane driven vehicles. And they had a town where these could be made. They weren't out chasing around for fuel, and it made sense.
But in MM4 it appears that there is still a war for fuel. So consider this... there is a cost/benefit analysis and a finite number of parts and stuff. Monster trucks burn about 1-2 gallons of fuel per mile driven. If your gang has say 5 monster truck vehicles, semi-trucks, etc. and you go on a 100 mile chase/drive/etc, you've burned 500 gallons of irreplaceable gas... You could not survive long if that was your business model.
Also, just looking at the painted silver Max car... I can think of no plausible explanation unless it was painted pre-war. I understand these guys worship chrome. But unless they raided a paint factory in the desert, the mere access to paint would be nil. Fixing the rolled BoB would be possible with unlimited spare parts, special tools, time, motivation, etc.
In a world with little water, little food, etc. your every resource would be preserved. Having teams of guys manufacture and weld big spikes all over the car seems like something that a 10 year old suggested but no adult supervised or approved the decision. It looks neat-o, but is just absolutely so stupid and impractical as to not be included in the film. The resources to do that (the welder, the fuel to run the generator, the raw materials, the grinder to make the big spikes, etc.) would simply be cost prohibitive.
Same with the Gigahorse and some of these other preposterous vehicles. Simply unrealistic. This isn't an episode of 'pimp my ride.' In my view each vehicle would be practical, efficient, and reasonable.
Consider the lifespan of these vehicles, being run hard in dusty 100 degree daily heat and 50 degree nights, with no reliable new oil, clean fuel, clean lubricants, etc. A year. Two years. Five years???
I simply think that the directors have really created a caricature that will be a world that will be hard to accept as reasonable or plausible. And that's a shame given the first movies.
The movie has appeared to go from real world survival of terrible situation and evil bad guys, to an exercise in vanity and bigger and badder makes better mentality. Max was eating dog food in MM2. The was minimal vanity in MM1, MM2, MM3. You might see a small skull painted, or a snake painted on a door, or some small graffiti painted here and there... A small skull mounted to a hood... We have now gone to total vanity and impractical mode with MM4.
The more outlandish the vehicles, the less plausible, reasonable, and realistic the film becomes as it slowly becomes a caricature of itself.
Yes, I get it. These guys are gear-heads. They like to work on cars, tinker, scavenge, etc. to make the ultimate vehicles. The better the car, the better the survival rate. And you would need a vehicle capable of driving in the desert, so you'd need a big engine with big tires.
In MM1 the gang were mostly motorbikes and there still was fuel being made and transported for theft. In MM2 the gang was mostly motorbikes, light dune buggies, and some cars and light trucks. All rather fuel efficient, and made sense.
In MM3, they were using large methane driven vehicles. And they had a town where these could be made. They weren't out chasing around for fuel, and it made sense.
But in MM4 it appears that there is still a war for fuel. So consider this... there is a cost/benefit analysis and a finite number of parts and stuff. Monster trucks burn about 1-2 gallons of fuel per mile driven. If your gang has say 5 monster truck vehicles, semi-trucks, etc. and you go on a 100 mile chase/drive/etc, you've burned 500 gallons of irreplaceable gas... You could not survive long if that was your business model.
Also, just looking at the painted silver Max car... I can think of no plausible explanation unless it was painted pre-war. I understand these guys worship chrome. But unless they raided a paint factory in the desert, the mere access to paint would be nil. Fixing the rolled BoB would be possible with unlimited spare parts, special tools, time, motivation, etc.
In a world with little water, little food, etc. your every resource would be preserved. Having teams of guys manufacture and weld big spikes all over the car seems like something that a 10 year old suggested but no adult supervised or approved the decision. It looks neat-o, but is just absolutely so stupid and impractical as to not be included in the film. The resources to do that (the welder, the fuel to run the generator, the raw materials, the grinder to make the big spikes, etc.) would simply be cost prohibitive.
Same with the Gigahorse and some of these other preposterous vehicles. Simply unrealistic. This isn't an episode of 'pimp my ride.' In my view each vehicle would be practical, efficient, and reasonable.
Consider the lifespan of these vehicles, being run hard in dusty 100 degree daily heat and 50 degree nights, with no reliable new oil, clean fuel, clean lubricants, etc. A year. Two years. Five years???
I simply think that the directors have really created a caricature that will be a world that will be hard to accept as reasonable or plausible. And that's a shame given the first movies.
Re: Possible pictures of actual Fury Road vehicles
Jesus do you have to ruin every thread?
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I suspect most of you couldn't survive the hint of a MM world, given your feelings get hurt so easily by mere dissenting views...Bomber wrote:Jesus do you have to ruin every thread?
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Actually, most of the marauder vehicles in "Mad Max 2" were mostly cars, trucks, and buggies. The bikes only made up a small number of the vehicles in comparison. The 'Dogs of War' were made up of several different gangs under the leadership of Lord Humongous.
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If you read anything I wrote earlier that I thought the idea of the silver car being Max's car rebuilt would be a dumb aspect of the movie and months ago in this thread I gave my reasons why. Dissenting views are fine but being a whiney bitch about EVERYTHING just brings an awesome board like this to read news and share ideas down. Every forum has you. That guy. This one didn't and you had to come along and ruin it. There isn't a single realistic car in MM2 or BTD. Even Max's car wouldn't last long with a blown V8 and the 2 different engines in the ridiculous Lone Wolf car would tear it apart working against each other out of sync.leadcounsel wrote:I suspect most of you couldn't survive the hint of a MM world, given your feelings get hurt so easily by mere dissenting views...Bomber wrote:Jesus do you have to ruin every thread?
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I had read what you (or someone) wrote and did agree. Why are you so hostile? Why are you taking my views so darn personal...?Bomber wrote:If you read anything I wrote earlier that I thought the idea of the silver car being Max's car rebuilt would be a dumb aspect of the movie and months ago in this thread I gave my reasons why. Dissenting views are fine but being a whiney bitch about EVERYTHING just brings an awesome board like this to read news and share ideas down. Every forum has you. That guy. This one didn't and you had to come along and ruin it. There isn't a single realistic car in MM2 or BTD. Even Max's car wouldn't last long with a blown V8 and the 2 different engines in the ridiculous Lone Wolf car would tear it apart working against each other out of sync.leadcounsel wrote:I suspect most of you couldn't survive the hint of a MM world, given your feelings get hurt so easily by mere dissenting views...Bomber wrote:Jesus do you have to ruin every thread?
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kennerado wrote:yes its an auto because apparently Hardy can't drive a stick from what I heard....
Cheers. No biggie, it makes sense that it would have been easier and cheaper to find an automatic over the manual version. Guess there aren't any interior shots used in the final cut. It all comes together now with those early reports of a number of interceptors being unloaded at the docks in Namibia, a hero, a roller and a sliver special it would seem. Finding three XB/XC Coupes isn't any easy task even with a film budget. Good luck after May 2015.Bomber wrote:Furycars, I believe his name is he helped build the cars for the movie, confirmed it was an automatic.