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.
@Friedbrain112 ай бұрын
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.
@duviworthing2 ай бұрын
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.
@MisterOcclusion2 ай бұрын
Thumbnail made me think “Thundercougarfalconbird” Despite that giggle - downvote for clickbait
@orionbennett7762 ай бұрын
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.
@johnwieczorek2 ай бұрын
If you look head on at the Hoffman, it looks so sad, as if to say, "Why doesn't anybody like me?"
@InfiniteLoop2 ай бұрын
I swear every time I see a Bricklin, all I can think is it is the Prototype foe the DeLorean.
@mikejacob35362 ай бұрын
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...😅
@garydargan62 ай бұрын
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.
@hortenbrothers46752 ай бұрын
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!
@57WillysCJ2 ай бұрын
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.
@hortenbrothers46752 ай бұрын
@@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.
@THOMMGB2 ай бұрын
The Hoffman makes the Yugo look sleek and beautiful and ultra reliable.
@dandannels88212 ай бұрын
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.
@LeeEngdahl2 ай бұрын
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.
@lancerevell59792 ай бұрын
With all the many really weird cars built, why do these YT sites insist on showing thumbnails of fake AI pics? 😮
@AnsonMK52 ай бұрын
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.
@kevinwest79122 ай бұрын
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.
@richardeldridge53052 ай бұрын
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?
@andrefiset35692 ай бұрын
Only one.
@pyreneesfarm78182 ай бұрын
The Bricklin is pretty, but so is a plaster of Paris statue.
@tylaranderson85592 ай бұрын
Was the narrator paid per word ? Too much repetition, the same description does not need to be said five different ways.
@stephensowell95782 ай бұрын
Is that not an AI thing?
@kbjerke2 ай бұрын
@@stephensowell9578 Yep.
@pgtmr27132 ай бұрын
@@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.
@bolster1012 ай бұрын
So true very annoying indeed, indeed annoying and very true that this narrator is indeed very annoying 😅
@stephensowell95782 ай бұрын
@@bolster101 lol
@larryc86072 ай бұрын
I highly doubt any of these cars were put into a landfill . They had cash value at any scrap yard .
@Scale_Model_Mayhem2 ай бұрын
Scrap value of a Yugo was about $25
@GregoryBamber2 ай бұрын
The only 3 wheel car that wasn't a dud was the Morgan 3 wheeler.
@bretthatfield25162 ай бұрын
Clickbait title
@berdog29042 ай бұрын
Exactly, I won't watch that stuff again
@mr.edplayssimgames18362 ай бұрын
the Dodge and Plymouth K cars should be in there some where
@lancerevell59792 ай бұрын
And anything by Lexus. Fugly! 😮
@oscarwalton11882 ай бұрын
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
@The762nato2 ай бұрын
The Yugo did not need to be in that list , it was not as bad as you said .
@olivierblochet57202 ай бұрын
La dauphine était une très bonne petite voiture, mon père avait une Gordini très mignonne et performante pour l'époque. 😉
@adrianmonk44402 ай бұрын
The Hoffman looks like a "BABY" STOUT SCARAB (American, William Bushnell Stout, 1930s design).
@jeffaurand23452 ай бұрын
Who wrote this stuff? Obviously not a car person. All downsides.
@norahjaneeast54502 ай бұрын
I don't think this is even real this is AI or something
@jonanderssteen2 ай бұрын
stupid thumbnail, clickbait.
@bungasujatmo14392 ай бұрын
At 22:37 "the 1975 Bricklin Hoffmann" but title shows 1951, WTF......
@frankroll80802 ай бұрын
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.
@jimburig70642 ай бұрын
The Bricklen also leaked. If you were traveling in a Bricklen and encountered rain, it would get into the car with you.
@Evn-xk4hc2 ай бұрын
The Hoffmann looks ai generated
@jeremywentworth18332 ай бұрын
James may had a Crossley but not hotshot in a Grand Tour special.
@snowwhitehair4852 ай бұрын
I can't wait for the sequel: '5 ELECTRIC cars that were thrown into landfill'. No, wait: disaster looming. - Make that 10 electric cars . . . 😉
@cynicalrabbit9152 ай бұрын
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.
@bobschlenk97202 ай бұрын
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.
@spamanator6662 ай бұрын
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.
@roberthatfull38162 ай бұрын
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
@petermcfelin5979Ай бұрын
1951 hoffmann bricklin ?? was your father named hoffmann? Have you heard of spec savers?
@bolster1012 ай бұрын
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 😅
@michaelfarrell51012 ай бұрын
my dad told me that he and his brother had a summer job driving a ice cream truck that was a crosly
@royfrye28712 ай бұрын
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
@duviworthing2 ай бұрын
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.
@jonathanhernandez43042 ай бұрын
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.
@ghostshadow90462 ай бұрын
My ford tempos wound up in land fills had 3 none lasted 80k miles total garbage and poor MPG.
@jimjohnson21902 ай бұрын
The yugo cost 2 k what can one expect
@worldtraveler9302 ай бұрын
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!!! 😡
@randyedwards32442 ай бұрын
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"
@mikehutchinson93182 ай бұрын
Hoffman = airstream trailer cut in quarter
@travisgorley82482 ай бұрын
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
If you don't like classic cars, don't make videos about them.
@zuikoglass40912 ай бұрын
Disappointed again. Fooled twice.
@paulbennett7722 ай бұрын
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.
@adrianmonk44402 ай бұрын
Yugo was a rip off of the FIAT 127.
@pyreneesfarm78182 ай бұрын
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
@dashingwomble2 ай бұрын
Speaking of poorly manufactured cars. Teslas will be in a video similar to this in a few years time.
@rafaelA97812 ай бұрын
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.
@altoncrane97142 ай бұрын
not
@pgtmr27132 ай бұрын
Carcaroaches.
@briantaylor92202 ай бұрын
What a b s video
@duviworthing2 ай бұрын
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.
@johnnywright52362 ай бұрын
much like the junk of today
@johnelove47142 ай бұрын
Oh no it's that horrible AI voice that I can't stand !! I'm out of here !!(
@robertsmathers79592 ай бұрын
Article smells strongly of AI, multiple rephrasing of a single sentence. Similar to listening to Cackling Cumulla.
@JohnPittaway2 ай бұрын
I gotta hand it to you. You managed to find some really crappy cars! 👍💣😁
@DM-wp9vq2 ай бұрын
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.