Dune buggy

A tube-frame buggy at a mud party in a Rockstar press still, partly hidden behind a raised muddy hand that is closer to the lens than the vehicle is.

The crop is the left side of a Rockstar press still filed under Ambrosia. The whole still is a close group shot at a mud party: in the middle a man in a cowboy hat and dungarees making horns at the lens with his right hand, which is the hand in the foreground of our crop; a woman in tinted goggles and a bandana behind his shoulder; people on and around several machines behind them; another cage-framed machine at the right edge; and a red-and-yellow drinks can held up in the bottom corner. In our crop that hand, muddy and tattooed at the wrist, stands up in the foreground, closer to the lens than the buggy is, and what is left in view is the middle of the machine.

The buggy is a tube-frame machine: a pale grey roll cage of several bars arching over an open cockpit, a black head restraint under it, a copper-coloured strut with a black mount and hose on the cage, a tan body tub with an orange panel along the side that carries a small red badge with a paler patch in it, too blurred to read, and a tall knobbly tyre caked in mud. A man sits in it, shirtless, in sunglasses, with a circular tattoo on his shoulder and one arm hooked over the side, looking back over it at the camera. The front of the buggy runs out of the left edge of the frame; the muddy hand in the foreground covers its rear, not its nose, and this page had that the other way round until 23 September 2026. A second muddy arm reaches in from the bottom left towards the big tyre.

Until 23 September the page called the can a beer. Until 26 September it described the whole still as if it were in our crop, called it a selfie, which nothing in the frame settles, gave the hand in the foreground to the photographer, said the rear of the machine was in clear view, counted two raised fingers where our crop shows one, put the second arm on the tub and read a line of print on the orange panel.

How to recognise it

• Pale grey tubular roll cage over an open cockpit
• Tan body tub with an orange panel along the side
• A tall knobbly tyre, heavily mudded
• A copper-coloured strut with a black mount on the cage

The frame it comes from

The frame is a still from the official Press pack, which carries no timecode. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 1036 by 1555 of it. Also in it: Ambrosia.

How this was measured

These figures come from the dataset, not from the prose above. We measure everything and claim what counts. How we work

What we still do not know

• The name. Our own note carries a hypothesis from elsewhere; this frame does not support one, so it is not repeated here.
• The front of the machine, which runs out of the frame at the left
• Whether the orange panel is a livery or a wrap, and what the red badge on it shows
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, price, where it spawns