Land Rover Comes Up With a BOV

Land Rover has come up with its own concept of a bug-out vehicle. Ignoring the sarcasm in the article, it has a few interesting features:

The DC100 is meant to signal the future of the Land Rover Defender. It's pure practicality on four wheels and none of that annoying sleek styling that is showing up in other models. Nope, this car is meant to take on an uncertain future.

With its rooftop equipment rack, you can stow hundreds of cans of Spam and canned peas topside, leaving the cargo area for your stash of glinting yellow gold bullion. As giant chasms split open before you, you can count on the winch to deliver you from a sure, quick demise. Best of all, the DC100 has a snorkel so it can be driven in deep water. Land Rover even came up with something called "Wade Aid" with sonar sensors on the bumper and side mirrors to measure water depth. When it senses that you have sounded the dive alarm and are headed for deep water, it automatically closes vents, raises the ride height and puts the vehicle into low gear. ....

Since any survivalist will be hesitant to get out from behind the wheel to scout the terrain, lest some scavenger make a break for the treasure, the DC100 has a Terrain Response system. It creates a three-dimensional map of the outdoors and can "optimize" for just about anything it encounters.

Of course, it is also probably out of the price range of everyone except those that can afford the multi-million dollar luxury missile-silo bunkers. However, this is probably a product designed more for first-responders than survivalists, but it is nice that they are making it available to the civilian market.