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As Henrik Fisker seems determined to continue proving, designers are not always the best people to take on automotive engineering. This is what happened when iconic American architect Buckminster Fuller turned his hand to the task: the Fuller Dymaxion.
Rear-mounted V8 driving the two front wheels; steering by single rear wheel, enabling the car to spin almost on axis but making steering at speed a life-threatening event (killing a test driver, in fact); and aerodynamics that made the car as likely to get airborne as stick to the pavement. Of course, this was meant as the first design phase of a vehicle that could operate as a road car, boat, and airplane, so maybe sticking to the pavement was not the point.
Rear-mounted V8 driving the two front wheels; steering by single rear wheel, enabling the car to spin almost on axis but making steering at speed a life-threatening event (killing a test driver, in fact); and aerodynamics that made the car as likely to get airborne as stick to the pavement. Of course, this was meant as the first design phase of a vehicle that could operate as a road car, boat, and airplane, so maybe sticking to the pavement was not the point.