Online game-inspired Rezvani Vengeance is the SUV which may survive an apocalypse

Neglect heated seats and gesture controls, a souped-up SUV designed by Rezvani Motors in California is armed to the tooth with military-grade specs that you simply’d hopefully by no means have to make use of — until there’s an apocalypse, in fact.

Unveiled final week at The Scottsdale Public sale in Arizona, the seven-seater Rezvani Vengeance comes with a variety of safety features together with electrified door handles to stop break-ins, pepper spray-emitting wing mirrors, bulletproof glass and blinding strobe lights.

The automotive can even launch a “smoke display screen” on the push of a button to confuse anybody following you, whereas an electromagnetic pulse safety permits the automobile to steer away from perceived hazard routinely. Prospects can even select to swap the tyres with these made with wheel band know-how, which gives the potential to drive closely broken tyres to a protected location and prevents them from coming off the wheel.

A totally-loaded survival equipment can be out there, with military-grade gasoline masks, a hypothermia equipment and a first-aid equipment.

The Rezvani Vengeance is so armed that The Guardian known as it a “weaponised monster”.

“The objective was to place a science-fiction online game idea automotive in individuals’s driveways,” stated Rezvani Motors founder and chief govt Ferris Rezvani.

For these not fairly battle prepared, a normal mannequin can be out there, with a beginning value of $285,000, and with less-menacing options corresponding to collision warning know-how, augmented reality-fused navigation and futuristic shows embedded within the windscreen.

Created by video video games designer Milen Ivanov, Rezvani Motors first revealed the idea for Rezvani Vengeance final yr.

“With among the most imaginative automobiles nonetheless trapped in video video games, it sparked an concept — to convey a automobile as soon as out there solely within the digital world to the true world,” it stated.

The son of a fighter pilot whose goals of turning into one himself did not materialise owing to well being causes, Rezvani based his firm in 2014 to “create an excessive sports activities automotive that gave drivers the chance to expertise the identical exhilaration and G-forces behind the wheel”.

Vengeance is the corporate’s third SUV, with the 2 earlier fashions — Tank and Hercules — additionally out there with navy choices.

Up to date: January 31, 2023, 10:12 AM