page_title: Dymaxion car
section_title: Replicas
hierarchical_section_title: Dymaxion car / Replicas
caption_attribution_description: This car was built by R.Buckminster Fuller as a sort of streamlined MPV, the engine at the rear was a Ford V8. It was steered by a single rear wheel. Only 3 Prototypes were built. Taken at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 Cartier Style Et Luxe Concours D'elegance
context_page_description: The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. Fuller built three experimental prototypes with naval architect Starling Burgess – using donated money as well as a family inheritance – to explore not an automobile per se, but the 'ground-taxiing phase' of a vehicle that might one day be designed to fly, land and drive – an "Omni-Medium Transport". Fuller associated the word Dymaxion with much of his work, a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension, to summarize his goal to do more with less.
  The Dymaxion's aerodynamic bodywork was designed for increased fuel efficiency and top speed, and its platform featured a lightweight hinged chassis, rear-mounted V8 engine, front-wheel drive, and three wheels. With steering via its third wheel at the rear, the vehicle could steer itself in a tight circle, often causing a sensation.
context_section_description: Hemmings Motor News cites two "faithful or semi-faithful" replicas:
  The Foster Dymaxion Replica was built in October 2010, by architect and student of Buckminster Fuller, Sir Norman Foster. Foster's team conducted extensive research to replicate its interior, which had completely deteriorated on the only surviving prototype and had not been well documented. Foster was able to borrow Prototype Two under the condition he would also restore its interior. Prototype Two was shipped to the U.K. in order for the work to be carried out before returning to the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.
  The Lane Dymaxion Replica was commissioned by the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, and built by craftsmen in Pennsylvania (chassis) and the Czech Republic (bodywork). After driving the Lane replica in 2015, automotive journalists Jamie Kitman and Dan Neil described it as having very poor stability and vehicle control.
caption: 2010 replica of 1933 Dymaxion, by Norman Foster
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