The hippie van has plenty of fuel but suffers from loose tires! These tree huggers have also figured out how to drive around trees.
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QStock legacy hippie van design
The Hippie Van is the fifth vehicle in the game, it costs 120 000 coins to unlock. It's based on the Hippie movement during the 1960s, characterized by youth counterculture, the Beat generation, and the Vietnam War.
The Hippie Van is a Yellow and white Volkswagen Bus, it also has flower, rainbow, and peace decals on it. It is a relatively large vehicle. It's tires slowly break overtime making its grip worse until the tires eventually fall off. This will make you unable to drive for a short time until Bill replaces them. Bill will only replace the wheels once the van has come to a complete stop. The doors, roof, headlight, and wing can also fall off if hit. The Hippie Van also can go through trees without crushing them, which makes this car ideal for the Forest and Xmas levels. The car will also have occasional boosts.
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Advantages
Strong traction and long fuel duration give the vehicle the ability to drive long and climb hills. Periodic auto-boosts increase engine power. The vehicle does not hit trees, which make it able to be stable, especially in Forest and Xmas.
Disadvantages
Tires lose traction when damaged, and will inhibit driving for a few seconds when they break off.
Overall, the Hippie Van is advantageous on traction, fuel, torque, and not hitting trees, but suffers from tire damage.
The Hippie Van is one of the few vehicles where car parts can fall off of the vehicle if they are hit.
The Hippie Van is the only vehicle to not crush trees - it is unknown why, although a theory is that when testing vehicles in stages Forest and Xmas , Fingersoft realised the Hippie Van either got stuck when reaching a tree or instantly killed the driver by damaging it's parts, so they might have slightly changed The Forest and Xmas's code to allow the Hippie Van to go around and avoid the trees.
If you press the Hippie Van's gas pedal for a long time, smoke will come out from the back of the vehicle and this will give the vehicle extra speed.
Real-life hippie van
The hippie van resembles a Volkswagen Type 2, with many "Hippie" inspired decals.
Hippies are stereotypical people that are overly relaxed, and thus usually live in their vans.
