15 STRANGEST Cars Ever Designed
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Car manufacturers are in a constant race against one another to create the most appealing designs to sell to customers around the world, and while this may have resulted in most of the vehicles you see on the roads being fairly similar… occasionally designers will think well beyond the box and come up with something very unusual. From those that have gone down in history as unique legendary masterpieces, to ones that most people would rather forget… these are the 15 strangest cars ever made.
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That "less then 200 were sold" for the Bond Bug comes from Wiki and does not make sense as in the same article it states that 2270 were produced over 4 years clearly there would have been no point producing those kind of numbers if they did not sell, although it could be driven on a motorcycle license purely because it had 3 wheels like a motorcycle with sidecar I would not describe it as a motorcycle as it shared more design features with a car albeit missing one wheel.
In Britain at the time (may still be the case, IDK) a 3-wheeler like the Bond Bug was registered and licenced as a motorcycle, and as such, avoided some of the taxes that 4-wheeled vehicles were saddled with. This is the same reason that Morgan cars were originally 3-wheelers as well. Cheers!
@@themittonmethod1243 Not Morgans. To qualify as a motorcycle a three-wheeler also had to weigh less than 500 kg. Morgans didn't.
@@themittonmethod1243 Not100 percent sure, but I think that Reliants had to have the reverse gear disabled to qualify as a motorcycle. I knew someone that had a Reliant with no reverse gear and only a motorcycle licence. Bugger of a thing to park at times.
Thankyou for sharing.
Thanks for the Informative Video on the 15 strangest cars ever built there was some strange designs especially the egg lol.
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Reliant also built the Scimitar, famously owned and driven by Princess Anne of England for several years … Ferdinand Porsche built a Hybrid Car before he even started building the Volkswagen … look up Egger-Lohner C 2 Phaeton and Lohner-Porsche Mixte .
The SSR truck looked pretty cool. I had forgotten about them.
I genuinely like the way Fiat Multipla looks. I think it's bold, in a market saturated with every car looking like the other, to come up with something so original.
I thought the same thing about the SSR.
Kinda like the Pontiac Aztek. Considered ugly when it came out, it was really quite ahead of its time, and has since gained a cult following. Also being prominently featured in a hit TV show didn't hurt.
It's hideous!
The Oeuf Electrique looks like it could have been inspiration for some of Randy Grubb's creations.
10:00 For "one of the first electric vehicles", this is about 50 years late. The first speed record of an automobile ever was set in 1898 (so still in the 19th century) by the electric "Jeantaud Duc". Around 1900, about 34,000 electric vehicles were registered in the U.S..
It bugs me when people suggest anything electric built after 1930 was the first electric car when a large portion of the first vehicles on the road were electric.
@@tstuff Even more so: The first non-steam powered boat was already built in 1839, 50 years before anything resembling an internal combustion engine powered a boat: Jacobi's electric boat was powered by an improved version of his own electric motor which he designed in 1834.
@@hayloft3834 Normally, "power boat" implies that the boat has its own power, and does not need external power like wind or human muscle power.
@@hayloft3834 It does if we don't want to get rabulistic.
The research for this video was half-baked and slipshod. The VW Thing was originally an old Nazi war vehicle in 1939. Fiat didn't first introduce the Multipla in 1998. It goes back to at least 1967. I saw a bunch of them in Italy in 1969. The 1960's version better looking in the 1998 one and very popular.
I had the Hot Wheels Deora with surfboards.No clue as to where it was lost.So many of these vehicle could be made with modern materials and be collectible again,and some driven safely.
I had it WITH the surf boards, but, it wasn't called Deora
Correction, there were at least a dozen electric cars in the 1880's to the early 1900's.
In the 1880's there were more electric car models than those that ran on petroleum. In fact the first car, in speed tests, to top 100KPH was electric.
Electric cars were around before internal combustion engine was invented.
They also had steam powered cars and trucks before petrol and diesel.
you're doing way better and choosing comments on the cars that don't offend lovers of the cars LoL, well done :-)
Electric cars have been around since the1890’s first designed by William Morrison , not the 1930’s as stated in your narration.
It says that technological limitations prevented electric production cars from really taking off over the decades.
There's more then one inaccuracies
I recall the car in the thumbnail in a Top Gear episode. Back when Top Gear was worth watching.
Didn't Jeremy Clarkson drive it into the BBC studios? I may have the location wrong but I'm sure he even drove it into a lift!
I find it interesting how many of these cars have weird doors 🤣
chevy ssr always pops up in these vids, well ... i like it, looks beautifull
When they closed the canopy of the Firebird X over Giuseppes head, his perplexed expression expressed claustrophobia and impending doom.
SSR was cool but , like the retro T Bird , it cost too much.
I liked the T-Bird much better, personally. I think the SSR was trying a bit too hard. But overall, I feel like I'd like to see more of these retro styles in modern vehicles. Makes for a nice change.
I had the VW Safari and it was a great vehicle (you could go anywhere with it!). I sure miss it! And my cousin had a Nissan Pulsar NX back in the 80's!
My brother owned a Pulsar, too. I never expected a video like this include a car my family actually owned.
Good lord, some dangerous vehicles here.
The designs are mind blowing
@8:20 The VW "Thing" was developed originally in the 1930's for use by the Nazi German military (both Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS). by designed by Ferdinand Porsche and built by Volkswagen. Otherwise known as the Type 82 Kübelwagen it was based heavily on the Volkswagen Beetle, it was prototyped and first deployed in Poland as the Type 62, but following improvements entered full-scale production as the Type 82. Several derivative models, such as the Kommandeurswagen, were also built in hundreds, or in dozens.
I call Pinto a ' Volkswagon Thing ', when I see a Volkswagen Thing I say " hey, a REAL Volkswagen Thing.
They were cool because you could re-arrange parts and take doors off, etc.
it started out as a VW beetle which was desinged by Hitler. but when war was looming they needed an off road vehicle so the Beetle got redesigned as the Kubblelvagen. same chasis just a diff body.
The beetle was also used as the base for the porche 911. same chasis and engine just diff bodywork.
Even now al the cars in the VW group r the same cars under the bodywork just diff brand names put on them and diff bodywork. IE VW, Skoda, Audi, SEAT Porche and Bently all use the same chassis and in most cases same engine and components, Skoda uses cheaper better quality parts from Slovakia though and Bently uses the rolls royce engine but apart from that they all use the same German parts and r very unrelaible and expensive.
About 10 year ago VW had to recall every car brand it made for a certain model year cause the igintion packs had a nasty habbit of bursting into flames. Skoda was the only 1 not recalled cause it was the only brand that didnt use the faulty German parts.
Lots of complaints about the Bently since it was bought out by VW about how unrelabile it is since they started using German parts. Rolls Royce have the same prob Since BMW bough them out.
I love the multipla and I would not mind to own a citycar.
Love the robust look of the Thing
I had a diesel one newer shape it was a great car.
Fiat Multipla is actually one of the best vehicles my brother ever owned. When visiting him, we were kinda embarrassed to be seen in that funky looking thing but once we got over it, we hopped in and believe me.....that thing was as comforting as one can imagine, and it seated 9 adults without feeling like a sardine in a can. The trunk was very spacious and we fit two full carts of groceries in.
As for me, I wouldn't mind having each and every one of those funny little one/two seaters. I'd get me a Smart car, but insurance on these tin cans is unreal.
I had a Subaru Brat back when; it had serious torque steer,155/80/13 tires for the serious off roader and was so cold in a Canadian winter the gas pedal would freeze in position coming off a highway trip.
For all fans of the dagmar, meet the Cadillac Cyclone and it's fine pair. That front end is positively titillating!
14:18 That Cadillac Cyclone is *so typical* of American car design.....ostentatious in the extreme beyond the point of obscene *UGLINESS!*
That vw thing with the stance looked really good
On the 3 wheel cars, it is better to have the 2 front the steering wheel and one in the rear as drive wheel to prevent roll overs when turning a corner. Messerschmidt
Agreed. The Bond Bug quickly gained a reputation as a Death Trap ... the combination of unstable 'one-wheel-at-the-front' design and lightweight fibreglass construction did not bode well for occupants.
HMV Freeway was another 2 in the front drive wheel in the rear. On slick roads it could go "turtle" and get stuck on its roof.
Peel would look pretty good if it just had two wheels on back instead of just one.
That really small car is literally a real life actual clown car that can be drove on roads lmao
Have you seen Jeremy Clarkston drive one? He has, and it was on Top Gear.
Although the Peel P50 is little bit strange, it was completely compact, even if you carry it with one hand like a luggage like come on! This car is quite small than the BMW small compact car
At 17:51 ...WOAH!!!!!!! It looks like a cartoon car!!! And I love it!!!!!!
@3.10 The Bond Bug was originally built at Bond Cars Ltd in Preston thence Reliant (Tamworth). Sharpes Commercials Ltd of Ribbleton Lane, Preston (trading as Bond) originally built the earlier Bond Minicars Mks A to G which used motocycle technology whereas the subsequent Bond 875 and Bond Bug used convention 4-cylinder water-cooled engines. With its Hillman Imp engine, the Bond 875 was actually faster and had superior road-holding
It's funny that two of these designs began with the simple notion of turning a standard car design backward and seeing what would happen.
I love small quiet futuristic city cars with head room, grocery space, and speed! City Golf Cars & City Doom Buggies are cool too! Time to make big changes in car design America and affordability! 🤔🙏
They were what GEM cars were promising to be in the early 2000s but never fully materialized for anything beyond park service vehicles. Now auto companies are doubling down on SUVs and trucks despite continually high fuel prices over the last 15 years.
I drove a Subaru Brat and learned to drive stick when I was delivering pizza doe Domino's in Vermont in the early 1980s.
In most US States, 3 wheels or less is a motorcycle. In VA you must have an "M3" endorsement.
I owned a triumph dolomite sprint. Advanced thought transference interface fitted when being there essential it wouldn't start no matter what bloody thing
You got the EXA stuff wrong. There were two distinct models, one based on the Pulsar, the N12, and the second, N13 "california" design.
"Bond Bug" = "Death mobile". Or, as my Dad used to say, "You'd be the first one at the accident".
Said there was only 1 Cad Cyclone but there are 2 versions of the rear fins - modest and humongous. Compare 14:46 with any other . . .
My wife nearly bought a Series One Multipla....... I sort of liked it!
ha ha the Volkswagon Thing
You forgot about Preston Thomas Tucker and the 1948 Tucker Sedan.
At 14:09 ...Where can I buy one of these??? I have to have one!!!!!!!
Look for 1957 and 1958 Caddies, this was the Proto-type. The closest version to this was the Eldorado Brougham.
The first time I met Wayne Carini he brought his Peele P50 super cool guy
The P45 is so strange, it’s too good for the list.
the deora was weird but very famous, id buy one if i could
Alexander Brothers designed a new custom car and then put pictures of it in one of the custom car magazines of the time. I forgot which one.
The article showed pictures of the new design, I don't think they had one built yet, and they had a contest to NAME the new El Camino-ish creation.
The winning name was announced
DEORA.
My brother used to draw pictures of custom cars like that, he bought a lot of the custom magazines.
How is it that the Toyota Prius and that ridiculous CHR didn't make this list. They don't come any stranger than that!
I have always wanted a Subaru brat, basically since 1979!
Yes BUT they Rusted fast as in Gone..
@@jimshoe402 Exactly, see my post above! 😆
The Nissan EXA was availible in Australia from 1986 to about 1991 in Twin Cam and Turbo models.
Yeah, best forgotten!
#12 wish I could find one & put in a better motor & batteries!
the Modelo still looks futuristic today!
some of these were failure cars too
well the Type 181/Thing was designed after the Kubelwagen (Bucket Car) from WW2
I think it looked like a square Beetle
BRAT I want & I'd try to re-register it as a car
The Norman Timbs could use a 3d printer for the body and get the cast from that.
The Peel 50 is still in production in both electric and petrol variants.
What no Goggomobiles in this video.
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The Reliant Bond Bug reminds me of The Dale (manufactured by Geraldine Elizabeth "Liz" Carmichael of The Twentieth Century Motor Car Company in 1974): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_Motor_Car_Corporation
There was a documentary broadcasted on HBO sometime ago about this particular vehicle and its history.
4:44 There is one (still) driving around in my hometown in the Netherlands :) The owner is an American though :)
The yellow Peel P50 looks like a minion.
The Isetta should fit in here somewhere !!!!!
2268 Bond Bugs were built.
Bruh 🤯 I'd love to own all these in 1:64 scale😅😂
I'd like to own all them in full size,
Lots of interesting omissions, Tucker as an innovator and destroyed by the big 3 and Congress. And the very successful odd small car that got 75mpg and went 55mph, the 1956-62 BMW isetta.
The Norman car maroon colors. That car was part of one of la fires and was lost.
Peel P50 recently sold at auction for £85,000 (October 2022).
The original Multipla is from 60', not 90'....
lol . . . . @14:00 . . . . . . . never down a double shot of espresso followed by a latte . . . chased with a Red Bull before pulling out your cell phone to record a video . . . . . this is what you get.
I WANT THAT P50! XD
I would love to own a SSR.
Fiat did the first Multipla back in the 60s, with a 600cc twin in the back. Very, very rare now!
Correction....600cc 4 cilinder..(!!!)
@@henktulp4400 Ah, okay. Thank you!👍
Many back then who liked Fiat Multipla.
We loved ours! We called it Boggle 😄
It looks to me like the Deora had the quarter panel of a 64 Chevy..not a Ford station wagon.
2200 bond bugs were made
Chicken tax? New to me.
and never explained in the video☑️
Peel P50 & smart car. What is this fascination with having a car similar to the childhood red & yellow plastic foot powered car? And how dangerous do some of these seem to the driver. Like the electric egg would totally lose against a deer
Reliant? No! Bond Cars Limited designed and manufactured the Bond Bug.
I owned one of these cars.
20:30 not sure wether to laugh, or cry. so weird, yet, sensible, yet, odd
I definitely wouldn’t say electric cars are common and well liked. Yes, they have advanced a lot in the field in the recent decades but outside of the cost and where to find charging stations there are other drawbacks to having an electric vehicle.
Did he say fiat and reliable in the same sentence lmao 😅
I like the Citroēn Mehari over the thing, but if I had a VW Thing I would call her Zhu Li.
Zhu Li, do the Thing!
I think you guys were incorrect about the transmission jumping into reverse on its own. I experienced this with a 1966 Ford Falcon and a 1974 Ford LTD. Ford never had a recall. You guys said it was GM.
The Bond Bug was made by Reliant but never carried a Reliant badge.
It is anomalous to include the Cadillac concept car as almost all concept cars were strange when compared with general vehicle design, especially those concept cars 1950s-1970s.
I want yellow sar style the orange also the best
What about the Iseta? That had the door in the front and the steering wheel turned out with the door.
In 2001 I lived in the Netherlands and the Fiat Multipla was everywhere. I'd see 2 or 3 a day of those stupid looking things. And if I remember correctly Mercedes offered something that looked similar.
Then there was the car/SUV shoe box looking car that Honda made that was pretty ugly.
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1:58 Similar looking car you can see in background is Stratos Zero, a concept for what would later become Lancia Stratos, a supercar built specifically for rallying. Both concept and production Statos were designed by Marcello Gandini, designer of numerous Italian supercars, like Miura, Countach and De Tomaso Pantera
What ??? The Chrysler Streamline X at *_54,000_* RPM ??
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Alfaromeo disco volante?.?
GMC was selling electric vehicles as far back as 1912.
"Put it in 'И'!"
Looks like a bunch of pizza delivery vehicles
I had an original Daora HOT wheels lost it in the dirt
The Modulo resembles nothing so much as a horseshoe crab.
17:51 beutiful 😍
reliant bond bug in beamng drive is ibishu pigeon
What was strange about the 500? The multipla looked strange but was a great car. The newer one was better looking.