# What is the best automobile to have post-apocalypse? (think Mad Max or zombie apocalypse) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162 "2023-12-06T08:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/121 "2023-12-14T15:24:07Z")
I’d think their prohibition against violence might not extend to zombies which are already dead. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/122 "2023-12-14T15:49:03Z")
Aside from any prohibition against violence, their hunting and animal butchering skills would help them too. Also, they may have elders who still have memory of how to store and handle meat safely without refrigeration, or youtube videos to walk them through how to salt, smoke, preserve meat. As well as the skills, techniques and experience preserving vegetables and fruits. A lot of non Amish and Mennonites have these skills too. Also, as a non-hunting, non-butchering Mennonite, I know that I would have to learn quickly while relying on friends and family who are hunters and have butchering skills in that grim future. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/123 "2023-12-15T10:32:33Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Perhaps a slight hijack: so would the Amish and Mennonites not have too munch trouble in the apocalypse (zombies aside)? The Amish don’t have a problem using firearms for vermin control and/or hunting. Pretty sure they’d be OK with killing zombies by whatever means. In many ways yes, they’d be a step ahead of many others but they, too, rely on some things produced by industry, like window glass and steel tools and other items. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/124 "2023-12-15T10:53:04Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > r youtube videos to walk them through how to salt, smoke, preserve meat. I don’t see the Amish as big YouTube fans. I may well be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/125 "2023-12-15T11:07:46Z")
Idle question; if I a capture a zombie and I salt, smoke or preserve it, does eating the undead count as cannibalism? From numerous zombie movies I have seen they tend to be pack animals but it should not be too hard to separate the weak from the herd. Then delicious, delicious zombie flesh. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/126 "2023-12-15T11:44:51Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > Then delicious, delicious zombie flesh. God, no. Unless they’re one of those stupid “Rage Virus” pseudo-zombies, their flesh has been rotting for days/weeks/months. What you do is, you feed the zombies to your pigs, then eat the pigs. #Deadwood #WuIsTheBoss ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/127 "2023-12-15T11:47:50Z")
I mean, they are dry-aged, so they should not be that bad? I like my steak that way so my “long-pork” can’t be too different. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/128 "2023-12-15T13:44:25Z")
I meant that the rest of us survivors won’t have YouTube to save our sorry asses. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162/129 "2023-12-20T23:50:45Z")
Wouldn’t eating a zombie pass on the virus? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-automobile-to-have-post-apocalypse-think-mad-max-or-zombie-apocalypse/994162.md?page=6)