A Car as a Bug Out Vehicle

[Scythe13]

Just checked a post and the suggestion was that of a car as a BOV. Brilliant. I totally agree. But...and there's always a but...the comment went on about a car as a shelter.

Now, being a bushcraft nutter, I have to admit that a car would work as a brilliant water shelter and just as good as a lightning storm shelter too.

However, the one issue I have with a car as a 'general shelter' is that when the outside weather gets cold, a car will VERY QUICKLY lose heat and become a cold store. One of the reasons for this is that the car is made of metal, which will get cold very quickly. There is only a small amount of thermal mass in a normal car, so it would not hold heat for long.

In a winter situation, genuinely, if I was bugging out with my car, I would opt to build a shelter nearby. The reason is that I would be able to create a much warmer debris hut or even just use debris over a tarp shelter, as a means of creating a lot of insulation and maintaining my core temperature. I might take out the back seat from the car as a sleeping mat, but I don't think the rest of it would be any good.