Meanwhile, in SW Florida [OC]
What is that thing? Why is that thing? It looks like the vehicles from Aliens. On the windshield, there's a decal that reads "Apocalypse 6x6."
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What is that thing? Why is that thing? It looks like the vehicles from Aliens. On the windshield, there's a decal that reads "Apocalypse 6x6."
Notice what you don't see: Any scratches or dirt on it nor mud on any of it's 6 tires. Total pavement princess.
Yeah, like, put that shit in the mud where it belongs you giant ass pussy.
I doubt a custom build can manage a decent 6x6 setup, so it's probably terrible offroad.
Plus it would only be good in flat, open spaces, too big and too long of a wheelbase, the breakover angle sucks, and the approach angle does as well with the stupid grille.
It's an interesting build, but it's probably more art than function.
Have you been to Florida?
Even flat places have obstacles, otherwise why go offroading?
It's on standby for the apocalypse. You don't want to use it up beforehand.
I could give them the benefit of doubt and say it's new and a Christmas present, but even if that's the case it will likely never go off road once (maybe a gravel road if they're feeling adventurous)
Yep, was gonna say that.
It even has a cute little wreathed archway it drives through on every entry and exit from the driveway, awww!
If it does get dirty, it will be because it can't fit in the garage.
It exists because many people have more money than brains. As for the decal, what you have there is the 2024 Apocalypse Juggernaut 6x6 . My guess is that the owner is probably 5' 9" and 300 lbs gravy seal with 30 guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition who thinks he's going to take over Florida when society collapses.
The rugged individualist of the gated community.
If society collapses, if sure his survival instincts will kick in and he will try to buy something else.
If society collapses where is the gas for that thing coming from? Wouldn't an electric car and some solar panels be an objectively better apocalypse vehicle?
Yes, exactly. You need a stable society to run oil refineries and distribute the gasoline to every community. Portable solar panels may be a trickle of energy, but it's still something to juice up an EV that only requires sun. Some EV can also power an extension cord, so they're a mobile back up battery.
So much this!
If you've got an electric vehicle you can charge it with anything really.
Solar panels, hydro, wind, a generator, etc
The perfect apocalypse vehicle load out IMO is an electric car (perhaps even an electric van/box truck), electric dual sport motorcycle, and a bicycle.
Kind of, but not really. There are specific requirements in order to charge, not hard to meet on grid, but can be difficult in a homemade setup
Yeah high enough voltage/current is tough unless you have a decent off grid capable home solar setup.
Most home solar inverters turn off when the grid loses power so they don’t backfeed electricity and kill any linemen.
Chevy Volt. Runs full electric until it's out, then uses gas. the only real problem is the 40 mile electric range.
The brand is actually called Apocalypse? Wow 🤦
Even better, it’s not even manual, the thing is a fucking automatic
Also known as a "loot drop" for the who actually will take over when society collapses
Googling that truck name appears to show they sell for $250k-$260k. I can think of better things to spend that kind of money on.
They may sell for that new (to people with crayon-stained teeth), but they seem to hold approximately 18% of their resale value after one year. Here's one selling as-new for $48k.
https://miltrade.com/product/2024-apocalypse-juggernaut-6x6-1763296142
It will probably not shock you to learn its for sale by a 40 year old serviceman, who is also listing an $8000 unmanned surveillance drone.
And then when a group of anarchists just hose his entire house and car with multiple rusty AKs he'll be looking up from Hell like "HOW DID I LOSE THAT THEY CHEATED". Altho, having that amount of guns and ammo doesn't really indicate gravy seal bullshit, if you go to the range often the ammo literally evaporates super fast. But that truck having no signs of being used off-road does clearly indicate that.
First one to go (and first to run out of fuel)
20k rounds and 30 guns...shit I've got triple that in 22lr alone. Round count and how many guns you own is a poor metric for gravy seal level bullshit.
This dude probably has a gun or two and a few boxes of ammo. Most who pretend to be billy badass don't actually have much in the way of firearms because they don't actually go to the range, just like this truck is never going to see anything more than Florida paved roads.
LOL those pictures make it look like a cheap kids toy.
I suspect that that is exactly what it is.
I love seeing trucks and cars that are supposedly for the apocalypse. Do you seriously think we're going to have gas in the apocalypse??? Do you not realize the insane supply chain that needs to exist for you to have gas in your car? You can't store gas, it goes bad pretty dang quick you dumb fuck. What's your plan?
This is why my "shit hits the fan" vehicle is a 1982 diesel Mercedes.
That thing will run on anything as fuel. I've tried running it on old used motor oil, used hydraulic oil from my car hoist, lamp oil, and yes ofc used fryer oil.
I'm gonna be cruising in my old ass sedan laughing at the preppers in their modern trucks that can't run on anything but the most pure of fuels without clogging their injectors.
Haven't driven anything made in '82, but I'll maintain that my friend's W124 250D was one of the most comfortable car's I've ever driven. It's the suspension, mostly. Nowadays everything is sporty, but I don't want sporty 90% of the time, I want to not feel bumps and shit.
They are so goddamned comfortable, not much difference between the W123 from '82 and a W124 for that.
Though the W124 is a lot better insulated, and thus quite a lot more quiet in the cabin than the W123.
Yeah I'd love a W124 if I didn't need ISOFIX for the foreseeable future. They're just so nice. Particularly if I could get a 300td. Hell I'd probably either keep it stock, or build it to a sensible degree (i.e not a 700hp smoke monster)
Mine is in fact a 700hp smoke monster. On stock 195 tires.
Hey, no judgement there. I just would prefer my daily to be reliable and not roll coal.
Currently have a 3.0 tdi Audi that someone seems to have remapped while drunk, so it uh... rolls coal, but not the way you'd expect. It produces too much soot when driving quietly, and then after a long drive at steady speeds, when you let the engine live a little, it generates a cloud.
Being an Audi it's also not reliable like my Mercs have been, but it has ISOFIX which was my only requirement at the time. Also is a wagon.
It's been remarkably reliable actually, but yeah if I had built it myself I'd have gone for a reliable 250hp setup.
I got the car for a bargain from the guy that built it, because he had let it sit and rot, so the floor had to be replaced to pass safety, and he didn't have the time to take care of it because of getting kids and working offshore.
What is your opinion on the Lada ?
The only cars that somehow rust faster and more than the doors on my W123 Mercedes.
Fun fact, those can also run on the oil that cools the gray transformers on the power poles.
Indirect injection for the win!
Us with solar and electric vehicles and bikes have been the actual ones prepping.
Ha, and it's always something that probably gets like 4mpg.
They don't think. They feel. They're little better than toddlers. You wouldn't ask a child how their blanket is going to protect them from ghosts.
The sheet that ghosts wear can move through most things, but not other bedding.
Best part is, this isn't even a diesel. It's got a Hellcat engine. For heavy vehicles you'd want diesel to get good torque and fuel economy. That's why cargo vehicles are almost all diesel powered.
Even if the refineries kept going in the apocalypse, I'm fairly sure places that distribute fuel would be few and far between. This person would have to refuel a LOT... Might not even make it to the next place with fuel.
Yes, BUT! it would look cool as hell being useless :D
i was thinking about this the other day. In an end of the world as we know it scenario, gasoline will be gone in short order, so most cars will no longer be able to run. which is great.
However, diesels can be modded to run on other fuels, even used cooking oil. So in theory, if you can get some kind of oil, you can run your diesel. It's also possible to mod a regular combustion engine to run on ethanol. ethanol is just 100% alcohol. You can make it yourself if you have a still. Albeit, you'd have to have a shitload of grain to get a full tank, you'd still be able to get some fuel every now and then.
All that being said. If civilization as we know it comes to an end, that just means that we won't be as connected as we are now. but we'll still be human, we'll still want to trade goods, services, art and ideas. You'll need to connect with your neighbors and cooperate to survive. one will grow something, one will grow something else, one will teach, one will heal, one will brew beers. everyone will meet in the square to exchange their goods and knowledge. so, i guess, if you run out of fuel, just get a horse, or borrow the neighbor's.
You sound like you'd enjoy an apocalypse very much.
we're going to see a collapse in our lives due to climate change, I'm convinced. I've decided to become the town's brewer, supposing i can get my hands on enough grain. if we survive the first few years, our new society might be better than this capitalist hellscape we've created for ourselves. especially if those billionaires are safely locked away underground...
He's gonna die at home to protect his big paperweight
Every conversation with the owner: "goddamn gas prices! Stupid liberals!"
A very scared man hides in this thing on his way to an unsatisfying job.
You laugh now, but when society collapses they'll be safe for a full hour before they run out of gas. If they can make it into the truck, of course, since it looks too big to fit in their garage.
Must be a hard life to get laughed at everywhere you go 😄
I bet you didn't even notice the lion.
Wow, that took me way too long to find. I thought you meant on the truck. BTW, the logo is dumb af.
Is it a Christmas lion? Such a weird dude.
Even if that's a part of a nativity scene, it's still wildly out of place.
Wait, are lions part of the nativity? I don't think I knew that
They're actually not, but people are given to mis-interpreting all kinds of biblical stuff. So, once you have animals like camels... it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if people started adding all kinds of Noah's ark nonsense too.
Just... drive a train at this point. There's nothing more badass than a train.
::: spoiler spoiler :::
NGL that pic you shared looks bad ass!
Funny thing is, it's definitely real as it's on a public display, but nobody knows who built it and, most importantly, why they built it. There are numerous equally plausible yet contradicting legends, some people tried to investigate but results were inconclusive, possibly because there were multiple built completely independently, or because it was a top secret project and intelligence planted red herrings. Maybe some vodka drinking took place. But, one thing that is common amongst most legends is that it couldn't steer for shit, hence why it was scrapped.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler that's a bus :::
Made from an actual train by the looks of it
That looks like a Russian military transport for use in the Arctic circle.
Looks like an armored Rezvani Hercules 6x6.
These are $$$ in general:
But they're also driveable in SnowRunner for much less money.
That's a lot of money. At this point they should have bought something like this, would actually help in an apocalypse:
Are these just large-carat diamonds for boys?
I cannot tell from the listing but are they actually 'armoured' in any way other than the steel bumper bar (which is a common addition to any farm truck, and cheap) - like are the fender panels all just painted plastic like most modern vehicles?
They may cost $250k new, but as I pointed out in another comment they seem to hold fuck all resale value. Here's one selling for less than 1/5th its initial value ($48k), one year after purchase - seems brand new and lists no issues/damage..
https://miltrade.com/product/2024-apocalypse-juggernaut-6x6-1763296142
Seller is exactly whom you'd expect.
Could be shit quality or some critical flaw, where you look at it and go wow so cool I've more money than brains, buy it, and then realize it's bad, drop the price, and hope some sucker will buy it.
I'm betting on it not being street legal and/or something has a very short life for some poorly engineered reason.
This is just my conjecture, but the front windscreen incl. frame and doors appear thicker than what I saw in other stock images of the vehicle. For all I know, it may not be legit armor plating but just a body kit, but if someone can directly purchase one of these, then perhaps they could afford actual armor plating. There is a company in my hometown (south-central Texas) that offers vehicle armoring services, but my impression has always been that this service was more for individuals/businesses that have concerns with cartel, etc.
Ouch, that's horrific depreciation! Wow! If that's the case, that's definitely the way to go if this vehicle would scratch the itch for someone's inner child.
Bold to assume that this thing would still drive after the apocalypse, when you don't have the fuel, tools, spare parts and access to the manufacturers service manuals for authorized repair shops.
6 wheels for considerably less than 6"
"They say the bigger your car, the tinier your penis. I have a Mini - that's why I drive a Hummer."
I have a hummer - that is why I drive a Mini Cooper
This is why a Razor scooter is my daily driver.
I once had to drive a bright pink hummer. Do the two things cancel out or what
I drive a Mini - ... I leave the rest up to your imagination.
I drive a mid-range sedan/saloon 😊
Counterpoint- let's say someone (me) did in fact have an exquisite miniature (me), would it not be in their (my) best interest to set clear expectations?
Where are the HOAs when they could actually be useful for a change...
No mud whatsoever. Fucking poser ass coward.
While my little truck is a disgusting mess all the time. Shit in the bed, etc.
It's a truck. It gets the cheap $1 wand wash every 3 months.
I wash my Tacoma every 5 years or so, as long as I do not get stinky mud on it. The bed does get washed a bit more often.
The last time I washed it it looked so foreign to me I kept losing it in parking lots.
Truck costs more than the house. . and will probably be repo'd within 3 years.
That kinda looks sick. I love cars that aren't just stock standard stuff.
How dare you have an opinion different from mine.
Down vote!!
(I wasn't the down voter)
Holy crap, I saw that thing at the airport. Pavement princesses are not really my thing.
What an utterly useless thing. You add axles to bear more weight. Unless you're hauling a big tungsten cube, the truck isn't big enough to carry a load that would need three axles.
It's even dumber than those Jeep Gladiators, the #1 pavement princess in my area, which sacrifice departure angle for a ridiculously small amount of cargo space and less load capacity than an entry level pickup truck.
Just stupid.
Tbf if you can afford this thing you can probably almost afford a big tungsten cube..
I'd rather have two cubes and a vehicle that doesn't reek of midlife crisis.
Two cubes?!
Hey everyone I found Jeff Bezos' lemmy acct. You seen the tungsten prices lately?!
They didn't say how big the cube has to be. You can get tungsten dice from games workshop (but don't).
Would you describe those as big tungsten cubes? Big enough to use them as an example of something that would necessitate extra towing capacity for an entire vehicle?
If so, you must be Hercules if you can roll them and rich if you can afford them.
It is a jeep gladiator.
Holy shit. It is, isn't it? Perfect!
Maybe it's for
when the liberal woke mob antifa cannibals hurl a spear through one of the back tires so you still have backup tires. . .er. . . "Towing"Lmao.
They need that for the difficult run to Publix obviously.
This kind of shit is typical in a lot of upper middle class neighborhoods in FL. You'd see Hummers, pseudo-monster trucks, etc sitting in front of dainty houses with highly manicured lawns. All so that they can drive vehicles that are far more likely to kill people.
The balls appear to be crimmus ornaments, the pipes look like utility meters.
As for the lion? He doesn't concern himself with the rest of the setup.
I'm pretty sure those are natural gas meters. Around here they're usually tucked out of the way, against the house, often with a protective pole to prevent a car from crashing into it and causing an explosion.
I don't think tastefulness is really in this individual's vocabulary. The lion is probably their idea of an interesting garden ornament.
I'm interested if the truck can even get under the arch, it doesn't look like there's enough headroom.
Its funny because its built to destroy but the owner would likely cry if it was scratched.
Well, at least it's not a cybertruck
Beneath this atrocity is a Ram 1500.
So this truck will last 3 to 4 years tops, probably significantly less so after all the aftermarket work done to it.
oh jesus, The transmission probably fell out in the driveway just from the attention from reddit.
Older rams had a trans that would absolutely break or grenade itself. New rams, as much as their engine and electronics still suck ass, have a ZF Transmission and it’s REALLY good. Dead reliable and holds power.
til, at least they fixed something :)
Happy to help! If you ever want to be irrationally angry at either the worlds dumbest engineer, or finance people somehow having a say in design; go look up oil changes on Ram trucks. They’re hilariously awful. Filters are placed facing down over things like steering gear boxes or right over the front differential. So it just gets over everything. In the case of the 2500 you have to go through the front bumper on the power wagons to get the oil filter out.
But their trans are solid. It’s also the only good part in Rams, BMWs and Audi. A real miracle.
Jesus not even a 3500? Basically always towing its limit carrying the added weight of all that bullshit.
It's worse. At least the cyber truck is electric so they're not belching out gas.
there is really not enough storage space in the back to merrit the 2 extra wheels
They should have put the double wheels at the front to carry the fat american burger lover that drives it
Cool truck, but why ??? It doesn't even have the utility that Trucks are usually famous for
They need it for safety from that rogue lion on the left.
The dude has two lions. All year round.
Local Walmarts must be wild if they need this.
I want whatever these people are using to get to this headspace...
You mean 16 hours a day of alpha male podcasts and NRA propaganda?
¡Yo tambien! But then again I tried meth once and am not excited to repeat the next day.
The first thing to be abandoned as soon as the highways fill up with stalled/crashed/flooded cars.
You know he's sitting at home, waiting for something to happen so he can whip out his loser mobile
Too late. Batman's parents were proud of him...
Not enough people talking about Christmas Aslan over there behind the truck.
Tell us you have a tiny peen, without telling us you have a tiny peen.
We body-shaming now ?
We're inconsiderate-shaming. We're i-don't-care-how-many-school-kids-i-have-to-wipe-off-my-front-bumper-in-order-to-look-cool-shaming
Oh ok then👌
It's a sign that this man has an enormous penis and extremely large testicles ... probably cancer.
in a place like florida, everything is swollen and out of proportions.
The Dumbmobile!
"what is that thing" that is manifestation of parental lack of attention and affirmation.
These are the first people who would die in a real collapse, probably killing others as they go. I loved Mad Max and Car Wars too, but I know it's fiction.
mad max?
Yeah, him too.
Reply and runs are a dangerous thing.
It has a built in magnifier to see the driver's penis/ clitoris.
Man. I know it's a terrible waste of space, energy consumption and all around douchey vehicle... But 6 year old me thinks it looks pretty cool
Yeah like, who wouldn't wanna drive a Warthog or a giant construction vehicle?
But I think the line where it gets douchey is "I commute every day with this thing, it belches out tons of fumes, and I bully everyone else off the road because I'm secretly scared of all my neighbors."
I mean okay if it was built properly(these usually arent, just for road and not offroad) and the ownerr actually used it offroad, and the car would be banned on the road, it would be pretty cool. But all this is doing is having horrible fuel economy while being a pedestrian murdering machine.
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What’s with the weird archway over the front of the driveway? Is it getting married?
Christmas light arch using pvc pipe.
This is what the Merryweather assholes in GTA chase you in.
I feel bad for the engine, with all that extra shit on it I’m sure it doesn’t help with power to weight. And in pretty sure that the rear axle isn’t a driven wheel so it’s basically a permanently attached trailer.
Surprisingly the rear axle is driven! I had to look this thing up to find out WTF it was.
https://www.soflocustom.com/inventory/custom-lifted-apocalypse-hellfire-1c6pjtag4tl152463/
Basing on the micropenis to truck ratio, I'm going with an educated guess of penis length of .0018 micrometers.
Middle age crisis and tiny penises can be seen from a long distance.
Being from a hurricane and tropical storm prone area myself it isn't uncommon for otherwise normal people to own rigs like this
That's bullshit. I also live in south FL, and this is not only uncommon, it's very much not a solution to flooding. The most common flooding you'll encounter during rainstorms is a few inches deep in the worst case, and even a lambo can drive through that no problem. If flooding is at the point where you'd need such a high suspension, you're not going to drive through it anyways because you can't see what hazards there are under water, and you're not going to risk damaging your very expensive toy.
This is just someone with an undiagnosed mental and/or urological disorder who has too much disposable income.
I hate to dox myself but I'm from Houston, we regularly get bad flooding here and there's a lot of people here including local businesses, police, and private citizens that have trucks for fording floods.
I'd say that Floridian trucks are evolving, but they don't believe in evolution. Satan himself must have left a gift.
let see how they outrun the ocean in that, once its starts reclaiming the land, or invasive species whom floridians like to import.
Theirs a dealer/fabrication company in Ft.Lauderdale FL that makes these, I don't recall the name as it was on holiday once.
After driving through those highways, it's really mad-max out there. I can see why you'd want one of these.
This is pretty tame by Florida standards
Impractical as heck but cool looking.
Why do the doors have vaginas
I mean look at the thing, how could they not? ;)
Those are called "Trident" doors. They're part of some off road armor package that seems to serve no purpose, at least no information is available on the seller's website.
So I can only surmise it's because somebody thinks a broken spatula looks cool on the side of a 300,000 dollar Dodge Ram.
5mpg tops
You know what the first thing I think whenever I see a guy driving a large truck?
I think the answer is body shaming, sexism and focus on their genitalia?
No, but that seems to be the first thing you think of.
Its ok though, thoughts aren't crimes. Body shaming only happens when you externalize those thoughts, so I think you're good.
I mean, that thing is pretty badass but obviously doesn't need to be anywhere near city roads. Some dude out on a 100 acre ranch? Sure, probably. Still an abomination but at least it would have some utility. But in a city? Nah.
Not even a dude on a ranch, they can also just use some small Japanese truck. Or if you really need the terrain capabilities, then use a digger!
I get so mad seeing these in the parking garage at work. Like, you drove that to park it at an office and then go up the elevator? WTF? And yes I'm in West Central FL and the arms race of ever bigger vehicles is insane.
Though at least my neighborhood isn't just a bunch of those garage houses, it's older and varied and not many garage front houses. So many trucks though. Some are guys who need them for work, some are not.
Nobody NEEDS that for work, they might need a truck, but they don't NEED that stupidity.
Wtf these things are common?
Well not so common but at least a couple times a week I see the ones with four back tires, too wide for the road, on the road.
Also those ridiculous cybertrucks.
That’s actually cool.
There’s a point where modifications get so outrageous and unique that they can get away with this. There’s nothing special about a lifted dodge, but this. One doesn’t just casually acquire/maintain something like this.
I see what looks like nice double wishbones on the front too, and an okay height for its stance. It isn’t one of those crumby lifts that ruins the suspension.
Yeah, they acquired more money than brains
More debt, probably.
That's the 2022 Copewagon Deluxe XL.
If that thing came powered with something like a 5.9 cummins hybrid and 6 independent traction motors. That would make a wicked boat, landscaping truck. Put a proper dump box on the thing or a tilt and load. Fuck that thing could make money if done right.
So how much petrol/uranium this things consumes per 100km
The tank is probably empty by the time it gets to the end of the street.
Micropenis
I think I read somewhere that about 20% of the population spends money foolishly. Constantly buying premium cars, electronics,fashion, food, boats, etc. etc. while racking up debt to a point that they aren’t saving any money and live month to month.
If it wasn’t for that 20% out economy go into recession and millions would be out of work. Products the rest of us use would likely increase in cost as manufacturing would need to make the revenue somewhere.
If someone wants to spend their money on stupid shit let them. It keeps others employed.
That's an interesting idea, though I'd imagine it would secure profits more than employment.