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7:01 and 7:38 - the Volvo Tundra concept pretty much became the Citroen BX. And in true Italian style of the time, they went asymmetric with the offset radiator grille. Had that made it into the '90s, the facelift model would be symmetrical.
9:54 - The Citroen GS Camargue (Ka-marg) was a stunning concept which has some looks of the Renault Alpine.
10:25 - Citroen Karin wants to speak to Tesla's manager!
9:21 - The corrugated G van became the HY van which was a production model with a long production run. The ones made specifically for the Dutch market had front hinged doors (with DS door handles on the inside) while all others had suicide doors. They were popular then and still are as roadside cafes and chip vans and had a multitude of body styles and different length wheel bases.
11:45 - That's pretty much the Citroen C6 which became a production model car and the last of the proper Big Citroens (TA, DS, SM, CX and XM) which replaced the XM back in around 2000. There was a production model parked to the left of it in the photo (you can only see the headlight).
13:42 - The 'new' Citroen logo in an oval is just an older logo that's been recycled.
Also the thing with Citroen is no matter what level the car was, from the simple and affordable 2cv right up to the complex and expensive SM, they were all badged as Citroens and sold through the same dealers selling all the different level models on the same forecourts as opposed to having completely different brand names to effectively separate the different levels (eg. Ford-Edsel-Mercury-Lincoln, Chevrolet-Pontiac-Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, Honda-Acura, Toyota-Lexus, Nissan-Infiniti, etc.)
The tundra is it a Ghandini work?
Looks like a BX
@@bennyhannover9361 Marcello Gandini worked with Bertone, so therein lies the same design language. It's good to see some concepts didn't go to waste like the Volvo Tundra concept and also some aspects of the proposed designs for the XM were used by Daewoo.
Mazda-Infiniti? you mean Mazda-Eunos & Nissan-Infiniti, it's a small slip-up in an otherwise great comment 👍
@@daveamies5031 Cheers - I'll correct it.
The Aston Martin green probably comes from British racing green. Brits used to race in green, Germans in silver, etc.
No probably about it, that's why.👍
The colour was sold to ppg when Rover collapsed
Until that point some cars were Brit racing green but weren't
It was down to the Gold flick in the paint
Aston Martin's green, is British Racing green, and this is exactly why B.R.Green is their classic colour choice.
The French in Blue and Italians in Red
British racing cars could be painted in any shade of green - quite why dark green came to be regarded as BRG I'm not sure - probably marketing.
My uncle was a test driver for Renault and lauded the alpine idea and drove as part of the team on one of those rallys, damn good and fast cars, they could reach two hundred mph and were tested on the german Autobahn, again in the early seventees
Audi Avus concept is to this day one of my favorite designs.
No one beats alfa romeo car design... They are absolutly gorgeous
I think my favourite ever concept was the Renault Espace F1! It was basically Renault's world championship winning F1 car with a Renault Espace people carrier bodyshell over the top.
Not sure the need for doing the school run at 200mph but it was a hell of sight to see it blasting around a track.
Was about to say. That one is awesome lol
regarding the Vespa "as close to a scooter as can be": check out the "Messerschmitt Kabinenroller", a 3-wheeler from 1953 with a 175ccm engine. Yes, the same Messerschmitt that made fighter jets in WW2. Also on the topic of crazy little cars: BMW Isetta
The Vespa car was built. I bought one from Portugal and imported into the UK some years ago. The Aston Martin Bulldog was a real car too. Mike Lowsby was the suspension guru at Aston Martin at the time, and lived a few doors down from our family home in Warwickshire (warricksher) where he parked this under a tarp on the grass outside his house. As I knew him well, he told me about it, a truly fascinating car. Just the one was built and was fully production ready, but as always, Aston was in financial difficulties and the Bulldog ended up being sold off. Last I heard it was with a collector in the States.The car was MONUMENTALLY quick.
17:31 that Volvo GT actually made it to production in form of the super rare Polestar 1 plug in hybrid GT car, body entirely out of carbon fiber, like 600hp or something, crazy complicated dual rear electric engines for true torque vectoring. It was an experiment in technology that actually made it into production. Doubt it would be trouble-free to own but it's sort of the idea and concept in of itself that is cool.
That's one of the most beautiful car out there and for 150k € I think it's whorth it.
The Lancia Stratos Zero was the car that Michael Jackson turns into in Moonwalker.
Ah, I wanted to say that.. Op.
The yellow headlamps on that Citroen concept were because from 1937 to 1993, French law required cars to have yellow headlamps.
(Which also means that those British folk of a certain age will remember having to apply temporary yellow stain or filters to their headlamps before boarding the ferry to France (as well as the dipped-beam adjusters to stop our dipped headlights pointing _into_ the eyes of oncoming drivers). And that for several weeks afterwards, it was obvious to the neighbours that you'd been to France on holiday.)
actually the law was introduced, so french cars were different to german cars. nobody needed the yellow tint, except for the french cars ...
@@amduser86It's not entirely clear why the law was originally introduced in the 30s - there was an argument that it was thought yellow light would pierce fog better, or was required by the French military for ... some reason.
You should see what Luigi Colani designed as car and truck concepts. This guy was wild in everything he came up with.
Yes we have a Rosengart Museum here in North Rhine Westfalia and the founder told us that Mr Colani one day walked into the hall and pointed on the last Rosengart small car postwar the Ariette from 1951 and he said I have designed that and I can give you the script and sketches to it. But he never did , he died near Berlin.
He studied in France around 1949/50 worked with Philippe Charbonneau.
You should check out the Piaggio Ape, it's the Italian Tuk Tuk! 👌🏼
The three-wheeled van was developed on the basis of the Vespa, the first models of which came onto the market in 1948 under the name Ape, which means 'bee' in Italian.
There are also great compilation videos of concept cars!
07:40 Looks like a Citroën BX Coupe (1982), but it's a Volvo Tundra-concept (1979). ✌🏼
As seen on American Pickers.
@ 4:50 Michael Jackson was allowed to use the car in his film Moonwalker
@ 7:20 early prototype of the FIAT X 1/9 Sport Coupe
@11:10 VW ILTIS license replica was later built by Peugot, supposedly Citroen was too expensive to produce and De Gaule liked Peugot
By the way, the "E" is emphasized when pronouncing many European names - it is not silent as in English
You've missed the Mercedes C111 concepts, they are amazing, Jay Leno drove one...
The Aston Martin Bulldog is a fully working car, I've seen it in person quite recently. 600 bhp twin turbo V8, the current owner restored the concept car, its changed colour and it was always supposed to be a 200mph car but never did a run back in the day. The current owner has apparently achieved 205mph in the restored car.
Formel E ist richtig cool ,ich mag das Drehmoment und den fiesen Klang.
The last car you saw is Cupra! The newest member in the Volkswagen family! Born 2018 and have become very popular in a very short time of its life span, at least in Sweden. Its supposed to be an entry level sports brand!
Cupra is a subsidiary brand of SEAT. It first started as a trim level type of deal for the Leon and Ibiza, then became it's own brand in 2018
@@g1g3l which is part of VW!
@@paulozavala3232 Which is part of Volkswagen Group!
When you say "part of VW" or "VW family" it sounds like you're referring to the brand, not the conglomerate. Jetta would be part of VW "family" (not referring to the model, but to the chinese brand based off the model)
@@paulozavala3232 Which is part of the VW group!
When you say "part of VW" or "VW family" it comes of like you're referring to the VW brand, not the conglomerate. Jetta would be part of the VW family (not referring to the model, but to the chinese brand based on the mode).
The interesting part about Citroen is that you look at the concept models and you can actually see the end result on the roads , like the C6 , the C4 grand picasso or how the new C3 used a lot of the OLI concept ideas. Hope they keep pushing the envelope ... BTW the last car seems to be a Cupra (Seat).
11:10 actually the ambear headlights aren't "random". Up until 1990 or so, ALL cars registered in France were required to have amber headlights for some odd historic reason. Then regular white headlights were allowed and nowadays newly registered cars in France can't have amber headlights any more.
Yeah - about fifty years. Never made a lot of sense to us! The EU does in fact allow new cars to have amber headlights ... but halogen bulbs lose a lot of power through amber filters, and it doesn't make sense for the manufacturers to make yellow lenses just for the French, so they've given up.
@@SimonLandmine amber headlights may be legal to buy and sell, but they are certainly not legal to have on a car that drives on the road.
Fog lamps can be white or yellow. Everything else, except for the blinkers, has to be white.
Wow sind das schöne Studien. Richtig genial. Schade dass die nie in Serie gebaut wurden.
Dude you ever played Gran Turismo, they get the licence to put concept cars in the game, amazing to see them in motion, surprising amount of muscle cars too
You should definitely check out the Alfa Romeo bat concept
Micro cars where developed for people who only held a motor cycle license this means they could have a car but did not need to pass a separate test to use they them , are not allowed to drive anything bigger so these became popular with the motor cyclist giving them the advantages of a car with out the hassles of taking lessons and a test , concept cars never make the consumer market only variations of them and there features go into production
Pininfarina is the design office responsible for the design of the 512 S Modulo, based on the chassis No. 23 of the Ferrari 512 S (which was a race car competing with the Porsche 917, of which only 25 instances were built).
The Lancia Stratos Zero was designed by Bertone, another Italian car design office and car body manufacturer. They also designed the NSU Sport Prinz and the Citroen XM.
The Bugatti study looks a lot like a typical Bugatti after the take-over by Volkswagen.
The Citroen C44 was originally a Volkswagen Iltis (German for polecat), which was used by the German and the Canadian armed forces. In the late 1970s the French government made a call for tender to replace their Hotchkiss Jeeps. Peugeot teamed up with Mercedes to built a G-Wagen with Peugeot engines (called a P4), while Citroen took the VW Iltis as base for its C-44. The P4 was awarded the contract. (In Germany the Iltis had secured the 1970s contract, while the "Wolf", the military version of the Mercedes G (produced partly by Steyr-Puch in Austria) made the 1980s/1990s tendering.)
I collected 1:18 car models as a teenager.
I had the Audi Avus Quattro and the BMW Nazca C2 as model.
The Audi had like the original a polished metal surface, like a mirror.
It looks very cool in the shelf.
Even today the Ferrari 512 Module looks futuristic!
Before the yellow 'Sport Lounge', was the Citroen C6 prototype.
Camargue is a part of the French Riviera coast close to Monte Carlo, there is also a road named like this. Between 1973 and 1989 there was also a Rolls Royce Coupe with this name. For some time the most expensive Rolls beside a handmade Phanrom VI..around 200.000 dollars in 1988!
The Volvo Tundra was Bertone's suggestion for what the Volvo 343 should look like. Volvo felt that the design was too daring and "out there" and decided to pass on it. Citroën snapped it up and it became the Citroën BX.
The Pininfirina one looks like a modification of the Volvo 480, and the "Tundra" one clearly looks like a Citroën BX concept.
Some of the Bertone concepts that trhew you off were the ones that made cup the production Citroen BX. Suggest you look it up :)
@ IWrocker There's a Video of a running Ferrari Modulo on the Internet, with Sound and inside View! The Videotitle is:
1970 Ferrari 512 S Pininfarina Modulo with 5.0 V12 at Villa d'Este 2019
one of my favourite concept cars is the r8 tdi, a 6 liter diesel v12 shoved into an audi r8. it never made it to production because the r8 had to be heavily modified in order to fit the huge engine, though there is one out there that runs and drives. They did however, put it into their suv, the q7, which they made quite a lot of with the v12 diesel
The Ferrari/Pininfarina was based on the Ferrari 512S, a sporst prototype race car. Very unlikely basis for a road car.
The Aston Martin Bulldog was just restored and reached it's top speed of 200mph.
That Volvo Tundra concept car from Bertone by Marcello Gandini was based on the Reliant FW11 concept and ended up as the production Citroën BX. My father had one when I was a kid. Loved that car.
That Xanae concept became the Citroën Xsara Picasso.
The "ugly", bizzarre looking concept became the Citroën C6.
The glorified golf cart became the Citroën Ami.
As for the Oli, you can see the new logo and some of its design ideas on the latest Citroëns.
The Volvo with the funny rear window became the 480. And the cool one the Polestar 1.
The last one, Cupra UrbanRebel will make it into production next year (sort of).
Also, check the Maserati Boomerang. A one-off concept car with a wild interior someone made road-legal in Spain and could be regularly seen driving around Benidorm.
European concept cars from the 1960s-80s are one of my special interests, I could go on about them for hours. If you like these, one day maybe you’d enjoy learning about the great designers of the time - Giorgetto Giugiaro, Marcello Gandini, Paolo Martin, Paul Bracq, and many others.
The Bugatti Concept play with the Name Atlantic because of the Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic, it is the second most expensive car in the world behind a mercedes.
Check out the Holden Torana XU-2. You've probably heard of the XU-1, but Holden WERE going to bring out the XU-2, but for some reason it never made it to production.
I love the quirkiness of the Citroen's, never owned one, they just never popped up in my radar.
10:05 camargue (kamarg) is also a region name between arles town and mediteranean sea
The Vespa 400 is a production car (that photo had a dutch plate). Vespa is the Model, Piaggio is the brand.
You should check Skoda Concept Cars.. they have special studio where young people study design and once a while they are allowed to create concept car in software and then make it real and drive it :D its really cool
Although you don't see as many these days, Vespa (and Lambretta) scooters are popular in the UK. Back in the day every self-respecting "Mod" had one
That yellow Citroen at 12:00 is very similar to DS4.
C4 Picasso have little bit same look at the front too.
My favorite concept car by Mercedes has to be the Mercedes-Maybach 6. Truly stunning and could have been used in John Wick or something like that. Takes some nice queues from 1950's and 1960's car design and I would have loved to see MB or Maybach actually put something like that into production.
That Tundra at 7:40 looks like a Citroën BX to me...
You should check out the different Popemobiles, especially the Seat Panda Popemobile and the Lamborghini
The Tundra probably ended up as the Citroen BX. That tatty old Citroen van was Traction Avant based and had corrugated paneling (they were horribly slow and uncomfortable). "Bertony".
1:10 - Fun Fact #1: Vespa means "wasp" in Italian and Portuguese.
4:02 - Fun Fact #2: Did you notice the similarity between the Italian word "modulo" and the English "module"? It's pronounced the same way, only with an "o" instead of an "e" at the end.
17:33 - That's a Cupra. Cupra is the high-performance motorsport subsidiary of SEAT, formerly known as SEAT Sport. It's like Mercedes' AMG or BMW's M-Sport.
Before racing cars had advertisment,pre 60s, every country that raced had a colour, Britain had green.
Apparently Ferrari wanted Italy to have yellow,but it was taken so they used red.
Which country got yellow though?
@@kenlykkeslett7501 think it was a another European country.
USA was blue, Japan was white, Germany was silver.
Italy received red when Enzo Ferrari was still a child. Yellow is for Belgium, blue for France, green for the UK, orange for the Netherlands, blue and white for the USA, blue and yellow for Argentina, red and white for Japan. Germany has white but Mercedes switched to silver in the 1930s
@@Mauro-82 thanks for the added info.
@@freethinker-- I forgot to mention that the cars were painted according to the nationality of the team and not the manufacturer. In the official teams of course the two nationalities coincided, with the private ones it could happen to see Alfa or Ferrari painted in green, blue or other colours (like a 250 GTO that has the colours of Sweden), Mercedes in red etc.
Hi Ian there is actually a video of the Modulo on utube going around a track
Here in the UK we call vespas or anything like them scooters , mopeds or chicken chasers.
Wait till he sees the TVR Speed 12 Concept, and the Speed 12 and Speed 6 cars that went into production. Never mind that the engine was so powerful it snapped the Dyno and it's power had to be estimated, not measured......!
in psychology, a massive topic is, how a person sees himself, in contrast to how the others see that person.
this can be applied to countries, nations, continents too.
your videos deliver a lot of insight into "hang on, we have made that?"
and for that, I'm grateful.
The Aston Bulldog has ben fully restored and runs!
You should do a video on the amount of Professional English Soccer teams. 92 in total, technically. No other country has a system close
The Porsche 984 looks like a Porsche 948 and a Mazda MX-5/Miata had a kid.
In the cool, movie, the Goonies - the grandfather has an old American four door full hard top convertible - folding metal roof. I'm discovering that US cars have many first's, that were ahead of their time - like fuel injection and airbags etc.
I live in Belgium Lommel and we got a test circuit of Ford over here... And I see ford's driving with a large white black sticker/wrap over it's whole body so there testing out a new Ford 😂
Check out the Bertone Jaguar b99 concept. I think the design is simply stunning.
Regarding the EV's: think of it you sparing gas for the weekend drive.
It's not the hobby or racing cars consume great volume of energy, but the everyday used cars. And a typical day a battery can last, and charged overnight, it cant be that hard...
The first time I saw the Ferrari 512S Modulo, I became convinced that the future actually happened somewhere around 1970. a,md that we've been moving away from the future since then. 🙂
My favorite has to be the Alfa romeo Carabo.
Of all the prototypes based on the 33 stradale in my opinion it is the only one that can rival the original
17:33 That's a Cupra UrbanRebel, spanish car that will enter production in 2025
You should do a video of the Isle of Man motorbike TT racing, it's not cars or trucks but its a beauty to watch!!
The Bugatti Atlantic concept appears to be a rendering by an independnet artist. Obviously inspired by the Type 57SC Atlantic on the 1930s.
While it's not a European car, the 8th generation Honda Civic made in Swindon from 2005 to 2011 (FK1 to FK3 5 door and FN1 to FN4 3 door) had the all clear front end similar to the Citroen SM (and the Karin concept). They were nicknamed UFO's in Poland as they were nothing like anything Honda had made before or since as the 9th generation was more watered down.
@IWrocker : I see you're wearing the "UNIMOG" hat...!
Do you know the Unimog “U60” design study for its 60th birthday
the Citroën Oli is on the road, and you can find some British UA-cam videos of its tests.
Hi dude the Bertone U see at 7'03 it's the same at 7'40min.this concept was made for Volvo cars by Marcello Gandini the designer of Countach (Lambo)but the concept was refused and Citroën take it for made the Xantia model & Gandini make the TV advertisement too
The Aston Martin Bulldog was produced as a one-off. It has recently been restored and is back on the road
Man you should have a deeper look at Giugiaro Design, Giorgetto is the man responsible for so many ordinary and super cars. Plus many concept cars that have influenced style trends❤
Love the UNIMOG cap!
11:20 almost looks like a renault scenic to me
Hey dude, check out Renault concept cars like the alpine that after testing became the dominant Paris to Montecarlo winner for at least three years
My father still have a Vespa 400.
One of the prettiest little car of all time. Love it ❤
Build in France due to Fiat threatening Vespa to build scooter if they build it in Italy 😂
Speaking of electric road cars. The new Lotus Evija X electric hypercar recently set a new lap record(in the street legal hypercar class) at the Nürburgring Nordschliefe, with a blistering time of 6min 24.024sec.
Vids here on UA-cam👍
We call the Boxster "Hausfrauenporsche" (housewife Porsche).
Didn't know the Porsche 984, but what they describe happened some years later with the first Porsche Boxster, also called Porsche 986. The boxster is said to have saved Porsche economically in the 90ies. Now I'm curious what the 985 might have been. I guess it's still kept secret like the 984 was for a long time.
17:35 is the Cupra Urban Rebel. Cupra means Cup Racer. The brand is a daughter and the motorsports department of the spanish manufacturer Seat, which belongs to Volkswagen. 1985 to 2018 Cupra did only motorsports and Seat didn't have a name for sporty street models. Since 2018 Seat distributes sporty street models as Cupras. They are build on the same platforms as all of the VW group cars of same size and they mostly share even the same engines. So Audi A3, Skoda Fabia and Seat Leon are in some ways all VW Golfs.
The last one was Cupra.
My car is a Cupra Leon Sportstourer eTSI 150 y2023m
11:07 It's a concept because it was refused by the armyeven as pre series .
Peugeot made a MAD concept car : Citroen GT concept ( initialy just as design car, then decided " let's ad an egine and see" ) It looks like an electric car, it sounds like a muscle car, but it's a race car. But only one exist.
Loved the Renault espace had three altogether awesome cars .
The tan Bertone car and the Tundra could be the same? The tan Bertone car at least was a jazzed up design of the Volvo 343, in turn a Daf design coming to Volvo as they purchased the brand in the 70s.
Yeah you knew Citroen wouldn't let you down
Franco Sbarro. Swiss designer responsible for some incredible looking concept cars. Pretty sure at least one of the cars in the thumbnail is by him.
Many of the 70s cars are roadable (road driven). The Stratos and Modulo are two examples
You have to take a look at the three Bertone BAT Cars from 1953-55
"Bertone" is spoken like Bear-toneh.
15:30 the 984 Porsche was later replaced by the 986 Boxster in 1996 the old concept looks like Harm Lagay design. Those designs were said to be to individual to be put into production and Porsche was nearly bankrupt because of the plummeting dollar.
As Peter Schutz CEO from 1978 to 1986 had put all the bet on US market when the dollar due to Reagan‘s SDI finance program was sailing super high one dollar was nearly 4 Deutschmark today this would be 2 Euros.
When the dollar fell back to 2.4 Deutschmark the price of a 911 Porsche had to be pulled from 25,000 dollars to 45,000 dollars the car was impossible to sell..
At 11.47 is Citroens largest car: the C6. The main ice green one is a concept, but the black car in the left hand corner, showing the headlight is the real thing. So it is the successor to the DS. DS, then CX, then XM and then C6. Still has its hydrophenumatic ? suspension and could have a 2.2 litre twin turbo diesel with 8 speed auto. Can Google it. The car is famous for having the interior designed BEFORE the exterior. Quite a few in Australia at ridiculously low prices. If you are with a Citroen Car Club, running and maintaining it is relatively easy, with excellent fuel consumption, huge range, torquey grunt, refinement, cool interior - usually in light colours and super smooth ride - just made for Australia 🦘
theres one thats missing the 1988 peugeot oxia. 2 where built.
4 wheel drive, 4 wheel steering from the peugoet 405 group s rally car. the engine from the peugeot lemans 905.
an amalgamation of group b, group c and group s parts 605 hp, 217 mph.
if that car went into production it wouldve held the worlds fastest production car title untill the maclaren f1 came out.
11:35 - they could bring that one out now.. and it would be cool :)
the weirdest vespa MUST be the vespa tap 150 . i bet you have never seen anything like it.
I'm kinda disappointed not to see the Mercedes C111 here, arguably their most iconic concept car by far. (or cars, as there are several of them, with different engine concept including Wankel and Diesel)
12:54 yea... thats 100% street legal, Renault had a similar model, the Renault Spider, the only mandatory thing is, that you needed to wear a helmet to drive it.
Vespa has Trucks too - Mini trucks - famous in Germany too - this are called Ape - Vespa Ape or Piaggio Ape - Piaggio is the Main Factory of Vespa and some other brands
Piaggio started out as an aircraft company, during the war the owner and son of the founder commissioned a scooter in anticipation of the post-war situation but was not satisfied with the result, the classic scooter with a bulky frame between the driver's legs, so he turned to Corradino D'Ascanio, a pioneer in the field of helicopters who hated motorbikes, who had been his employee before the war. D'Ascanio designed the Vespa (Wasp, probably the name was inspired by the shape of the scooter resembling that of an insect) but he never hid his disappointment at being more famous for the scooter than for his inventions and primacy in the field of helicopters. From the mechanics of the Vespa in 1948 was derived a small three-wheeled transport vehicle called the Ape (bee)
When I see the tundra and the interior, I see a citroen BX
Talking bout concept cars and rare looking cars - I wanna advice you to learn about Italdesign.