Dymaxion vehicle 2

A car that seats eleven, reaches 120 mph, can turn on a dime, and gets 30 miles per gallon.

In 1933.

Now that's damn interesting.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. LloydSieden Posted 4:56 pm
    23 Aug 2006

    It was not a car in the conventional sense.It was an omni-transfort vehicle which would allow user to travel on land, water or in the air once the physical technology caught up with Bucky's thinking.  He designed it to go with his Dymaxion House (now on display at the Ford Museum in Deerborn, MI) so that you could put your self-reliant (not hooked to any grid) wherever you wanted and travel to it without roads in your Dymaxion Vehicle.  To me, that is a dream come true.

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  2. amazingdrx Posted 11:59 pm
    23 Aug 2006

    CoolYep Lloyd.  That was it.  
    I still think those floating cities inside miles wide geodesic spheroids was the coolest.
    Due to global climate problems they would need to be partially submersible for safety now.  Maybe in large inland lakes to avoid ocean storms?
    I do finally have a wind/solar powered flight system inspired by Bucky's dreams.  It is like an amphibious flying camper.  
    Maybe Bucky's ghost will send me a winning lottery number from out the interdimensional, timeless ether to fund this effort?   Come on Bucky, just do it!

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

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