[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

What does a post-apoc road warrior need to be faster than the wind?

Apparently, nothing more than the power of the wind itself!

How counterintuitive and implausible: wind-powered vehicle moving faster than wind that powers it.

If one's familiar with sailing, no, it's not at all implausible. sails provide best force conversion with wind from abeam, not from abaft.

Now, that they doing it from due abaft, interesting.