Building a vehicle in the Sprawl is a relatively straightforward affair. You choose the chassis size of your vehicle as the starting point and multiply the base cost for that chassis by the motive type. Everything else can be modified by Improvements to add extra features.
All vehicles are assumed to start with a crew of 1 with 0 passengers and a Firewall of 4.
Chassis Size: The Size and Scale of the vehicle relative to a human (see Scale on page 106 and the Size Table on pg 179). Vehicles can normally take three Wounds before they're Wrecked (page 118), but Large Vehicles can take one additional Wound, and Huge vehicles two, and Gargantuan three.
Handling: The vehicle's responsiveness and maneuverability is added or subtracted from all its operator's maneuvering rolls (Boating, Driving, or Piloting). This typically ranges from -2 for particularly slow or sluggish vehicles to +2 for those that can turn on a dime.
Top Speed: Top Speed is expressed in miles per hour (MPH) rather than Pace so it's easier for you to look up real-world vehicles and use them in your game. The Chase rules only care about the relative speeds of vehicles anyway, not their actual speeds (see Chases, page 113).
Toughness: The vehicle's base durability including Armor (in parentheses). Use the vehicles included in this book as a guide when creating your own or writing up those that aren't listed here.
To estimate the Armor value of real world vehicles with Heavy Armor (tanks), start with +4 as a base, then add +2 for every inch of armor up to 10", +1 per inch up to 20", and finally +1 for every two full inches after that. A tank with 23" of armor, for example, has an Armor value of (4+20+10+1)=35.
Passengers: The number of crew plus any additional passengers it can transport. A notation of "2+8" for example means it requires a crew of two and can carry up to eight additional passengers.
Firewall: The target number needed to initiate a Hack against a vehicle controlled with a VCI.Â
Cost: The average price of the vehicle.
Wasteland Traders Cross Country ATV is a small four wheeled off-road vehicle with room for a driver and one passenger behind them on a shared seat.
Size: 2; Handling: +2; Top Speed: 100; Toughness: 9(2); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $4,000
Notes: Exposed Crew, 4WD
Rule the streets with the Morrison Steel Street Boss. The heaviest bike on the road today, the Street Boss has a full fairing and cowling of bullet resistant material.
Size: 2; Handling: 0; Top Speed: 130; Toughness: 12(3); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $6,500
Notes: Exposed Crew
If you know NOS Automotives, you know speed is their area of expertise. The Diablo motorcycle does not disappoint.
Size: 2; Handling: +1; Top Speed: 170; Toughness: 9(1); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $5,000
Notes: Exposed Crew
Tsheng specializes in the best economy a customer can hope for. The Scoot can travel 700 miles on a single charge and its tricycle design with a single rear wheel ensures the best maneuverability when it comes to parking in tight spaces.
Size: 4 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 70; Toughness: 10(1); Crew: 1+3; Cost: $12,000
Elantra Engineering's Palm Beach is all about comfort. The spacious cabin seats five in comfort.
Size: 4 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 130; Toughness: 13(3); Crew: 1+4; Cost: $45,000
Notes: Luxury Features
NOS Automotives Saber still crosses the 150 MPH mark even carrying serious armor plating. NOS' trademark style is evident in every curve and contour and their constant pursuit of perfection couldn't be better spotlighted than in the quality of every detail of this vehicle.
Size: 4 (Large); Handling: +2; Top Speed: 155; Toughness: 12(4); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $85,000
Traveling in luxury and style is essential and the Auric Rule is the height of luxury. Comfortable seating for six in the armored passenger cabin with access to hot and cold beverages, sleeping accommodations, as well as top of the line audio and video entertainment systems.
Size: 5 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 100; Toughness: 16(6); Crew: 1+7; Cost: $130,000
Notes: Luxury Features
Wasteland Traders Desert Rat is designed for off road travel. With a Max Travel suspension and semi-sphere off road tires, each wheel can independently travel more than 30 inches to adapt to terrain. A top pintle mount can hold up to a heavy vehicle machine gun. It has a cargo storage capacity of 1000 pounds and a fuel capacity that allows 500 miles without a refill.
Size: 5 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 100; Toughness: 16(4); Crew: 1+3; Cost: $22,000
Notes: 4WD
The Elantra Engineering Oasis Van is well known in the industry for being a sturdy and reliable hauler and utility vehicle.
Size: 5 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 90; Toughness: 13(2); Crew: 1+8; Cost: $19,500
The Grasshopper is a street-ready hover bike by VerTex, with all the quality VerTex customers expect.
Size: 1; Handling: +2; Top Speed: 150; Toughness: 10(2); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $21,000
Notes: Exposed Crew, Hover
The VerTex Icarus is the fastest production Hover Bike in existence, a guaranteed leader in this year's Hover Rally.
Size: 1; Handling: +2; Top Speed: 170; Toughness: 9(1); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $33,000
Notes: Exposed Crew, Hover
Cherry Automotive presents the Nymph. All of Cherry's trusted reliability and cutting-edge engineering fit into a sleek and spritely hover cycle.
Size: 1; Handling: +2; Top Speed: 150; Toughness: 10(2); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $35,000
Notes: Exposed Crew, Hover
A hover car for the common people, the Beetle is noteworthy as a populist product from the elite VerTex.
Size: 4 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 120; Toughness: 12(2); Crew: 1+3; Cost: $35,000
Notes: Hover
The VerTex Apollo is Gear and Sprocket's hover car of the year for the third year running. A staple of the hover industry because of their ultra-durable triple rotation hover fans.
Size: 4 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 160; Toughness: 13(3); Crew: 1+3; Cost: $90,000
Notes: Hover
American Aeronautics Manufacturing has been producing aircraft for over 50 years. The Executive Retreat is a standout among its peers. Luxury accommodations for five including a top of the line AI Autobar.
Size: 7 (Large); Handling: +2; Top Speed: 170; Toughness: 16(6); Crew: 1+5; Cost: $825,000
Notes: Luxury Features, VTOL
Cherry Automotive is proud to present, for the 2118 catalog, the Ascension. When quality and refinement are necessary, the only place one should look is Cherry Automotive.
Size: 6 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 150; Toughness: 14(3); Crew: 1+3; Cost: $40,000
Notes: Luxury Features, VTOL
The new 2118 Taita, by Elantra Engineering, is the flying car for all your needs. Reasonably priced, spacious, and now available with an optional retractable roof.
Size: 6 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 150; Toughness: 13(2); Crew: 1+5; Cost: $30,000
Notes: VTOL
There are several brands of luxury helicopter for wealthy clients. Luxurious, swift, and safe transport that has room for amenities for a meeting or negotiation in flight.
Size: 6 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 180; Toughness: 16(6); Crew: 1+7; Cost: $750,000
Notes: Luxury Features, VTOL
What the Street Boss brought to the roads; the Morrison Steel Condor has brought to the skies. Heavy, solid, and unforgiving, the Condor dominates the air.
Size: 2; Handling: 0; Top Speed: 140; Toughness: 11(3); Crew: 1; Cost: $23,000
Notes: Exposed Crew, VTOL
A standard pattern utility and cargo helicopter, capable of using external hooks and cables to lift tons of cargo. Watch out for the wind with your increased surface area.
Size: 7 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 130; Toughness: 13(3); Crew: 1+3; Cost: $400,000
Notes: VTOL, lift up to 6 tons, half Top Speed while lifting cargo
When it comes to the Skyhook, Marsworks Engineering has decided on function over form. Nearly double the lifting capacity of other helicopters in its class, this VTOL Transport is remarkably stable making tight maneuvering for correct cargo placement a guarantee.
Size: 7 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 135; Toughness: 14(4); Crew: 1+1; Cost: $350,000
Notes: VTOL, lift up to 12 tons, half Top Speed while lifting cargo
VerTex, the leading manufacturer in hover vehicles, steps to the plate with their all new designed Valkyrie. Faster and lighter than anything else in its class, the Valkyrie can be expected to perform well in any competition.
Size: 2; Handling: +2; Top Speed: 160; Toughness: 9(1); Crew: 1; Cost: $38,000
Notes: Exposed Crew, VTOL
One of a dozen knock-off vehicles for sale to military and paramilitary organizations around the globe.Â
Size: 5 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 100; Toughness: 16(4); Crew: 1+4; Cost: $51,000
Notes: 4WD, Offline, bed can carry light cargo (up to two tons) or six additional passengers
Weapons: Medium Machine Gun (pintle mount, roof), can be upgraded to Heavy Machine Gun
Ravenlocke Securities offers its 5th generation GP110u truck. More heavily armed and armored than most of the vehicles in its class, it can be counted to reliably deliver its payload to any destination.
Size: 5 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 100; Toughness: 17(5); Crew: 1+4; Cost: $60,000
Notes: 4WD, up to two tons of cargo
Weapons: Heavy Machine Gun (pintle mount, roof)
A heavy workhorse vehicle, used to carry troops, ammunition, supplies, and casualties virtually everywhere. The flat cargo bed has fold-down slat benches for up to 16 passengers if it's not loaded with up to 10 tons of cargo. Towing rated for up to 12 tons of trailer. A mounting ring above the cab can pintle mount a machine gun.
Size: 8 (Huge); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 80; Toughness: 18(3); Crew: 1+2; Cost: $75,000
Notes: 4WD, Offline, bed can carry 10 tons of cargo or 16 passengers, can tow 12 tons
Weapons: None; can pintle mount a Medium or Heavy Machine Gun
For Wasteland Traders, the safety of its occupants is its primary concern. Where other transports in its class leave their passengers in an unarmored cargo bed with a cloth cover, Wasteland Traders has ensured that the entire passenger compartment is armored as well as having 10 ports on the sides to allows the passengers to fire from within the safety of the vehicle. Passengers can disperse from 2 side doors as well as a rear ramp.
Size: 8 (Huge); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 70; Toughness: 19(4); Crew: 1+18; Cost: $87,000
Notes: 4WD
Weapons: none
A standard-pattern armored transport for moving troops into, or out of, combat zones. Independent machine guns can suppress or target virtually any foe.
Size: 6 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 50; Toughness: 22(7); Crew: 2+10; Cost: $1.1M
Notes: Heavy Armor, Hover, Night Vision
Weapons: Heavy Machine Gun (Imp Stabilizer, turret), Medium Machine Gun (Imp Stabilizer, turret)
Boasting port and starboard heavy machine gun turrets and an enlarged crew cabin, Act of God Armaments Cavalry is certain to deliver it occupants to the battlefield safely. With its heavier engine and more powerful hover fans, it will get them there much swifter than the competition.
Size: 6 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 70; Toughness: 23(8); Crew: 2+12; Cost: $1.3M
Notes: Heavy Armor, Hover, Night Vision
Weapons: 2x Heavy Machine Gun (Imp Stabilizer, turret)
The Beachhead Assault Vehicle is CES's tried and true air cushion assault vehicle. Ride into battle with armament just short of a tank, and enough generation 19 armor to keep you safe anywhere.
Size: 6 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 60; Toughness: 31(16); Crew: 3+3; Cost: $2.8M
Notes: Heavy Armor, Hover, Night Vision, Reactive Plating
Weapons: 30mm Cannon (Imp Stabilizer, turret), Heavy Machine Gun (Imp Stabilizer, turret), 40mm Grenade Machine Gun (Stabilizer, turret), Hellfire Missile Launcher (fixed turret front, two missiles)
The Sentinel Lock Lancehead assault vehicle is the top of its class in light assault craft. Quad turbo fans generate an extremely stable hover platform while dual 30mm Cannon turrets significantly ramp up the firepower over similar vehicles.
Size: 7 (Large); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 50; Toughness: 34(19); Crew: 3+3; Cost: $3.1M
Notes: Heavy Armor, Hover, Night Vision, Reactive Plating
Weapons: 2x 30mm Cannon (Imp Stabilizer, turret), 40mm Grenade Machine Gun (Stabilizer, turret), Hellfire Missile Launcher (fixed turret front, two missiles)
Marsworks Engineering's classic model hover tank is fast, hard hitting, and covered in firepower. Advanced composite armor up to 40cm thick, supplemented by reactive armor plating, houses a conventional ballistic cannon supported by a coaxial medium machine gun and a turret-mounted heavy flamethrower.
Size: 9 (Huge); Handling: -1; Top Speed: 50; Toughness: 55(36); Crew: 2; Cost: $4M
Notes: Heavy Armor, Hover, Night Vision, Reactive Plating
Weapons: 125mm Tank Gun, (Imp Stabilizer, turret), Heavy Flame Thrower (Stabilizer, turret), Medium Machine Gun (Stabilizer, fixed forward)
The latest hover tank from Marsworks Engineering is named after the supreme Egyptian deity. Fast moving, sleekly shaped - with armor plating that deflects conventional munitions, and sporting the powerful Divine Wrath laser cannon, the Horus-Ra strikes like a bolt from the heavens. The explosive Anti-Personnel System can shred bold infantry with short-range explosives on any side ($150 per reload, per side) and 36cm of advanced composite armor ensure you'll be using it for years to come.
Size: 9 (Huge); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 52; Toughness: 53(34); Crew: 2; Cost: $5.4M
Notes: Heavy Armor, Hover, Night Vision, Reactive Plating, Sloped Armor
Weapons: Heavy Laser (Imp Stabilizer, turret), Gatling Laser (Stabilizer, turret), Anti-Personnel System (as Claymore Mine, one on each time)
Fully automated, the Bifrost can deliver up to 40 HM Takeover Team Combat Drones, then linger to provide fire support.
Size: 7 (Large); Handling: +2; Top Speed: 200; Toughness: 21(6); Crew: 0+40; Cost: $243,000
Notes: AI, VTOL
Weapons: 2x Heavy Machine Gun (fixed front)
Law enforcement is dangerous, especially around heavily cybered individuals. Ravenlocke's Enforcer makes it safer.
Size: 8 (Huge); Handling: 0; Top Speed: 805 / 205; Toughness: 22(5); Crew: 2+2; Cost: $1.62M
Notes: Night Vision, variable engines (Jet top speed 805, VTOL top speed 205)
Weapons: 2x Medium MAW Cannon (fixed front), dual-linked Heavy Machine Guns (Stabilizer fixed-front)
Rain fiery vengeance with the Seraphim helicopter gunship. The patented transverse rotor design lets the Seraphim mount more armor and weapons than the next two competitors.
Size: 8 (Huge); Handling: +2; Top Speed: 225; Toughness: 22(6); Crew: 2+2; Cost: $2.3M
Notes: Night Vision, VTOL
Weapons: 40mm Cannon (chin turret), 16x Hellfire Missiles (front)
As hard to put down as grass roots uprisings, the Insurgency is the leading multi-role attack fighter today. The use of gyrojet rocket lets the 30mm autocannon carry more cannon ammunition, and the hardpoint missile racks allow for easy customization regardless of mission.
Size: 7 (Large); Handling: +1; Top Speed: 715; Toughness: 17(2); Crew: 1; Cost: $1.3M
Notes: Night Vision, Radar System, VTOL, Ejection System (Athletics -4 to safely escape wrecked vehicle)
Weapons: 30mm Cannon (fixed front), 2x Sidewinder Missiles (fixed front), 2x Hellfire missiles (fixed front), Bombs (damage varies, LBT)