The longest limousine in the world: photo and length. The largest limousine

To hire a limousine for some solemn event became quite common for Russian cities. Therefore, you can always run into a curious scene, when such a monster tries to turn into a certain alley. Roads of the right size and necessary quality in the Russian expanses, rather, are an exception, so such a maneuver is often accompanied by good advice, which the drivers say, forced to wait when this dump for several attempts will fit into the turn. When you hear the words or advice accompanying the driver, the owner and the inventor of the limousine, the natural question seems to arise: "What size is the longest limousine in the world?" To what extent does the perversion of auto designers come?

It's just the body type

A beautiful word, which, as usual, is used in different automobile cultures for different things, comes from the name of the French province, where shepherds wore cloaks with hoods of a special shape, to which the bodies of the first representative cars were similar. At Germans limousines is any spacious four-door body. In the rest of the world this is an elongated car, where passengers sit on two rows of seats facing each other, and the private salon from the driver is separated by a partition.

The real limousines were Soviet representative "member cars": "Seagulls" and ZILs. Classic cars were made by the British: "Rolls-Royce" and "Bentley." The longest limousine of this class, of course, attracted envious glances, but looked natural and had the necessary maneuverability. It is from her in extreme situations depended on the security of VIP-person. Such cars are called factory limousines, i.e. In them, at the stage of the project, the necessary dimensions and constructive amplifications are laid.

Stretch Limousine

The glorious name of the one who first decided to cut an ordinary serial production car and increase its capacity by inserting a section between the front and rear doors of the right size is hard to find, but the consequences of this insight can be seen now in the most unnatural forms. One thing is clear: that the longest limousine in the world could appear only where the cult of the car is part of a national mentality where people are trying to spend their whole life on wheels - in the United States.

A good car should be a lot - a thought that is understandable and organic for any American. Good cars there are able to do for a long time, so the first and best limousines had on the hoods the emblems of the most famous American auto brands: Lincoln, Cadillac, etc.

The frame is lengthened

Modern cars basically have a carrying body, so mechanically cutting it in half, like sawing a log with a two-hand saw, brings a constructive scheme of catastrophic destruction and requires titanic efforts and means to prevent the operating seam from breaking up at the most inopportune time.

Rama is often the basis of representative models and powerful off-road vehicles, that's why they look so organic and are becoming a familiar sight turned into "tax" Hummers. "Centipede Zaporozhets" or a chic limousine - "Kopeyka" cause genuine admiration for the metalwork talent and cosmic enthusiasm of the manufacturers. The longest limousine in the world, made on the basis of a workhorse "Zhiguli" - a very unusual thing.

Size matters

Once starting, it's very difficult to stop: to stretch everything that wheels are attached to. There were motorcycles on which a football team can move on two wheels. Stretched the legendary DeLorean DMC-12, which flew "Back to the Future." The elegant sports "Ferrari" and "Lamborghini" also could not avoid such a fate and, like a sausage, are the fastest amongst stretch-cars, although, of course, slightly inferior in speed to themselves in a normal state.

Called to be luxurious, the limousine was usually equipped only with a refrigerator, a bar, a TV, a telephone, etc. In a stretched version, tried to put all sorts of signs of sweet life: a chic bed, modern kitchen, comfortable bathroom, shower, swimming pool, mini-golf course and helipad. It is this set that contains the longest limousine in the world, built by Jay Orberg, an indomitable enthusiast from Hollywood.

A fan of limousine building

Orberg is a typical American. In order to start moving without a car, it is necessary to exert some effort; It is necessary to remember how this is done. The machine for Jay is the meaning of life. Apparently, not relating to the poor, he is engaged in collecting religious devices associated with the world of cinema. In addition to Delorian, such top-of-the-line car parts are known plenty: batmobili, bondmobile, elvisprimobili, etc.

The owner and creator of the company "Hollywood Jay Orberg cars" offers the most unusual units. If the buyer's imagination is not enough, Jay offers his services. Being an unconventional designer and designer, he creates unique art objects, sometimes capable of moving along American roads on his four or twenty-four, like the American Dream, the longest limousine in the world. Photo Jay against the backdrop of the embodied dream has bypassed the whole auto world. Who else could have done such a crazy design feat?

Dream come true

Deciding to build a record copy, he made several trial monsters. In "sausage" doroguschie "Lamborghini" and "Mercedes-cabriolet" turned to everything else became pink. Under the hot arm of the enthusiast, even the decommissioned space shuttle Shuttle hit. He was quickly stretched, put on wheels and turned into a car for country walks.

Luxuriously looked at then the world's largest limousine - "Cadillac" length of 45 feet, created in the style of large American monsters from the 50's. He became a true recognition in love of active plastic forms, impressive radiator grilles and dazzling moldings. Jay was morally ready to conquer a record height, or rather length.

100 feet

Like any artist, Orberg is prone to the magic of round figures. He decided to build the longest limousine in the world, and its length was determined in the most beautiful figure - 100 feet. In the metric system, which, by a strange caprice, fate in the US is not recognized, the length of the record car looks not so round: 30.48 m, but no less impressive. It is worthwhile to imagine how, placed vertically on the rear trunk, the "American Dream" will reach the front wheels to the roof of a ten-story house.

Although technically, "Dreams" do not have any transfer and tasks, the driver's seat is equipped with both sides to make the reversal process, which is very problematic in this case, unnecessary. And structurally this record limousine consists of two separate parts for the convenience of moving over long distances. At various exhibitions and shows, "The American Dream" was delivered dismembered in half on long trailers, and on arrival at the right place was twisted into a single whole.

Faster, higher, longer

It is said that the "American Dream" has a difficult fate, and it is constantly experiencing global damage, gradually shabby. But this is not so important. It has served as an important milestone in the history of limousines, this branch of automotive looks confidently into the future, and it can be confident that the largest limousines will even more successfully serve their purpose - to emphasize the global pathos of passengers and permanently block off traffic in the narrow streets of our cities.