BRUTAL Mexican drug cartels are pimping ordinary pick-ups and transforming them into Mad Max-style ‘Franken-tanks’.
Underground workshops are churning out hundreds of the post-apocalyptic looking battle wagons as the narcos’ ultra violence ratchets up.
Drug lords equip the monster trucks with battering rams, four-inch-thick steel plates and turrets for machine guns to take on law enforcement and rival mobs.
Known by Mexican law enforcement as narco-tanks, rhino trucks or simply monstruos – meaning monster – they are often painted in camouflage patterns and emblazoned with the cartel’s initials.
The trucks are the latest additions to the cartels’ high tech arsenals unleashing bloody mayhem on the cocaine trail.