The motor pool

Rigs of the wasteland

Out here your vehicle is your workshop, your shelter and your escape plan. Every Phoenix rig is unique, built to haul steel through floodwater, dust and ash — and to still start in the morning.

Military 4x4

Vanguard M4

When a corridor floods and the convoys stop, the Vanguard M4 goes anyway. Built to shrug off washed-out bridges, broken highways and whatever got left on the road, it crawls through where nothing else gets through and keeps the supply lines open.

Off-roader

Ridgeback Trailhawk

Three decades of wasteland abuse and the Ridgeback Trailhawk has yet to complain. Nothing about it is refined and everything about it is stubborn. It starts in the cold, runs hot, and never quits.

Camper pickup

Wayfarer Nomad

Less a truck than a rolling homestead. A scavenged camper shell rides on the back, and the engine drinks whatever fuel turns up. Overloaded or not, it keeps the cabin steady across salt flats and scrapyard trails.

Monster truck

Ravager XL

One purpose: go over whatever is in the way. Huge tires, a roll cage and far too much power let the Ravager XL climb wreckage that would stop any lesser machine cold.

Tracked radar

Sentry ATR-9

Where no wheel will hold, the Sentry ATR-9 keeps watching. On tracks it moves at a slow, steady crawl through soft mud and broken ground, carrying its scanning gear places nothing else can reach.

Cargo 6x6

Hauler MK7

The Hauler MK7 runs on whatever fuel can be scavenged, and carries loads that would strand a lighter truck. When a convoy has to move no matter what, this is the one at the front.

Six rigs here. Many more in the garage — Wasteland Tycoon: New Hope is coming.

Up close

The rigs, up close

Two short clips from the game: a rig parked in the garage, and a load heading out of camp.

In the garage Back in the garage between jobs, waiting for the next load.
On the road Loaded, tarped and rolling out for the run.
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