Dymaxion car
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With such a vehicle at our disposal, felt that human travel, like that of birds, would no longer be confined to airports, roads, and other bureaucratic boundaries, and that autonomous free-thinking hu
Dymaxion replica (2010)
The Dymaxion car, c. 1933, artist Diego Rivera shown entering the car, carrying coat
The Dymaxion Corporation factory at the defunct Locomobile dynamometer building, Tongue Pointe, Bridgeport, Connecticut
The Dymaxion Prototype Two on display at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada (2007)
A rear-engine, front-wheel-drive layout is one in which the engine is between or behind the rear wheels, and drives the front wheels via a driveshaft, the complete reverse of a conventional front-engi
Dymaxion car
…for increased fuel efficiency and top speed, and its platform featured a lightweight hinged chassis, rear-mounted V8 engine, front-wheel drive (a rare RF layout), and three wheels. With steering via its third wheel at the rear (capable of 90° steering lock), the vehicle could steer itself in a tight…
Framed illustration of the Dymaxion car.