All there appears to be are very old cars, no modern day SUVs or sports cars or anything... Is there an explanation? It's not like they needed to resort to these types of cars before the Great War.

Time to steal Ausir's limelight.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_world

Fallout is set in an alternate timeline that diverged from ours in the 1950s. In the 21st century, it looked like the future as imagined in the 1950s pulp science fiction. E.g. instead of transistors you have huge vacuum tube-based computers with artificial intelligence and monochromatic terminals, robotic servants, a pseudo-utopian society based on 1950s values, black and white TV, music from the 1950s considered all-time classics, and most modern musical genres never appearing, etc,. Weapon development was also different from ours and thus plasma and laser weaponry was introduced, 10mm became the most common ammo type, etc. The modern high-tech weapons were never created - instead, weapons based on how people in the 1950s thought 21st century weaponry would look like are used.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Divergence
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_world

The SUV and modern style vehicles did not exist in the Fallout Universe.

That didn't help at all, I was asking why they don't exist, and the other posts before yours answered my question completely.

Well, "[...]The earliest examples of longer-wheelbase wagon-type SUVs were the GAZ-61 (1938), Willys Jeep Wagon (1948)[...]",http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUV#History
so if the divergence happened roght after WW2 at least the soviet model was real. If it happened around 1950, the second one is real, too.

All we know is that the divergence happened sometime after WWII ended. And SUVs were not pupularlized until the 1990's. Therefore, while SUVs certainly existed, they were not popular.

True. I was gonna go with the "Oil crisis (which caused the war) made the SUVs rather... undesirable." But I guess both work.

If we are to go by the statements about Fallout Tactics, then the Willy's Jeep was still in service during the "Great War".(That is according to the original producers, who were critical of the production staff of tactics using the HMMWV).

There was going to be a Jeep, but not Willys Jeep Wagon. Just some (possibly retrofuturistic) version of the Jeep.

Just in case you didn't know, the Willy's Jeep and the Willy's Jeep Wagon were two very different vehicles. Though I would have liked to have seen the retro-futuristic jeep.

Sorry, I misread your post as saying the same as the previous one.

Yeah, the only ruined military vehicle you see is the 2.5 ton truck (oh, and now the fuel truck). It'd be nice to have some Jeeps and maybe some ruined tank or private trucks too.

In Tactics there was the Hillbilly-Armor/Modified Sherman...though of course there was never any mention at to what the US Army's MBT was in the Fallout Universe....though it could make sense that they were still using some variant the Sherman.

But wasn't there a lunar land rover reference in the Museum of History in FO3? Surely that would have inspired, or been inspired, by a similar automobile model that would've caught on in popularity regardless of when the divergeance took place. Because of this, I side with the notion that the shortage of oil during the Great War rendered them useless. But still, there ought to be at least some trace of them left in the ruins.

What is it with Americans and their dumb ass SUVs. Isn't there a term that the size of your car is compinsation for something small? Or is it with guns?

The reason there aren't any SUV's or modern things in the Capital Wasteland or the Wasteland all together, is because back in the 50's those things didn't exist like they do now. And back in 1950s America, BIG CARS were what people had. Trucks were big also, but not as so.

One of the biggest problems is the technological inconsistencies between the Classic Fallout's, Fallout Tactics and Fallout 3. It's too bad that Van Buren never came out, that would have no doubt helped to flesh out some of the issues on Fallout Universe technology.

ya know, that wouldnt be so bad if it had happened in our timeline too, but instead of it stop progressing in the 50's it could stop progressing in the 80's.

Now wouldn't that be great, we'd never have to hear that Rap [censored]! Also some great classics like You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) will always be in the top 10.

Read page 3 of your instruction manual. Specifically, the second paragraph.

1950's world of tomorrow. Think of The Jetsons after a nuclear war.

That just... rooted out some really weird thoughts...

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AAAGH! MAKE THEM STOP!!! :ahhh: