If we start from the very beginning, then the first to be mentioned is the progenitor of all modern passenger giants. Yes, Bugatti did big cars even before it became fashionable. The Bugatti Type 41 "La Royale" had a body length of 6.7 m and was equipped with an eight-cylinder engine with a volume of 12.7 liters and an output of 300 hp. He could develop a fantastic speed for those times - 200 km / h! To date, only six copies of this "royal" car have survived in the world.
Perhaps the only serious competitor, the Bugatti Type 41 "La Royale", released a few years later, in 1932, was slightly smaller, but still looked very impressive. The body length is 5.79 m, the engine capacity is 4.8 liters, and at the end of the composition - luxurious, 36-inch wheels.
Full-size SUV based on the GM HUMMER chassis and designed by the Italian studio Coggiola. This exclusive model produced to order since 2002. Technically, the car is almost a complete copy of the HUMMER H1 - a steel frame, independent suspension With big moves, four-wheel drive with reduction gear, ground clearance 400 mm. Engine 5.6 liter turbodiesel with 195 hp. the same as on army HUMMER, allows the car to accelerate to 134 km / h.
The world's largest pickup truck was produced by the American company International under the name Commercial Extreme Truck. Its length is 6.55 meters and its height is 2.55 meters. In addition, it has a chassis snow blower. The interior of the car can accommodate 4 passengers, not counting the driver. Engine power is a modest 220 Horse power.
This is an elongated Ford modification F650 offered by Alton Truck Company. Alton F650 is equipped with six-cylinder engine volume of 7.2 liters. and a power of 230 hp. The car has seven doors and weighs about 12 tons, the cabin has space for eight people.
Worthy competitor of Alton F650. Its length is 9.7, width - 2.5, and height - 3.6 m. This big car- a whole house on wheels: it has a kitchenette, a sofa, an additional sleeping area on the “second floor”, reclining benches and even a shower! It is released in single copy, and even small-scale production of this model is not in question.
Although, by the manufacturer, this miracle of engineering is positioned as a bus, it still looks more like a bus. a car. This is a 15-meter giant with 16 doors and six wheels, while its width is 2.55 meters and its height is 1.65 meters. Superbus is designed for 23 passengers, who are provided with the most comfortable trip, as they are provided with such amenities as climate control, wireless Internet, TVs. Despite its volume, the car is capable of accelerating up to 250 km / h.
Since we are talking about limousines, one cannot fail to mention the recognized champion in this category - a car called " American dream". The limousine has two motors, a helipad, twelve axles, twenty-six wheels. For its turn, you need a huge space, so the car is equipped with two driver's compartments - front and rear. This allows for comfortable transportation in both directions.
Kodiak is built on the basis of a middle class truck. It is available in rear- and all-wheel drive versions. In general, in the USA, when buying a similar car, you cannot come to the salon and say: give me such a pickup truck. Choose from several options for frames, engines, transmissions, rear axles not to mention the finer details. As a result, almost every car is unique, which additionally warms the hearts of their owners. Under the hood, the Kodiak has a V8 diesel engine with a capacity of 300 horsepower, cargo springs have been replaced by air suspension. The cabin is equipped with an expensive multimedia system with navigation, several TVs and subwoofers. Finishing the interior panels "under carbon" looks strange, but the price of the car - from 70 thousand dollars - drives all other thoughts away.
Considered to be the largest serial SUV in the world. The car is 5.76 long, 203 wide and 197 cm high, weighs 4320 kg. It was equipped with engines of 5.4, 6.0, 6.8 or 7.3 liters. The Ford Excursion was produced from 2000 to 2005. During this time, only 120 of its copies were officially purchased in our country.
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In the early Star Wars, it was the Sandcrawler, a huge "house" that was propelled by many giant caterpillars, that captured the imagination of viewers. But few people know that when the famous Lucas film was being created, a self-propelled "object" was being built in Germany, much larger than the fantastic sand ship.
This monster was built by the German company ThyssenKrupp Fordertechnik back in 1978, but still remains the most big excavator in the world, continuing to work at one of the coal pits in Germany. So we boldly bring it into our
The main purpose of the giant apparatus is to remove the top layer of the earth to open coal seams. This is exactly what he did immediately after the construction in the Hambach quarry, which is located in the west of Germany. In addition, if necessary, he is also able to mine coal itself, but his main work is precisely the removal of the upper layers of the earth.
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His name is Bagger 288. Its weight is approximately 13.5 thousand tons, length - 240 meters, height - 96 meters (about the same as a 35-storey building), and width - 46 meters.
Bagger is German for excavator. this case- rotary.
The rotor alone, with which this monster cuts the coal seam, is capable of inspiring awe.
A scene from the movie "Avatar" is actually close to reality!
The height of the rotor is equal to an eight-story building. In a day giant excavator able to sort out 240 thousand tons of earth or coal. With such work, if he mines coal in the Hambach deposit, he will be able to fully develop it within 23 years.
The rotor consists of 18 buckets of 6.6 cubic meters each. This wheel makes 48 revolutions per minute. In a day, he shovels 240 thousand cubic meters of rock, which roughly corresponds to filling the bowl of a football stadium to the height of a 10-story building.
One of the most curious moments in the design is the power supply of the giant. What engines can move it from its place? It turns out that the caterpillars, the rotor and other mechanisms are powered by a host of electric motors, total power tens of megawatts - like a small town. The excavator draws this energy from the industrial power grid through a long thick cable.
But what if the car needs to move to a new job site? It's a whole interesting story.
Crossing Interstate 55 during the famous 22 km crossing in 2001
Talking about moving within the quarry is not interesting. In the life of this car, there was one case when it moved 22 kilometers under its own power - from one coal mine to another.
Right through fields, federal highways, several small highways and streams, power lines and one railway line.
It was in 2001 when the super excavator first moved from the Hambach quarry to the Garzweiler quarry.
So. On board the Bagger 288 there is a huge coil of power cable, one kilometer long. As it moved, it was connected to various sections of the industrial power grid.
It must be said that thanks to 12 caterpillars 3.8 meters wide, the pressure of the monster on the ground is 1.7 kilograms per square centimeter, so that the colossus could well walk through the fields.
But, interestingly, the necessary areas were sown with grass in advance. So that the soil during the rains is not oversaturated with moisture and retains its bearing capacity. And in many places they also poured sandy “pillows”.
The roads and the railway line were covered with sand and rubble a meter high, while the movement was stopped for only half a day - gravel “pillows” were poured and removed so quickly. Rivers were also covered with stones.
Power transmission cables, under which, of course, such a giant could not pass, were dismantled and immediately put back as soon as the monster drove by. At this time, energy suppliers sent it to consumers through alternative networks.
All in all, it was done in 3 weeks. That's fast considering the Bagger 288 has a top speed of 10 meters per minute.
By the way, on that significant transition, two rotary excavators made the journey from quarry to quarry at once, but our hero’s fellow was somewhat smaller and more than one and a half times lighter, so his tread did not cause such a stir.
But the movement of Bagger 288 gathered hundreds of onlookers day and night. It must be added to the description of the machine that a shift of four people is working on it at the same time. There are three shifts in total, so the colossus works around the clock.
These are two excavators, replacing each other, the coordinator belt conveyors supplying coal from the rotor to the place of loading, and the head of the detachment.
So that during many hours of shift they do not have to descend from heaven (and how else to call a colossus as tall as a modest skyscraper) to the ground, a wardroom with a toilet and a kitchen, a large supply of water is arranged right inside the excavator.
The excavator driver sits in a small booth located not far from the rotor, right on the giant "arm" of the structure. He controls the machine (both the rotor and the movement of the entire colossus) using joysticks reminiscent of computer ones. It is assisted by navigation and video surveillance systems.
This work is not so simple: you need to make sure that the buckets are optimally filled, the walls of the cut go smoothly and do not collapse, so that the rotor is not damaged by foreign inclusions (hard rocks that are found in the layers), and so on.
While one excavator operator “fights with coal”, the second does not sit idle - he bypasses the car along numerous stairs and passages, monitors the condition of the mechanisms, corrects and cleans something.
The senior of the group also does not get bored - he develops a “battle strategy”, and it is especially interesting when he has to go down and “pave the way” for a monster moving from one part of the quarry to another.
In general, the machine worked by the Germans commands respect. This is one of those structures that are respectfully referred to as "real Krupp steel". Remember the supergiant guns of the First and Second World Wars? Apparently, that experience came in handy.
And the machine was made literally for a century - according to the forecast of experts, if there are no unforeseen circumstances, this excavator will work until its hundredth birthday.
Bagger 288 is not only bucket wheel excavator for mining, but also a house. To get down from the workplace, which is located almost at its very top, the worker will have to go a long way. Therefore, a small apartment was built inside the giant to rest and satisfy the needs of the workers.
Excavator Bagger 288 required external source power supply in the form of a power plant with a capacity of 16.5 MW. Every day, the machine is able to dig a hole the size of a football field and a depth of 30 m. The Bagger 288 moves on three tracked bases, each track having a width of 3.8 m. That is why, despite the titanic weight of the machine, the pressure that it exerts on a square centimeter of soil , is quite small, which allows the excavator to drive on open ground, gravel and even grass without leaving deep footprints.
In the most huge machines you can write Bagger 293, built in 1995. Its weight was 14,200 tons, the dimensions remained the same as those of its predecessor. So here is the controversial first place. The number of buckets was increased to 20 pieces with a volume of 15 cubic meters.
The rapid development of technology and progress in the field of automobile production contribute not only to the emergence of supercars that amaze with design and speed, but also technological vehicles. Such machines allow you to carry out a variety of construction operations. We offer to consider the world's largest machines designed to transport various building materials, dig holes and implement other heavy operations in which human resources are not enough. We assure you that you will be surprised how heavy and overall machines is on Earth.
TOP 10 largest cars in the world
Excavator
The rating of the largest machines in the world is opened by the Excavator, whose dimensions are 240 m by 40 m. The height of the vehicle is 96 meters. In other words, this combine is equal in area to two full-fledged football fields. However, the Bagger 288 can travel on roads, but not too fast. The maximum speed is 0.5 kilometers per hour. Actually, the purpose of this unit justifies such low performance. For mining more speed and don't! Four drivers are enough to manage the transport.
dump truck
It is difficult to imagine how people would transport huge amounts of land mined using mining machines if dump trucks did not exist. It is natural that the ninth place in the top is occupied by the Liebherr T282B. The length of the dump truck is 14.5, the height is 7.4, and the width is 9 meters. This vehicle weighs about 232 tons. At one time, the machine is capable of transporting about 363 tons of earth or other cargo. Power power plant is 3650 horses. The photo shows that the transport is equipped with just huge wheels.
The largest in history
Another giant dump truck that is used to work in quarries. It is considered the second largest in the world in terms of its carrying capacity. At one time, this giant can transport 345 tons of cargo. These machines are used in iron, coal, copper and gold quarries. Their owners have long considered that it is much more profitable to have one large car than several small ones.
Large modern
Among the most large dump trucks It should be noted the Terex 33-19 "Titan" model, which was developed General motors. The first analogue was presented to the public in 1973. At the same time, the car was considered the largest on the planet. For a long time it was. Latest Models German auto companies were able to transport up to 350 kilograms of cargo at a time. The giant is currently retired. The model can be found on the territory of the German Museum. It is worth noting that the Terex 33-19 moved faster than the modern Caterpillar 797B.
The largest in the Russian Federation
The giant machines that can be found on Earth in small quantities include the BelAZ 75600. This vehicle operates in Russian coal mines. The height of a huge car is the size of a 3-story building. That is 10 meters. For one trip, the vehicle is capable of transporting about 320 tons of cargo. It should be noted that the noise from the operation of the BelAZ power plant is so noticeable that people are forced to use headphones. The volume of the tank is 4300 liters.
Bugatti Type 41 La Royale
Many people, seeing the Bugatti brand, imagine super fast cars. At the same time, not many people know that in 1927 this company introduced one of the largest cars in the world called Type 41 "La Royale". For some time, car manufacturers within the framework of series production. Distinctive feature transport in length, which is equal to 6.7 meters. Currently, there are only 6 Type 41 "La Royale" cars, each of which is in the museum.
To the most big machines, which are known to the world today, it is worth including the Maybach Exelero, whose length is 6.16 meters. The cost of the model reaches 430 thousand euros (the simplest equipment). One of the most expensive cars today is the Maybach Landaulet. It's funny that the unit, worth 900,000 euros, came from a limousine relatively recently. Some custom-made species are equipped with armor. In addition, cars of this series include all the amenities, from the climate control system to the refrigerator.
Mammoth LTM
Speaking of loading, the biggest one is the Mammoth LTM crane. For a long time, this model had only one drawback - a small carrying capacity. However, German engineers have recently managed to rectify the situation by equipping the machine with a new crane. Currently, the vehicle includes 9 pairs of wheels. At the same time, the crane can lift about 1200 tons. It reaches a height of 180 meters. Auto has hydraulic support, which provides stability when loading different materials and objects.
The modern world can no longer be imagined without cars. We have long been accustomed to cars constantly scurrying through the streets. But there are cars that you will not meet in everyday life. Engineering giants fall into this category. We present you the TOP 10:
Mining machine Bagger 288
this is the biggest car. The iron giant can mine up to 250,000 tons of rock. The length parameter is 240 m, the width is 40 m. Think about these numbers. To understand the scale, let's imagine three nine-story houses (height). Developing a speed of about 600 m / h, the giant weighs thirteen and a half thousand tons. It must be operated by four people at the same time.
BelAZ 75710
considered the most big dump truck. Its weight is 360 tons. Maximum load capacity- 450 tons. The maximum speed is 67 km/h. With a height of 8.17 meters and a length of 20.6 meters, it has a width of 9.75 meters. Designed for work in coal mines. The price of this colossus is as big as it is - six million US dollars.
Caterpillar 797B 
is career giant. The length of this car monster is about 15 meters. Carrying capacity - one and a half times the weight of the machine. The Caterpillar 797B has a speed of up to 68 km/h and has the most capacious fuel tank.
Liebherr T282B 
also intended for career work. The dump truck does an excellent job of transporting loads that exceed it. own weight 1.5 times. The machine is designed specifically for operation in South Africa and Australia. The giant possesses exclusive engine, whose power exceeds three and a half thousand horsepower.
Continues the list Terex MT 6300 AC.
Compared with the previous instance of engineering, this dump truck is more powerful and weighs six tons more. To change the wheel of this giant, the car mechanic needs a small team of assistants.
In terms of height dimensions, the leader Torex Titan 33-19.
The height of the car is almost seventeen meters. Big plus is the capacity of the gas tank (six thousand liters). With a load capacity of 317.5 tons, this titanium for a long time took the lead.
Van Hall
is the leader among passenger cars with special purpose. This goliath is designed specifically as an ambulance. The giant has a height of almost 18 meters and can accommodate forty-four people. Designed to provide temporary shelter for pilgrims and the sick. Van Hall is a real hospital on wheels.
Studebaker President Eight(1938 release).
The name of the brand is known to us from the work of Ilf and Petrov. The record holder was created within a few months by a team of sixty people. True, the machine did not have a functional load.
Bugatti Type 41 La Royale(1927) 
considered a rare copy. Its length is almost seven meters. This handsome man weighed more than three tons. With an engine capacity of twelve point seven tenths of a liter, it has a capacity of three hundred horsepower. There are the last six units in the world. The word “Royal” (“La Royale”) inserted into the name of the car is not accidental. Initially this luxury car intended for special royal family. But the paradox is that not a single instance of the car fell into their hands.
Limousine- This is the longest passenger car. An engineer from California created a prototype of an automobile colossus with twenty-six wheels and 2 driver's cabs. One in front of the car, one in the back. To make a maneuver, the driver just needs to change seats. The footage of the car is almost thirty-one meters. This model equipped with a small swimming pool and a helicopter pad.
How far can the human imagination go? There is no such limit in our ideas! However, for major projects required and very big cars. Check out ten of the most gigantic metal monsters of all time... or at least for now.
largest digging machine
Undoubtedly, this is the largest digging machine in history! Built at the Krupp factory for five years. Although the extraction of minerals in mines, in principle, do not use self-propelled machines, for this project, the concept was revised and it was decided that it would be better for it to move by itself than to transport its parts separately. And there is a good reason for this: huge car has a height of 95 meters and a length of 215 meters (like 2 football fields), and weighs 45,500 tons - and this is no less, but about the same Cars highways lined up for 160 km ... A little more than $ 100 million was spent on the construction of this "monster".
largest drilling machine
This is a 40 ton Strata 950 used to rescue miners stranded in Chile for a full 2 months after a collapse in a copper mine. This machine is capable of drilling a hole as deep as 700 meters and a width of about 50 cm, through this hole 33 miners trapped in the mine were rescued and raised to the surface. After completion of the work, it took 42 trucks to transport this drilling rig.
The heaviest aircraft
AN-255 Mriya is a strategic cargo aircraft, which was designed and built back in the days of Soviet Union at the Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex Antonov. To this day, the An-255 remains the heaviest cargo aircraft in the world. Used to transport the Buran space module (Russian "Transfer"). And to this day, the plane is in full "combat" readiness to perform especially difficult tasks, but, unfortunately, there was only one ticket with permission to fly.
The biggest bulldozer
Here the saying "The more the merrier" applies fully to this giant! The D575A-3SD is the largest bulldozer in the world today, capable of removing any mountain from its path. Production Japanese company Komatsu, the bulldozer has such monstrous dimensions, 4.5 meters high, 12 meters long, 6 meters wide and can rightfully be called the “King of bulldozers”.
The biggest truck
If the AN-255 is the "master" of the air, then this Liebherr T 282B truck is rightfully considered the full "master" of the earth! This mining giant was created back in 2004, but to this day is the largest vehicle with tires. And its characteristics are truly monstrous: with a carrying capacity of 360 tons, which can develop top speed up to 64 km/h! In order to move along the road, this monster is equipped diesel engine with a capacity of 2723 kilowatts (that's about the same as the monthly consumption of about 300 households per month of electricity), which provides current for two giant electric motors. Thus, the T 282 holds the record as the largest electric truck. At a cost of $13 million, only 75 pieces a year are made and sold.
The biggest motorcycle
For people who see the creations of Greg Dunhom for the first time in their lives, it often seems that they are in the land of giants or reduced in stature to midgets ... The reason is that they see how it moves along the road huge motorcycle on the planet, which is also reported by the Guinness Book of Records. A motorcycle or, more correctly, a two-wheeled miracle is a monster about 4.5 meters high, 7.5 meters long and with a record weight of 3 tons. To create it, Greg (who, by the way, is the owner of a beauty salon) spent $ 300,000 and 3 years of his life.
The control is carried out from the "driver's cab", located under the steering wheel. The most interesting thing here is that this miracle motorcycle was created as a result of a dispute with friends, and not only truth is born in a dispute, but also " iron horses":).
largest particle accelerator
Maybe everyone has already heard about the Golenya Hadron Collider in the city of Cern? Well, yes, this is the world's largest particle accelerator. If you still don't know about it, here are some interesting facts about this miracle: created to test many scientific theories, including "The Big Bang Theory" (not a series, but about the creation of the world); it was built under the guidance of over 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries, supported by hundreds of universities and laboratories. And thanks to him, many of the theories have already been confirmed. Obviously it's nice and very important to find answers to these questions, instead of considering feeding the entire population of our world...
The largest mechanical spider
The usefulness of this gigantic mistake is questionable, except perhaps for the setting of a sci-fi movie... In fact, this "absurd spider machine" was made on the occasion of the election of "Liverpool" as the European capital of the world and, obviously, that it has very big feet to jump :). In any case, this is a 15-meter creature of the La Machine company, it is very important for the locals.
The biggest vacuum cleaner
"Queen of the Netherlands" received this title back in 1998. Well, it's not really a vacuum cleaner, but it works on the same principle. As a ship, not the largest (6 meters long and 115 meters long), but it has the largest basket for loading. Similar vessels are being used for construction on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai.
The largest conveyor
Its full name is “F60 Cargo Conveyor in Lichterfelde” and it was built in East Germany by VEB TAKRAF Lauchhammer... Like you, we are sure that it doesn’t tell us anything, but these very significant numbers sound impressive and impressive: it is 502 meters long, about 202 meters wide, 80 meters high and weighs 11,000 tons. It is not for nothing that it is called the "False Eiffel Tower"... One of the reasons is that this building has not been in operation for a long time and stands just like a metal monument - this conveyor worked only 13 months in Klettwitz-Nord.
