# Stretch limo (and other odd vehicles) questions... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 31, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretch-limo-and-other-odd-vehicles-questions/247879 "2004-05-31T02:55:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretch-limo-and-other-odd-vehicles-questions/247879/1 "2004-05-31T02:55:52Z")
[This thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=258514) 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](http://www.collectorcarads.com/Picture1/checker.jpg) 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](http://gtabus.natransit.com/gm-artic/pix/red_deer-2.jpg). 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 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretch-limo-and-other-odd-vehicles-questions/247879/2 "2004-05-31T03:07:41Z")
The longest wheeled road vehicles I’ve heard of would appear to be the [road trains](http://outbacktowing.tripod.com/) of Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretch-limo-and-other-odd-vehicles-questions/247879/3 "2004-05-31T03:34:58Z")
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](http://www.lightrailnow.org/facts/fa_00013.htm) (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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretch-limo-and-other-odd-vehicles-questions/247879/4 "2004-05-31T03:45:11Z")
A [better picture](http://busexplorer.com/PHP/MidPage.php?id=826) of the H5-60. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stretch-limo-and-other-odd-vehicles-questions/247879/5 "2004-05-31T04:09:45Z")
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.