These vehicles became very beloved to automobile lovers and ended up carrying on as a icon throughout the years. Many fans had replicated vehicles seen throughout the movies of Jurassic Park.
The 2 iconic vehicles of Jurassic Park is the Jeep Wrangler 1992 and a Ford Explorer 1993 as part of the Park's transports.
Jeep Wrangler 1993
A Jeep Wrangler 1993 "Jeep18" replica by a fan.
At Jurassic park, there two kinds of vehicles that were used on the island. Tour Vehicles ran on electrical power through a track on the ground used for the tours. The other was the Staff Vehicles(Gas-powered Jeeps), used by Park staff for getting around the park.
In the Jurassic Park universe, the jeeps were purposely painted with red stripes because it kept the Triceratops within the enclosures from charging at the cars with the assunption that its a rivaling triceratops.
All Gas-powered Jeeps were 1992 Jeep Wrangler Sahara's.
1988/1989 Toyota Land Cruiser J62
A fan-made visual of how the Cruiser would've looked like from the novel
In the Novel, the tour vehicles were referred to as Toyota Land Cruisers. They were made in Japan, custom built for the park specifically. Two dozen of them were stored in a Garage, which would've formed an endless loop of tours throughout the Island.
Another fan-visual of how the Cruiser from the novel would've looked like.
They had a spare tire on the back, a special antenna on the roof and a box containing night vision googles and a pair of night-vision goggles, and a CD-ROM drive on the main console which was coordinated with the motion-sensor system to update dinosaur information onscreen.
The Cruisers that were used in place of the scene during the Tyrannosaurus attack were named BB4 and BB5
Ford Explorer XLT 1993
Ford Explorer 1993 "Jeep 05" from the film Jurassic Park(1993)
All of the tour vehicles in the film version of Jurassic Park were 1993 Ford Explorer XLTs, only two were operational during the Isla Nublar '93 incident on their very first run on the park.
A picture of the tour vehicle early in the movie infront of the visitor's center.
Each tour vehicle possessed a self-navigational system. They had leather interiors, night-vision goggles under the seats, and an inbuilt drinking tap that supplied visitors water. Road flares and Brochures were stored in the trunk. Although the Tour Vehicles were powered by electricity from their track, the headlights could be powered nonstop by their batteries.
A scene where the Tyrannosaurus shoves the EXP04 off its track.
When the T-rex pushed the EXP04 off the track, the headlights and high beams continued to work. The vehicles top speed was 12-20mp/h which wasnt very fast.
Like the Jeep Wrangler staff vehicle, the Ford Explorer from the was also replicated by fans from around the world, mostly from the United States. However, the movie had made fans have a hard time replicating a certain part of the car, which would be the sunroof.
A fan's replica of "EXP05".
The sunroof was specifically made for the movie by the production team that handled the vehicles. Many replications of the vehicle by fans don't have sunroofs and only a few people had successfully modified their Explorer to have a custom made sunroof. The sunroof was an exceptionally hard piece of the vehicle to replicate from the movie.
"EXP05" in Universal Studios Orlando
"EXP04" in Universal Studios California
After the movie was debuted, the vehicles were sent off to different places including Universal Studios as props for their Jurassic Park The Ride. EXP05 can be seen in Universal Studios-Island of Adventures and the wrecked version of EXP04 can be seen on display in Universal Studios California.
Did you know
Notice the wrecked ford on the left.
In Jurassic Park III, there is a wreckage of the Ford Explorer tour vehicle in the movie during a scene where Alan and the group are entering the InGen embryonic agency. This comes across as strange to most fans as Isla Sorna(Site B) was never meant to accommodate tourists.
Credits to Jurassic Park Wiki - Wikia for additional information and images.
Credits to IMDb for information references.
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