For anyone wanting to roam the post-apocalyptic wasteland in style, or simply own a piece of Mad Max history, the vehicles of Mad Max: Fury Road will be tearing up the auction block until later this month.
As announced by Lloyds Auctions, the keys to 13 vehicles featured in the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road will be up for grabs to the highest bidder. Among the vehicles being auctioned include Max's Interceptor with supersized wheels, a double-aspirated V8 blower engine, War Boy weaponry and plenty of horsepower in this reborn version of the iconic car. Furiosa's War Rig, the centerpiece of Fury Road, has even managed to make it to the auction block. The 18-wheeled crossover between a semi-trailer and hot rod is outfitted with twin V8 engines, mounted weapons and everything else a survivor trekking across a desert wasteland could possibly need in this leviathan on wheels.
Other recognizable vehicles from Fury Road featured in the auction include Nux's super-turbocharged Chevy Coupe V8, Immortan Joe's Heavy Artillery Buick with a Hummer weapon mount and the unforgettable Doof Wagon, complete with mounted drums, stacked speakers and a slung flame-throwing guitar. Several convoy cars are also being auctioned alongside the 1956 Pontiac Safari used as the War Boys' pole car in boarding parties and the 1959 Cadillac Coupe mutated into the flagship Gigahorse. These and many more nitrous-fueled rides used in the filming of Fury Road will be up for auction until Sept. 26.
Mad Max: Fury Road is the latest installment in director George Miller's popular post-apocalyptic action franchise, marking the series' first new entry in 30 years when it hit theaters in 2015. Fury Road follows the drifter Max (Tom Hardy) teaming up with the no-nonsense War Rig driver Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) to transport a group of female prisoners away from the tyrannical Immortan Joe across a deadly desert wasteland. Although considered by some to be a box office disappointment, Fury Road was generally well-received by critics who praised the film for its exhilarating action, radical post-apocalyptic vision and subversion of archetypical female roles.
Furiosa, a prequel to Fury Road focusing on Theron's titular character, will be the franchise's next major installment, though the film has recently been delayed a year until 2024. The movie will star Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger Furiosa, a casting decision director George Miller has said was motivated by seeing Taylor-Joy's performance in Edgar Wright's latest film, Last Night in Soho. The move for a prequel instead of a sequel was perhaps influenced by how Furiosa was portrayed as the lead in Fury Road, a decision that Hardy has gone on record saying he'd known about during filming and that he's satisfied with.
Source: Lloyds Online