How many wheels should a vehicle have? One, two, three, four or more? It seems that everything has been tried: there are segways - unicycles, bicycles, scooters and tricycles. Conventional cars have four "motors", those with high traffic may have more. For example, one Arab sheikh wanted a ten-wheel SUV. Yes, any whim for your money! And now a long monster, by the way, which got into the Guinness Book of Records, plows the sands of the desert.
But let's fast-forward to a place where the opposite is true: instead of heat, there is severe cold. How do you like an eight-wheeled 15-meter bus equipped with an engine of 850 “horses”? This car in Iceland brings tourists to places where not every SUV will get. The Russian all-terrain vehicle Shaman, which both rides and swims, has the same number of wheels.
But not only powerful machines are subject to "multi-wheels". The Can-Am Outlander ATV has six propulsion units. In 2023, the model was offered for $17. And here is the Triple Axle Isuzu Pickup: three rear axles and one front axle. True, the practicality of this "octopus" is questionable. And if the wheels are placed one above the other? Crazy idea? No - watch the video on the TechZone channel and you can see for yourself the reality of such a design.
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