The Machine

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Carmageddon TDR 2000 vehicle
The Machine
Info
Car Descriptor order	21
Network availability	normal
Driver	Tetsuo
Driver's short name	Tet
Race number	no number
Top speed	170 mph
Kerb weight	2.1 tons
0 - 60 mph in	4.4 seconds
Cost	390000 credits
Description
"I am Man and Machine."

The Machine is one of the 50 original cars from Carmageddon: TDR 2000. It first appears in the Slums, being part of the second batch of vehicles the player encounters in the game.

Design

File:Design machine.png

This is a heavily customized and armored vehicle. It is colored green with flame decals on its sides and near the cockpit.

Performance

The Machine is a good pick for wasting opponents at the early-to-mid stages of the game thanks to its weight of 2.1 tons. It also has decent acceleration.

Driver

The driver, named "Tetsuo" in the files, is one of the most unique of the bunch. He is merely a head wired into the vehicle. Even a large portion of that head looks to have been replaced with machine parts.

Trivia

• The Machine's file name is just "machine".
• The Machine's texture which includes the driver is named "MACHINEman".
• Tetsuo is likely referencing the low-budget movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, where a Japanese salaryman transforms into a machine hybrid.
• Inside the Cop Car's folder from the demo, there is an unfinished early model of the Machine. It had different wheels, its secondary texture was almost completely different, and it lacked an undercarriage and driver/inner parts. It can be seen in the gallery below.
• This vehicle uses the glass texture from Jadead.
• Inside the files for the Machine there is an info .txt file for an earlier iteration of the vehicle:
  • NAME "The Machine"
  • DESCRIPTION "Top Speed: 200mph
  • Kerb weight: 1.5 tons
  • 0-60mph: 3.4 seconds
  • I've lost my Speedoes!"
  • DESCRIPTOR "Machinedescriptor.txt"
  • DRIVER_NAME "Machine Man"
  • DRIVER_SHORT_NAME "Mack"
  • STRENGTH 5
  • COST 50 // in thousands!
  • TYPE 0 // 0 = eagle, 1 = normal, 2 = novelty
  • //ARMOUR_MAP "eagle_armoured"

Gallery

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  Render of the Machine's rear.

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  The Machine in the garage.

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  View from inside the car of Tetsuo's head.

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  Texture of the Machine.

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  Damaged texture of the Machine.

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  Another texture used by the Machine.

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  Render of the Machine's model from the demo.

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  Render of the Machine's side from the demo.

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  Texture of the Machine from the demo.

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  Another texture used by the Machine from the demo.