You’d buy the Ripsaw EV2 if your house was built inside an artificial cave, carved into the side of a mountain, you had a servant that called you ‘Master’ and you frequently talked about taking over the world.
This would be your ‘plan C’ vehicle, the one you’d use to escape if your secret base was discovered and you’d be forced to flee.
Superhero movie fiction aside, the EV2 is part tank, part sportily-driving vehicle – it’s not ‘a driver’s car’, but it looks eager to turn, has plenty of grip and uses a car-like steering wheel for control. This should make the driving experience familiar, even if the vehicle itself certainly isn’t.
As you can undoubtedly tell, the EV2 is closer to a tank than it is a conventional wheeled vehicle, but it’s nowhere near as heavy as one of those. It should be brisk too, with a 600 hp diesel chugging away in the middle; you could even call it aerodynamic, or at least ‘not-brick-like’.
Apparently, it’s “the fastest dual tracked vehicle ever developed.”
The company behind it, Howe and Howe Technology, usually develops gear for the military. The EV2 (short for Extreme Vehicle 2) was initially intended as a high speed tracked vehicle for the army, but the concept was adapted for civilian use.
As far as specs go, the manufacturer doesn’t say much. We know it has twelve inches of suspension travel, we can see the coil springs at work, and we also know it’s intended as a ‘high-end’ vehicle, with a luxuriously appointed interior and other pieces of ‘cutting edge technology’.
Production numbers will be kept low; they say the vehicle is “a handcrafted, limited run, high end luxury super tank, developed for the public and extreme off road recreation. These vehicles take up to 6 months to fabricate and can cost well into the 100s of thousands depending on desired luxury and performance packages.”
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