It has been around 125 years since the world is using automobiles. We have seen pretty interesting, effective, and affordable vehicles since then. Some cars were futuristic, some made to serve specific purposes, and some made marks due to their weirdness. You must have seen a list of the coolest cars ever or the most classic American cars, but how about a list of the weirdest cars you must have seen?
We’ve turned back the pages of the automobile industry to discover the nine weirdest cars of the automobile industry.
1933 Dymaxion Car
You possibly heard the name of American inventor Buckminister “Bucky” Fuller in your physics class. But the weird car invented by him is not even well known. Fuller wanted a lightweight vehicle that could carry several adults in comfort. The first three Dymaxion Cars were revealed at the Chicago World Fair in 1933, looking like a cross between an aircraft and a car,
What was more unfortunate is that the driver hired to demonstrate the Dymaxion was killed after a politician crashed his car into the Dymaxion. Despite this, Bucky produced two other prototypes that featured two wheels at the front and a third back-mounted wheel used to steer. Due to being extremely unsafe to drive, Fuller crashed his prototype before ending the entire venture several years later.
1953 General Motors Firebird | XP 21
The General Motors Firebird looked like a jet fighter. The prototype’s look was by Harley Earl, one of the automobile industry’s legendary car designers. Apart from Firebird, he created many of General Motor’s attractive models.
1956 BMW Isetta
The “Bubble Car,” designed by an Italian company, was later sold as “BMW Isetta” in 1956. The original Isetta had two wheels in front and two close wheels at the back. But it was not the best feature of Isetta.
There were no side doors on Isetta, and it opens like a refrigerator. The car had a single two-person bench seat. BMW took over the production of Isetta in 1955 and refined the power of the car to a whopping 13 horsepower. Around 161,000 Issetas sold over the car’s production life.
1959 Cadillac Cyclone XP-74
The 1959 Cadillac was another Harley Earl’s iconic design. The car could turn into a convertible by flipping the back of the canopy into the trunk. Cadillac had side doors instead of traditional ones. However, the vehicle lacked roll-down windows. General Motors engineers provided an intercom to talk with people outside the car to beat the problem.
Though the car never made it to production, its features are still in many vehicles. The cyclone had a radar system that scanned the road ahead and alerted the drivers about things in front of the car. Till today, cars have forward-collision warnings and automatic emergency braking systems to do the same for drivers.
