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Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-for-navigating-those-places-where-you-can't-get-a-car-anyway dept.

Zothecula writes: The Swincar Spider is a remarkable tilting 4-wheeler concept that boasts absolutely ridiculous rough terrain capabilities. Each wheel has its own electric hub motor and is independently suspended on a spider-like limb. The result is a vehicle that leans into fast turns like a motorcycle, but can also happily go up or down a 70-percent gradient, ride across a 50-percent gradient that puts the left wheels a couple of feet higher than the right ones, or ride diagonally through ditches that send the wheels going up and down all over the place like a spider doing leg stretches.

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  1. Re:Oh Great! by fred911 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No need to worry, it's French. If it ever makes it stateside it's pretty much guaranteed to be in the shop more than in service.

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  2. Re:Neat, but not especially novel by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    This vehicle is going to be Detroit's answer to the deferred highway maintenance problem.

  3. Waxing poetic.... by mark-t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spider car, spider car,
    Goes wherever that spiders are.
    Climbs terrain, any type,
    At least that's what they say in the hype,
    Look out!
    Here comes the spider car.

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