2011 FORD Mad Max Concept
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Ford Australia, in partnership with TopGear Australia magazine, has unveiled not one, but two spectacular new Mad Max Interceptors.
The 21st century concepts have
been designed by Ford's designers for TopGear Magazine Australia to
help celebrate the revival of the Mad Max action movie genre.
It is more than 30 years since
Hollywood director, George Miller's original Mad Max movie - starring
Mel Gibson and a jet black Ford XB coupe-based Interceptor - hit movie
screens around the world.
Ford Australia's Melbourne-based
Asia, Pacific and Australia Design Director, Chris Svensson, jumped at
the chance to design a new Interceptor and has since thrown the full
weight of Ford Australia's Research Centre behind the project, with
stunning results.
"Our entire team was very excited to be involved in this after-hours project and they approached it with a great deal
of enthusiasm - even those that were too young to remember the first
Mad Max movie," Svensson said. "We had a special screening of the
original movie so they could understand it."
Led by chief designer passenger
cars Asia, Pacific and Africa, Todd Willing, the team created several
way-out concepts that pay homage to styling cues from the original XB
Coupe Interceptor.
Out of the concepts two have
been chosen by the magazine to feature in the April issue of TopGear
Australia magazine, on sale now, because they take body design, power
sources and weaponry to a futuristic level.
TopGear Australia magazine readers will be invited to vote on which design Ford should take to the next level.
The winning car will be turned into a clay model, and then a scale version, which is expected to be revealed later this year.
The two competing designs - by
designers Nima Nourian and Simon Brook - are limitless in their
imagination, technology and weaponry. Among the weaponry is an
industrial-strength "taser" mounted to the bonnet to zap bad guys on
bikes straight off the road.
Other futuristic movie features include a titanium-lined body shell to interrupt police scanners and wheels with extendable spikes to shred enemy vehicles.
Nourian said his design paid tribute to the 1970s Interceptor, but also drags the car into the future.
"There are some great scenes in
the first movie with high-speed chases and clashes with the bad guys,
and I thought I'd take that one step further," he said. "So instead of
having weapons and machine guns, we've got an industrial strength taser
that'll zap cars dead and out of the way.
Brook's car was equally
threatening. "During high-speed pursuits, the wheel's inner spokes on
my design would pop out and start ripping up other cars," Brook said.
"They'd do some serious damage to other people's vehicles."
Brook's design takes cues from
the current FG Falcon but advances it further into Armageddon-land,
while adding touches of the retro Interceptor as well. "I wanted to
keep it clean and aerodynamic in its essence, but still brutal and
tough."
