You either get a significant advancement in automotive design or a significant setback when auto designers try to push the envelope. Given R. Fuller’s talent as a designer, the 1933 Fuller Dymaxion ought to have been a significant advancement. Buckminster Fuller, but he went too far in pushing the envelope. The Fuller Dymaxion resembles a dirigible more than an automobile in terms of design. Its three-wheel, tilted-back design caused performance issues that rendered it all but impossible to drive. There were three automobiles produced, but none of them fixed the issues. The Fuller Dymaxion was never commercially successful after the project was abandoned following a catastrophic testing crash.