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Q393 - solved - Superbus
« on: April 07, 2009, 09:54:01 AM »
For one point, what's the identity of this car?
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Re: Q393
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2009, 12:23:24 PM »
An underground above ground?
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Re: Q393
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2009, 03:22:55 PM »
 ;)
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Re: Q393
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2009, 05:29:17 PM »
Serious question - which end is the front?
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Re: Q393
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2009, 05:55:37 PM »
Quote from: gilescooperuk on April 07, 2009, 05:29:17 PM
Serious question - which end is the front?

The opposite to the rear end  ;)

(I think it's heading left off the page)
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Re: Q393
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2009, 06:08:36 PM »
movin... but only just
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Re: Q393
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2009, 07:26:27 PM »
It's the Superbus - a research and demonstration vehicle being currently made by Technical University Delft and Connexxion.
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Re: Q393
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2009, 05:18:13 AM »
Correct! Makes that IdeA KAZ prototype look like a minnow!
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Re: Q393 - solved - Superbus
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2010, 08:54:29 AM »
Another view
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Re: Q393 - solved - Superbus
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2010, 09:23:57 AM »
Would that be the Rex Superbus, Qui Regnabat Surbis?  ???
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Re: Q393 - solved - Superbus
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2010, 06:53:23 AM »
A guy called "Wubbo Ockels", apparently a former astronaut, had the idea of a Superbus, which is a superfast bus, essentially. Believe it when I see it, though
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SOLVED: Djetset #542 - Ockels Dubai Superbus
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2011, 05:09:15 PM »
Surprised that we have not had this one already, but an easy Rookie point on offer to correctly identify this strange vehicle.
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Re: Djetset #542
« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2011, 05:32:24 PM »
Our local dutch pride, the Superbus as proposed by space traveler Wubbo Ockels... a suggested alternative to fast rail transport...
A dream, I suppose
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Re: Djetset #542
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2011, 05:35:13 PM »
I didn't think this one would stay here for too long.  The Superbus is indeed the beast, developed in the Netherlands for Dubai as I understand it!  All very strange!  Well done, you get the point.
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset #542 - Ockels Dubai Superbus
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2011, 05:54:11 PM »
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Re: Q393 - solved - Superbus
« Reply #15 on: August 19, 2011, 04:05:46 AM »
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Re: Q393 - solved - Superbus
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2011, 04:35:55 AM »
It was, as far as I have read the newspapers, not developped for Dubai, but even for use in the Netherlands itself, as a kind of alternative for a high speed train. My understanding goes as far as that they wanted to create special lanes on motorways where this superbus could drive along. A proposed line was Groningen-Amsterdam.
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