BBC Focus Magazine

[King Random]

Post here your awesome, cool, and any type of vehicle.....

The Corkscrew Tank:
http://youtu.be/1uynmApjhWI

Only problem is, although it can go 'all terrain' it can't go on the road!

[M Paul Lloyd]

That's the problem with 'all terrain' vehicles they usually can't.

When you say "vehicle" do you mean any specific surface craft or can we include submarines, aeroplanes or spacecraft?
Because I have a list.

[Doonhamer]

Make your own...

www.fantasticcontraption.net

[MikeG]

How about this?

http://www.flixxy.com/volkswagen-levitating-car.htm

Technically, it not driving on the roads
 

[M Paul Lloyd]

Amazing what they can do with CGI these days.

[M Paul Lloyd]

Make your own...

http://www.fantasticcontraption.net

Better with the sound turned off though.

[MikeG]

Amazing what they can do with CGI these days.

Supposedly, this particular Chinese city is sitting on a huge cache of rare earths, wich allow maglev technology to work without special roads if that was true, this city would be mega rich, not full of rickshaws, pedestrians and barely running relics of cars.

[M Paul Lloyd]

I wonder how the vehicles on board electronics manage in such a high intensity magnetic field, or indeed any electronic equipment within this miraculous City?

[King Random]

When you say "vehicle" do you mean any specific surface craft or can we include submarines, aeroplanes or spacecraft?

Any Type!

[M Paul Lloyd]

Right then.

North American X-15 ... no manned spaceplane (at least no true Spaceplane) has ever reached such altitude or velocity.

Lockheed A-12 (single seat precursor to the SR-71 'Blackbird') ... no manned air breathing jet propelled aircraft has ever flown so high or so fast.

BAE Systems (ne Vickers) Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank, just an amazing piece of kit.

USS Nimitz Nuclear powered Aircraft carrier......... Nothing comes close

USS Skipjack Class Nuclear Submarine, the fastest boat for five decades ... hell we made some cool stuff back in the 50's.

I have more but I'm short on time. Laters...

[M Paul Lloyd]

Apollo Saturn V, biggest rocket ever flown by anyone, ever, sent man to the Moon and put Skylab into orbit... just awesome.

But if we are talking purely land vehicles well...... this is the one is truely awesome.
The Bagger 288
http://twistedsifter.com/2012/04/bagger ... d-vehicle/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h3Rujuf ... ure=fvwrel

And the Marilyn Manson soundtrack on the U-tube link is totally appropriate.

[King Random]

Thrust SSC.

At the moment, it is the world's fastest car!

(So important it has it's own website!: http://www.thrustssc.com/)

[Shadowwolf]

The recently retired Shuttle, sure it wasn't the most perfect system and not the vehicle envisaged when the project began but it was still the only space vehicle of its kind and damn awesome looking going up and coming back down.

Typhoon and their counterpart Ohio class SSBNs, now I'm not sure if the word awesome is the most appropriate for this kind of vessel given the destruction they can unleash but they're still quite impressive from a purely academic perspective.

F14 Tomcat, not the worlds most spectacular plane but personally I find it to be one of the coolest looking pieces of military aviation ever built, the A10 Thunderbolt running a very close second.


Credit: US Navy

[King Random]

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, anyone who doesn't agree, they're crazy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird

[M Paul Lloyd]

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

I think the single seat A-12 version (as below) was possibly better but I'll not argue the toss.

[nemisis1960]

i don't care can i fly one please, as for best vehicle ill get my list out to but not now its late and power is going done on laptop

[The Beige Avenger]

How about The Big Dawg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

In a couple of years, we'll all be moseying around on our faithful robotic steeds.

[King Random]

I've seen that big dawg before, pretty cool

[M Paul Lloyd]

A bit noisy though, for military purposes, don't you think?

[nemisis1960]

i was thinking of building a swimming pool in my rear garden ( seems the weather is so hot) do you think this is to big for me to excavate the hole with . Man i so want to drive that

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