"tapzz" (tapzz)
03/20/2014 at 14:16 • Filed to: avtoros shaman
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"tapzz" (tapzz)
03/20/2014 at 14:16 • Filed to: avtoros shaman | 4
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The Avtoros Shaman 8x8 ATV is laughing at your puny F150. It may not be fast (80 km/h, 50 mph), it isn't even particularly powerful (170 hp), but it is humongous and it isn't ever going to stop.
That's because it has eight bespoke 1.2 metre tall by half a metre wide (4ft by 1.6 ft) tyres. It needs those because that's the only way you can traverse the endless swampy tundras of Siberia. It weighs 2.5 tonnes empty, but the tyres means that that weight is spread out enough to enable the truck to skim over the muck rather than sink in it.
The other solutions that have been tried for that application – tank treads or screw drive – are considerably less efficient, making the Shaman something of a green choice. Kinda.
Though all wheels are steerable, steering is done by conventional wheel, if from a central steering console fit for a super villain.
And if you come across a river, as you inevitably will in the badlands of Krasnoyarsk, you switch on the hydraulically driven propellor at the back.
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area man
> tapzz
03/20/2014 at 14:38 |
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DAT MANUAL
JEM
> tapzz
03/20/2014 at 15:39 |
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If I was stupidly rich, I would love to have this just to be way, way, WAAAY out there.
BlueSoap
> tapzz
03/23/2014 at 12:39 |
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The only thing that would make this better? Articulation.