Realistically I suspect what they’d actually say is just to deny that it ever happened, or worse, to claim that it was good or necessary or inevitable in some way.

Tbh I don’t think any kind of normal car is going to be a good “apocalypse vehicle”. EVs might rely on electrical infrastructure, but gas vehicles ultimately rely on fuel refining and extraction infrastructure, making fueling them in the long run more difficult than an EV (since electricity isn’t really that difficult to make, it might be unreasonable for a normal person unless they’re some kind of hobbyist electrician and carpenter with a river next door or something, but a whole community could probably cobble together a small amount of generation capacity with enough motivation). Plus, any car made today is going to rely on complex components like computers, and most will require maintained paved roads.

What you honestly want, I would think, would be like a bicycle or something, maybe a robust cargo bike if possible, and maybe with the tires swapped for some that handle dirt better. Or if it must be something motorized

You underestimate my ability to unintentionally but habitually create a massive wall of text that, when the text-walliness of it is pointed out, I cannot simply add blank lines to for readability without rewriting parts of it, because the whole thing is technically just one or two (massively run-on) sentences.

I mean, humans do eat the land ones tho, they’re just not so popular with the cultures most represented here.