Just in case you were wondering about the zombie resistant vehicles, it goes like this:
Your vehicle should be a 4x4, with a proper low range. It should not be any form of all wheel drive. You will need to be able to navigate all sorts of terrain. You will not be able to rely on tow trucks to come and rescue you. Road maintenance may end up being a little spotty as well.
It should also be diesel powered. You have great fuel economy and engines that can easily last up to 400 000 km.
If you have a lot of money and advance warning, get one of these:
The Knight XV (The H2 is only there for size comparison)
Pic borrowed from: http://harryallen.info/?p=2416
Hi fellas! I’m just here to borrow a tank.
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I think I would be heading to the closest city vehicle yard or utility vehicle yard. They tend to be 4x4, diesel and they tend to have a lot of things that would come in handy, like generators.
Lots of useful things and there likely wouldn't be anybody guarding them
Pic borrowed from: http://www.dixiecustom.com/utilitytruck.htm
Now back to Adam Carolla. I am more annoyed that The Car Show held so much promise and they didn’t follow through on. They have a great mix of car guys on the panel. They have different backgrounds and experience but rather than making good points about cars, they all seem to be trying to hit the punch line of any discussion.
Stop trying so hard to be funny and just talk about cars!
Pic from: http://www.motorator.com/blog/general-automotive/speed-channel-premieres-the-car-show-with-adam-carolla
They have a segment that they call 0 to 60. They have four or five topics and they spend sixty seconds discussing each one. It isn’t long enough to get in to any topic in detail.
Now they are a show produced by a cable channel so their production budget is low, I get that. The problem is their writing and editing. For example they did a segment on the 24 hours of Lemons, which is a really cool event where people race cars that must be worth $ 500 or less. Rather than focusing on how this racing series means that enthusiasts don’t need to get gigantic sponsors to participate in, they made it all about the comedy.
They have reviewed some exotic cars but the reviews have been simplistic. It seemed like they were afraid to annoy the nice companies. It almost came across as a commercial plug for the cars rather than a review.
One of the most disturbing elements is a very strong undercurrent of misogyny. In one episode the guys had a competition to teach young ladies how to drive a sports car with a manual transmission. In another episode they tried to see how many women they could fit in to a Mini. They had “modified” girls and “unmodified” girls. Neither of these segments were about cars. Both of these segments were about showing T and A.
I was really looking forward to this show. I have seen and heard some of Adam’s podcasting around cars. They are funny and insightful. One of the most fascinating and relatable segments they do on the podcast is having celebrities talk about their first cars. It is fun, entertaining and relatable.
Long story short, skip the show catch the podcast.
http://www.adamcarolla.com/CarCastBlog/
If I get enough interest I will pontificate furthur on my zombie survival vehicle choices.
