Cobol74
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Well the FIAT is at least red.
BBC News said:A full-scale model of London's new Routemaster bus has been unveiled.
I doubt that thing is over 4m tall, my guess would be 4.00m exactly... else it would need a special permit every time it wanted to go through Germany, and would have to avoid many major routes such as the A7 through Hamburg.
Dont HGV's and stuff have to stick to the flat front, cab over engine thing so that the bad boys can pack nicely into ships and other forms of transport? isnt everything a nearly standard size so that any trailer will fit any shipping container and stuff like that?
I always wonder why most European trucks are basically blocks on wheels.
You don't necessarily have to worry about 4 metre height restrictions. A little lateral thinking solves the problem.
The first long bus looks shooped but I can't tell from some of the pixels on the second one. It looks quite real. But to build such a thing would be madness unless it's an exhibition piece that doesnt move.pictures
You don't necessarily have to worry about 4 metre height restrictions. A little lateral (well, longditudinal) thinking solves the problem.
I present these buses :
http://img140.imageshack.**/img140/2991/longbus2wm6.jpg
http://img3.imageshack.**/img3/576/longbushm4.jpg
You see, that quite simply will not work anywere (even if they were real) unless maybee the Australian outback.....the first that is, the second one needs his own planet to turn
You see trailers, (what the pieces basicly are) tend to creep to the inside in a corner, the more hingepoints (the harmonica bits) a vehicle has the bigger an issue this becomes, there is no corner in the world this side of an airfield that will get round whithout taking out the scenery on the inside......And I realy dont want to know how a jack-knife feels in those things, trains run on rails for a reason you know
Who are you and what have you done with the real Cowboy?
- Disney's Tram Service: Walt Disney World operates 28 trams with 7 cars per tram, 6 seats per car, 5-passenger capacity per seat, with a total occupancy of 210. The trams reach a total length of 171 feet with top speeds of 14 miles per hour and at a cost of one million dollars per tram.
You see trailers, (what the pieces basicly are) tend to creep to the inside in a corner, the more hingepoints (the harmonica bits) a vehicle has the bigger an issue this becomes, there is no corner in the world this side of an airfield that will get round whithout taking out the scenery on the inside.
The Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 was pretty radical when it came out in like 05 IIRC:
Yes...I'm a bit of a school bus enthusiast...
RHD FTW!The Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 was pretty radical when it came out in like 05 IIRC:
Yes...I'm a bit of a school bus enthusiast...
If I had to look at that dash all day while pressed up against the sidepanel on the left constantly flipping stupidly placed switches with my left arm I would get another job.....who the hell designed that? someone with one arm and one leg?