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Originally Posted by JavaBrewer
Lots of work and $$ in that platform. I would have thought it would have been better to start with a ground up purpose built design but then maybe costs would have been higher? I'll bet that whoever negotiated the Pcar ended up getting a personal Panamera/GT2-3 car(s) out of the deal.
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The best reason to not start with a ground up purpose built car is most people who would be building such a thing don't actually know what it takes to build said car.
Reliability is probably a huge factor. If you lose a day of shooting due to your special camera vehicle overheating or blowing a tire because it was 'engineered' by a group of hollywood techs that went to prop-design school instead of 100 Germans with masters degrees.... there goes your budget.
Therefore... high end camera rigging company + Porsche tank is the winning formula.