10 Bizarre inventions you need to see to believe
Post-war Japan has been a place that hosted the technology with open arms and often favored a penchant for outlandish inventions Inheriting this particular trend was also Japan's auto industry that has produced some seriously quirky cars from Kei small cars, a series of sports car that reflects a bygone era.
Take a ride with us on this train sushi as we explore the strange and wonderful rides to the land of the rising sun.
This stylish and elegant coupe was based on the design of a Triumph Spitfire and seems completely cut classic textbook to the untrained eye When history hits in front however is under the hood that it was the first car to Wankel rotary engine Mazda.
Its importance in the history of the automobile is undeniable because it has dual rotary design engineer Felix Wankel in the mainstream, setting the standard for all future rotary Mazda cars in the world was only built between 1967 and 1176 1972 with the 130hp rally car in its central 982cc it was considered unorthodox at the time, but without which there would be no way for modern high power rotaries as the RX-7 to exist.
This small two diminutive squares was built by Mazda in the early 90s and called Autozam AZ-1 Falling in popular cars in the car category Kei can avoid some taxes because of their minor emissions and size the AZ-1 packed three-cylinder, 657cc, turbocharged engine mounted behind the driver, with gull-wing doors and weighing less than 725 kg lighter than making Lotus Elise.
Designed to be a fun car handling, AZ-1 packs a powerful 64hp with tuners extract more out of it over the years to go faster, the doors seem very thin too so you'll probably maimed in crash lateral.
One of the most interesting models out of the Toyota camp in the early 90s was the Will Corolla gull wings of all kinds if you Reflecting what was considered cool time, Will be presented the glass roof scan that formed the doors curve to give the car a unique and futuristic He even managed to raise a small cult around the world, selling around 16,000 cars in its 5-year production cycle.
The performance was just typical Toyota with a 1 5-liter engine driving the front wheels in fury.
An icon in the world of the strange Japanese cars is Nissan Figaro It looks like it came off the production line in the 1960s, but originated in fact in 1991 he saw production for only one year, the demand for vintage looking Figaro at the time was so high that the production had to be doubled and a ballot set up to select the buyers it's powered by a turbocharged four cylinder 987cc to give her some baby-spec blistering performance .
A Japan first ever supercar that never saw the light of day was zero Dome Dome was Japanese racing company that designed countless 1975 racing cars and open-wheel categories including F1 As booming fortunes of Japan as carmaker has reached its peak in the 70s, the group decided to build their own Japanese supercar.
In 1978, Zero made its debut at the Geneva Motor, with an Italian wedgy shape, slim canopy that would make Homer Simpson weep and clues that could only be described as Back to the Future before it Fueled by even made a Datsun line six, the car offers optimal performance with the power to weight ratio of the Porsches of the time.
Another in the list of crazy-cold Kei cars is the worship aptly named Midget II Daihatsu This second car generation hailed 90s and packed a small engine of 660 cc He came either in a car or two places was noted for its unusual design of a spare tire mounted on the front of the car, we're not too sure what the load capacity of this car is, but we do not recommend you drive celui- one on a construction site to impress the boys.
Leading the Kei car care for people mover category is the Subaru 360 1970 Yes, you will stand taller than yes garner you many surprised looks a good course means Weighing just 498 kg with a length of just under 3 meters, the van 360 was designed by Subaru for Japanese occupations powerful two-stroke, the two-cylinder 360cc engine maintains incredible payload of 362 kg which is about 70 of its own weight, is also considered one of the world's cutest vans 5 stars Dream on security, dweeb.
Honda Vamos is a modern business rather bland and boxy but The original was an entirely different beast, he shared a similar design to the Midget with its front facing the spare tire which was a trend in the 70s around when this car was released the open Kei car roof also has a removable roof soft cloth and an engine with two cylinder 354cc for serious lead footers there an ideal companion for beach hoons, you can think of that -ci as the least convenient Jeep ever made.
One of the strangest and probably the ugliest deals Japan is the Mitsuoka Orochi Ceasing Production in 2014, the car's name is taken from the legendary Japanese dragon 8 heads, where the lines of reptilian body as, bulging headlights and Mitsuoka intake holes were categorized as a super fashion car-and adds that Orochi is the car to drive to gather the attention of everyone We definitely agree with it.
The performance is derived from a Toyota Camry V6 March 3 liters in a layout amidships driving the rear wheels international reception was lukewarm at best, with the vote Jalopnik it the ugliest of the automotive world.
Yes, the Isuzu truck manufacturer once tried to build a sports off-road and VehiCROSS the result was rather surprising with flowing lines that are rarely on 4WDs yet only now it was ten years ago, the VehiCROSS became available on the Japanese coast in 1997 and was powered by a V6 with 3 5L full time all wheel drive and torque to the TOD application.
It was not to be good, with industry experts who praised design and excellent bold handling capacity of the vehicle, adding that its demise came from low production, the fact that consumers were unaware of what the car could do, and the lack of proper manual transmission sad face.
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