{"id":30220,"date":"2024-06-22T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/?p=30220"},"modified":"2024-06-19T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T15:57:57","slug":"mad-max-pursuit-special-the-cars-the-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/mad-max-pursuit-special-the-cars-the-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max Pursuit Special – The Car’s the Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

What with George Miller’s latest instalment in the Mad Max universe currently doing the rounds on big screens up and down the country we thought we’d take a look at one of the most iconic movie cars to ever grace celluloid. Both the car in question and the titular Max both appear all too briefly in said new film – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – but the V8 Pursuit Special had already made a name for itself in the first two Mad Max films, cementing its place alongside the best of the best in terms of cool points.<\/p>\n

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For me it’s a car that sparked a love affair with the whole black on black aesthetic and it’s an obsession I still carry to this day, but paint jobs aside what exactly is Max’s murdered out, post apocalyptic chariot of choice? Known as the last of the V8s, the duck’s guts, the Interceptor, this supercharged denizen of the desert is actually a heavily modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT that has become a defining part of the entire Mad Max franchise, not to mention wider car culture.<\/p>\n