The Chicago Auto Show's normally a reliable home for new post-apocalyptic survival vehicles. This year it seems the threat of apocalypse has been downgraded from red to orange because there just aren't that many new offerings.

Preparing the right vehicle for the zombie apocalypse often requires a lot of time, space and a forgiving family. This is where ApocaLEGO vehicles come in. If minifig zombies want brains, they're going to have to get through this crew.

If a deuce-and-a-half doesn't hold enough bitchin' military surplus awesome for your vision of a dystopian future, perhaps you might be interested in the Gama Goat, an articulated six-wheeled amphibious machine designed to tackle the worst terrains of Vietnam.

George Miller's announced Mad Max 4: Fury Road's been officially green-lit. The rumored cast includes Charlize Theron and Terminator: Salvation's Sam Worthington. Regardless of plot, casting and expected awesome vehicles, we're nervous about the necessity of this movie.

We've got a soft spot for Apocalypse-grade vehicles around here, and this is one we haven't seen before. The Russian-built Aton-Impulse Viking-2992 is an amphibious, seven-passenger emergency rescue car. It's also pretty awesome.

Being a truck show, the staggering number of post-apocalyptic survival vehicles at the Chicago Auto Show make Chicago the place to be for the end of the world. Who knew? Here's the 12 best.

Name: Suzuki Makai Concept
Type of Apocalypse: Rising Ocean Levels
Why: If Al Gore is right (and he always is) pretty soon we'll be up to our necks in globally warmed ocean water when the Greenland ice sheet and the South Pole melt into the sea. We may be forced to live on the mountaintops but that doesn't mean we…

Name: Chevrolet Sting-Ray Concept
Type of Apocalypse: Robot Apocalypse
Why: The Chevrolet Stingray concept debuted here at the Chicago Auto Show, and aside from being a seriously badass Corvette concept car its Transformers alter-ego Sideswipe would be great in something like a robot apocalypse. Of course such a…

Name: Jeep Kid Zone
Type of Apocalypse: Chryslerpocalypse
Why: This one is largely irrelevant and extremely esoteric, but these little PowerWheels Jeeps stationed in the "Jeep Kid Zone" are the perfect way to save you from the Chryslerpocalypse. You probably haven't read it anywhere, but a large majority of auto writers …

Name: Ford Transit Connect
Type of Apocalypse: General Apocalypse/City Disintegration
Why: The 2010 Ford Transit Connect debuted at the Chicago Auto Show and brought with it hope to everyone looking for a compact, relatively cheap, fuel efficient vehicle to use in a retreat from the disintegration of society which is…