There was no Interceptor production line.flightsuit wrote:roadwarriormfp wrote:
Sigh .... there is only ONE Interceptor built for Max. By this i mean ONE Black XB Falcon hardtop. Im not referring other cars built for other drivers.
It was specially built for him to stay on.
And if you want to be picky its actually a "Pursuit special"
So again, only ONE Interceptor was built.
One interceptor was specially modified for Max, but that doesn't mean there was only one interceptor, or even only one Falcon XB-based interceptor.
The mere fact that MM2 contains the line, "Last of the V8 interceptors; woulda been a shame to blow it up" proves that interceptors were common enough in pre-pockyclipse civilization that your average gearhead would recognize one when he saw it.
You are reading into the line the wrong way.
In the Mad Max world V8 production had ceased before the events of MM1.
Hence when Barry says "Shes the last of the V8s"... literally meant it was the last production V8 to be built.
The MFP modified what ever car it could get a hold of, that why you see The March Hare XA Falcon as an Interceptor.
The later model XB Pursuit car (both with the same paint scheme)
The Maxs XB Interceptor (yellow) with a different paint scheme.
The nightrider Monaro "pursuit special" on metho different paint scheme
And Maxs specially made XB 2 door... all of these cars were different because they were limited in their budget and so would be buying anything they could when they had money. (I do not enjoy wasting money.... goodbye and good luck).
In the Mad Max novel there was only some 65 officers nationwide who worked for the MFP.
I think the original number was about 80, but at the time of the events of "Max" it was down to that figure.
This would mean at best 50 cars total in the MFP (some drive as single , some would drive as a team of two).
The line in MM2 (which remember is wrong) gives Maxs car the name of "Interceptor" when it was a Pursuit Special in MM1, just like the Monaro which was also a Pursuit special.
So the term "last of the V8 Interceptors" is a reference to literally the LAST V8 production car which had been modded into an Interceptor. And how would he know this? Again the MM1 world people were broke, jobs rare, fuel even rarer and expensive. Who could afford a V8? Not many people at all and anyone modding a car with huge power either had to be a cop or a criminal.
This is again another example as well of Millers "continuity issues" in all of the movies. Hence why hes said hes never really made the mad max movies to be sequels to each other, but stand alone films.
