# What is the big vehicle in this picture? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 9, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234 "2004-07-09T04:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/21 "2004-07-10T19:46:33Z")
That’s why they have duck tours and not LARC tours. If it could fly, would it be a SkyLARC? ---
**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:** [July 10, 2004, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/22 "2004-07-10T23:34:57Z")
Yeah, but look how big it is! Here in Toronto, we have [hippos](http://www.torontohippotours.com/main.html) instead of ducks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/23 "2004-07-10T23:54:56Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Yeah, but look how big it is! > > Here in Toronto, we have [hippos](http://www.torontohippotours.com/main.html) instead of ducks. 🙂 Waaaaaaay offtopic, here, but how safe are those Hippos? I know there have been downing deaths on DUWKs since these tours have started, and I don’t understand how that could have happened since they’re open cockpit machines - these Hippos have only the windows for emergency egress, and in time of panic, I shudder to think what might happen. I’m not trying to say they’re unsafe, honest… just wondering. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/24 "2004-07-11T01:54:46Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > …how safe are those Hippos? No idea, though I could ask my friend the boat captain. (Well, _ex_-boat captain… now he runs an art gallery…) If they were new vehicles, there’s gotta be a manufacturer, right? ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/25 "2004-07-11T02:00:20Z")
[http://www.driveoffroad.com/4x4.htm](http://www.driveoffroad.com/4x4.htm) The above is a site featuring various interesting vehicles for sale, among them a Duck. Also check out that ‘Atkinson Alligator.’ ---
**Author:** ![Sandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@Sandlegs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandlegs)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/26 "2004-07-11T03:33:21Z")
HOOOLY CRAP!!! that is not a duck! you are right, i didn’t notice the person at first. it is a LARC ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/27 "2004-07-11T03:52:33Z")
It appears there _are_ (or were) LARC tours: [http://www.maritimesales.com/WAL10.htm](http://www.maritimesales.com/WAL10.htm) By the way, did anyone else look at the OP photo and think of the [Arctic Snow Cruiser](http://www.joeld.net/snowcruiser/Armour1.html)? ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/28 "2004-07-11T04:13:13Z")
You could outfit one of those to be the ultimate RV: A houseboat and a motorhome all in one. Hell, you could drive to the Atlantic and then sail to Europe, drive across Russia all the way to Vladivostok, and then sail across the Pacific to California. Road Trip VI: Around the world in a LARC. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/29 "2004-07-11T13:56:14Z")
[Duck Tours, Singapore](http://www.ducktours.com.sg/) Quack. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/30 "2004-07-11T14:06:37Z")
Yup, they’ve made it to [Dublin, Ireland](http://www.vikingsplashtours.com/) too. They pootle around a canal basin, and also pass by my office full of kids wearing Viking helmets, who are told to cheer loudly exactly at the moment they’re outside my window. Makes me jump out of my skin, ten times a day. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234/31 "2004-07-11T19:06:44Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Yup, they’ve made it to [Dublin, Ireland](http://www.vikingsplashtours.com/) too. > > They pootle around a canal basin, and also pass by my office full of kids wearing Viking helmets, who are told to cheer loudly exactly at the moment they’re outside my window. Makes me jump out of my skin, ten times a day. Then learn to throw mud and lunch (mixed) at the little Herring Raiders until they quit. Simple. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-big-vehicle-in-this-picture/254234.md?page=1)