People are always interested in all the best. Here, for example, is the longest car in the world. How many meters in such a car and what kind of car is it?
The longest car in the world. Top three
Officially, three units can be considered the longest car. It's a limousine in California, a truck in China, and a wheeled train that no longer exists. Why three at once? Let's deal with everything in order. All these cars belong to different classes.
The longest limousine
If you include passenger vehicles, 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 long is it? Its dimensions are impressive - 30.5 meters. And in many other ways, it is not quite similar to a familiar car. The comfortable interior of the limousine is designed for 50 passengers. The car has not one, but two whole engines, which are produced by Cadillac. Such beauty weighs 10 tons!! In order for such a limousine to be able to move, it was equipped with 12 axles and 26wheels. There is an entire helipad on the roof, and inside the super limousine there is a swimming pool with a tower and a huge waterbed.
It would seem that a full-fledged, comfortable car, albeit of impressive size. However, how many meters can the longest car in the world drive in a modern city? Indeed, with such a length, it is almost impossible to move around the streets, to enter turns. And is it necessary for such a miracle? The car can still move through the streets. To do this, the limousine can, as it were, “break” into two parts, fold up and enter the turn. If you look closely, then such a "seam" can be seen approximately in the middle of the body. To turn the car, they provided for the presence of a second cab at the tail of the car, in which the second driver sits.
Goodbye roads, hello exhibitions
It turns out that the superlimousine is quite a comfortable and modern car. But still, it is almost impossible to see him on the streets. He mainly acts in films. Hollywood often uses a handsome man in filming. The limousine also 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 is about 30 meters and does not have any sonorous, beautiful name. It's just Jay Orberg's 30-meter limousine.
The longest truck
If the length of the limousine is about 30meters, then the next giant has a length of 73 meters.
This is a Chinese designed truck.
In China, they took up the creation of a supercar, and made it not for exhibitions, but for work. This truck is designed to transport goods up to 2.5 thousand tons. The grandiose creation of the Chinese has 800 wheels. Busy such a super truck 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 cabin height of this giant is 9 meters. Why create such a giant at all? 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 the movement of goods 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 load capacity of the longest wheeled train is about 400 tons.
The fate of a giant
For a long time only a limited circle of people knew about this giant. All information was kept secret. But time goes on, the stamp "secret" was removed, and now everyone becomes aware of it. It turned out that this handsome man cost the United States a lot - 3.7 million dollars. The legendary company "LeTurno" became the developer. She gained popularitysamples of the largest off-road vehicles designed 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 cargo and equipment. In addition, the developers have taken a place for comfortable accommodation of staff of 6 people. For them, they made entire living quarters with a sleeping place and a dining room. Residential cabins were equipped with sewage and even an automatic laundry.
When designing the machine, the main problem was to ensure the normal handling of such a long unit. This is not surprising, because it is not so easy to make such a handsome man to be maneuverable. The problem was solved with the help of an electronic control system, which for 1961 is undoubtedly a kind of breakthrough. From the control panel, commands were transmitted to the actuators in such a way that they were activated at the same point as the leading tractor. Thanks to this, the giant gained maneuverability and was able to go around almost any obstacles, as well as pose for a photo in an impressive "snake" pose. Eyewitnesses say that the feature of the hulk was its move. The road train moved as if on rails, leaving a track as if from two wheels, even when moving along a curve. Supercar tests took place from 1962 to 1969 (presumably) at a test site in the Arizona desert. Only in a deserted desert could the longest car in the world "secretly" move. How many kilometers did she drive? Not so muchlot. 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. Curious to know though.
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 didn't need roads. Then the road train was put up for sale, for 1.4 billion dollars. But there were no buyers. Then, in 1971, the trailers were scrapped, and the tractor was restored and is now on display at the exhibition center. Therefore, which is the longest car in the world, you decide.
