Forgotten Wedge Shaped Cars of the 1960s and 70s

[@bob_._.]

Glad to see the X-1/9 isn't on the list; that means it hasn't been forgotten.

[@sarahconner9433]

I owned one...FIAT... FIX IT AGAIN TOMORROW!!

[@amaccama3267]

That V4 Saab sounds awesome 👌

[@Mike-rk8px]

It was a V-4 engine from the Ford Taurus, a compact and extremely durable engine. It sounded great, and the exhaust had that Italian sound that can best be described as a “silky bite”. Saab made over 8,300 Sonnet 3’s between 1970-74. I’ve owned 3 of them, and now own a 1973 model. They look much better in person than in pictures. They weren’t fast, but they were quick and very addictive to drive. It looked like an Italian exotic, but it was really a Saab throughout: extremely well made, extremely reliable, and it used parts that Saab already plenty of in their other models. The engine bay was quite large and lots of owners put larger engines in them. The suspension set-up from the factory was more than sturdy enough to handle extra horsepower and torque. Unlike other small 2-door sports cars it had a huge amount of cargo space, and the hatchback made getting things in and out easy. If you drive one you’ll find it hard to understand why the Sonnet 3 wasn’t a huge sales success. There are a lot of them still around, and a lot of places that do quality work on them. If you want one the prices are very reasonable for what you get: a really good one will be around $7 to $10,000. An excellent one will be around $20,000. One big advantage if you live in a cold climate is it’s front wheel drive and they’re excellent in snow.

[@PhilUKNet]

65 bhp. It needed to sound good!

[@emanuelefasanofasano3814]

The Urraco is awesome

[@roadspectre7655]

During these era, exotic cars are really exotic. Weird shape but somehow acceptable, beautiful engine layout, simple interior and sounded manly throaty.

[@redemissarium]

and popup lamp. I really miss pop-up lamp...

[@roadspectre7655]

@@redemissarium owyea.. Those pop up lamps are sexy

[@redemissarium]

@@roadspectre7655 It also what was separate the world of hi performance car with daily average sedan (tho there are few exception). Back then if you see a car with popup you know mostly you see a ferrari/rx-7/lambo/corvette --fun or powerful car. Nowaday lighter ferrari or other light sport car and average hondas/mazdas/hyundais can have similar face because similar lamp design 😅

[@bobsmoot8454]

The Lotus Elite was one of the coolest 2+2s ever made after the Espada, which was the the absolute studdest 4 seater, and add in the Jensen Interceptor Convertible with a 440-6 pack

[@cindys1819]

Well, the Jensen is one of my all time favorite cars. And it was a HP and Torque monster. But it not really a "sharp" car The proper name for the cars and the Era was the "Sharp Flat" design era.....

[@anthonyeverett1391]

Very very good 👍

[@_monti142]

lovely cars :)

[@jeffarcher400]

When we get to the 80's I gotta shout out for the Ae86! Legendary fun with 100 or so happy ponies. What other car has it's own animated series? Tofu delivered without spilling a drop.

[@tekis0]

Man, 90% of the cars in this video sound WAY better than most any modern car, even the ones with double or triple the horsepower! New cars sound tinny and not at all as DEEP as these vintage cars, especially the Italian ones!

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Engines always sound great without harsh mufflers or catalytic converters !

[@Deezy1234]

Urraco sounds amazing 🤯

[@dominiquebuyck3788]

Wonderful. Thx.

[@_FightForYourFreedom_]

Just hearing him say "engyne" is worth the price of admission :-)

[@kellineburton]

That saab sonnet and Volkswagen sp2 looks cool. Both could be a cool daily drivers

[@michaelb.42112]

Speechless...😯

[@morgan97475]

Very cool. I was unaware that VW made a sports car in the 70s....a nice looking one, too.

[@rickrinke1443]

Have you ever heard about the scirocco? bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/00J0J_eLzaIdYYpaF_1200x900-620x413-1.jpg

[@joseinaciosantos6757]

I am Brazilian, SP means "SÃO PAULO", the largest city in Brazil and South America.

[@iainburns4493]

I call bull crap on you being from Brazil you have such a European name 🥸

[@josmarteixeira1407]

😱

[@YTRopp]

Matra Bagheera and Matra Murena were also such cars from late 60's. Unique 3-seaters

[@jonawenz2519]

Car News TV | Forgotten Wedge Shaped Cars of the 1960s and 70s Timestamps: [0:00] Lamborghini Urraco [0:41] Ferrari 512S Modulo [1:10] Saab Sonet III [1:51] Maserati Boomerang [2:11] Lotus Elite Type 75 [2:45] Bizzarrini Manta [3:02] Lancia Stratos HF Zero [3:25] Maserati Khamsin [4:06] Alfa Romeo Carabo [4:28] Lamborghini Jarama [5:04] Dome Zero [5:18] De Tomaso Pantera GT5 [5:34] Volkswagen SP2

[@stephenfabiano1242]

I owned a Ferrari 308GT4 Series II, Rosso Charo with Biscuit Connely Leather interior, for 26 years, and it was the Best used car I've ever owned!

[@たんぼのた-z1v]

デザインが先行し過ぎててエンジンが全く追い付いて無い時代の様に今思うと感じる。 今のTOYOTAのエンジンだとほぼ全ての車に相応しい物があると思う。 デザインは凄く大事な事。 其れに見合った駆動方式がやっと今追い付いて来た。 エンジン載せ替えるだけで今でも通用するデザインの車が有るのはデザイナーにとっては至福。

[@-ZIO]

Pantera For Me Please. SP2 is my second favorite for design. Did I mention Pantera?

[@johnmartinii77]

There's a 75 or 6 Bricklin sv1 at a garage down the street from my house today. Looks nice.

[@bamuz]

I recently became the owner of a 1970 Datsun fairlady. Beautiful car, I can see the precursor to the Z Forsure! I have big hopes of putting a vq35hr into it!

[@Diecastclassicist]

Hey, I haven’t forgotten these, speak for yourself!

[@35TheDarkknight]

Nice

[@yusufmartapura6702]

Keren dan aneh bentuknya 👍

[@PhilUKNet]

The Saab produced 65 bhp? Wow! Disappointed not to see the TR7. British Leyland's budget version of all those expensive sports car wedges.

[@offgridislandfamily]

Did I miss the Vector W8?

[@vassabatielos4740]

What’s an en gyne

[@probablygraham]

Some great looking cars and great sounding engines. I'm surprised you didn't include one of the TVR Edge cars. My nephew bought one a few years ago and left 2 black stripes of rubber and a cloud of blue smoke all the way along the road outside the church after his wedding! Search for 1990 TVR 400SE in USA here at youtube for a great example video of a TVR Wedge.

[@princesssolace4337]

Dude , the title says FORGOTTEN in the 60s and 70s! under stand? But u have to mentioned a British Garbage from the 90s? 🤣🤣

[@shelbysolko7783]

The TVR Tasmin is another wedge-shaped car. But seeing the Lamborghini Urraco. Former Top Gear petrolhead James May drove in an Urraco that broke every time.

[@sdc8547]

That commentary's hilarious. "Engyne"🤔🤣🤣

[@edwardfletcher7790]

It was really annoying me by the end....😠

[@Trichromasie]

also have a look at "Bitter CD" and the very sexy Prototype "Opel CD"

[@fishfish8091]

Maserati Khamsin drove only For 50 days a year, Just like the wind that Maserati was named after . Spent rest of the year being worked on...

[@larszenthio1012]

SAAB 97 SONETT III went on sale in the USA April 1970 with FORD V4 1700 engine 1699cc 68 hp. 😉

[@CristianSuarez1971]

Lamborghini Marzal, Lamborghini Silhouette. Both could be easily in the list.

[@hipcat13]

Actually, over 5000 Panteras made it into the US, out of about 7200 total produced from 1971 to 1992.

[@fernandoalparducci8778]

Só os Top da icônica industria de Desing automotivo europeia ou só Italiana 🤔

[@fredtedstedman]

Sunbeam Alpine Srs 111 ( with Fins ??) for first wedge shape .1965

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Beautiful cars, thank you ! It's "En gin" though not "enjyne"...

[@cindys1819]

But the listing here is good, but includes a lot of cars which could only marginally be considered sharp flat. And some key sharp flat designs were notable left out.

[@cindys1819]

Well, first of all, the type of car and the Era of designs real name was the SHARP FLAT car design Era. Aprox from the late 60's to the late 70's But the explosion of sharp flat cars was in the 1970 to 74 time frame. They caused a world wide wave of notice mostly very positive

[@garstanforddasilva9663]

What a pity you missed so many wedge shaped production cars and chose one off design exercises instead. The TVR Tasmin was produced in numbers and had a razor sharp nose. I know because I still have mine after thirty years.

[@improvisu]

5:45 this engine is not The original flat 4. Its a swap maybe 1.6 or 1.8 l inline AP, thats is The same md german engine from 80's used in The audi 80 and vw golf mk2

[@antonchigurh3794]

The Lamborghini Urraco and the Pantera are almost identical.

[@ajwasp3642]

No 308gt4, or TR7?

[@vintageman91]

The only one i didnt know about was the lotus.

[@righty-o3585]

Man, even at the time some of those cars were new, they were slow. It's also crazy how they were barely getting 200 horsepower out of those V8. I know technology makes all the difference, but it's still crazy to think about.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

They were small V8's usually 3L or less.

[@righty-o3585]

@@edwardfletcher7790 This video mentions bigger engines than that. Also , there have been very few street cars with V8 3L or smaller

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@@righty-o3585 Only the Ford V8 Pantera & V12 Countach. The vast majority of the pre 80's Italian cars had small V8's. Your car knowledge is obviously only modern. Alfa Romeo, Ferrari & Lamborghini all made 2L V8 road cars. Ferrari even used a 2L V12 in a GT car it built in 1949.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

@koyaanisqatsi316 Thank you for adding that, the exact same tax story as in Japan.

[@martinwatts3796]

Marcos Mantis? Aston Martin Lagonda?

[@redradhako]

Let's be honest - Lotus Esprit and Lancia Stratos are the only ones that matter

[@jonbutzfiscina1307]

What? No Bricklin SV1?

[@nickbongiorno1061]

DeTomaso Pantera ????

[@andeewb]

Great lineup, beautiful sounds. On the downside is the accent, which was difficult to understand to the point of being unintelligible.

[@Squidgy55]

There are subtitles. Can you not read?

[@andeewb]

@@Squidgy55 Reading is not the problem. That comes, when the discrepancy between what I read and what I hear being spoken, is so jarringly different, that it makes simultaneous reading and listening an arduous task.

[@Squidgy55]

@@andeewb Fair enough, I can see your point. We can always just look up the cars for additional info.

[@mr_noodler]

No offence but engine is not pronounced like “en-gine” but more like “en-jin”

[@wellshutchins6885]

Where's the Ferrari Dino?

[@rabola55]

Engine is pronounced "endjin", not "endjain".

[@josmarteixeira1407]

I give you guys a Wedge Allright. Hahaha

[@bmanduprit2962]

I had a 1988 tvr 350i. In white. It was like driving in some Brie 🤣

[@iainburns4493]

What brie larson?that must of been terrible!

[@Santos.Sarmento]

I watched several of your videos and you have a repeated English mispronounced word: ENGINE. It’s “engeene” not “enjaine”.

[@413x398]

It's actually "en jihn", not "en jyn".

[@Santos.Sarmento]

@@413x398 still better phonetic, thanks!

[@413x398]

@@Santos.Sarmento Send me a cookie.

[@Santos.Sarmento]

@@413x398 I have no idea of what is this, how to or what for!

[@413x398]

@@Santos.Sarmento Buy extra large chocolate cookie. Load it into your disc drive. Send it to my channel. I will have for desert. Thank you.

[@18giarr5occo]

Most of this beatiful cars are italian.

[@PeterMayer]

That second one, the Ferrari, that is one of the ugliest, if not the ugliest car I've ever seen.

[@pantera6169]

Most of these never made it to production.

[@joshthemediocre7824]

Imagine the Ferrari 512 with a Tesla conversion to full electric all wheel drive..that's what i would do with it if i owned it, but i'd leave the original paint for the purists out there.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Where are you going to put the 400kg of batteries genius ?

[@Squidgy55]

Sacrilege!

[@pisitumporn3851]

A lot of problems with Urraco.

[@donaldsalkovick396]

Jarama isn't wedge shaped

[@garstanforddasilva9663]

Staggering ignorance or just prejudice. Shallow history of a subject dear to my heart…sad😢

[@muhammadawisabdshahadan1117]

Kan

[@pyrotechnick420]

You have an english car channel but you can't pronounce the word "engine," properly. Mildly infuriating lol

[@kiwiwifi]

Engiiine

[@Johnny-ro5kq]

👌 ｐｒｏｍｏｓｍ

[@rolanddemeyer8856]

Pronounce enginne not engyyyne

[@imaginaryfriend9942]

F me. Modify, so fly.

[@ENZEEVIDS]

that v4 ford engine in the saab was an utter piece of crap!!

[@aung3627]

ရှေးကားများ

[@emersongates8425]

I am going to cancel my subscription, drop me a line when you stop talking during the videos and I will come back!

[@ẞLe55]

Enjain jajajjajaja

[@rolfdejonge3915]

✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🌐 @#rolfdejonge@