not impressed... all I have seen this thing do is go on very flat pavement and some mud... where is it's ability ti go over rocks and logs and traverse off road
I wonder how well it can work with that short-travel suspension. I'd think a soft suspension would be necessary to reduce loading on the tracks at high speed on pavement and such. Though the pneumatic-looking rubber tires might help that.
Interesting vehicle. I'd love to see how some of these things work.
That noise sounds like a serpentine belt. It did have an underpowered diesel with an automatic, that's what is in the video. it has since been upgraded to a Ford chassis with their turbo v6 and automatic, much faster. The Ford version is in the Air Force FTV video.
its probably got torvec's IVT gearbox - i.e. there are no gears, just continous change in ratio. so thats why the engine sounds the same loadness despite the change in speed, as it revs at the same speed.
crazy..no way it went through that
tearsforthesheep 9 months ago
not impressed... all I have seen this thing do is go on very flat pavement and some mud... where is it's ability ti go over rocks and logs and traverse off road
pdy1971 11 months ago
I wonder how well it can work with that short-travel suspension. I'd think a soft suspension would be necessary to reduce loading on the tracks at high speed on pavement and such. Though the pneumatic-looking rubber tires might help that.
Interesting vehicle. I'd love to see how some of these things work.
redreaper2020 1 year ago
I LOVE the Torvec truck! I want one of thease for my daily driver so bad. Love tracked vehicles. I read that this thing will do 60 mph.
shf84 2 years ago
That noise sounds like a serpentine belt. It did have an underpowered diesel with an automatic, that's what is in the video. it has since been upgraded to a Ford chassis with their turbo v6 and automatic, much faster. The Ford version is in the Air Force FTV video.
Planetary13 2 years ago
its probably got torvec's IVT gearbox - i.e. there are no gears, just continous change in ratio. so thats why the engine sounds the same loadness despite the change in speed, as it revs at the same speed.
geometrikal 3 years ago
Nice concept, seems a bit underpowered though...
Prob has autom. gearbox as well...
ButchE30M3S14 4 years ago
I keep waiting for something to happen.
southoffrance2 4 years ago