First look at Mad Max: Fury Road vehicles being built!

[MWFV8]

Everything is destroyed. Apart from these railway tracks that look well maintained, that just happened to run to the powerplant of Bartertown, that just happened to be a full functioning truck/train that you could drive off with. WTF!

I have always thought the Bartertown train to be one of the more plausible elements of Thunderdome. Towns are usually created on transportation routes so I've always assumed that Bartertown all started around where that train chose to stop.

[Daz]

with all due respect, but MMBT looked like a logical continuation of the saga. You just can't expect stock supercharged cars in the wasteland 30 years after apocalypse.

Not really IMHO.
Yes, MMBTD was very stylistic, but it logically didn't make sense.
30 years later, and they still have factory produced tires? Yet all the car bodies have to be created from pipes because all the bodies rusted to nothingness?
The amount of maintenance required to keep a plane in the air is possible, but not to maintain a few cars?
We have a stock of tires that didn't perish after 30 years??

Nope. It could have made sense, but for me it was ruined by
a: the kids
b: slapstick for the sake of slapstick
c: Production of methane does not explain avgas for the plane
d: Bruce Spence recast as a pilot (yeah, Millers little in joke that make no sense. So now lets bring back the Nightrider for number 4. No explanation how or why. Yeah, that'll be funny)
e: tires
f: bad acting from Tina Turner.

A little internal logic and consistency is not too much to ask if they respect the audience.

[Copwatch]

Nope. It could have made sense, but for me it was ruined by
a: the kids

...why? I mean, there's little about them that breaks the apocalyptic tone of the second or first film - while there's nothing about them that's necessarily violent, a great deal of the harshness of their world is fully acknowledged. Miller doesn't paint them as Goonies-esque characters, which is the impression I always get from a lot of these posts.

b: slapstick for the sake of slapstick

There's always been a good deal of visual slapstick within the Mad Max films - especially the second film. They owe a great deal to Buster Keaton's silent movies, and Harold Lloyd's - Miller makes these inspirations obvious with the final chase sequence, which is conducted entirely like something out of The General, complete with piany-music.

c: Production of methane does not explain avgas for the plane

Isn't this kind of - nitpicking, though? I mean, who cares about this, honestly?

d: Bruce Spence recast as a pilot (yeah, Millers little in joke that make no sense. So now lets bring back the Nightrider for number 4. No explanation how or why. Yeah, that'll be funny)

Hmmmmm.

e: tires

You know, it's entirely possible that they did, in fact, make those tires. But again, this is kind of nit-picking, really.

f: bad acting from Tina Turner.

It's pretty theatrical, but I don't see how that makes it bad. She does a lot with that character that many other post-apocalyptic films w/ similar characters often ignore, when they should be taking heed.

[roadwarriormfp]

c: Production of methane does not explain avgas for the plane

Avgas is only automotive petrol with a higher lead content and a few additives for bacteria etc...
In the good old days Avgas was available with an octane rating of 80, up to a rating of 130.
These days only 110LL is available here in Australia.

Most piston engine aircraft will happliy run on automotive fuel as long as the octane rating is the same.
It just means it'll wear out quicker if the lead content is lower.

The bigger issue is finding spare parts, especially spare cyclinders as the 6 cyclinder TCM as fitted to that plane was prone to cracking! He would need to learn fast how to change cyclinders out in the field....

At the end of the day its just a movie.....

[biolumen]

More rumors. The following was posted to an Australian Ford forum today.

Went to the pub last night and got into a conversation with a bloke who said he was working on Mad Max 4. I thought he was full of it until he showed me some footage from his iphone that showed a metal finished xb coupe with a massive blower and jacked up rear end driving around what looked to be a parking lot.

A quizzed him a bit further as he was well under the weather. He told me the following:

The movie is being shot out at Broken Hill and an English actor whose last name is Harley I think is playing Max. They have 6 Coupe's 4 of which will be finished in metal as the story in the movie goes there is no more paint left in the world and as there is no water, so metal doesn't rust. (Thats what he told me). The story will start out with a coupe done up like the original. Mel Gibson will not be making a cameo.

I said to the bloke these Coupes were rare it would be a shame to trash them and they must have been expensive to buy 6. He said they have $250 million to spend and that wasn't a problem. $250 million will go a long way in Broken Hill I would think.

He showed me a couple of other pictures of vehicles to be used in film one was a 30's Ford style hot rod with twin blowers on it (his words) and two stripped down trucks that looked like tripped down airport trucks.

Mad Max is one of my favourite films I hope they don't screw 4 up and I hope they treat the Coupes with some love.

Clinton

I'm pretty sceptical about stuff like this. The guy wasn't the type that was into cars and was an "arty" type so for him to have video of an xb coupe on his phone was unusual. I hope they do the films justice but I really hope they didn't junk any genuine xb coupes. I got the impression a few of the locals will be in the film.

Yeah, big grain of salt and all that, but I find it curious that an earlier rumor had someone getting a glimpse of 5 or 6 Interceptors in various stages of construction.

[Morrisminor]

two stripped down trucks that looked like tripped down airport trucks.

Nice! You can make cool machines from those aircraft tractors...

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I found this pic of the UTE a while back. If its sitting on display in a car show then its unlikely it has anything to do with the actual production.

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[Daz]

They have 6 Coupe's 4 of which will be finished in metal as the story in the movie goes there is no more paint left in the world and as there is no water, so metal doesn't rust. (Thats what he told me).

They'd better have a better premise than that!

What do people drink?
The human body is 70+% water, so dehydration would occur pretty quickly.
Petrol contains water as well...it is liquid.
Oh, and with no water, the tire will perish within weeks.

...and I thought MMBTD was woeful, and Water World worse. Maybe I'd better start expecting something equal to Battlefield Earth *sigh*

[Foxtrot X-Ray]

maybe someone else touched on this but....how is it the last v8 interceptor is suddenly not the last. i mean i love it's back but it's a continuity issue to say the least

AFAIK the whole 'last v8' thing is just all fanlore based on interpreting the mechanics comment in Road Warrior. Although there could be more evidence to support it that I'm perhaps unaware of.

Just taking quotes from two movies at face value.

"One of our V-8's" - Sarse or Scuttle, MM1
"She's the Last of the V-8's! - Barry, MM1
"Last of the V-8 Interceptors, a piece of history" - Mechanic, MM2

Maybe there were a great many MORE of these cars in MFP service, but most of us find that the quotes above lead us to the idea that the car was Unique, Built for Max.
We certainly don't see any others like it in the first two movies.

[roadwarriormfp]

maybe someone else touched on this but....how is it the last v8 interceptor is suddenly not the last. i mean i love it's back but it's a continuity issue to say the least

AFAIK the whole 'last v8' thing is just all fanlore based on interpreting the mechanics comment in Road Warrior. Although there could be more evidence to support it that I'm perhaps unaware of.

Just taking quotes from two movies at face value.

"One of our V-8's" - Sarse or Scuttle, MM1
"She's the Last of the V-8's! - Barry, MM1
"Last of the V-8 Interceptors, a piece of history" - Mechanic, MM2

Maybe there were a great many MORE of these cars in MFP service, but most of us find that the quotes above lead us to the idea that the car was Unique, Built for Max.
We certainly don't see any others like it in the first two movies.

Max's particular car was built for him, to keep him from leaving.
Remember that the Night Riders Monaro was also a "Pursuit Special".
Which means other cars were also built for other officers.
Though given the fact the budget was limited, they would be rare indeed.

[MWFV8]

Thanks for the extra info. All I'm trying to point out is that criticising the new movies continuity based around fan interpretation is unfair.

While I agree it seems highly unlikely a very similar looking Interceptor could exist, that's not to say it's impossible or wrong if one does. We have to give the story writers a chance to explain it.