Durango 95

The Durango 95 is a newish model of automobile that Alex and his droogs steal from outside the Filmdrome on the night of their rampage. It is the vehicle that carries them from the town into the countryside, enabling the surprise attack on the writer's cottage called HOME, and it is later disposed of in the Industrial Canal to avoid police detection. The car represents the gang's mobility, their predatory reach, and the transitory nature of their power before Alex's downfall.

Theft and First Use

After the fight with Billyboy's gang near the Municipal Power Plant, Alex and his droogs need a car to continue their evening. They find a Durango 95 parked outside the Filmdrome, a cinema that has fallen into disrepair and is mostly used by young malchicks for violence or sex. Georgie has a polyclef on his keyring, so they are soon aboard—Dim and Pete at the back, smoking lordly—and Alex turns on the ignition. The car "grumbled away real horrorshow, a nice warm vibraty feeling grumbling all through your guttiwuts." Alex makes with the noga, and they back out lovely, unseen. The Durango 95 is not just a means of transport; its powerful engine and smooth handling give Alex a visceral thrill that matches the knives-in-milk-plus high he is riding.

The Journey to HOME

The gang fills around the backtown for a bit, scaring old vecks and cheenas and zigzagging after cats. Then they take the road west. There isn't much traffic, so Alex keeps pushing the noga through the floorboards, and the Durango 95 "ate up the road like spaghetti." In the winter darkness, Alex runs over something big with a snarling toothy mouth in the headlamps; it screams and squelches under the wheels, and Dim near laughs his gulliver off. They stop to cheer at a young malchick and his sharp lubbilubbing under a tree, then bash into them both with a couple of half-hearted tolchocks before continuing. The car's speed and power make the gang feel invincible, and the journey itself becomes part of the night's entertainment.

The Attack and Aftermath

They arrive at a village, and just outside it is a small cottage on its own with a bit of garden. The Luna is well up, and they can see the cottage fine and clear as Alex eases up and puts the brake on, the other three giggling like bezoomny. The name on the gate is HOME. Alex gets out and uses a polite ruse to gain entry, then the four of them roar in, wearing their maskies. Inside, they find a writer, F. Alexander, and his wife. Alex tears up the manuscript of "A Clockwork Orange," Dim fists the writer, and Alex rapes the wife while the others hold the writer. After the attack, they smash what is left—typewriter, lamp, chairs—and then get back into the waiting Durango 95. Alex leaves it to Georgie to take the wheel, feeling that malenky bit shagged, and they drive back to town, running over odd squealing things on the way.

Disposal

Just outside town, not far from the Industrial Canal, the fuel needle collapses and the car begins coughing. The gang decides not to leave it to be picked up by the rozzes but, feeling in a hate and murder mood, to give it a fair tolchock into the starry waters for a nice heavy loud plesk before the death of the evening. They get out, release the brakes, and all four tolchock it to the edge of the filthy water that is like treacle mixed with human hole products. One good horrorshow tolchock and in she goes. They have to dash back for fear of the filth splashing on their platties, but "splussshhhh and glolp she went, down and lovely." Georgie calls "Farewell, old droog," and Dim obliges with a clowny great guff. The disposal of the Durango 95 marks the end of the night's adventures and the beginning of the gang's journey to the train station, where they will ride back to Center and eventually to the Korova Milkbar, where the seeds of Alex's betrayal are sown.