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Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 12:15 pm
by Story
6 Wheels, Bearproof, Amphibious, Floats on open water, Proof to -76F....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43053263/ns ... d_gadgets/

http://en.trecol.ru/pokupatelyu/modelnij_ryad/#center

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 1:01 pm
by Morthrai
Zvezda wrote:Have a GAZ Pobeda

That really is a very Russian solution to filling a gap in the market..."We have a car, we have a 4 wheel drive system, and we need a 4 wheel drive car" :)

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 1:03 pm
by Morthrai
Story wrote:6 Wheels, Bearproof, Amphibious, Floats on open water, Proof to -76F....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43053263/ns ... d_gadgets/

I am impressed by this one 8)

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Sun May 22, 2011 7:42 pm
by Morthrai
From south of the Rio Grande, a home made solution to the eternal "can't afford an APC" problem :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13488620

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:34 pm
by Story
So now we know what a Dark Minion posting on the 'net reads like... :?

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:33 pm
by Morthrai
Story wrote:So now we know what a Dark Minion posting on the 'net reads like... :?
The now-deleted spam you refer to was actually from China, a bit of a departure from our usual Russia and Philippines based spam. :twisted:

Anyway, gone!

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 8:38 pm
by Story

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:30 pm
by Story
Bradley teams up with our friends at the LAPD to check the tech on the all new Chevrolet Caprice PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle). From an infrared night vision camera to an automated license plate scanner, this Caprice cop car puts Robocop's '86 Taurus LX to shame.

http://translogic.aolautos.com/2011/05/ ... lnk2|65371

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:11 pm
by Zvezda
The Mad-Max-Ican Truk is great. I remember that one Challange issue had stats for home made APC.
Does Bear Proof equal Werewolf Proof?

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 10:26 am
by Morthrai
I am sure this has been mentioned before somewhere, but here's the latest on the Carbon Motors cruiser, built from the ground up for police use rather than a conversion of an existing vehicle:

http://www.carbonmotors.com/

PS I think it even looks cool 8)

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 1:37 am
by ReHerakhte
Interesting bit about the Chevvy Caprice, it is actually the GM Holden Caprice, designed and built in Australia. It's kind of the luxury version of the Holden Commodore. The Chevvy Caprice starts life in Australia and is imported to & re-badged in the US.

This latest model Caprice is also of the same bodywork as the Holden Statesman, which is a more sedate version of the higher performance Caprice. The Statesman design is built in South Korea as the Daewoo Veritas.
The Holden Caprice is also shipped to the Middle East and re-badged as the Chevrolet Caprice.

That's a fine example for Dark Conspiracy of a trans-national corporation at work

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 10:31 am
by Morthrai
ReHerakhte wrote:Interesting bit about the Chevvy Caprice, it is actually the GM Holden Caprice, designed and built in Australia.

Like the Pontiac GTO, which is the Monaro VXR converted to left-hand drive.
ReHerakhte wrote:That's a fine example for Dark Conspiracy of a trans-national corporation at work

Oddly enough, just yesterday I was looking for a plain, nondescript sort of a car for a DC image I had in mind and I happened across the TATA Estate, which is what happens when you give the specifications of an outdated Mercedes to an Indian-based steel corporation.

Actually, "filing the numbers off" TATA and using them as a megacorp is an idea too :)

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 2:53 pm
by Linden
Morthrai wrote:
Actually, "filing the numbers off" TATA and using them as a megacorp is an idea too :)


Don't forget the Chinese outfit SAIC who are currently knocking out rebadged Rovers.

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 1:42 am
by ReHerakhte
Interesting that you mentioned Tata, I have the vehicle division listed in my collection of corporations for my DC-London campaign. In the real world, the Tata Group is India's largest business group and has multi-national status with the ownership of such vehicle marques as Jaguar, Land Rover and Daewoo commercial vehicles.

The group has many portfolios such as chemical manufacture, communications/IT, coffee growing and electricity generation.
They also have a number of education and research facilities.

Re: Vehicle stats

Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 2:15 pm
by Morthrai
Linden wrote:Don't forget the Chinese outfit SAIC who are currently knocking out rebadged Rovers.

I have written up just such a vehicle for DC though I had a bit of fun with it, and used the Nanjing company's name instead :)