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Buckminster FullerDymaxion car

1950 – present Automobile 1 production year
Production1950 – present
ClassAutomobile
Background

The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Buckminster Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair. Fuller built three experimental prototypes with naval architect Starling Burgess – using donated money as well as a family inheritance – to explore not an automobile per se, but the 'ground-taxiing phase' of a vehicle that might one day be designed to fly, land and drive – an "Omni-Medium Transport". Fuller associated the word Dymaxion with much of his work, a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension, to summarize his goal to do more with less.

Text adapted from “Dymaxion car” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07

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