The weaponised SUV set to terrify America’s streets
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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jan/25/pepper-spray-school-run-apocalyptic-suv-reznavi-vengeange
-- Pepper spray for the school run? The weaponised SUV set to terrify America’s streets
The extreme features of the Rezvani Vengeance – including electrified door handles and blinding strobe lights – are wholly in tune with lethal trends in the US market
In southern California, parking lot warfare just got real.
Not content with their supersized pickup trucks and child-killing SUVs, America’s road warriors can now go full military apocalypse, with the arrival of the Rezvani Vengeance.
While its competitors offer heated seats and optional roof-racks, this souped-up SUV boasts bulletproof glass, blinding strobe lights, electrified doorhandles,
and wing mirrors that can shoot pepper spray – handy for putting those pesky cyclists in their place.
“Vengeance is yours,” trumpets the website, which details how the car can release a dense smoke screen to confuse people following you, as well as detect electromagnetic pulses from nuclear weapons.
Always handy for the supermarket run.
Picking up the kids from school?
You can announce your arrival through the car’s booming intercom system.
Or why not just drive straight through the gates?
The vehicle’s hefty steel ram bumpers and military-grade tyres would make mincemeat of any parking barrier – and dispatch the headteacher while they’re at it.
One thing oddly missing from the Vengeance (priced from $285,000, rising to $499,000 with all the extras) is a rear windscreen, because of course that would be unsafe.
Instead, drivers are treated to a live video rear-view mirror and a front camera overlaid with “augmented reality”.
Perhaps it shows an imaginary zombie army for you to mow down on your way to the mall.
Who needs a rear windscreen?
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https://www.rezvanimotors.com/rezvani-vengeance#vengeance-security-package-military-package
-- Vengeance — Rezvani
Bullet proof glass and body armor
Underside explosive protection
Smoke Screen
Military Runflat Tires
Thermal Night Vision System
Reinforced suspension
Electromagnetic Pulse Protection
Ram Bumpers
Optional explosive device detection
Bullet proof vests and helmets
Electrified Door Handles
Siren and Horn Options
Strobe Lights
Blinding Lights
Intercom System
Magnetic Dead Bolts
Gas masks
First Aid kit
Hypothermia kit
Pepper Spray Dispenser
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