Trivia / Battletruck

• California Doubling: Set in America, filmed in New Zealand.
• Fake American: Hunter, Corlie, Col. Straker, Rusty, and Judd are all played by actual Americans. Everyone else is a New Zealander, most notably Bruno Lawrence as Willie.
• Follow the Leader: The film was part of a wave of post-apocalyptic films created in response to the success of the Mad Max series, a wave which also included such films as The Exterminators of the Year 3000, Warriors of the Wasteland, Solarbabies, and Steel Dawn.

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