I feel the need to ask 'why?'

Pretty though isn't it...............

It does look a bit crap.. A 6-wheeled range rover with a Defender hi-cap back-end glued onto it with no drive to the rear axle.

Ugly and useless I guess.... Around corners?....Who cares ;-) Erik-Jan.

"Matthew Maddock" wrote in message news:dqe38g$kj3$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...

How is an engine that size going to move that lump along?

Dom J

Why useless ? ?

Much greater carrying capacity than standard.

It will go round corners just fine if it is built right.

A friend has built two now both 6x4 and are great tools.

There's too great a distance between the back axles. This will cause a LOT of drag on the rear wheels.

On or around Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:22:17 +0000, Marc Draper enlightened us thusly:

it'd be better as a 6x6 though...

On or around Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:07:24 +0000, Mother enlightened us thusly:

what, like a certain not-101-any-more that we know?

All it needs is a steering axle in the back. and in fact, if you don't want to drive it, that becomes much easier.

I think it looks a bloody handy truck, meself, if you have the use for it. I'd prefer 6WD though, if you intend using it seriously off road, it'll lack grip as most of the weight is over the non-driven axle.

Indeed - Hi David :-)

You'd still need to find a way to lock the rear straight, else have fun reversing!

...and Matthew Maddock spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...

That's the bloke that built Tiggrr! What on *earth* was he thinking with this one?

On or around Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:20:23 +0000, Mother enlightened us thusly:

don't see why. provided the steering is set up properly, it'd reverse OK. I's not a passive-steer axle, it's connected to the steering wheel.

If I get me paws on enough technical lego I might make a model one day to see how it works.

Yes, if you link it, fine, I thought you were talking about an unlinked, unpowered floating axle. Kevin (101 6x6) looked into the latter, with a HGV locking pin system.