People are always interested in all the same. For example, the longest car in the world. How many meters is there in such a car and what kind of car is it?
The longest car in the world. Three leaders
Officially, the longest car can be considered three units. This is a limousine in California, a truck in China and a wheeled train, which is no longer there. Why three at once? Let's figure it out in order. All these machines belong to different classes.
The longest limousine
If you take into account passenger transport, then, of course, the longest car in the world is a limousine designed in California.
The author of the project was Jay Orberg.
The longest car in the world, how many meters is it long? Its dimensions are impressive - 30.5 meters. Yes, and in many other ways it does not quite look like a familiar car. The comfortable lounge of the limousine is designed for 50 passengers. There are not one but two engines in the car, which are produced by Cadillac. Such a beauty weighs 10 tons !! So that such a limousine could move, it was equipped with 12 axles and 26 wheels. There is a whole
helipad on the roof
, and inside the super limousine there is a swimming pool with a tower and a huge water bed.
It would seem that a full-fledged, comfortable car, albeit an impressive size. However, the longest car in the world how many meters will be able to travel in a modern city? Indeed, with such a length it is almost impossible to move around the streets and enter turns. And is such a miracle necessary? The car can still move through the streets. To do this, the limousine can, as it were, “break” into two parts, fold and enter into a turn. If you look closely, such a "seam" can be seen approximately in the middle of the body. To turn the car, they provided for a second cab at the tail of the car, in which the second driver sits.
Goodbye Roads, Hello Exhibition
It turns out that the super limousine is quite comfortable and modern car. But still it is almost impossible to see him on the streets. Mostly he acts in films. Hollywood often uses a handsome man on set. Another limousine feels great at various exhibitions. In addition, the owner allows you to rent this car. So if you want and have a tidy sum, you can still ride in it. It is worth noting that the longest car in the world in about 30 meters and does not have any sonorous, beautiful name. This is just a 30-meter limousine by Jay Orberg.
The longest truck
If the length of the limousine is about 30 meters, then the next giant has a length of 73 meters.
This is a truck designed by the Chinese.
In China, they thoroughly took up the creation of a supermachine, and made it not for exhibitions, but for work. This truck is intended for transportation of goods up to 2.5 thousand tons. The grand creation of the Chinese has 800 wheels. Such a super truck is busy in mining.
The longest wheeled train
But the longest car in the world in meters is 173 meters. It was built in the USA in the 1950s. This is a wheeled train. The height of the cabin of this giant is 9 meters. But why create such a giant? The time of creation of this unit is the 50s, the years of the so-called “cold” war. The United States feared that the Soviet Union would destroy the country's railways with a few blows and paralyze all freight movements by trains. To prevent this from happening, the United States created a giant that did not need rails. If necessary, he could transport goods without trains and railways. The carrying capacity of the longest wheeled train is about 400 tons.
The fate of the giant
For a long time only a limited circle of people knew about this giant. All information was hidden by the classified heading. But time goes on, the signature stamp "secretly" was removed, and now everyone becomes aware of it. It turned out that the United States cost this handsome man not cheap - $ 3.7 million. The developer was the legendary company LeTurno. Popularity was brought to her by the samples of the largest SUVs intended for military purposes. Interestingly, the giant car had 54 wheels, each with a diameter of 3.5 meters. And each was driven by an individual electric motor. The train on wheels consisted of 12 trailers on which it was supposed to place goods and equipment. In addition, the developers allotted a place for a comfortable placement of staff of 6 people. For them, they made whole living quarters with a berth and a dining room. Residential cabins were equipped with sewage and even automatic laundry.
When designing a machine, the main problem was to ensure the normal controllability of such a long unit. This is not surprising, because to force such a handsome man to be maneuverable is not so simple. The problem was solved using an electronic control system, which for 1961 was undoubtedly a kind of breakthrough. From the control panel, the commands were transmitted to the actuators in such a way that they were actuated at the same point as the main tractor. Thanks to this, the giant received maneuverability and was able to go around almost any obstacles, as well as pose for a photograph in an impressive pose of a "snake". Eyewitnesses say that a feature of the giant was his move. The road train moved as if on rails, leaving a mark as if from two wheels, even when it was moving along a curve. Tests of the supercar took place from 1962 to 1969 (presumably) at a training ground in the Arizona desert. Only in the deserted desert could the "longest" car in the world "move" secretly. How many kilometers has she traveled? Not so much. Only 600. It is known that the maximum speed was 35 km / h. But what was the fuel consumption of the unit - history is silent. Although it is curious to know.
It is generally accepted that the project was doomed even before the start of testing, until 1962, when a heavy transport helicopter entered service with the army. He needed no roads. Then the road train was put up for sale for $ 1.4 billion. But there were no buyers. Then in 1971, trailers were put into scrap metal, and the tractor was restored and is now in the exhibition center. Therefore, what is the longest car in the world, you decide.