{"id":2029114,"date":"2026-07-06T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2029114"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:25:00","slug":"whats-your-mad-max-apocalypse-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2029114","title":{"rendered":"What’s Your ‘Mad Max’ Apocalypse Ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Readers, as I write this, it’s approximately a million degrees<\/a> here in the greatest city in the world, New York, NY. WeatherUnderground puts us at 101 degrees, with a Feels Like index of 109. It’s bad. Yet things are only going to get worse for the next couple of days, and even worse still over the next few years until severe weather ends global society as we know it and datacenters end up falling victim to copper thieves and, eventually, apocalyptic raiders<\/a> on the hunt for guzzoline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We’re here to talk about that end state, the point where the world-that-was is over and has been replaced with fire and blood. When the 9-5 jobs end and society is reduced to automotive nomads killing each other over fuel, water, and dog food, you’ll be forced to decide something crucial:\u00a0Which car<\/a> will you drive through our rapidly oncoming “Mad Max”-style apocalypse<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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We’re talking about a desert hellscape here, one where gasoline is at a premium. With those qualifiers in mind, I\u00a0think my pick would be one that’s perhaps unexpected:\u00a0The Surron Ultra Bee.\u00a0It’s the antithesis of most “Mad Max”\u00a0vehicles \u2014 small, light, not overly-fast, and electric \u2014 and I think that makes it perfectly suited. While everyone else is out\u00a0killing for guzzoline, I can just juice up at a solar panel, wind farm, or hydroelectric installation and escape from raiders through tight crevices that won’t fit their hulking Gigahorses<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My pick is the Ultra Bee, but what’s yours?\u00a0Leave your answer in the comments below, and I’ll pick out some of my favorites later in the week. Bonus points for picking something that’s never been seen in a “Mad Max” film before<\/a>, but that you think would weather the wastelands of post-apocalyptic Australia with the best of them. Points deducted for just claiming the V8 Interceptor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers, as I write this, it’s approximately a million degrees here in the greatest city in the world, New York, NY. WeatherUnderground puts us at 101 degrees, with a Feels Like index of 109. It’s bad. Yet things are only going to get worse for the next couple of days, and even worse still over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,247],"class_list":["post-2029114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-jalopnik-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}