GTP Cool Wall: 1933 Dymaxion Car

[Jahgee]

1933 Dymaxion Car nominated by @DCybertron

Engines: 3.6L V8
Power: 85 hp
Torque: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Transmission: 3-speed manual
Drivetrain: Rear engine, front wheel drive
Body Styles: 4-door experimental concept​

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[AudiMan2011]

What? Just what?

 

[Jahgee]

The only reaction to it

 

[CSMDuty11]

Lets send it to HELL!

 

[Jahgee]

Dangerously close to so uncool it's cool though

 

[SomePlayaDude]

WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS..

*triangle*

OR THIIS..

*square*

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT..

*scribbles screen*

THIIIIIYIYIYYIYIIIPOOTISIIYIYIYIIIYIYIISS!

*panting*

 

[niky]

A rear-engined, front-wheel drive V8 powered widow-maker that had the crash safety of a teepee and the handling prowess of a canoe?

And built by genius extraordinaire Buckminster Fuller?

There's no way that's anything but Sub-zero. Sorry to all the haters of road-going submersibles... but that's that.

I didn't even get past the title of the thread before voting Sub-Zee.

 

[Jahgee]

A rear-engined, front-wheel drive V8 powered widow-maker that had the crash safety of a teepee and the handling prowess of a canoe?

And built by genius extraordinaire Buckminster Fuller?

There's no way that's anything but Sub-zero. Sorry to all the haters of road-going submersibles... but that's that.

I was torn, I almost voted that, but then I realized that to a normal person, it just looks like an ugly car

 

[Beeblebrox237]

SU because it only makes 23.6 bhp/litre . Seriously, though, I find this car sub zero. Designed by Buckminster Fuller, no less, it looks like a submarine and has a rear mounted V8 powering the front wheels. Sub Zero, without a doubt.

 

[niky]

I was torn, I almost voted that, but then I realized that to a normal person, it just looks like an ugly car

A normal person wouldn't even call it a car. That's the genius of it.

 

[Adamgp]

This one is quite interesting. Seats 11, 30 mpg, claimed top speed of 120 mph. All in 1933.

Supposedly Amelia Earhart had ordered one, don't think she ever got it though.

Cool.

 

[TheBook]

I am twelve and what is this?

No, seriously, what is this?

Seriously, seriously uncool. So much so that it wraps around to SZ.

 

[yabiggoose]

Four thumbs down.

 

[Legro]

It may have been very interesting car choice, but at the end you're still driving with motorized egg. Seriously uncool.

 

[Slash]

Sub mother effin Zero!

 

[All Your Base]

 

[Aesthetics]

So crazy, I just have to vote Sub-Zero or else it might kill me in it's sleep with it's excellent handling.

 

[GranTurismo916]

Uncool. It's unique, but it's powered by a slow V8, it looks stupid, few non-car people would care about it, etc.

 

[GTPorsche]

Uncool. It's unique, but it's powered by a slow V8, it looks stupid, few non-car people would care about it, etc.

85hp isn't slow for those days. Hell, the Ford V8 of the same year was putting out about 10hp less than this was.... but speed wasn't the point of this machine anyway.

It's sub zero.

 

[GranTurismo916]

85hp isn't slow for those days. Hell, the Ford V8 of the same year was putting out about 10hp less than this was.... but speed wasn't the point of this machine anyway.

It's sub zero.

Taking that away, it's still an uncool to me.

 

[Ken]

Ummm. Weird. I like it. Subzero.

 

[Liquid]

Seriously Uncool

 

[Sage Ages]

I have no idea what this is supposed to be, but it looks interesting.

 

[Spacegoat]

It's so completely bonkers. There's only one option, Sub-Zero.

 

[JAHHAJ]

I voted Sub Zero because it's very odd and very interesting.

 

[ZedMan1996]

Rear-Engine Front-Wheel-Drive...

The most fail drivetrain?

 

[chzsln485]

It looks like a gherkin. Gherkins are not cool.

 

[GT Pro]

In his 1988 book The Age of Heretics, author Art Kleiner maintained the real reason Chrysler refused to produce the car was because bankers had threatened to recall their loans, feeling the car would destroy sales for second-hand cars and for vehicles already in the distribution channels.

Interesting.

 

[Leggy1]

it only makes 23.6 bhp/litre

It is American

 

[Legro]

It is American

And it's from early 30s.