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The Mad Max Interceptor returns, and there are two!

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The Mad Max Interceptor returns, and there are two!
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Time sure flies. It’s more than 30 years since George Miller’s original Mad Max movie, which starred Mel Gibson and a jet black Ford XB Coupe-based Interceptor, hit the big screen.

Now, with a new Mad Max instalment (tentatively called Mad Max 4: Fury Road) on the cards, Ford Australia – in partnership with TopGear Australia – has unveiled not one, but two new Mad Max Interceptors. The 21st century concepts have been designed by Ford’s designers for TopGear Australia to help celebrate the revival of the Mad Max action movie genre.

Ford Australia’s Melbourne-based Asia, Pacific and Australia design director, Chris Svensson, jumped at the chance to design a new Interceptor and threw the full weight of Ford Australia’s Research Centre behind the project.

“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. We had a special screening of the original movie so they could understand it,” Svensson said.

The Mad Max Interceptor returns, and there are two!
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Led by Todd Willing, chief designer passenger cars Asia, Pacific and Africa, the team created several way-out concepts that pay homage to styling cues from the original XB Coupe Interceptor. Out of these, two have been chosen by the magazine to feature in the April issue, and 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 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 wheels’ inner spokes on my design will pop out and start ripping up other cars. They’d do some serious damage to other vehicles,” he said. His design takes cues from the current FG Falcon, but advances it further 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.

Now, which car would you choose then, Max?

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Anthony Lim

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