My buddy had a yugo forced on him when he got his liecence. When he graduated high school and found his first good job that thing had a flat tire and he left it right there. The next day he bought a good used chevy truck which he still has 35 years lager.
Back in 1968 my mother owned a Renault Dauphine ... I got the chance to drive it, and it was a very fun car to drive. She ended up selling it about 3 years later as she was moving some distance, and would be for a while driving several hundred freeway miles per month, and it was not that great at freeway speeds of 70 mph.
I bought one for £50 which only had a few weeks MOT ( UK Government safety test) I put it in for a new test which it passed with no problems. It also passed the following years test with nothing needing doing other than new tyres and wiper blades. I sold it after 2 years for £200. Although very basic, it was a very reliable and economical car.
I don't know where you got your information on the HotShot but the car did everything that was expected of it. It was and still is a fine sub 1 liter race car. Obviously you don't know about it winning its class in the first Sebring!
Yeah Sebring is 6 hours of continuous driving. It also took 10 out of 12 SCCA west coast races in it's category. Even the Italian company Siata used the engine in their 300BC Barchetta Sport Spider. AI talking and researching.
@@57WillysCJ Being a Crosley owner I think I know more than the original poster. Yes the line had its share of problems but so did everyone else. You have to remember that the Corvette was on the verge of cancelation due to poor sales.
My first car was a 1959 Dauphine, baby blue with a sunroof. It urned out to be easy to drop the engine out and traded it for an engine I got from a guy who started to build a dune buggy but never finished. The speedometer would stick at 40 mph, so I took that as an omen and never traveled faster than that. I enjoyed the car.
My father had an Austin 7. Its aluminum body made it so light and susceptible to cross-winds that it was called the flying matchbox. It was underpowered and had terrible brakes. It was so bad my father went back to driving his motorbike and sidecar until he got a far more robust Austin A-40. During a cleanup he loaded the Austin 7 on a trailer and took it to a landfill. When he returned with another trailer load of rubbish someone was loading it onto their trailer to take it away. A few years later he saw it being driven around fully restored.
I worked with a guy who drove from Wisconsin to Texas for a music festival in a late '90's Daewoo. The Woo-mobile broke down right as he was leaving the show. He abandoned it on the side of the highway, got a ride to a Toyota dealership and bought a new Corolla. Never even got a ticket for littering...😅
I had a Dauphine while in college. It did everything that I expected it to do, even long distance trips, never broke down, had great fuel economy, wet sleeved engine that only got better with time, simple to work on, and had the engine out in an hour to change the clutch. Obviously you have never driven one.
@@stephensowell9578 Is that why? Some real people do this too, to extend the video for ads, and/or, for the hard of mind, thick people that need the repetition.
Unfortunately you know nothing about the hot shot engine! That engine was used inWW2 as a generators. Then went on in air craft .also as a Marine engine. It was so far ahead of its time with overhead cam and many other things. Its a crying shame to her you talking about something you know absolutely nothing about.
This article was poorly researched and largely a waste of time. The only thing I learned was that there was a bad German car called a Hoffman. How many were built? 200? 2000? four?
I had a Yogo, loved it. Put over 100k trouble free miles on it then was hit by log truck. Cheap people bought this car and cared for them poorly. Yeah they weren't the greatest. But I have a Ford Edge that the motor blew at only 70K miles. No better than a Yugo.
No not really they weren't great but back then it's competition was the chevy chevete and chevy citation they were even worse and the omni was actually a little gem but it wasn't technically a k car
Please do ALL of us a favor and STOP using AI script writers we are Sick To Death of hearing the Same Information repeated 6, 8, 12 and 16 times over it's BS 🐂💩 Please Stop Using It!!! 😡
I worked at a Ford dealership that bought a Bricklin franchise, and I ended up working on several. The main problem was Bricklin was so rushed to get cars out to the public that they sent them to dealers incomplete, with the promise that the missing parts would follow later. Catastrophic when those parts were door seals among others. I saw that some of those small parts were AMC sourced, and got a few Bricklins sold by going to local junk yards and stripping some small parts off of early 70's AMCs. I also later had a Yugo, I don't think anyone in the Yugo's era would have expected a small car like the Yugo to have a good ride, or be fast. Once I fixed the Yugo's problems that were mostly from the previous owners neglect, it served me fine for several years, a excellent snow car. Most of Classic Cars videos are just click bait, no research, according to this video all the cars seemed to have the same faults.
The Hoffman is a very interesting shape. It looks more like a beetle than the VW bug/beetle. the rest of it's problems were definitely substandard and a problem. But it's overall appearance isn't one of them.
The 51 Hoffman seems to be beautifully ugly, it's like the company said hey we are German and renowned for quality but seeing we lost the war said screw it, everyday in that factory was ethier a Monday or a Friday 😅
My sister had a yugo it cost her £30 when she bought another car she just left it with the keys in it parked up it was reliable but worthless at the time i did the same with old ford escorts wish id kept them now tho but at the time they where £20 cars lol
Omg car ended up in landfills. How can this be? Your video is good, I get the narrative, these are unique cars that missed the market they were initially created for. But the fact is all cars end up in landfill metal recycling. These cars died an early death due to accounting shortcuts in design or engine power, or just mis reading the marketplace. But, all cars end up discontinued and then as landfill scrap.
AI audio attempting a voice over was totally useless. Considering the author of the copy felt the need to repeat issues for the third and even fourth time, possibly to ensure the viewer actually listened! Truly interesting is the copy being virtually identical between vehicles. The name of each vehicle was simply changed which had ALL the vehicles having the same faults! All of the manufactured Bricklins were sold to customers and NONE were "Thrown into a landfill"
Some of these cars seemed to be designed by either a committee, or a woke failing designer. Malcolm Bricklin hopefully stopped have whoever helped him bring it to market should have been given one as a "STAY AWAY" present
I bought 2 yugos for 500$ one was amazing,other was for parts but hardly any of the parts were the same. I took mine offroading and it was a tiny beast
I bought one for £50 which only had a few weeks MOT ( UK Government safety test) I put it in for a new test which it passed with no problems. It also passed the following years test with nothing needing doing other than new tyres and wiper blades. I sold it after 2 years for £200. Although very basic, it was a very reliable and economical car.
A typically arrogant American viewpoint. All are European or European-style cars, except the third - underpowered but with a 6 litre engine! Certainly the Yugo was very nasty, but the Dauphine was a load of fun & a good city car.
What the heck kind of story is this? It's stated about the 1951 Hoffman that customers abandoned them when they couldn't get parts. There were no customers, only one was made.
The idiot making the videos just makes up whatever he feels like, almost certainly AI generated text even, then read by AI voiceover, and random crap photos from the internet.
I hate these videos, they just go round and round with the same lyric and don't tell you nothing instructive. How many times can they say poor performance in one video.
Name a make of car where none of them have been scrapped and some ending up in landfill? If that wasn't the case then the planet would be covered in cars. A really stupid video.
All these cars could have type of renaissance by simply utilizing modern technology and modern, build quality to be remade, and then sold not sure about car number 5 that one two egg shakes too weird all the others with a little rework and some modern thinking into the systems could potentially see new sales
The Hoffman just needs a bit of love, & to steer from the front & not the rear. Look at the T-Rex 3-wheeler! Just give that stinkbug a Kei Car engine, & some spiffy fully adjustable sus. The interior is like a sailboat. This "narrator" is a robotic choad like all of the other lazily made videos like this. I wanna see the channel creator turn a wrench, let alone design & build a brand new car with 1950's tech.
My buddy had a yugo forced on him when he got his liecence. When he graduated high school and found his first good job that thing had a flat tire and he left it right there. The next day he bought a good used chevy truck which he still has 35 years lager.
Back in 1968 my mother owned a Renault Dauphine ... I got the chance to drive it, and it was a very fun car to drive. She ended up selling it about 3 years later as she was moving some distance, and would be for a while driving several hundred freeway miles per month, and it was not that great at freeway speeds of 70 mph.
Thumbnail made me think “Thundercougarfalconbird”
Despite that giggle - downvote for clickbait
I almost got the Yugo GV. It rode decent and the one I was trying to get was well built and it was a fun car to drive.
I bought one for £50 which only had a few weeks MOT ( UK Government safety test) I put it in for a new test which it passed with no problems. It also passed the following years test with nothing needing doing other than new tyres and wiper blades. I sold it after 2 years for £200. Although very basic, it was a very reliable and economical car.
If you look head on at the Hoffman, it looks so sad, as if to say, "Why doesn't anybody like me?"
I don't know where you got your information on the HotShot but the car did everything that was expected of it. It was and still is a fine sub 1 liter race car. Obviously you don't know about it winning its class in the first Sebring!
Yeah Sebring is 6 hours of continuous driving. It also took 10 out of 12 SCCA west coast races in it's category. Even the Italian company Siata used the engine in their 300BC Barchetta Sport Spider. AI talking and researching.
@@57WillysCJ Being a Crosley owner I think I know more than the original poster. Yes the line had its share of problems but so did everyone else. You have to remember that the Corvette was on the verge of cancelation due to poor sales.
My first car was a 1959 Dauphine, baby blue with a sunroof. It urned out to be easy to drop the engine out and traded it for an engine I got from a guy who started to build a dune buggy but never finished. The speedometer would stick at 40 mph, so I took that as an omen and never traveled faster than that. I enjoyed the car.
My father had an Austin 7. Its aluminum body made it so light and susceptible to cross-winds that it was called the flying matchbox. It was underpowered and had terrible brakes. It was so bad my father went back to driving his motorbike and sidecar until he got a far more robust Austin A-40. During a cleanup he loaded the Austin 7 on a trailer and took it to a landfill. When he returned with another trailer load of rubbish someone was loading it onto their trailer to take it away. A few years later he saw it being driven around fully restored.
I swear every time I see a Bricklin, all I can think is it is the Prototype foe the DeLorean.
We loved our Renaults I think we had about four. I was a lot of fun to drive and get our own work on them.
I worked with a guy who drove from Wisconsin to Texas for a music festival in a late '90's Daewoo. The Woo-mobile broke down right as he was leaving the show. He abandoned it on the side of the highway, got a ride to a Toyota dealership and bought a new Corolla. Never even got a ticket for littering...😅
I had a Dauphine while in college. It did everything that I expected it to do, even long distance trips, never broke down, had great fuel economy, wet sleeved engine that only got better with time, simple to work on, and had the engine out in an hour to change the clutch. Obviously you have never driven one.
What does Boxy mean???
The Hoffman makes the Yugo look sleek and beautiful and ultra reliable.
With all the many really weird cars built, why do these YT sites insist on showing thumbnails of fake AI pics? 😮
Was the narrator paid per word ?
Too much repetition, the same description does not need to be said five different ways.
Is that not an AI thing?
@@stephensowell9578 Yep.
@@stephensowell9578 Is that why? Some real people do this too, to extend the video for ads, and/or, for the hard of mind, thick people that need the repetition.
So true very annoying indeed, indeed annoying and very true that this narrator is indeed very annoying 😅
@@bolster101 lol
Unfortunately you know nothing about the hot shot engine! That engine was used inWW2 as a generators. Then went on in air craft .also as a Marine engine. It was so far ahead of its time with overhead cam and many other things. Its a crying shame to her you talking about something you know absolutely nothing about.
stupid thumbnail, clickbait.
This article was poorly researched and largely a waste of time. The only thing I learned was that there was a bad German car called a Hoffman. How many were built? 200? 2000? four?
Only one.
Who wrote this stuff? Obviously not a car person. All downsides.
I don't think this is even real this is AI or something
Clickbait title
Exactly, I won't watch that stuff again
I had a Yogo, loved it. Put over 100k trouble free miles on it then was hit by log truck. Cheap people bought this car and cared for them poorly. Yeah they weren't the greatest. But I have a Ford Edge that the motor blew at only 70K miles. No better than a Yugo.
The only 3 wheel car that wasn't a dud was the Morgan 3 wheeler.
La dauphine était une très bonne petite voiture, mon père avait une Gordini très mignonne et performante pour l'époque. 😉
I highly doubt any of these cars were put into a landfill . They had cash value at any scrap yard .
Scrap value of a Yugo was about $25
The Yugo did not need to be in that list , it was not as bad as you said .
The Bricklin is pretty, but so is a plaster of Paris statue.
the Dodge and Plymouth K cars should be in there some where
And anything by Lexus. Fugly! 😮
No not really they weren't great but back then it's competition was the chevy chevete and chevy citation they were even worse and the omni was actually a little gem but it wasn't technically a k car
The Hoffmann looks ai generated
Please do ALL of us a favor and STOP using AI script writers we are Sick To Death of hearing the Same Information repeated 6, 8, 12 and 16 times over it's BS 🐂💩 Please Stop Using It!!! 😡
I worked at a Ford dealership that bought a Bricklin franchise, and I ended up working on several. The main problem was Bricklin was so rushed to get cars out to the public that they sent them to dealers incomplete, with the promise that the missing parts would follow later. Catastrophic when those parts were door seals among others. I saw that some of those small parts were AMC sourced, and got a few Bricklins sold by going to local junk yards and stripping some small parts off of early 70's AMCs. I also later had a Yugo, I don't think anyone in the Yugo's era would have expected a small car like the Yugo to have a good ride, or be fast. Once I fixed the Yugo's problems that were mostly from the previous owners neglect, it served me fine for several years, a excellent snow car. Most of Classic Cars videos are just click bait, no research, according to this video all the cars seemed to have the same faults.
At 22:37 "the 1975 Bricklin Hoffmann" but title shows 1951, WTF......
I can't wait for the sequel: '5 ELECTRIC cars that were thrown into landfill'. No, wait: disaster looming. - Make that 10 electric cars . . . 😉
The Bricklen also leaked. If you were traveling in a Bricklen and encountered rain, it would get into the car with you.
The Hoffman looks like a "BABY" STOUT SCARAB (American, William Bushnell Stout, 1930s design).
James may had a Crossley but not hotshot in a Grand Tour special.
The Hoffman is a very interesting shape. It looks more like a beetle than the VW bug/beetle. the rest of it's problems were definitely substandard and a problem. But it's overall appearance isn't one of them.
The 51 Hoffman seems to be beautifully ugly, it's like the company said hey we are German and renowned for quality but seeing we lost the war said screw it, everyday in that factory was ethier a Monday or a Friday 😅
My sister had a yugo it cost her £30 when she bought another car she just left it with the keys in it parked up it was reliable but worthless at the time i did the same with old ford escorts wish id kept them now tho but at the time they where £20 cars lol
my dad told me that he and his brother had a summer job driving a ice cream truck that was a crosly
Omg car ended up in landfills. How can this be? Your video is good, I get the narrative, these are unique cars that missed the market they were initially created for. But the fact is all cars end up in landfill metal recycling. These cars died an early death due to accounting shortcuts in design or engine power, or just mis reading the marketplace. But, all cars end up discontinued and then as landfill scrap.
AI audio attempting a voice over was totally useless. Considering the author of the copy felt the need to repeat issues for the third and even fourth time, possibly to ensure the viewer actually listened! Truly interesting is the copy being virtually identical between vehicles. The name of each vehicle was simply changed which had ALL the vehicles having the same faults!
All of the manufactured Bricklins were sold to customers and NONE were "Thrown into a landfill"
My ford tempos wound up in land fills had 3 none lasted 80k miles total garbage and poor MPG.
The yugo cost 2 k what can one expect
Some of these cars seemed to be designed by either a committee, or a woke failing designer. Malcolm Bricklin hopefully stopped have whoever helped him bring it to market should have been given one as a "STAY AWAY" present
I bought 2 yugos for 500$ one was amazing,other was for parts but hardly any of the parts were the same. I took mine offroading and it was a tiny beast
I bought one for £50 which only had a few weeks MOT ( UK Government safety test) I put it in for a new test which it passed with no problems. It also passed the following years test with nothing needing doing other than new tyres and wiper blades. I sold it after 2 years for £200. Although very basic, it was a very reliable and economical car.
1951 hoffmann bricklin ?? was your father named hoffmann? Have you heard of spec savers?
A typically arrogant American viewpoint. All are European or European-style cars, except the third - underpowered but with a 6 litre engine! Certainly the Yugo was very nasty, but the Dauphine was a load of fun & a good city car.
What the heck kind of story is this? It's stated about the 1951 Hoffman that customers abandoned them when they couldn't get parts. There were no customers, only one was made.
The idiot making the videos just makes up whatever he feels like, almost certainly AI generated text even, then read by AI voiceover, and random crap photos from the internet.
Speaking of poorly manufactured cars. Teslas will be in a video similar to this in a few years time.
Yugo was a rip off of the FIAT 127.
CLICKBAIT thumbnail = Automatic 👎🏻 & Don't Recommend Channel
I hate these videos, they just go round and round with the same lyric and don't tell you nothing instructive.
How many times can they say poor performance in one video.
Hoffman = airstream trailer cut in quarter
Name a make of car where none of them have been scrapped and some ending up in landfill? If that wasn't the case then the planet would be covered in cars. A really stupid video.
All these cars could have type of renaissance by simply utilizing modern technology and modern, build quality to be remade, and then sold not sure about car number 5 that one two egg shakes too weird all the others with a little rework and some modern thinking into the systems could potentially see new sales
not
What a b s video
Oh no it's that horrible AI voice that I can't stand !! I'm out of here !!(
much like the junk of today
Carcaroaches.
Article smells strongly of AI, multiple rephrasing of a single sentence. Similar to listening to Cackling Cumulla.
I gotta hand it to you. You managed to find some really crappy cars! 👍💣😁
The Hoffman just needs a bit of love, & to steer from the front & not the rear. Look at the T-Rex 3-wheeler! Just give that stinkbug a Kei Car engine, & some spiffy fully adjustable sus. The interior is like a sailboat. This "narrator" is a robotic choad like all of the other lazily made videos like this. I wanna see the channel creator turn a wrench, let alone design & build a brand new car with 1950's tech.