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Old November 9th 07, 11:04 PM posted to rec.autos.4x4,rec.autos.tech
Willem-Jan Markerink
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Default Emirate Truck Factory: 8x8x8 to 24x24x24, single or multiple linked units....

For those who prefer to think in multi-wheel configurations....)

.....it's life Jim, but not as we know it....)

http://www.etftrucks.nl/Products/Roadtrains/

F*cking brilliant....

PS: until now, the Russian MAZ-9304 was the largest (all-wheel-drive!)
wheeled vehicle on earth (300 ton total):

http://denisovets.narod.ru/maz/mazpages/maz7904.html

(but apparently there was only one prototype made, and it is sadly rusting
away somewhere in a factory shed)
(perhaps 'hangar' is the better word....wouldn't mind having only that
shed, with storage room for several dozen ordinary vehicles....)




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Willem-Jan Markerink

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is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand

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