Re: Best tank for fast city driving?

[Elliott Potter <epotter@abraxis.com>]

Well sorry to keep it going but this all reminded me of an article I
read Dr. Porsche in WWII--

"The heaviest tank ever built weighed 180 tons and stood almost 20 feet
high.  Its front armor was 12 inches thick.  Code-named the Mouse, it
first appeared in 1944, after the German Army's tank divisions had been
badly mauled on the Russian Front.
Hitler had no hope of matching the masses of Russian tanks ranged
against his forces, so he briefed Dr. Porsche to invent a land
battleship, a tank that could outdo any enemy tank, yet remain
completely invulerable to enemy fire due to massive armor protection.
Dr. Porsche produced the Mouse, powered with a 1,500-horsepower diesel
engine driven by an electrical generator that fed power to two motors
mounted in each hub of the monster's giant caterpillar tracks.
Its top speed was only 12 miles an hour and when it was driven along
roads on a test, the vibration cracked foundations, smashed cobblestone,
and shattered windows in all the towns and villages it passed through;
the pressure on its tracks was enough to cause it to sink into anything
but the driest ground.
The project was dropped."

I guess maybe Dr. Porsche wasn't the most *practical* guy, sometimes...

Elliott
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>Sorry, I wrote all this stupidity in the lieu of the idea to close this
>thread. This had at least some VW-related info... So, Porsche ws making
>some decent tanks during WW-II. I like my wife's car, but I have to admit,
>>the most crappy tanks (and bad planes) during WW-II where made by Mitsubishi.
>