Vehicles
Filter land, air and sea vehicles by category, brand and body type.
100 vehicles found
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Renault
Renault Clio
A B-segment hatchback: one of Europe's longest-running attempts at liveability in a small body.
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Riva
Riva Aquarama
A classic wooden motorboat still treated as the measure of its class long after production ended.
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Robinson Helicopter
Robinson R44
A piston-engined light helicopter — one of the designs that brought the cost of rotary wing closer to civil users.
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Rodriquez Cantieri Navali
Hydrofoil Passenger Craft
A hydrofoil: a craft that lifts its hull clear of the water as speed rises, leaving resistance behind.
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Rosenbauer
Rosenbauer Fire Appliance
A fire appliance: less a vehicle than a portable installation taken to the incident.
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Royal Caribbean
Icon of the Seas
A cruise ship where the voyage itself is the product — designed less as a ship than as a floating resort.
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Saab Seaeye
Saab Seaeye ROV
A remotely operated underwater vehicle that solves the pressure problem by never sending a person.
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Scania
Scania R-series
A long-haul tractor built modularly: an industrial example of assembling very different vehicles from shared parts.
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Segway-Ninebot
Electric Scooter (Shared)
A micromobility vehicle: simple in engineering, complicated in regulation.
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Siemens Mobility
Siemens Vectron
A multi-system electric locomotive answering the problem that every European country has different power and signalling systems.
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Siemens Mobility
Siemens Velaro
A high-speed train family with distributed traction: power is spread along the trainset rather than concentrated in one locomotive.
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Sikorsky
Sikorsky S-92
A medium-heavy helicopter, one of the standard means of moving crews to offshore platforms.
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Tesla
Tesla Model 3
An electric sedan discussed less for its drivetrain than for its interface and software decisions.
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Toyota
Toyota Corolla
One of the most-produced car names in the world, selling predictability rather than excitement.
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Toyota
Toyota Land Cruiser
A body-on-frame off-roader that became the unit of measure for durability where infrastructure is absent.
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Toyota
Toyota RAV4
One of the early examples of an off-roader's stance built on a passenger-car platform, paired with on-road comfort.
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Ulstein
Ulstein Offshore Support Vessel
An offshore support vessel whose job is not to travel but to hold a point in a seaway.
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Urban Arrow
Urban Arrow Cargo Bike
An electrically assisted cargo bike, a vehicle type positioned to replace the van in urban delivery.
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Vale
Vale Valemax
A very large ore carrier: a ship class designed around one mining company's logistics.
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Viking Line
Viking Grace
A passenger and vehicle ferry, an early example of a cruise ferry running on liquefied natural gas.
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Volkswagen
Volkswagen Golf
The model that became the yardstick for the compact hatchback class — defining its segment rather than fitting into it.
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Volvo Trucks
Volvo FH
A long-haul tractor unit, an early populariser of safety equipment in the heavy commercial class.
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Winnebago
Winnebago Motorhome
A motorhome: transport and dwelling in one body, where two engineering disciplines must reach a compromise.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
DSV Alvin
A crewed research submersible that has carried deep-sea science since the 1960s.