Why Concept Cars are NEVER Released, even when they ARE !

[@jonevansauthor]

Concept cars are almost identical to the catwalk shows in London. The spectacularly weird dress someone made from recycled tires and a batch of kippers, becomes a blue Gingham summer dress sold for £20 by the tens of thousands.

[@calmcanuck]

" recycled tires and a batch of kippers" made me choke on my coffee! Priceless.

[@williamgrunzweig571]

This deserves a thumbs 👍

[@machoopichoo2]

When you mentioned the lip hiding the panel gap by being part of the design, it reminded me of the saying, "don't fix it, feature it."

[@andrewsaint6581]

Honda E with actual range would have been a legendary car. Mass produced with door cam "mirrors' too.

[@garymunson2493]

About the last concept cat to make it to production almost untouched was the Caddy Converj. It came out as the ELR. We loved ours for 7 years then traded it on a Tesla as Cadillac pretty much abandoned it. Not much in the way of parts available for a vehicle that sold less numbers than DeLoreans.

[@davidhuber6251]

Concept cars can be fun to look at. Kinda like Hot Wheels cars or model spaceships. Hopefully, they occasionally stumble on a good idea that is actually practical.

[@EnriqueAThieleSolivan]

The CyberTruck was released. Most people would not note the difference: a 3% reduction in size + external mirrors (not needed with FSD after the first half of 2025).

[@Clean_Repair_Maintain]

You missed basically all the Tesla cars 😂 especially cybertruck!

[@FutureAzA]

Tesla is awfully unique in that regard. Their versions at unveiling are not radically different from what they ultimately produce. I got a good look at them at the Petersen Museum. They're really close.

[@williamgrunzweig571]

Great video. I remember going to the Detroit Autoshow back around the eary 2000s, so many concepts...that never came to be. That was the same weekend I visited the Chrysler P Museum. Fascinating Museum. After those 2 experiences I came to realise concept cars were pointless marketing...just a bunch of what ifs. Seeing real history and comparing it against wishful ambitions...made seeing some new ev concepts clear losers. 👍👍

[@slowercuber7767]

5:25 I think the Wkndr looks pretty cool: kind of like the vehicle running around on a lunar or martian landscape in a b-grade sci-fi, or perhaps in a Major Matt Mason action figure set.

[@slowercuber7767]

15:27 Pretty sure the statue of David is only missing its "short arm". But perhaps what I've seen in pictures (never been to Italy) was (mostly) reconstructed?

[@machoopichoo2]

The Honda E is super cute. It's the Hello Kitty of cars.

[@calmcanuck]

Car show concepts (when they were cars) used to be fantastic. The Italian and French extreme concepts, unlikely to be produced, served as launch pads for new design elements. In the 90's Chrysler and Cadillac were audacious with their concepts and often brought them, in whole or part, to fruition. All of these modern concepts look like bricks with varying decoration on them. Rather sad.

[@slowercuber7767]

Actually, that Plymouth monstrosity around 12:50 would be an interesting and possibly practical alternative to an RV, though I fear that kitchen and other plumbing looks like it might not fit inside the shell, most likely have to be some sort of slide out and unfold arrangement, but it might be achievable.

[@FutureAzA]

They were thinking outside the box. Gotta respect that.

[@slowercuber7767]

@@FutureAzA Be sure to check out my comment about the TRD ... we are definitely living in a simulation. A sim of what, I'm not sure...

[@Rob_Womack]

Thanks Brian!

[@jackcoats4146]

Great concept for a continuing series. I like the Tesla Van, but the Robovan is a bit to retro for me to enjoy. I like the Canoe looks for the most part. Even a smaller Tesla Semi frontend 'ish' would be better for the Van.

[@mikadavies660]

How about all the Concept BEVs that Toyota said they were going to release? I personally haven't seen any of them.,..

[@EnriqueAThieleSolivan]

They were close to 30 different models. They have the BZ line wich IS a flop.

[@slowercuber7767]

10:36 oh my, that looks sweet (the 1% less impractical Honda) and I bet its coefficient of friction is solidly under 0.2 (better than the Model 3, but not as good as is claimed by Aptera). I was trying to get Grok to draw something like this just the other day (never succeeded).

[@FutureAzA]

I've had terrible luck getting Grok to generate images.

[@machoopichoo2]

I have concepts of a plan. I know it's an obvious reference but the Voyager III truly is the Homer car.

[@slowercuber7767]

8:50 I find it strange that Cadillac would think ending the names of an entire line of cars with "-ick" (phonetically) was a good idea.

[@geirmyrvagnes8718]

Loved the little Honda concept, and it was sort of built with the slight difference that the concept was a boy who is into sports, while the production was a girl who is into computer games. Or something. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they made it too cute. I think with some cool wheels/wheel arches and a painted roof it would almost be back to the concept look.

[@johannesdolch]

"We will built that. And it will look like that."

[@CyberTahoe]

"These concepts won't make it to production because not everyone will like the minor aesthetic changes we've made" Meanwhile Cybertruck: 🗿 🤣

[@ElfDestruct]

Not like I would spend enough money on a car to ever buy one, but the Miura concept not releasing Still has me angry more than a decade later.

[@sandmehlig]

The electrified Genesis GV70 2026 update does not look that much different from the 2023 model - and five days ago electrek thought it is still coming in 2025.

[@machoopichoo2]

Why does Polestar (Geely) think an EV still needs a grill? I know Chinese cars often copy western designs but at least they usually pick good ones to copy.

[@stefanpredl6849]

Magna Steyr in Austria

[@enighostmaster]

The KIA concept looks like a Canoo concept from 5 yrs ago

[@slowercuber7767]

4:17 out of the park? No I'd call the TRD out of the sandbox thinking. Worst designation for a vehicle name since Robocop's 6000 SUX, but I might buy that for a dollar!

[@GabrielGABFonseca]

I stumbled into this video at random and I must admit I'm a bit disappointed. I was expecting a bigger, deeper dive into the "why" of their not being made, instead of the rapid-fire version the video is. That said, the video itself was good! Just not what I was expecting based on the title. If you were to make a follow-up explaining the reasons you mentioned in this video at depth, I'd love to watch it.

[@tallbudha]

I was in Tokyo couple weeks ago and saw in a Nissan show room. "Hyper Punk" very cool fully electric crazy angles all over very cool looking. They will never make it.

[@highlanderapparel]

You said seventy six g t s pretty sure you meant sixty seven I know because Pete Gruber and I both owned nineteen sixty nine roadrunners, 😂😂😂

[@davidgutting4317]

Great episode, auto brands need to be less of a sdic

[@batchint]

you have to ask what is tesla’s carbon footprint

[@EnriqueAThieleSolivan]

Very small compared to anyone else manufactured cars. The Germany giga factory reuses 90% of their water, making it the most efficient in water use in the world.

[@FutureAzA]

A couple years ago I crunched the numbers on the C02 payback for building Giga Texas, and it was something absurd like 6-months of ramping production to offset all of it.

[@GrigoriZhukov]

Eh, I quit caring about concept cars and motorcycles around the second Clinton administration.