Recently
the world has been presented with the next chapter in Mad Max movies
franchise – a new film “Mad Max: Fury Road” and it's been a
splash of action and car races for life!
This
movie shows us a post-Apocalyptic world, full of risky adventures,
dangerous people and quite possibly the most explosive,
adrenaline-fueled car chases of late!
The
movie opens with an extremely high-speed chase into the desert as Max
(Tom Hardy) strives to escape a band of crazy white-painted War Boys
hunting his Interceptor coupe. The next two hours you will spend
glued to the screen fascinated by the non-stop insane car races, high
speed chases and constant tension for the events will never stop
evolving, dragging you more into this mad world of post-Apocalyptic
future.
The
cars in Mad Max are absolutely gorgeous and we can say that they
alone could make the movie a hit, as they're so unique and totally
awesome! We can give our thanks to Colin Gibson, who was responsible
for creating these beasts, these
pearls of automotive industry. The cars
totally have personalities of their own and give an impression about
their owner, too. Cars in this post-Apocalyptic desert wasteland are
viewed as your weapons and your god.
“No
one taught me about cars,” Gibson shares. “But I knew I wanted to
find things that were beautiful. No matter how horrific the
circumstance that doesn’t mean you aren’t trying to create
something beautiful. We just wanted to find something iconic,
something worth salvaging.”
The
cars in the movie are all about surviving in hard desert conditions
of the new world and it's hard conditions, so you will not find
nothing fancy here – only hard-to-kill metallic beasts. Gibson
points out: “Let’s be honest,” he says. “Nobody is going to
schlep a Camry halfway across the desert.” So all the cars in the
movie are vintage and that adds to the stunning appearance and looks
most impressive.
For
the main story line, Gibson created 88 final cars, each with its own
story and team of mechanics.
“There
were cars that would only drive in reverse, and some had to snap in
half,” Gibson says. Many of the wide-range shots were filmed with
helicopters and drones at up to 100 kilometers (62 miles) per hour.
All the stunts were real.
“The
camera department was terrified,” he says. “When you have 80 cars
flying at 80-km per hour, occasionally you have some that don’t
keep up. We destroyed more than half of those in the actual making of
the film.”
But,
due o the professionalism of the team and the their agility there are
no injuries to report about during the film-making process, save from
some occasional bruises: “We had a lot of chapped lips,” Gibson
says, laughing. “I made the mistake of not putting in windscreens.”
Mad
Max's Interceptor
Max
still drives his black 1974 XB Ford Falcon Coupe made famous in the
first films. It looks as impressive as ever and even gets some new
devices to improve speed and power, like a massive new engine, new
chassis, it also gets buffing to a matte silver.
Furiosa's
War Rig
It's
driven by bionic-armed Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and they
both make for a spectacular sight. The car is a Czechoslovakian Tatra
and Chevy Fleetmaster fused together into a six-wheel-drive
18-wheeler powered with twin V8 engines, also possessing a long,
bulky fuel tank and a fuel pod trailer hanging off the end. Welded to
the hull are Volkswagen Beetle and Track cabin shells that are like
mobile forts for the War Boys to hang onto during supply runs and
battle missions. The rig also has racks of tools and concealed
weapons along its entire body, along with such details as a wirework
steering wheel affixed with a skull, all very impressive.
“I
don’t think there’s anything Charlize couldn’t do,” Gibson
says. “She didn’t always have to be responsible for driving it,
particularly when it was going over 80 km per hour, but she most
certainly did drive it.”
The
People Eater's Mercedes Limousine
The
perfect car for Gas Town's fat bureaucrat is a stretch Mercedes limo
with lattice cut windows. It all tells about excess in everything.
The People Eater has mounted dozens of fancy car grills on his car
that depict everyone he has consumed.
Immortan
Joe's Gigahorse
Joe’s
car is made of two 1959 Cadillac Devilles split, widened, and mounted
with jacked-up fins along the side and rears. It's a car made for a
tyrant. The car boasts a custom gearbox, with two V16 engines and
two-meter-high double-wide wheels. It also has a whaler's harpoon and
a flamethrower along the rear.
Gibson
says the tail of the 1959 Cadillac stood out to him as something
exceptionally beautiful and worth salvaging. “In a world where
nobody had one of anything, it seemed a fait accompli that he would
have a pair of 1959 coupe DeVilles,” Gibson says. “We spent two
months making them operational.”
Doof
Warrior's Doof Wagon
This
is possibly the most crazy and insane motor of them all. Warner
Brothers calls it a “sonic carmageddon,” which describe it well
enough. It sports speaker-stacked, guitar-thrashed monstrosity style,
meant to rally the troops in the way drummers marched with soldiers
in ancient battles. Possesses a supercharged V8 engine with a mobile
stage, a wall of speakers and sub-woofers, and air conditioning ducts
meant to drive home the beat of the accompanying Taiko drummers.
The
Buzzard Tribe's Spiked Jalopies and the Buzzard Excavator
Again,
no spoilers, but these tribes drive things that would crush,
puncture, and tear, and tunnel underground. The Buzzard Excavator was
built from a M.A.N. 6X6 tractor and has 1,757 steel spikes all over
its body.
Nux's
Chevrolet Coupe
War
Boy owns a hot car: a Chevy 5-door coupe with a super-turbocharged,
nitrous-boosted, steel coil, V8 engine. The whole thing shows off
canted wheels and swooping exhaust pipes. It even has details of
things Nux picked up in his short life, such as a doll-face steering
wheel.
“Because
he was a young man, he was screaming out for a young man’s hot
rod,” Gibson says. “The '32 Deuce coupe is the perfect little hot
rod to drive to Valhalla—everything we did to that car was to
fetishize it.”
Rictus
Erectus's Bigfoot
The
slow-brained son of the Warlord himself drives a 1940s-era Fargo
truck equipped with a harpoon, a belt-driven machine gun, and a
supercharged V8 engine. The 66-inch, all-terrain tires and heavy
axles are taken from a military supertanker.
The
Bullet Farmer's Valiant Tank
The
Bullet Farmer drives a 1970s-era Valiant Chassis welded to the body
of a US Ripsaw Tank sardonically named "the Peacemaker." It
has a machine gun, tank treads, and a torpedo slated over a
water-cooled Merlin V8 engine. It also has mounted aviation parts, a
sharp mouth of bullets, and a huge armory behind.
The
Rock Riders' Yamaha Motorcycles
The
rock riders appear in the movies driving Gas Gas and Yamaha
motorcycles made with supercharged weaponized caltrops.
War
Boys' Claw Cars and the Ploughboy
The
Ploughboy is an EH wagon jacked onto an off-road frame and then
rigged with harpoons and hydraulic ploughs, a total destruction
machine.
“We
had dozens of professional drivers make these cars work—they made
the cars sing,” Gibson says. “But of course, you do lose some
along the way. It’s the nature of war.”
And for the dessert, the video of the official trailer to get a better view of these beauties in motion.
