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Originally Posted by hal
Never would have thought I'd see the day when someone weaponized a Prius. But - maybe Car Wars was prophetic in its vision, just got its dates wrong?
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To be strictly accurate:
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Originally Posted by hal
Electric powered car? Check.
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Not *quite* -- there's a gasburner up front; but it's more for charging the batteries. (It's about how we always pictured gasburners working in _CW_ -- the wheel motors "don't care" where the electricity comes from, so long as it's there; so one could be using a fuel-cell, or a gasburner, to power the wheel motors.)
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Originally Posted by hal
M61 Vulcan 20mm Rotary cannon? Check.
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That's closer to a Gatling Cannon [the 5-sp. beast from _Aeroduel_] than a VMG.
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Originally Posted by hal
What it took to mount that thing on the Prius? More than you might have thought. And it wasn't even TURRET mounted!
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I think it falls under Spinal Mount rules -- note one would have to aim the entire car to get the gun on-target.
(IMSMC: Wasn't there a _Mythbusters_ ep where they designed and built an aimable gun-mount for a car?)
But it is interesting to see how in some ways Reality has surpassed _CW_....