Consensus among car guys is that the first “concept car” was the 1938 Buick Y-Job, a legendary vehicle that charted a direction the entire auto industry would follow for nearly two decades. But ...

Buckminster Fuller had a gleaming, streamlined vision of the future -- a Dymaxion (his own word) future full of mass-produced pod houses, odd sleep schedules and geodesic domes. Lots and lots of ...

Nashville's Lane Motor Museum graciously gave us the opportunity to drive their recently completed replica of the Buckminster Fuller-designed Dymaxion car. It was a scary, but fascinating, experience.

One of humanity’s longest-surviving dreams has always been that of conquering land, water and air, preferably at the same time, with just one vehicle. To this day, this dream has never been fully ...

Back in the 1930s and 40s, famed visionary, neologist, and “comprehensive, anticipatory design scientist” Buckminster Fuller predicted a world populated by prefabricated metal dome houses built on ...

Did you know that Bridgeport was once the home of “the car of the future?” It was the Tesla of its era, but only three were ever built. Jim Cameron This mystery vehicle? The Dymaxion Car. The designer ...

We're huge fans of the crazy Dymaxion Car here at Jalopnik. It was so far ahead of its time before such a thing was even a phrase, and sadly only one survives. Now, the blueprints for this amazing ...

Buckminster Fuller, an architect, engineer and philosopher, produces the first of three three-wheeled, multidirectional Dymaxion cars in Bridgeport, Conn., on July 12, 1933 -- his 38th birthday.

Buckminster Fuller's 1933 foray into automobiles gave us the Dymaxion Car, and enthusiast Jeff Lane has one of the only working replicas in the world. WSJ's Rumble Seat columnist Dan Neil takes the ...

From the June 15, 2008 New York Times: Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion, a streamlined pod on three wheels, is one of the lovable oddballs in automotive history. Three were built, fawned over by the ...

Resembling a whale out of water, here you see the Dymaxion, a three-wheeled vehicle being manufactured at Bridgeport, Conn., as “the car of the future.” The invention of Buckminster Fuller, the ...

The future of transportation did not proceed according to plan. Touted as the greatest advance since the horse-and-buggy when it rolled out of the factory in 1933, the first car that Buckminster ...