15 Strangest Cars Ever Made

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[@aletabaker4698]

My Dad owned an Isetta in Red with white interior in 1960. Brand new and fun to ride it! As a child, my brother drove it to school when he was 8 years old!

[@normanschenburn343]

Some of those vehicles like the Stout Scarab and the PE50 and the Isetta can be found in the Stahls Automobile Museum in New Baltimore Michigan. It also has some REO Speedwagons and some movie cars like the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Car and the 2 cars driven by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the movie The Great Race!👍

[@3DJapan]

4:45 Electric cars were in use long long before this.

[@peter7624]

The Testarossa is the most beautiful car ever, all curves and latent power, but the bubble cars are more interesting! Great video, thanks for posting!

[@danweyant4909]

Good list. The Stratos pair - while significantly different from each other STILL represent one of the most successful concept to road car built - while relatively rare, what a goer!

[@stevengolden1154]

Only thing missing is Mr. Bean

[@normanschenburn343]

The Egoista reminds me of The Mach 5 from the cartoon of Speed Racer!🤔

[@giacomobassani]

The ISETTA is actually an Italian project, produced by ISO Rivolta who then sold the rights to BMW

[@branant]

The Norman Timbs Special is a great discovery for me. This is the first time I am seeing this masterpiece. One of my favorite cars ever designed is the Mercury Lead Sled, I think it would fit perfectly on your list.

[@snowysnowyriver]

My father-in-law owned a Bubble Car in the late 1960s. He loved it!

[@tommern84]

The Stout Scarab is a GORGEOUS Little gem I've never heard of until now. What a BOSS level car ♥️

[@kennethfunk8545]

LOVE that Stout Scarab !!

[@karl-heinzepchen1280]

Ah! The Isetta, the first BMW with a central locking system.

[@stevesobot5372]

The Gilda looks like Supercar !

[@sonicguyver7445]

I just love these unique and oddball designs for cars. Every one of them here is either silly or amazing. I laughed when seeing the Isetta because I remembered it from "Family Matters" as Steve Urkel's car. But that Lamborghini Egoista, I think I'm in love! From the moment I saw it I thought it looked like it dropped down from Cybertron. Those lines and angles are a thing of beauty. Now I suddenly want to see models and toys for it since I can never have the real thing. Ideally one of those larger diecast cars but I would settle for a Hot Wheels or a Lego Speed Champion version.

[@dzikieswinie]

Great to see such fun cars. We would also add Smyk - 1957 Polish Microcar

[@lucacarlobosisio1009]

Like the Alfa Romeo Carabo , also Lancia Stratos was designed by Marcello Gandini , the same designer of Lamborghini Miura and Lamborghini Countach.

[@PaulMartin-gr3xf]

When I went to university in the early 1970's, in Sydney Australia; one of my fellow students had a Messerschmidt that he used to come to class. It was supercool!

[@MonsterHobbiesModelCarGarage]

The Stout Scarab is cool. I love the design. It would be cool to see one sitting beside an early Chrysler Airflow. The Chrysler Gilda looks so sleek and cool with the fins. I wonder how fast it would go? The Ford Speedster also looks great. I'm sure it inspired later 1930's race cars like those driven in Indy. I have the Deora as a Hotwheels car and a 1/25th scale model kit from MPC. The opening door on the model kit fits so badly though. The Bertone looks soo cool...but I'd hate to drive it in that reclined position, especially on a long drive. The Norman Timbs Special looks like a tear drop with fenders. It's cool. I love the Carabo. My Dad has a book with it in there. I love the color of it. Too bad you didn't include the American Motors AMX III supercar that was designed in Italy.

[@Iskelderon]

The Messerschmitt Kabinenroller was a crazy design, a former aircraft company just took the idea of a fighter cockpit and added enough parts until it could be called a car.

[@user-hv1zc7fo8u]

This is the first time I am seeing this, It was Strange but nice and cool cars.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was informative and enjoyable watching..thanks

[@HolloMatlala1]

These were, and still are, car's ahead of their time...And these one's 🇮🇹 take the 🏆 for style. Them 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 for muscle 💪🏻

[@ronaldsteele6151]

I do gotta say that some of these designs were incredible. The smaller ones were unique but total death traps.

[@Warriorblood96]

Nice cars

[@gregdrmax]

Love to have and utilize the isetta here in the USA. Looks great!

[@ThinPicks]

I think the Carabo is the most beautiful thing on four wheels ever created. Does anyone remember an American concept car from the '60s called The Illusion? It was a single seater with an assymetrical body, crazy!

[@debbiebermudez5890]

Mr. B. Here ! Odd ball cars have soft spot in my heart ❤️ just because they are odd ! 👍 👀

[@peteykwia2752]

Mensch, wir brauchen jetzt solche Autos!!!! ❤❤❤

[@ted_splitter]

The Oeuf Electrique is so beautiful man

[@miraajan3652]

Wow All wonderful car's I love it Thanks ❤❤❤❤

[@bomberaustychunksbruv4119]

Wow the Alfa and the Lancia, I love them wedge cars. The Alfa I didnt even know existed, what a car!.

[@chomskyist9638]

Nice list with great presentation

[@konrad3505]

Some scenes about the BMW Isetta don't Show the Isetta but the BMW 600, which was a 4 später. Like the Isettta It had a door in its front for the Driver and one passenger and one additional sidedoor for two fürther passengers.

[@martenbos7578]

I really love the car in the thumbnail!

[@LezDentz]

When it's not disguised as a car the Lamboghini Egoista is a giant robot.

[@ioi8091]

The KR200 is also known as "der Frosch" (The Frog) here in 🇩🇪. Good Video, very interesting 👍🏻.

[@zakpappnase]

There is an Isetta still operating as a Taxi in the German city of Bremen.

[@davidthedeaf]

Why can’t we have cool cars made like this quality and artistic design today? LAZY!

[@bintangdomena]

The tiny cars look scary to me!!!

[@michaelolsen2348]

Honestly, they need to come out with something similar to that Isetta for regular people like me. Affordable and will get you where you need to go. Cars now are WAY out of my price range, and especially these concepts now costing hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Car companies obviously don't know they can make billions of dollars selling small, basic, cheap cars.

[@bazzer124]

I think it's a bit unfair to include one-off/concept vehicles like '55 Chrysler Ghia. I mean, make a one-off sedan out of toothpicks and, voila! One of the strangest cars ever made. Cheers....

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

nice cars but we never got them on the road

[@wesleyhitchcock4414]

My classic ride is a 1972 SS elcamino but that Scarub is something i would love to own and drive

[@themoonflowerfaerie]

Love the cars from the teens to the 60s :) I know you didn't show earlier than the 30s and maybe sometime you will. My favorite was the Scarab.

[@michaelwilkening8542]

They had a lot of electric cars back in the early 1900s check out Jay leno's Baker electric. They were used by ladies that didn't want to mess with cranking their gas car by hand or dealing with starting the boiler on steam cars

[@jennifercooking101]

very informative and fun to watch, thanks for sharing.

[@joannmay-anthony1076]

I just loved that Norman Timbs Special is my new favorite car!!!!

[@chefcharlespek6536]

Hahahaha nice.. it is like jetson cartoon has come to life

[@rubystyle]

Small care is very helpful for old people😊

[@gorporpio]

I wouldn't even sit in half of those things

[@sinbad799]

The Urikelmoble 😂

[@SSmith-fm9kg]

While in grade school in the late 1950s-early 1960s, the father of one of the girls in school had a green Isetta that he would bring her to school in, some of the mornings. The engine was a 2-stroke, and had the RING-DING-DING-DING sound to it. I was actually embarrassed for her... Then about 10 years ago, I find out that the man (now deceased) who owned the company I now work for, a wholesale pharmaceutical distributorship, also owned the Shreveport Isetta dealership in the late '50s-early '60s. Small world.

[@markrowland1366]

The Isetta was later expanded getting a right side door, a third seat and reverse. Several other tiny Italian cars became available, over time.

[@leoribeiro.]

Deus abençoe América 🙏🏻🇺🇲

[@klausseydlitz2012]

In Grandpa’s Isetta i could sit behind the front seat row when i was about 4 years old. So we were 3 Person’s in it. I’m not sure that was allowed but we felt it was. I loved the front door.

[@roadcalm3303]

The front end of the Egoista reminds me of the Mach 5 from Speed Racer.

[@slackwellman5499]

Elite cameraman here

[@Belzediel]

uh, the Oeuf was most certainly not one of the first electric cars. It was sixty years too late for that claim.

[@zakaroonetwork777]

If Only they had Just invented the Electric Golf cart in the 50's that we should all be driving around town today.

[@summercab5185]

The Scarab reminds me of my naughty cat.

[@alienzardsketter.9076]

All of them are beautiful I had never seen most of these amazing works of art....

[@SchemeTintFocus]

There are only two craziest cars, the first and last ever made.

[@hotwheelsbrothers687]

Nice. My fav is the HW Deora 2 in real life.

[@maggiepie8810]

The Kantanka Aeroplane is one of the most eye-catching electric vehicles in the world.

[@YojTROCHILdae]

some of them far futuristic than cybertruck lmao

[@emitindustries8304]

One reason why the Isetta was so small was that after WWII, materials were scarce. Less metal was available for the body, and all the other parts. You could probably make 2 Isettas from the metal that'd make a full sized BMW sedan. Gas was scare to.

[@war_robots7911]

I like those cars

[@scotpens]

The Deora's roof and lift-up windshield are actually the rear roof section and upper tailgate from a 1960 Ford station wagon. The decorative chrome frames on the side exhaust ports are Mustang taillight bezels turned 90 degrees.

[@sgw32]

There should be a Wingho Concordia II too

[@BorrisBar-iq7rp]

The car with the door being at front is a bad idea ...little crash and your gone or left trapped inside of it

[@laurentbrochard6949]

The Isetta ! BMW ! I was a child ...

[@Rob1970s]

"INSPIRING GREAT CONTENT "

[@gvramakrishnan762]

THE LEGEND BEST 🚗 CAR NEVER EVER SEEN

[@EvilJ069]

Uhhh, motorcycles don't have gear shifters on the handlebars XD. Clutch yes, gears no

[@douglee3651]

Not at all a car connoisseur, I came here expecting mention of Etzels. I came away with a lot more names than I'd ever encountered before. And a small amount of surprise that Etzels were never mentioned at all. Good piece, in any case.

[@tonyjeff9436]

NOTHING HAS EVER REALLY CHANGED SINSE THE BEGINNING OF CARS THEY STILL OPERATE ON WHEELS

[@fatbelly27]

What about the Bond Bug?

[@terencebarrett2897]

Absolutely wonderful, and with oil, petrol expense etc these different shaped cars small , if you just going from a+b they wonderful

[@robbdudeson346]

In 2007 I restored an old Isetta for a guy in Georgia, It was the craziest little car i ever saw...

[@louisramosa]

In the late 70s our neighbour and her boyfriend bought an Isetta. I'd never seen anything like it, and when they chased me down the footpath in it (as a joke 😂) I was laughing so hard I could barely get out of the way. Then I totally lost it when they pulled up their drive and opened the FRONT to get out !

[@BigHarryBalzac]

I once saw the 1959 Firebird III concept car, code name: XP-73, at the Sloan Museum in Flint, MI. I checked their site and it doesn't look like it's there at the moment. It had TWO bubble canopies and looked 100 times better than the Firebird I concept car IMO. It has a fiberglass body with seven short wings and tail fins, more than a real jet! They went crazy with the fins. And instead of a steering wheel, it had a joystick between the seats. Wikipedia has 2 pictures of it, and pics of the Firebird I and Firebird II. The 1956 Firebird II, code name: XP-43 was fugly, but the Fierebird III made up for it. It was so futuristic looking, it would look at home in a science fiction movie made today.

[@DonnaLang42rockglobally]

Is it just me or could the Gilda have been an inspiration for the Land Speeders in the Star Wars franchise?

[@clemenshampel]

The Isetta is just being revived under the Name: Microlino. Unfortunately quite expensive. But electric.

[@gerdpfitzenmayer7021]

I own the Alfa Romeo Carabo as a matchbox model in violet since the 70's

[@nihits]

instead of calling it BMW Isetta, it should be called Iso Isetta, from the company that also made Iso Griffith, the fastest car of its time. Weird combination of cars they made.

[@444coole444]

i still see the cirtroen DS driving around these days

[@updatedjustnow271]

I went to high school in the 60s. My biology teacher had an Isetta. It was a very cool car.

[@francisconikotian2326]

lets start a petition for Shaq to buy an Isetta

[@Nomadcreations]

Interesting Unique and many I havent Even seen in in My 50 + Years Of Driving & magazines. Good Info Vid! Thanx

[@captainsensiblejr.]

The Stout Scarab is very cool.

[@paddyoak1]

Electric cars were around in the early 1900s!

[@joebacarella2829]

Love the old school thinking, and space age looks to these great vehicles, some of them still have the Lambo design of today, Norman Timbs, you just can`t get fenders to flow much more than that.

[@galaktikov2104]

Very interesting selection! Thank you!

[@ashishvyas5053]

Bubble best one...

[@LikeSpee]

Good luck in an accident with anything other than a pedestrian in those mini cars.

[@qmusclecars]

Great cars

[@JamesCarterJr.]

Urkel drove a red & white Isetta in the tv comedy "Family Matters"

[@khursheed.fateh.786]

Nice video. I enjoyed watching this video.

[@user-xu5by7hq4d]

Definitely unique looking cars, would be good on fuel and parking no blind spots.