My Dad owned an Isetta in Red with white interior in 1960. Brand new and fun to ride it! As a child, my brother drove it to school when he was 8 years old!

The Testarossa is the most beautiful car ever, all curves and latent power, but the bubble cars are more interesting! Great video, thanks for posting!

Some of those vehicles like the Stout Scarab and the PE50 and the Isetta can be found in the Stahls Automobile Museum in New Baltimore Michigan. It also has some REO Speedwagons and some movie cars like the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Car and the 2 cars driven by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the movie The Great Race!👍

My father-in-law owned a Bubble Car in the late 1960s. He loved it!

Good list. The Stratos pair - while significantly different from each other STILL represent one of the most successful concept to road car built - while relatively rare, what a goer!

The Norman Timbs Special is a great discovery for me. This is the first time I am seeing this masterpiece. One of my favorite cars ever designed is the Mercury Lead Sled, I think it would fit perfectly on your list.

4:45 Electric cars were in use long long before this.

LOVE that Stout Scarab !!

I just love these unique and oddball designs for cars. Every one of them here is either silly or amazing. I laughed when seeing the Isetta because I remembered it from "Family Matters" as Steve Urkel's car. But that Lamborghini Egoista, I think I'm in love! From the moment I saw it I thought it looked like it dropped down from Cybertron. Those lines and angles are a thing of beauty. Now I suddenly want to see models and toys for it since I can never have the real thing. Ideally one of those larger diecast cars but I would settle for a Hot Wheels or a Lego Speed Champion version.

The Stout Scarab is a GORGEOUS Little gem I've never heard of until now. What a BOSS level car ♥️

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These were, and still are, car's ahead of their time...And these one's 🇮🇹 take the 🏆 for style. Them 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 for muscle 💪🏻

This is the first time I am seeing this, It was Strange but nice and cool cars.

Great to see such fun cars. We would also add Smyk - 1957 Polish Microcar

The Egoista reminds me of The Mach 5 from the cartoon of Speed Racer!🤔

It was informative and enjoyable watching..thanks

I do gotta say that some of these designs were incredible. The smaller ones were unique but total death traps.

Nice list with great presentation

Ah! The Isetta, the first BMW with a central locking system.

Mr. B. Here ! Odd ball cars have soft spot in my heart ❤️ just because they are odd ! 👍 👀

The Stout Scarab is cool. I love the design. It would be cool to see one sitting beside an early Chrysler Airflow. The Chrysler Gilda looks so sleek and cool with the fins. I wonder how fast it would go? The Ford Speedster also looks great. I'm sure it inspired later 1930's race cars like those driven in Indy. I have the Deora as a Hotwheels car and a 1/25th scale model kit from MPC. The opening door on the model kit fits so badly though. The Bertone looks soo cool...but I'd hate to drive it in that reclined position, especially on a long drive. The Norman Timbs Special looks like a tear drop with fenders. It's cool. I love the Carabo. My Dad has a book with it in there. I love the color of it. Too bad you didn't include the American Motors AMX III supercar that was designed in Italy.

The Messerschmitt Kabinenroller was a crazy design, a former aircraft company just took the idea of a fighter cockpit and added enough parts until it could be called a car.

Wow All wonderful car's I love it Thanks ❤❤❤❤

Honestly, they need to come out with something similar to that Isetta for regular people like me. Affordable and will get you where you need to go. Cars now are WAY out of my price range, and especially these concepts now costing hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Car companies obviously don't know they can make billions of dollars selling small, basic, cheap cars.

I think the Carabo is the most beautiful thing on four wheels ever created. Does anyone remember an American concept car from the '60s called The Illusion? It was a single seater with an assymetrical body, crazy!

Love the cars from the teens to the 60s :) I know you didn't show earlier than the 30s and maybe sometime you will. My favorite was the Scarab.

The Isetta was later expanded getting a right side door, a third seat and reverse. Several other tiny Italian cars became available, over time.

The KR200 is also known as "der Frosch" (The Frog) here in 🇩🇪. Good Video, very interesting 👍🏻.

The Kantanka Aeroplane is one of the most eye-catching electric vehicles in the world.

In Grandpa’s Isetta i could sit behind the front seat row when i was about 4 years old. So we were 3 Person’s in it. I’m not sure that was allowed but we felt it was. I loved the front door.

very informative and fun to watch, thanks for sharing.

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All of them are beautiful I had never seen most of these amazing works of art....

While in grade school in the late 1950s-early 1960s, the father of one of the girls in school had a green Isetta that he would bring her to school in, some of the mornings. The engine was a 2-stroke, and had the RING-DING-DING-DING sound to it. I was actually embarrassed for her... Then about 10 years ago, I find out that the man (now deceased) who owned the company I now work for, a wholesale pharmaceutical distributorship, also owned the Shreveport Isetta dealership in the late '50s-early '60s. Small world.

I really love the car in the thumbnail!

Love to have and utilize the isetta here in the USA. Looks great!

The Gilda looks like Supercar !

There is an Isetta still operating as a Taxi in the German city of Bremen.

When I went to university in the early 1970's, in Sydney Australia; one of my fellow students had a Messerschmidt that he used to come to class. It was supercool!

I just loved that Norman Timbs Special is my new favorite car!!!!

Like the Alfa Romeo Carabo , also Lancia Stratos was designed by Marcello Gandini , the same designer of Lamborghini Miura and Lamborghini Countach.

Nice. My fav is the HW Deora 2 in real life.

Wow the Alfa and the Lancia, I love them wedge cars. The Alfa I didnt even know existed, what a car!.

The ISETTA is actually an Italian project, produced by ISO Rivolta who then sold the rights to BMW

One reason why the Isetta was so small was that after WWII, materials were scarce. Less metal was available for the body, and all the other parts. You could probably make 2 Isettas from the metal that'd make a full sized BMW sedan. Gas was scare to.

Love the old school thinking, and space age looks to these great vehicles, some of them still have the Lambo design of today, Norman Timbs, you just can`t get fenders to flow much more than that.

Absolutely wonderful, and with oil, petrol expense etc these different shaped cars small , if you just going from a+b they wonderful

When it's not disguised as a car the Lamboghini Egoista is a giant robot.

Some scenes about the BMW Isetta don't Show the Isetta but the BMW 600, which was a 4 später. Like the Isettta It had a door in its front for the Driver and one passenger and one additional sidedoor for two fürther passengers.

Interesting Unique and many I havent Even seen in in My 50 + Years Of Driving & magazines. Good Info Vid! Thanx

The Oeuf Electrique is so beautiful man

instead of calling it BMW Isetta, it should be called Iso Isetta, from the company that also made Iso Griffith, the fastest car of its time. Weird combination of cars they made.

I went to high school in the 60s. My biology teacher had an Isetta. It was a very cool car.

They had a lot of electric cars back in the early 1900s check out Jay leno's Baker electric. They were used by ladies that didn't want to mess with cranking their gas car by hand or dealing with starting the boiler on steam cars

Well the Isetta haz really sppreciated in the last 5 years. Saw then for $15k then. Now they go from around $40k USD to $100k !! Im surprised the Isetta ( modernized tech) didnt come back to compete with Mercedes Smart Cars . They're are practical little ergonomic cars. . And doing 60 mph downtown is still considered acceptable . Except by the law .🚔

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The Deora's roof and lift-up windshield are actually the rear roof section and upper tailgate from a 1960 Ford station wagon. The decorative chrome frames on the side exhaust ports are Mustang taillight bezels turned 90 degrees.

The Scarab reminds me of my naughty cat.

There should be a Wingho Concordia II too

My classic ride is a 1972 SS elcamino but that Scarub is something i would love to own and drive

My uncle had a BMW Isetta. When I was a kid, it sat in the back of my Grandpa's shop. and all of us grand kids would sit in it and pretend to drive. No idea whatever happened to it. I know they moved it to a semi trailer my grandpa used as a storage container to make more room in the shop, but don't know what happened to it after that.

Great video, and very astute descriptions.

i still see the cirtroen DS driving around these days

nice cars but we never got them on the road

The Isetta is just being revived under the Name: Microlino. Unfortunately quite expensive. But electric.

The tiny cars look scary to me!!!

some of them far futuristic than cybertruck lmao

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The front end of the Egoista reminds me of the Mach 5 from Speed Racer.

Nice video. I enjoyed watching this video.

My friend owed the Norman Timbs, It was lossed in the Malabu fire 5 years ago along with his complete colection

Why can’t we have cool cars made like this quality and artistic design today? LAZY!

Progettisti italiani sono i migliori. Ghia, Bertoni, ISO Rivolta, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Maserati, Giugiaro, Bertone, bellezze senza tempo.

Very interesting selection! Thank you!

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I think it's a bit unfair to include one-off/concept vehicles like '55 Chrysler Ghia. I mean, make a one-off sedan out of toothpicks and, voila! One of the strangest cars ever made. Cheers....

They have little 3 wheeled hatchback in China, they were also electric used as taxis as well as company cars

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Amazing. Memories from Brazil.

Hahahaha nice.. it is like jetson cartoon has come to life

uh, the Oeuf was most certainly not one of the first electric cars. It was sixty years too late for that claim.

I recognize the BMW Isetta because that's Steve Urkel's car he drove in my top favorite sitcom of all time Family Matters

Definitely unique looking cars, would be good on fuel and parking no blind spots.

I would love to see them today

Wish you had also put current value of each of these cars

The Urikelmoble 😂

What about the Bond Bug?

My older brother had an Iseta , it was pretty cool .

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I wouldn't even sit in half of those things

I once saw the 1959 Firebird III concept car, code name: XP-73, at the Sloan Museum in Flint, MI. I checked their site and it doesn't look like it's there at the moment. It had TWO bubble canopies and looked 100 times better than the Firebird I concept car IMO. It has a fiberglass body with seven short wings and tail fins, more than a real jet! They went crazy with the fins. And instead of a steering wheel, it had a joystick between the seats. Wikipedia has 2 pictures of it, and pics of the Firebird I and Firebird II. The 1956 Firebird II, code name: XP-43 was fugly, but the Fierebird III made up for it. It was so futuristic looking, it would look at home in a science fiction movie made today.

The car with the door being at front is a bad idea ...little crash and your gone or left trapped inside of it

The Ford Speedster made a distinctive guitar riff played by people with long beards be heard in my mind.

Not at all a car connoisseur, I came here expecting mention of Etzels. I came away with a lot more names than I'd ever encountered before. And a small amount of surprise that Etzels were never mentioned at all. Good piece, in any case.

If Only they had Just invented the Electric Golf cart in the 50's that we should all be driving around town today.

The Stout Scarab is very cool.

Good luck in an accident with anything other than a pedestrian in those mini cars.

There are only two craziest cars, the first and last ever made.

Some interesting modern cars that could be included in this list are the Aptera and Sparrow EV.