Following the Salisbury Plain off-roading thread reminded me of a course I went on where I got to drive this beast, 12.75 Litres of Rolls Royce power....


Anyone else driven larger off road toys? :)

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when only the biggest and the best will do ......

I've been trumped!!

Largest was the Terex TR100 (library picture)
Maximum payload was 91 tonne



Most fun was the Carmichael Cobra 2 (library picture)
14.2 litre 530 hp 2300 NM torque

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Makes this (my more regular drive) look a bit weedy....


I was stationed near an airport where the fire crew used the large Carmicheals as their taxi to the cookhouse! Everyday they drove the mile or so, back and forth for meals!

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Mine's bigger than yours ....................... just it's not very good on the roads, but water ohhh yes, the deeper the better! 397m long, 56m wide 72m from highest point to lowest and one 109,000hp 14 cylinder diesel engine................ fuel consumption makes you want to cry though and is measured in tonnes per day rather than gallons per mile. Acceleration is pretty crap too and it will never get to 40mph let alone 60
http://www.emma-maersk.info/

Imagine getting stuck behind this truckload though....................
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Tim in Scotland wrote:

Mine's bigger than yours .......................

This wasn't you or was it Tim?


I don't envy your job, these ships look like they could be very unstable in high seas

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That's one helll of a structure tim.

So if that's the biggest container vessel in the world, does that make it the biggest ship overall? If that's the case then is it the biggest 'vehicle' ever made? (I can't think of anything bigger that moves!) My Previous RR's!
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hoppy, there are bigger oil tankers - still a few in excess of 275000 tonnes but they don't have such powerful engines and generally they have steam turbines not diesels. Maersk are in the process of building 18 bigger containerships than the Emma at 18000 x 20ft containers (TEU's). Those ships will not be any longer but 60-62m wide and deeper draft, that will then be the limit as they cannot them pass through the Suez Canal or transit the Malacca Strait down to Singapore. 18m is the deepest draft for any state of the tide transits, otherwise you have to stop and wait or go very slowly. 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

Yeah - one of these:

Not as big... but its what you do with it that counts

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according to the website this is the biggest land vehicle in the world
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And fancy parking it in the middle of the road!! How's anyone supposed to get by?........