Stretch limo (and other odd vehicles) questions...

This thread got me to thinking about other lengthy vehicles I’ve seen (and a few I’d like to see, besides).

There used to be a vehicle made by the Checker company. It was an extended-length sedan or station wagon with multiple rows of seats, each row having its own set of doors (there’s a rusting hulk of one not far distant with four doors per side). Does anyone make anything like this any more?

I’ve ridden in articulated buses. Does anyone make articulated limousines?

What is the longest road-going passenger vehicle ever? I know there are some very long stretch limos that are not licensable for regular street use (they have to get a parade permit to use them, IIRC). What’s the longest licensable street-legal passenger vehicle?

What is the longest (non-railed) wheeled vehicle ever? ISTR seeing some pic of an articulated vehicle hundreds of feet long (perhaps shorter – I was a small fry when I saw the pic) that was being developed for some obscure purpose. It was almost like a train without tracks. What the heck was that thing?

–SSgtBaloo

The longest wheeled road vehicles I’ve heard of would appear to be the road trains of Australia.

Another thought… buses.

The articulated bus that SSgtBaloo linked to was one of the older General Motors models used by Mississauga Transit. They have since been replaced by newer non-GM models. I have seen full-size articulated highway coaches on the run between Montréal and Québec City. They were made by Prévost (the H5-60), and are startling indeed when you try to overtake one and you realise it’s twice as long as you expected…

Volvo makes a double-articulated city bus (see pic at top left of linked page) that is used in Brazil. I’m thinking that that may be the longest licensable rubber-tired passenger vehicle so far.

A better picture of the H5-60.

I remember those Marathons; there used to be an airport car service on Long Island that used them exclusively. IIRC they had to stop using them because of local reglulations that were passed against them sometime in the late seventies.