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    Ten Best Vehicles For Urban Warfare

    Society is crumbling and most of us live in cities, which means we're going to be fighting in urban jungles for scarce resources. With the help of our readers we've identified these ten best vehicles for urban warfare.

    Put your helmets on, fill those tanks with homemade napalm and click "next" because the cities are exploding and you need to know how to survive the upheaval.

    Vehicle: EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle
    Suggested By: Racin_G37
    Pros: Comfort, full armor, integrated communications and weapons center, drapes
    Cons: Maneuverability, fictional
    Best Suited For: Sneaking a large force into an urban area in the Sun Belt where people expect to see RVs. Come on guys, we're taking over Phoenix tonight!

    Vehicle: Matte Black Bicycle
    Suggested By: Alfisted
    Pros: Quick, easy to carry, stealth
    Cons: Lack of armor, storage, speed
    Best Suited For: Densely packed urban slums like Rio (ready for an Olympic rumble).

    Vehicle: Deuce And A Half/M35
    Suggested By: Ryan K. Light
    Pros: Will run on nearly every burning fluid, powerful, gigantic
    Cons: Too big for small alleys, slow, hard to defend without a roof
    Best Suited For: A metropolis with a lot of freeways and high-proof liquor to run the engine on, like Los Angeles or Moscow.

    Vehicle: Killdozer
    Suggested By: Evil-Jeremy
    Pros: Nearly unstoppable, great name, armored, can crush opponents
    Cons: Poor fuel economy, space, no exit
    Best Suited For: Crazed suicide mission urban warfare when you expect to go up against a lot of pedestrians (Copenhagen)

    Vehicle: V8 Interceptor
    Suggested By: Snapoversteer
    Pros: Proven, fierce looking, fast, Mel Gibson-approved
    Cons: Sucks down fuel, poor visibility
    Best Suited For: Lawless, abandoned urban towns like Detroit.

    Vehicle: EarthRoamer XV-LT
    Suggested By: EBone
    Pros: Tough, decent mileage, ISO9001 compliant protection against chemical, biological and nuclear contamination
    Cons: Big, harder to fix, you're not going to need those satellite dishes when the satellites crash into the cities
    Best Suited For: When society breaks down and the armies of the world release all their weapons and it's a mutant/zombie urban throw-down you'll be able to live comfortably in Omaha.

    Vehicle: Tumbler
    Suggested By: Robbloeb
    Pros: Batman-approved, designed for dense urban areas, armed and armored
    Cons: Experimental, hard to repair, complex
    Best Suited For: quick jaunts of intense urban warfare when you have a subway/dungeon/cave to retreat to when done causing mischief, like Chicago or NYC.

    Vehicle: Toyota 4x4
    Suggested By: Schm
    Pros: Tough, cheap to maintain, can carry your warlord buddies
    Cons: Little armor, easy to tipover
    Best Suited For: Crowded, dilapidated cities with crappy roads like Mogadishu.

    Vehicle: Mazda 323 GTX
    Suggested By: 2trips
    Pros: Good all weather traction, super tuneable, easy to repair
    Cons: Lack of space, small, not at all bulletproof
    Best Suited For: European cities like Barcelona with narrow streets, fruit carts and streets wet with blood.

    Vehicle: Hamann Typhoon
    Suggested By: Arcsine
    Pros: G-Wagen toughness, V12 power (0-62 MPH in 5.1 seconds), stainless steel bits, looks ready for battle
    Cons: Flashy, uses tons of gas, weakness in the wheels
    Best Suited For: any city with open roads and a lot of fuel around like Riyadh or Houston.


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