Zombi cars

ONCE upon a time, the most fun petrolheads could have with their cars was to stick some fur to the dash and then dice their mates between sipping on milk, but shaken -- not stirred.
Then Hollywood made various versions of post-apocalyptic sub-culture popular and now every major car show in the U.S. features a survivalist’s idea of what vehicle would provide the best odds amid vampires, zombies and/or werewolves.
With Hyundai sponsoring the Walking Dead television series, this Korean marque is very popular with the anti-zombie-car designers.

But combined harvesters, double-decker London buses and even a steam-driven scooter all form part of the new zeitgeist of car design.
Some, like the steam-driven scooter, provides a realistic transport solution in a world sent back to the dark ages as antibiotics fail against bacteria.
Others, like a Sonata festooned with barbed-wire and machine guns, show that its designer had perhaps spent too many years gaming in a dark room.
And none of the designers of post-apocalyptic tanks, trucks and a few VW combis have enough tanks to carry diesel for these thirsty vehicles.
In the U.S., where fewer young people are driving, all these vehicular contraptions do, however, show that young people are again having fun with wheels, which gives car sellers hope in a market where prosumers are on the rise.

MK1 post-apoco fun

WITNESS Wheels is joining in the post-apoco fun with a Mk1 Ford Escourt, which Africa’s oldest newspaper and Denks Motors in Pietermaritzburg plan to race in the Kalahari Speed Week in September.
The annual race takes place at Hakskeenpan in the Northern Cape — as post an apocolyptic setting as anyone can wish for. Watch this space as the project progresses.