[Showcase] Post Your Manned Rover/Car Thread

[EleSigma]

Since one of the features of .20 is seats, now we can make proper manned vehicles and cars. So show off your creations.

I'll start with mine, the Yolainian Sky Department (YSD)-Minor Buggy, 0.57 tons, 11 parts (not including the clamp to keep it from rolling), includes three cramped seats, a headlight, and a solar powered motor with Z-400 energy storage. It is meant as a compact, cheap Munar rover with a low enough speed to prevent going airborne while having a high enough speed to get your Kerbals places. Do not make sharp turns. (Warning: Has not been tested off Kerbin, use at your own risk.)

[Llez]

Looks similar to mine, with the underslung medium battery. Although mine has such deluxe features as a probe body for recovery/self destruction and RCS to flip it should it roll and not fall apart.

[shadowslayer552]

How in the world are you getting your kerbals onto the seat? No matter where I go there is no option to sit on it...

[Llez]

Right click the seat when you're very close to it and there should be an option to sit in it.

[Varyon]

New, from Paradigm Industries (formerly Silverlight Solar Solutions), the JN-5 DunaBuggy! Isn't our marketing department so creative and witty?

The JN-5 was originally built as a high-impact, long range terrestrial rover for scientific missions to Duna and beyond. However, when Jebediah spotted the drone in the proving grounds, he demanded that he be able to "Ride Johnny Five". So we slapped a few metal tubes, two foot pedals, and a pair of non-functional doohickeys on the top, and Jeb was none the wiser.

Here's the JN-5 demonstrating its off-road capabilities. To the extreme. Dude.

Do not, under any circumstance, allow Jebediah to attempt turning the probe at over 20m/s. It's not pretty.

Now with 62% more craft file!

http://www./download/n51pe92gz87inrr/JN-5+DunaBuggy.craft

Also posting in the regular rover thread, just in case this one gets locked for being redundant.

Edited May 23, 2013 by Varyon

[Llez]

Well damn, now I need to build a large rover like that. Clever use of the small rover box for a seat pedestal.

[SimplyBrandon]

You guys all have some pretty cool rovers, but may I present to you, brand new from Kerbal Industries, the Mun-class rover/car! Very fast and very maneuverable, made to get your kerbals anywhere on mostly any planet in a fly! (Not rated for anywhere else but Kerbin ) The Mun-car was also made in mind to be aesthetically pleasing! It comes complete with two seats, two headlights, a probe module for unmanned driving, two batteries plus two solar panels and a thermal generator for nearly infinite power! Plus scientific equipment and RCS to get itself out of sticky situations! Oh, and how could I forget, two cup holders!

Tell me what you guys think of it, and if needed, ill post the file for you all!

Edited May 23, 2013 by SimplyBrandon

[Commander Zoom]

Llez, that is a nice mini-rover design. Any chance of you posting a .craft file, so I can copy examine it?

[AnalogAddict]

These are some beautiful rovers, I agree with the other posters, can you post the .craft file so I can ninja it?

[Klajan]

I present the eXplorer MK II:

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Edited May 23, 2013 by Klajan
Worng thread...duh

[ThadeusKilgore]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Kilgore Industries first Manned Rover, the Excursion aka the Munar Trike. Developed for High Speed Adventuring on the Mun and perhaps Duna.

Also Introducing the Safari aka the Munar Trike Mk2 for all your Kerbal Transportation Needs. Move Six Kerbals at a time in style.

Look at the smile on Jeb's Face as he rides around in style, you can have your very own for just 10 payments of $5999.99 and it comes with it's own lifetime warranty!

(Warranty void if taken out of box.)

Craft files:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhsnof9zg8esskd/KI-Munar%20Bike.craft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/umbhc03vc39wv3r/KI-Munar%20Trike%20Mk2.craft

Edited May 23, 2013 by ThadeusKilgore

[Xhueloe]

.craft files pleaaaaaase guys All those look awesome !

[Llez]

Llez, that is a nice mini-rover design. Any chance of you posting a .craft file, so I can copy examine it?

Sure, here you go; http://www./?uul9rce0h400u9z Not bad for a first pass at a spacecart

[ThadeusKilgore]

Original Post updated with second model. Have fun!

Edited May 23, 2013 by ThadeusKilgore

[Austin]

You guys all have some pretty cool rovers, but may I present to you, brand new from Kerbal Industries, the Mun-class rover/car! Very fast and very maneuverable, made to get your kerbals anywhere on mostly any planet in a fly! (Not rated for anywhere else but Kerbin ) The Mun-car was also made in mind to be aesthetically pleasing! It comes complete with two seats, two headlights, a probe module for unmanned driving, two batteries plus two solar panels and a thermal generator for nearly infinite power! Plus scientific equipment and RCS to get itself out of sticky situations! Oh, and how could I forget, two cup holders!

Tell me what you guys think of it, and if needed, ill post the file for you all!

I would loveto have a download

[SimplyBrandon]

Here's the links! (There are 3, because some have very minor differences) (Also, they were built in the SPH, but I think you can move them right into the VAB folder and they should work just fine.)

http://www./view/1zez66rq3cp633t/Mun_Car_1.craft

http://www./view/vdinamz8go5oih8/Mun_Car_2.craft

http://www./view/0v87f0jlkvwdoxn/Mun_Car_3.craft

[Jnrdingo]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Kilgore Industries first Manned Rover, the Excursion aka the Munar Trike. Developed for High Speed Adventuring on the Mun and perhaps Duna.

Also Introducing the Safari aka the Munar Trike Mk2 for all your Kerbal Transportation Needs. Move Six Kerbals at a time in style.

Look at the smile on Jeb's Face as he rides around in style, you can have your very own for just 10 payments of $5999.99 and it comes with it's own lifetime warranty!

(Warranty void if taken out of box.)

Craft files:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhsnof9zg8esskd/KI-Munar%20Bike.craft

https://www.dropbox.com/s/umbhc03vc39wv3r/KI-Munar%20Trike%20Mk2.craft

Just a quick question. I downloaded your craft files, and it seems that forward is backward and vise versa. Is this a feature? When I first used it I hit the W key and was like "its falling off the runway" Other than that, its epic, I use it for my land rescue missions.

edited because of failed quote box

[Pyromaniacal]

Is there a delivery vehicle for the trikes? I've tried a couple things, like Subassembly loader to try to put it in a payload bay for Devogen's Pegasus, using KAS to put it in other payload bays, strapping it to the side of a rocket, strapping it to the top of a rocket, things like that, but Subassembly loader doesn't let me attach it to anything since the root part has no free nodes, KAS and the payload bay flipped the frac out, and building a rocket below it left me still needing to somehow get it on to Mün without it exploding. Any tips, tricks, or hints?

Edited September 8, 2013 by Pyromaniacal

[Elmetian]

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This is my Distant Horizons Munar rover which you can download as part of the Distant Horizons Lander found here.

Edited September 28, 2013 by Narcosis

[Wjolcz]

Designed to have fun. Even when in wheels-up position can be flipped back and continue it's joy ride.

Tested on Duna. Too bad those tires have poor grip in low gravity ;_;

[Slam_Jones]

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The Khaos Kart. 99.9% indestructible, so long as you have a 3 star engineer to fix the wheels once in a while.

Seats 2.

Self-propelled up to 22 m/s on wheels only.

Can withstand crashes up to (possibly exceeding) 80 m/s.

Powerful SAS and a system of landing struts can push it upright from any situation, on Kerbin or Mun.

I've also recently made the mk 2 version, which I call the Khaos Turbo. No pics of that one yet, but it has a winch (KAS), slightly more durable design, better SAS, and twin monoprop boosters. It will only seat 1.

Edited December 30, 2014 by Slam_Jones

[Nik_601]

I have some too

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You can find these trucks in this thread

[JohnSwede]

Thought this thread needed a little bump...

Here's a link to Imgur with the complete album of photos....

The .craft file can be found here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8370662/Rover%20Mk%202%20SA.craft

NB! I'm using motorized hinges from the IR Expansion pack

Edited May 5, 2021 by Snark
Link to defunct website removed by moderator

[Spacetraindriver]

Honda Pilot! :

[RixKillian]

Some old fashioned automobile technology!

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These are both part of my WWII Replica Project (See signature)