Belarussian Tractor Manufacturer Builds Tractor-Inspired Formula 1 Car
A Belarussian company specializing in agricultural machinery recently unveiled a Formula 1 car built with tractor parts that can allegedly reach speeds of up to 320km/h (198mph) The Russian city of Yekaterinburg recently hosted the Innoprom exhibition where over 150 companies from Russia and Belarus showcased their newest agricultural, construction, and transportation machinery. However, the […]
Japanese Company Creates Incredibly Detailed Wireframe Car
Japanese metal processing company Yamaguchi Seisakusho has been getting a lot of attention for showcasing its capabilities by creating a very detailed wireframe car that looks almost rendered in augmented reality. If you’ve ever played mobile video games like the widely popular Pokemon GO, you probably know a little about augmented reality or AR for […]
Bagger 288 – The World’s Largest Excavator
Comparable in height to a skyscraper and weighing a whopping 13,500 tons, the German-made Bagger 288 holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest excavator. Here at oddity Central, we love big, heavy machinery! In fact, we just featured the world’s largest dump truck, the BelAZ-75710, a Belarussian behemoth capable of carrying a load […]
Shockwave – The Fastest Jet Engine-Powered Truck Ever Made
Trucks aren’t usually built for speed, but in the right hands they can become faster than any commercially-available supercar, and there’s no better proof than the legendary Shockwave, the fastest truck ever built Originally built by the legendary Les Shockley in 1984, Shockwave was modified by Darnell Racing Enterprises and is still the Guinness record […]
Xian Mangia – The World’s Smallest and Cheapest Electric Double-Cabin Truck
The Xian Mangia is a fully functional electric double-cabin truck that not only costs under $3,000, but can also be shipped right to your doorstep. A few years back, we wrote about the world’s cheapest electric car, the Changli Nemeca, a petite box on wheels that cost just $930 and could be delivered straight to […]
The World’s Largest Truck Can Carry a Load of Over 500 Tons
The BelAZ-75710 is a Belarussian ultra-class truck that has held the title of the world’s largest haul truck for the last 10 years. Launched in 2013, the BelAZ-75710 managed to put the BelAZ brand back on the map. Back in the Soviet era, the company based in the Belarusian city of Zhodino made the largest […]
Ottomeyer Mammut – The Story of the World’s Largest Plow
The Ottomeyer Mammut is the largest plow ever made. It was created for the specific purpose of converting bogs into agricultural land and could cut channels in the ground to a depth of over 2 meters. The bog areas of the Emsland district in Northern Germany, on the border with the Netherlands, had been determined […]
‘IKEA of Electric Cars’ Ships Vehicles as Individual Parts to Save on Transportation
A Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer hopes to become the IKEA of small EVs by shipping its cars as individual parts that can be assembled at their final destination. Luvly, a Swedish start-up specializing in small and affordable electric vehicles, has announced plans to ship its tiny cars as flat packs to be assembled at their […]
Vietnamese Batman Fan Builds His Own Functional Batmobile and Batpod
A Vietnamese architecture student and diehard fan of The Dark Knight spent six months building his very own Batpod with the help of a team of friends. Born in 1998, Nguyen Dac Chung was just a child when Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight hit cinemas, but the movie made such a big impact on him […]
Meet Kleine Johanna, the World’s Heaviest Rideable Bicycle
Kleine Johanna a 4,800-pound behemoth built almost entirely out of scrap metal, was recently acknowledged as the heaviest rideable bicycle in the world by the Record Institute for Germany, a national version of the Guinness Book of Records. You’ve probably seen chunky bikes before, but surely nothing quite like Kleine Johanna. This unique contraption measures […]
This Beast of a Car Is Powered by a World War 2 Plane Engine
The Beast is a legendary 1970s muscle car powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 airplane engine that can produce over 750hp and has a fuel consumption of around 2.35 mpg. The story of The Beast goes back to 1966, when English engineer Paul Jameson decided to find out what would happen if someone put a […]
Taliban Unveil Afghanistan’s First Ever Supercar, the Mada 9
The Taliban-led Government of Afghanistan recently unveiled the country’s first-ever indigenously built supercar, named Mada 9. On the list of things you were expecting from the Taliban, unveiling a supercar prototype probably ranked pretty low, but here we are. Reportedly developed by a team of at least 30 engineers from a company called ENTOP and […]
World’s Largest Electric Truck Needs Almost No Recharging
The world’s biggest electric vehicle is a giant dump truck that relies almost exclusively on energy produced by its own breaking system, requiring only minimal recharging. Called the ‘eDumper’, the world’s largest electric vehicle is actually a converted Komatsu 605-7 HD dump truck the diesel engine of which was replaced with an electric motor and […]
Meet THOR 24, Probably the Craziest Truck Ever Built
THOR 24 is a unique big rig often referred to as “the most powerful big rig ever built” because of its horsepower rating (3,974 horsepower) reached through a 24-cylinder engine with 12 superchargers. Can you imagine the god of thunder in truck form? Me neither, but builder Mike Harrah definitely could and the result is […]
The World’s Fastest Tractor Is Faster Than Some Sports Cars
The JCB Fastrac Two is a stripped-down and performance-enhanced JCB Fastrac tractor capable of reaching speeds of up to 247 km per hour (153.8 mph). If you’ve ever driven behind a tractor, you probably already know that they are many things, but they certainly aren’t fast. Tractors are built for power, not speed, but what […]