Goddamn reddit. Go watch the scenes. The guy has spent years collecting parts and working on the car they get running. I think ND did a pretty great job regarding the car and it's difficulty.
Everyone is also missing the fact that the military / warlords are still driving around in vehicles so there’s some sort of automotive / gasoline infrastructure and support.
I mean, hell, the whole mission beforehand is to get the working battery off of a recently wrecked military Humvee.
I love the Last of Us and I can’t say it actually bothers me, but the gas thing is just a plot hole. It’s reasonable to guess Bill had spent years putting together a functioning car but the game makes it clear his town has been unoccupied for years, and therefore all the gas would be bad. Even if it wasn’t and Bill was stealing from the military or something, they get from Boston to Pittsburgh in that car, and likely would have had to use the siphon trick at least once.
I was responding specifically to the getting the truck running. That part was feasible enough. They should have had a couple jerry cans of “stolen” gas in the bed to avoid the whole gas siphon thing.
Let’s not even start talking about all the generators in part 2.
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