Judge Dredd City Cab
Futuristic yellow 'City Cab' taxi built by Rover Group on 1970s Land Rover 101 Forward Control chassis for the 1995 film Judge Dredd; 22 were made and the sole fully-fitted example is preserved at the British Motor Museum.
Factory colours
- City Cab Yellow (Judge Dredd prop)
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
History
For the 1995 Sylvester Stallone film Judge Dredd (not the 2012 reboot Dredd, which used no such vehicle), Land Rover's own designers styled the 'City Cab' taxi of Mega-City One, and Rover Group built the vehicles at Solihull. Each carried a huge sculpted fibreglass taxicab-yellow body with enclosed wheels and deeply recessed glazing over the chassis of a 1970s Land Rover 101-inch Forward Control military vehicle, powered by the 3.5-litre, 135 bhp Rover V8. The finished prop measured 4,790 mm long, 2,210 mm wide and 2,230 mm tall.
Twenty-two City Cabs were built for filming, but only one was given a complete interior for the film's inside and close-up shots; the other 21 carried the exterior body shells alone. That fully-fitted car survives in the permanent collection of the British Motor Museum at Gaydon (accession 2015-13-5), displayed among the museum's TV and film vehicles. The City Cab is a period example of Land Rover's willingness to put its engineering behind film work, prefiguring the later Tomb Raider and Bond Defender programmes.
Imagery
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Registry record
- Manufacturer
- Rover Group, Solihull (on Land Rover 101 Forward Control chassis)
- Manufactured
- c. 1994-95 bodies on 1970s Land Rover 101FC chassis
- Modifier / coachbuilder
- Land Rover design team / Rover Group ↗
- Engine type
- 3.5 L Rover V8 petrol (135 bhp)
- Production run
- 22 vehicles (one with complete interior)
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Status
- preserved (British Motor Museum, Gaydon)
Catalogue data
- Record kind
- Named model
- Wheels
- 4
Base catalogue fields are exported from the Difflocked game. In-game physics values are arcade tuning, not certified historical measurements, and are deliberately not shown as specifications here.
Sources & citations
Researched sources
- Judge Dredd Land Rover (online collection record, accession 2015-13-5) ↗ — British Motor Museum (accessed 2026-09-10)
Catalogue references
- https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/online-collections/details-page?row_id=76417441886 https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/online-collections/details-page?row_id=76417441886 ↗
Development reference notes
Judge Dredd City Cab · HERITAGE-FLEET-REFERENCES.md
Huge sculpted yellow body; enclosed wheels; deeply recessed glazing. Reference: https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/online-collections/details-page?row_id=76417441886
Drive it
This vehicle is playable in the Difflocked racing game.
RACE THE JUDGE DREDD CITY CAB ↗Registry record updated 2026-09-09T20:07:51.103Z · status: researched