After the fall of Civilization

[SVT32V]

this might be the vehicle of choice. For over $100K and that much weight, it should come with a hemi or at least supercharge that minvan engine
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/09q4/the_hard_way_to_hemingway_we_drive_a_120_000_jeep_earthroamer_-feature






Not sure how useful a toilet will be at that point, but the shower might prove useful.

[the Teuton]

Update 12/09: Owner Bill Swails tells us that EarthRoamer went into Chapter 7 bankruptcy but has emerged as "Xpedition Vehicle Service, LLC," a company that services and manufacturers EarthRoamers, whose trademarked name they've somehow kept. Both the Jeep- and F-350-based EarthRoamers are still being serviced and assembled for sale.

The Jeep J8 would have been a better platform for a car like this -- and that's only $50k for what would probably cost more than that to replicate.

[SVT666]

Well, I want one.

[Galaxy]

An Austrian company Action Mobile offers products for this niche.









Granted they could use a new interior designer but that is fixable.

[Galaxy]

Although quite frankly after the fall I would feel safer in something like this.

[SVT32V]

Although quite frankly after the fall I would feel safer in something like this.

You might do better in this one.

[S204STi]

Although quite frankly after the fall I would feel safer in something like this.

That with a CIWS mounted would be pretty great for post-apocalyptic living.  Just stock it ahead of time with imperishable supplies and then only make landfall on known safe coasts with your rifle to hunt for food, or mount a fishing rig to be completely independent.  

Oh, or this!

[Xer0]

An Austrian company Action Mobile offers products for this niche.

Granted they could use a new interior designer but that is fixable.

Hmm, that looks like quite a good niche 

[Galaxy]

You might do better in this one.

Even if civilization has a whole has collapsed, that's no excuse to personally give up a civilized life style. 

[Laconian]

I would definitely go with the Peregrine Falcon. I don't want to have to fight the Smokers every time I need to get my fuel tank refilled.

[Galaxy]

I would definitely go with the Peregrine Falcon. I don't want to have to fight the Smokers every time I need to get my fuel tank refilled.

Which is why I would choose a sail boat. Yes I know that the hydraulics on modern yachts are energy hogs,  but one can re-rig for manual deployment.

If the pesky energy problem would not be an an issue in a post apocalypse world then this would be worth a consideration.







Top speed is nearly 70mph, but the fuel consumption at that speed is almost 1000 gallons per hour. 

[Laconian]

I bet that thing could house its own nuclear reactor. Energy problems, solved!

I'm reading a book called Snow Crash, which features a villain that rides on a motorcycle with a warhead sidecar that is set to detonate should he die. I would have a similar system with my nuclear yacht. Nobody would mess with me in the places where my boat is moored.

[Pommes-T]

I'd get one of these instead!  

[Rupert]

In the post-apocalyptic world (assuming it's just a regular apocalypse and not a Cougspocalypse), you want an armored nuclear-powered ship big enough to hold a helicopter, a few useful people (mechanics, doctors, gunners, etc.), nuclear fuel processing, fishing rigs, guns, some land vehicles of a few sizes. As long as you're the biggest thing out there, and don't fuck with other people, your society should survive.

Or, just go with a small boat and an ATV, and carry a couple of people and some guns.

[Laconian]

What would a post-Cougspocalyptic world look like, and what kind of vehicle would you need to survive in it?

[Rupert]

No one survives.

[SVT666]

No one survives.

Only Liberals survive and they don't like cars.

[Raza]

Give me a Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon hardtop. 

[Eye of the Tiger]

[2o6]

What would a post-Cougspocalyptic world look like, and what kind of vehicle would you need to survive in it?

V6 AT Accords.

[the Teuton]

BTW, our Enterprise had a Wrangler Unlimited with the freedom top the other day. I so wanted to drive that.

[Vinsanity]

as cool as living in a decked-out mega-yacht in a post-apocalyptic world seems, you would have to arm yourself to the teeth to protect yourself, being an inevitable target for pirates. you would most definitely need a crew to operate that kind of firepower, in which case there's always at least a slight risk of a mutiny.

surviving the fall of civilization as a renegade lone wolf type, I would opt for something like this:



with all the features of the Earthroamer Jeep. and the A-Team paint job

[Vinsanity]

come to think of it, I think an Escalade with a plow attached to the front is more my flavor

[r0tor]

nuclear powered submarine please...

[Submariner]

Fuck all of that.



If it were me, I'd throw on a couple more CIWS - 20 or so.  Keep a small wing of aircraft, and have at least 30 tactical nukes...or what the hell, the absolute biggest nukes I can fit onto a missile an
F/A-18 can handle.

The Westinghouse nuclear reactor has 140,000 shaft horsepower, and doesn't need to be "refueled" for 15+ years.  And, to appease the few remaining hippies/greenies, I'll keep all aircraft below deck and turn all areas not dedicated to landing/launching aircraft into a wind/solar farm with organic vegetables growing in between.

Brilliant! 

[J86]

I like the Waterworld tri!

[J86]

Although quite frankly after the fall I would feel safer in something like this.

It's so crazy that Phocea was sailed single-handed.

[Catman]

I'd get one of these instead!  

You'll be out of fuel in a few hours.

[280Z Turbo]

Fuck all of that.



If it were me, I'd throw on a couple more CIWS - 20 or so.  Keep a small wing of aircraft, and have at least 30 tactical nukes...or what the hell, the absolute biggest nukes I can fit onto a missile an
F/A-18 can handle.

The Westinghouse nuclear reactor has 140,000 shaft horsepower, and doesn't need to be "refueled" for 15+ years.  And, to appease the few remaining hippies/greenies, I'll keep all aircraft below deck and turn all areas not dedicated to landing/launching aircraft into a wind/solar farm with organic vegetables growing in between.

Brilliant! 

Can you pick me up after the Cougspocalypse? I want to stay on your boat.

[S204STi]