Carmageddon TDR 2000 vehicle | |
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The Vulture | |
Info | |
Car Descriptor order | 41 |
Network availability | normal |
Driver | Cameron Carrion |
Driver's short name | Bird |
Race number | 34½ |
Top speed | 201 mph |
Kerb weight | 1.6 tons |
0 - 60 mph in | 3.4 seconds |
Cost | 829000 credits |
Description | |
"I'm never more dangerous than when you're dead." |
The Vulture is one of the 50 original cars from Carmageddon: TDR 2000. It first appears in HiRise, being encountered halfway through the game.
Design
It is a purple coupe with the underside of its grill missing, being replaced with a giant rotating saw. It has the number 34½ on its sides, and a livery which features a vulture eating a carcass.
Performance
While this vehicle is tad too expensive for the area it appears in, it has good acceleration when fully upgraded. However, the Top Speed ends up being a low 207mph. It is similar to the Femme Fatal in many ways, but slightly better[1].
Driver
The driver, named "Cameron Carrion" in the files, is hard to notice due to the tinted glass. The left half of his face and his chest are completely mechanical. Blue-tinted glasses can be seen in the right side of his face, and what appears to be makeup on his eye as well. He wears a blue coat and blue pants.
Trivia
- As the unused driver quote suggests, Vultures mostly eat dead animals... which are called Carrion.
- The Vulture is one of the vehicles featured in the game's demo. The car was colored blue, and the driver had a completely different design, as seen in the early texture from the gallery below.
- Inside the files for the Vulture there is an info .txt file for an earlier iteration of the vehicle, which is also used in the demo:
- NAME "THE VULTURE"
- DESCRIPTION "Top Speed: 220mph
- Kerb weight: 1600Kgs
- 0-60mph: 3.4 seconds
- I am the god of vulting, bend before me"
- DESCRIPTOR "Vulturedescriptor.txt"
- DRIVER_NAME "BIRD MAN"
- DRIVER_SHORT_NAME "Bird"
- STRENGTH 5
- COST 50 // in thousands!
- TYPE 2 // 0 = eagle, 1 = normal, 2 = novelty
- //ARMOUR_MAP "eagle_armoured"
Gallery
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The Vulture in the garage.
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Render of the Vulture's rear.
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Glimpse at an early shot of the Vulture from the May 2000 issue of Micromania Tercera Epoca magazine[2].
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Texture of the Vulture.
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Damaged texture of the Vulture.
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Another texture used by the Vulture.
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Early main texture of the Vulture from the demo
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Early damaged variant of main texture of the Vulture from the demo
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Early texture of the Vulture from the demo, depicting a different driver.
References
Vehicles in Carmageddon: TDR 2000 (cat) | |
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Main vehicle | Eagle MK4 |
Hollowood | The Beast · Bumble Bee · Drag-Ghoul · Enforcer · The Mecha · Rubber Ducky · Sparrow · SuperCharger · Tres Hombres · Viper · Tomahawk · The Wheel |
The Slums | The Green Hammer · Killa Kart · Knave · The Machine · TNT |
The Docks | The Boss · Femme Fatal · Limey · SXE Black Hatch · Throb Rod · Tow Meister |
HiRise | Big Wig · Electric Blue · Gorvette · Husky · Jadead · Shark · Vlad · The Vulture · White Trash |
Military Zone | The Chef · The Cutter · King Merc · McKilem · Soul Harvester · Stormbringer · Witch Doctor |
Back of Beyond | The Fortress · HFB Terra · The Spectre · Thummper |
Unlockables | Cop Car · Da Panzer · Master Mine · New Suppressor · Suppressor · Wraith |
The Nosebleed Pack | Bigdaddy · Blood & Bones · Buggy · Jaws · Lucifer · Ped Basher · The Pigs! · Pogo · Sports Sedan · Steam Machine |