Some day the mountain might get ‘em but the law never will…
Whilst journeying for my second time through Cyberpunk as the ineffable V, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this fantastic car the Jen Rowley. The electric orange colour didn’t get me first and it wasn’t until I saw the flag on the roof that the punny car name, Jen Rowley finally made sense.
The General Lee from the classic 80’s TV show The Dukes of Hazzard was Bo and Luke Duke’s 1969 Dodge Charger. The striking vehicle, much like KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) in Knight Rider, became the primary protagonist of the show. In comparing the Cyberpunk 2077 model to The Dukes of Hazzard model there are some clear similarities and differences.
Similarities: Both cars share the same electric orange paint job, the number 01 along the side of the doors, and a patriotic american flag (though in Cyberpunk 2077’s case it’s a New United States of America flag – or NUSA flag – whereas in The Dukes of Hazzard it is a dixie-inspired flag).
Differences: In the TV show, the iconic car had both doors fused shut, requiring the lead characters to slide in stylishly through the open windows, whenever they were “on the run”, which was basically the premise of every single episode. In the Cyberpunk 2077 game, the car has automated wing style doors. The other key difference in The Dukes of Hazzard TV show is the car’s instantly recognisable novelty dixie horn (in my youth many cars had this novelty horn because of the show; the other variant the infamous spanish la cucaracha horn was also popular). Cyberpunk 2077’s developers have missed an amazing opportunity to include the dixie horn in the game, and instead you are greeted with a standard beefy blast horn noise.
So what exactly is the car like? Is it worth it eddies-wise? How does it handle? All great questions! For mine, the car is simply iconic and brings me back to my youth. It looks fantastic and is a joy to drive, and it brings me real immersion especially when travelling through 6th street gang territory. Cost-wise it is relatively cheap and will only set you back 58,000 eddies which is a lot less than something like the Aerondight which is almost 4x more expensive at 225K. However, that’s just where the fun begins, as much like in the TV show, the developer’s have held true to the handling as this thing fish-tails all over the place. You’ll want to have your in-game or out-of-game phone ready for all the cool burnout shots you are gonna get! (I recommend the wide blue lanes out in Rancho Coronado for maximum blue-black-orange contrast effect).
DanDan
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