20 Weirdest Cars In The World

When it comes to the

world

of car design, sculpting and building, you would think that we would have a blueprint for the vehicles as a whole and then modify them slightly in certain ways to create new vehicle lines and ideas and, to be fair, that This has happened in the past and still happens today with certain automakers; However, throughout the long history of automobile design, people have taken the idea of ​​a concept car to heights and lengths that, frankly, boggle the mind, as sometimes they don't even look like

cars

. and you have to wonder what people were thinking when they created them, so with all that in mind, here are the 20 strangest concept

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we've ever seen, number 20 1970 LAN EST Stratos hf0, if you want a great reason for the car companies go a lot outside the box to try to create unique concept cars, you just need to remember that both in the past and present, car companies hate showing each other off, every rivalry within the industry has led to great things happening.

For one reason or another, and in the 1970s, the people at Panina Farina were more or less at war with the Barone team. They were both trying to outdo the other in specific ways by showing how great their cars were compared to the other and that would lead Barone to make the 1970 Lan Stratos hf0 or as it became better known, the

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's first wedge car. I really shouldn't have to explain why it's called that, since it looks like a wedge-shaped Edge in car shape. It even stops a big, heavy door from opening, probably not, but that door would probably also hit the car in the process and before you say something like that, there's no reason for a car like this to exist, well you'd be wrong, while that the wedge has a strange shape and also serves a purpose through aerodynamics.

Even back then, companies were trying to attract people, especially in the United States, with the promise of lower gasoline consumption. They were still learning the ins and outs of aerodynamics in the automotive space, but the 1970 model Lancia Stratos hf0 was an example of taking it to the extreme and, honestly, paying a bit. In fact, Barone's team was very impressed with this vehicle, and while it didn't directly make it famous, it led to other designers coming on board. fit instructions with their attractions to see what they come up with sometimes you just have to be weird to make things work before you continue like this video hit the subscribe button and click the notification bell right now or this centipede will crawl in Your face when you are sleeping Now it's time for the stylish theme Take a look at this car and don't be alarmed by its rather wrinkled appearance.

I promise you that this vehicle is not dying of old age or anything, but instead, I'm going to tell you the story of a man who tried to make a car made of silicone and, to be clear, I'm not saying that The whole car was made of silicone because that would be silly and dangerous for all kinds of people. One reason is that you need real, non-silicone parts to make a working combustion engine, but this man's goal was to make a car that he thought would be safer and that might seem strange, since that silicone is not the material you imagine. when you think of hardness, and in fact some of you may be thinking of silicone for medical purposes, imagining it as a soft entity, especially when used for certain types of implants;

However, as with all things, it simply depends on the type of process being used. how to make it and how it is shaped There is a real hardness scale to test how tough things are and some silicon can rate up to 80 out of 100 and if this car is really real it must have been quite a process getting it to look that way . and not fall apart immediately, sure it may look wrinkled, but if it works, that makes it a real concept car, even if it is one of the strangest ones you've ever seen, therein lies the problem, although no one knows much about the car.

Functionality, longevity and more. Would you even want a car that looked like this, given that we've never heard of other cars getting the silicone treatment? You'll just have to guess it was a one-off, as you always can. comment below using the #fancy topic and let me know your thoughts on what I just showed you on screen number 19, the rainbow Ferrari from 1976. Now I may have started with a car and a company you probably didn't know about. but this time we are heading to one of the largest automotive companies in the world today. Ferrari is one of the epitomes of car design and creation power and even more so to hear that they came up with a design that could be defined.

As strange as it may be even for a concept car, it may be a bit difficult for some to accept, as the 1970s have proven to be a time of great experimentation and when the team at btone were allowed to have a little fun with the brand. Ferrari and make a In an attempt to reinvent the wheel, they came up with a Ferrari Rainbow from 1976. The irony of the car is that while it was not launched into mass production, Ferrari returned to this type of roof design Hardbody more than three decades later, further proving that these types of concept cars have a unique mark on the industry, even if it may take a while for them to be remembered and honored, so what made this car so strange? out of appearance?

Well it had a roof that could be removed if you were willing to do it by hand, yes it was one that you needed to remove by hand to get it off and then you had to store it in the back of the car, not exactly the most functional way to do it a convertible and as for where Today it is in a private museum of naked tone people and as I noticed Ferrari went back to this type of design later but I'm pretty sure they made all the necessary adjustments to ensure it worked . Number 18 1979 Aston Martin Bulldog, the Aston Martin brand, the creators of cars that changed the world with their designs over the years, including James Bond's favorite brand, and when you think of Aston Martin, you may think of the vehicles softer and possibly cooler luxury cars from the 1979 Aston.

Martin Bulldog would have to be pretty strange to break its cycle of quality and tradition and, ironically, he is strange not because of his looks, but because of his bad luck from almost the beginning to the Ultimately, this unique vehicle was designed to try to be the fastest car. It was once put into production, but the problem is that while it could go very fast, it never reached the record speeds that Aston Martin had wanted, so they never sent it to production, that's where the second part of comes into play. his bad luck after the concept car was sold.

For a Saudi prince, no less, the engine blew up on its new owner's first trip, which doesn't really inspire much confidence and what happened to the next one, well, it languished for a bit until some people got together to give it a try. and make the dream come true, specifically a team came together to help the 1979 Aston Martin Bulldog achieve its dream of setting a record pace. This was not a simple solution as it was not just about replacing the engine but also doing everything possible to help and tune and fix the car so that it could reach incredibly high speed.

It took more than 7,000 hours of restoration work and hundreds more tests to get the Bulldog back to its best condition, so in the end, was it really worth it? Yes it was. In fact, it was in June 2023 when the Bulldog finally managed to break the record it had been trying to set for more than four decades. Sometimes you just need the right equipment to help you achieve your dreams number 17 1942 leou electric. What might surprise you about this? The upcoming concept vehicle isn't really what it looks like or how it might compare to other vehicles, but rather it's about how the vehicle was an electric car concept that's long before Elon Musk and others in the last decade spent trying to He solved the problem of gasoline in automobiles and made important progress.

There were finally people in past decades trying to do the same thing. The electric Leu of 1942 was one of those vehicles that had the ability to run solely on electricity. The name translates as electric egg. and that's honestly kind of appropriate because this is one of the first bubble car designs to be fully developed. These designs may look strange, but they serve a purpose as they are meant to be super aerodynamic. The man behind the ride Paul Arzens had a very specific goal in mind for this car, he wanted to make a minimalist ride that would allow him and others to travel the streets of the big city and not have to worry about relying on fossil fuels, a sign of things to come, I would say, but first.

Well, it didn't work well, you should know that if it did work, it had five batteries that allowed it to travel 100 km without having to recharge and it also had a decent maximum speed of 70 kmph, which at that time was quite fast. The problem was that World War II had ended. with any hopes of it being mass produced due to material shortages, but one could only wonder what would have happened if vehicles like this had been manufactured more aggressively decades ago instead of us catching up right now, number 16. 1953 Firebird 1 xp21 if you go and tell a Gearhead to imagine a Firebird, you might hear a lot of them talking about the famous Pontiac line of cars that ended in 2002.

But the irony is that about 15 years before Ponti had created his first Firebird General. Motors had used the title for a line of four-part concept cars that had people turning their heads to even try to comprehend the madness of what they were seeing. In the case of the 1953 Firebird 1 xp21, it wasn't just a car, it was actually an airplane, no, really General Motors had made a vehicle that was basically an airplane on wheels, but why would they want to do it so well? In the 1950s, jet engines were a completely new thing and people realized that turbines were pretty good at generating power and So if they put some sort of jet engine in a car, imagine how fast it would go. .

Who needs to worry about security and stability when you can get your fill of Need for Speed? This madness went so far that one of the test drivers almost crashed putting it in second gear and BAS basically quit on the spot, the second test driver almost died while trying to test the vehicle, that's why General Motors put on the brakes to more evidence of that nature and the car was finally detained until today. and jet engines aren't used in cars yet and it's probably for the best or so they say: 1967 Lamborghini Marzal number 15, are you ready for another major brand to make a car that's a little weird?

Enter the 1967 Lamborghini Marzal, which, I kid you not, was not something that was partially made by the man himself, he and two other designers got to work on a four-person coupe that he had come up with because he wanted to defeat his rival even more. rival in Ferrari, as noted, rivalries between car companies are the source of There are many Rivs under their belt, although they made a unique looking vehicle for the forers, the problem was that this was not practical in terms of building it because the The curved glass it had would ensure it wasn't as safe as it needed to be and because of that, along with some other factors, they didn't go into mass production and instead used elements of the marzal for some of the other cars they produced on the number line. 14, the 1955 BMW Isetta.

Now here is another bubble car, but this time We are talking about one from BMW and this one had a huge impact on the automotive industry when it came out in 1955. The reason was that in the 1950s BMW almost went bankrupt while they made good cars, they were still incredibly expensive. and after World War II no one could really buy them so they needed something that would make them money and do it now and when they went to a car show they found the Isetta on display, they liked it so much that they bought the license for it and then they dedicated themselves to the work of the 1955 BMW Isetta, the microcar was designed for a person to drive around Germany and other areas and guess what people were thinking honestly, it was a cute little thing that allowed them to move around in a unique way and at the same time have ease of entry and leaving carrying luggage and more, it was meant to be nothing more than a Gap car to help them turn the tide so they could get back to making real cars, but now it's one of the most important that ever created the number 13, the 1973 Reliant Robin, sometimes you can't help but look at a car and say, man, that looks weird and honestly, that's the vibe I got when I first saw the 1973 Reliant Robin, this car actually was. a replacement for the Reliant Motor Company's Reliant Regal and as you can see, it is a three-wheeled vehicle, but you will be surprised how little it affectednobody;

In fact, when it first came out, it was well accepted by people for its appearance and power. It was a simple but effective way to get around even if its top speed was only 137 kmph depending on the model, that's the other thing that Reliant had going for it, it kept evolving, it was a car that kept getting improvements over the years to be able to Becoming more and more powerful and having more and more capacity, the Reliant Robin was intended to provide economical and predictable personal transportation and that is what it did; It lasted about 30 years, all before the line finally closed in 2002, but Considering that many of the concept vehicles you've seen aren't even mass produced, that means this may have actually been a 12th reliable vehicle. , the 2001 BMW Gina light Visionary.

Next, we return to an old friend through the 2001. BMW Gina light Visionary, but this is very different from the bubble car of before and for many reasons, one of which is that this vehicle had a much more futuristic look and design, in fact you can look at this device and wonder if it was made on a computer because of all the hard lines it exudes, but that's where the problem is what made the Visionary so Visionary Some elements of the structures are movable and the driver can move them using electro-hydraulic controls. This will change the shape of the exterior cladding, which can therefore be adapted to suit the current situation, which is certainly something innovative. and when you have a car that can really adapt to the road environment or how the driver likes to move well, you can see why so many people would be interested in this concept car even though it was finished in 2008, the G never became As far as anyone can tell, maybe it just didn't work completely as advertised or it may have cost too much to do a lot of things either way, it was a good attempt at doing something pretty revolutionary and in the early 2000s no less the number 11, the 1947 Norman Tim Special.

I'm going to go in a different direction with this one because it wasn't a major car brand that made the 1947 Norman Tim special, it was a regular engineer named Norman Tims, the guy . He wanted to make the car of his dreams and he did it. He simply made a car in his spare time and this vehicle is the result of his efforts. He wanted a car that had a smooth, aerodynamic design but also had some kind of good power. The welding skills were so good that even modern welders aren't really sure how they got the car's body looking like it was completed in 1948.

The striking vehicle was finished with a hand-made maroon with gold flake paint job. As far as I admit it looks really pretty good. Norman's project should be proof to all of you that if you want something built, you might have to make it yourself number 10, the holocron from 1932. Remember when I talked about the original Firebird that tried to have a jet engine in the front of a car, like this in 1932. Helicon was a similar idea, but with a different engine, specifically it was one that was powered by a propeller, yes, it spun like an old school airplane would and the force of that created propeller would push the car forward;

You might be surprised how many cars back then had tried to make this idea work and it worked well, yes it did and like I said a lot of designers tried to make it a new type of car line but sadly it never ended up working and it's not difficult. To see why, while the engines can be loud, they are never right in your face, plus the propeller blocks your view from the driver's seat. Sometimes functioning just isn't enough. Number nine, the Ferrari 512 module, we return to the futuristic car models. go where this time we have the Ferrari 512s module, it was presented at the 1970 Geneva Motor Show and you can easily see the type of things they were going for with this vehicle.

They made a wedge type car that would be low to the ground and completely slippery. and having in and out access for the driver and passenger at that time was not only praised but it was also a vehicle that had won several awards for its design, it could reach up to 97 kmph in just about 3 seconds, so why that did it? They don't continue to build it well, it's hard to say that they may not have seen much of a market for the craft and in the 1970s people may not have even been able to afford this type of luxury ride number eight, the 1959 Cadillac Cyclone. was the last of a dying breed through its inventor Haley Earl and as you can imagine he, like many others, wanted to make a car that had the look of a jet and it definitely stands out for that design, not only did it have a stylish appearance, but it had an accident avoidance system, yes, in the 1950s they claimed to have had the technology to ensure the vehicle did not hit other cars.

This was just one of the many innovations the car featured, but it came with a twist despite the impressive technology that not everything actually worked, including the accident avoidance system; in fact, Earl withdrew the car before it could be fully produced, leaving us all wondering the possibilities of what the seventh 2006 Alpha Romeo diva could have been in terms of concept car designs, one could argue. that the 2006 Alpha Romeo diva is one of the least rare ones you can see, yes it has some unique lines that other cars wouldn't have, but that only helps it stand out from the crowd, plus it had many innovations and improvements that Many cars have them today that were rare in 2006, so when you add a fiery body with impressive capability, you might think this is a car destined for greatness, but that wouldn't be the case. he left it as a concept car because Alpha Romeo couldn't get anyone to buy it until today.

It's one of the most baffling moments in automotive history because it looks like a great vehicle. It just never got a chance to shine with the number six 1956 Buick Centurion when If you look at the 56 Buick Centurion, you'll probably say something like well, that thing looks sharp or, wow, that looks like something I'd like to drive and I'm right there with you, This is another concept car that had a cool look. Look outside your all-glass roof. I'm not saying it looks bad, it's just very different than what someone would expect even from the 1950s. Another unique part of this vehicle was that they put a camera in the trunk of the car and then had a screen near the driver to so you never have to worry about a rearview mirror for car fans.

You know the Centurion line continued, but they became a little more blocky with the models that came after and ditched the glass. up, but hey, at least they tried something different and kept the name after number five, the 1969 Holden Hurricane concept, not all concept cars are meant to be approved by the public and their buyers, some of them are honestly designed to see if they can resist. to certain ideas and whether they inspire new trends, for example, the 1969 Holden Hurricane concept was the company's first concept car and they wanted to study the design of Trend propulsion systems and other long-range developments, more specifically, they entered many devices electrical and features to show how. the car would handle it and if it would make the trip even better take you, which I had to do to get it to work this morning, I even had a device that was basically a GPS before GPS was created, as you can see.

Some people will use Full Tilt with their concept cars to make sure the next set of vehicles is as epic as possible. Number four, the 1995 4D gt90. Yes, even companies like Ford have had several concept cars in the past and promote the design and features. in interesting directions over the years, but the 1995 Ford GT90 is more of a what if than anything else because a lot of people aren't really sure what happened to it. One of the key elements was the engine that gave the vehicle 7,120 horsepower per foot. even by today's standards they even had to tune the exhaust to ensure it was drivable, that's part of the reason it was built, it was actually intended to be a spiritual successor to the GT40, which was a literal racing car, then why not?

Ford moves on, well no one knows number three, the Mercedes Maybach 6 vision, although we are approaching the Golden Age of electric cars, there were many made in the last decade that were quite stylish, even if some of them were Dubbed as strange, the Mercedes maybox 6 vision was an example of what was shown in 2016 by the company. It was an all-electric vehicle with a range of about 200 miles, it even had Gold Wing doors just to make it look that much cooler. So why was it never mass produced, probably for the same reason we still see difficulties in the electric car industry today?

While they are efficient and can be manufactured well enough, they are still incredibly expensive. Now imagine one from 2016 from Mercedes. and the average person could never afford it, number two, the 1995 Chrysler Atlantic. I'm not kidding, not only did people love the look of the 1995 Chrysler Atlantic, but it was first designed on a napkin, well, you have to use what what do you have. Around you, Chrysler brought Bob Hubic along for the ride and it became something of a cult sensation within the automotive community, although it was never mass produced, as you've probably guessed, it was one that was popular and was on everything the world. place through its advertising and public appearance, after all, it presented a stylish appearance and that is what people really want most of the time.

Sometimes it's all about looks and the Atlantic sure had that number one. The future Faraday ff01. Here's a concept vehicle that really looks like it. might have come from a video game, this intensely sculpted frame shows that it's not something you see every day, but it had innovations in the wazu that included a special display on the steering wheel that would help drivers have better awareness of what they were looking for. were doing on the road, the car was built to be an attractive and dynamic piece of automotive history and they certainly succeeded on that front.

The only strange thing about the trip is that no one has it to take it out for a ride, well, that's all. From the realm of concept cars and the strange designs that have come out of them over the years, can you even believe that they were approved by enough people to build the cars themselves and which ones do you think had the strangest designs? Maybe there's another trip we should be talking about, be sure to let me know in the comments section below, check out the other cool stuff that pops up on screen and I'll see you next time.