Tanka

Tanka is a vehicle introduced in the original Carmageddon. It returns in Carmageddon (Funsize).

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Carmageddon

Carmageddon vehicle
Tanka
Info
Internal opponent number	11
Internal name	FIRE
Strength (1 - 5)	4
Network availability	Never
Driver	Firestorm
Race number	99
Grid icon
Multiplayer icon
Top speed	100 mph
Kerb weight	2.1 tons
0 - 60 mph in	8.9 seconds
Stealworthy	N
Description
"Crazed chem. worker Firestorm stole a company tanker and took to racing. The rig is big and the driver is brutal."

Tanka is one of the 30 original vehicles from Carmageddon, driven by Firestorm. It first appears among the second batch of opponents and is not stealworthy.

Design

Tanka is a futuristic cab missing its rear trailer. Render of early version with lost high resolution textures shows that it had text HAUL-M at side panel, however in final version text is unreadable.

Performance

While Tanka has fairly good stats, it's handling is possibly worst in the series.

Driver

Firestorm wears a hazmat suit with a flame logo on it.

Trivia

• Tanka is replaced by Ramraider in the Splat Pack expansion.
• The description says "the rig is big", but in-game it's rather small. An early concept render shows the vehicle with a large tanker trailer attached to the cab (hence the name Tanka). The hinge for the rear trailer of the Tanka couldn't be executed correctly with the limitations of the physics engine at the time and so the trailer was left out.
• A truck resembling the Tanka appears in the Main Menu background.
• On the starting grid, Tanka's race number is shown to be 99. However, this number is not placed anywhere in the vehicle itself. This is also the case for the Volkswerker, and the Blood Mobile.
  • It's possible that the number was located on its trailer, but that can't be said for certain.
• Tanka is one of the three vehicles with the 99 race number. The others are: Abba Cab, and Femme Fatal.
• Tanka has an animated car selection screen in Splat Pack's files. However, as the vehicle is not present in the game, this animation goes unused. In the animation, Firestorm looks at the "CHEAT!" banner, and it to changes to "HEAT!".
• Tanka's car selection image is a mirrored and cropped version of the full render with the tanker.
• Like much of early Carmageddon 1-content, Tanka seems to be 2000 AD inspired. This is even more apparent with early version, Armadillo; which seems to be directly based of Roadliners Inc. -truck appearing in Judge Dredd.
• Firestorm's eyes were based on those from the actor Christopher Lloyd, specifically his character of Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movies.

Gallery

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  Tanka's info screen.

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  Tanka's original form before the game came out.

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  Main menu background with the truck resembling Tanka.

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  Unused animated mugshot from Splat Pack.

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  Concept art of Tanka.

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  Full concept art of Tanka.

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  Concept art for a different iteration of the Tanka, "Armadillo".

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  Roadliners Inc. -truck from Judge Dredd.

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  Comparison between Christopher Lloyd and Firestorm's mugshot.

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  Early pencil sketch of Firestorm.

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Carmageddon (Funsize)

Carmageddon (Funsize) vehicle
Tanka
Info
Driver	Firestorm
Race number	no number
Top speed	200 mph
Kerb weight	2.0 tons
0-60mph	8.89 seconds
Toughness	6
Stealworthy	N
Description
"Crazed chem worker Firestorm stole a company tanker and took to racing. The rig is big and the driver is brutal."

In the Funsize version of Carmageddon, the Tanka is once again not stealworthy.

Design

This design is a smoother version of the one from the original game. However in conversion it has lost it's window textures. HAUL-M text is also replaced with FIRE

Performance

In this version, the vehicle handles like it has Jelly Suspension built-in which the Fraud Broko does in the original game. Even with permanent power down, it's performance is way better than original's.

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