The four most "funny" cars in automobile history have no head and tail and no reverse gear.

Since 1885, when karl benz built the first car in the world, the car calendar has been 135 years, and many classic and excellent models have appeared in this long history. Of course, everything has two sides. Where there is success, there is naturally failure. If it's just a simple failure mode, it's easy to say, but today these four models are somewhat unprofessional. So how do these negative materials make people remember? Let's take a look today.

Vehicle name: Zündapp? Janus

Funny reason: the front and back of the car are not easy to distinguish, and the seats are "back to back".

Description: This is definitely a great model. In order to embody enough personalized design, designers may make the front and rear of the car exactly the same. Not only that, the way the front and rear doors enter and exit, as well as the back-to-back seat layout of the "quarrel" style, all give this car an inexplicable sense of joy.

Zun dapp is a German motorcycle company, founded in 19 17, belonging to a large German motorcycle manufacturer at that time. That's right! They have never produced a car, and Janus is the only car produced by this company, probably before the collapse of 1984, and they didn't expect that it was this mini-car named Janus that went down in history.

Zündapp？ Janus 1957 was officially released and positioned as a 4-seat mini-car. As mentioned above, Zündapp is a motorcycle manufacturer, so Janus laid the foundation of comedy from the beginning of research and development. It is reported that Zündapp just wants to build a motorcycle that won't get wet when driving in rainy days, so Janus was born.

You may have found that Janus's design is very similar to that of BMW Isetta. In fact, Janus' design is based on the style of Isetta, the same way of opening the front door and the lovely headlight design, but Janus is bolder than Isetta, just like putting the back ends of two Isetta models together, so that even the seats are not adjusted, so there is a back-to-back seat layout.

Because there is no door on the side of the car body, and the shapes of the front and rear are so similar, it is really difficult to distinguish the front and rear from the side, but even if you look at the two ends of the car body, if you don't pay attention to the position of the steering wheel, few people may be able to distinguish the front and the rear.

Such a funny design comes at a price. It is recorded that once on a highway in Germany, a driver thought that a car was driving in the opposite direction because he couldn't tell the head from the tail of Janus, and he collided with a car in the next lane during emergency avoidance. In addition to funny design and security risks, Zündapp? Janus is also equipped with a motorcycle single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 0.245L The maximum power of this engine is only 14HP. It is reported that the top speed of this car is only 40 kilometers per hour. ..

Vehicle name: BMW Isetta three-wheel version

Funny reason: three wheels and doors are located in the front of the car, and there is no reverse gear.

Description: BMW Isetta was introduced by BMW on 1955. At that time, BMW introduced it mainly to value the economy of the car. In fact, when BMW released Isetta at 1955, it attracted much attention. Its cheap price and excellent fuel economy performance made it very popular and sold well.

What's above is Zündapp? We have already mentioned the BMW Isetta in the Janus model. When it comes to the design of the front door, BMW Isetta is definitely the originator. But in fact, Isetta's design did not come from the hands of BMW designers from the beginning. The shape of this car was developed and designed by an Italian automobile manufacturer named Isomoto. Later, BMW was very optimistic about the potential of the car, so it bought the copyright of Isetta from Isomoto.

In fact, BMW Isetta is included in this list of funny models, not just because of its design. Cute rather than interesting. Many people describe the car as an egg with three wheels, plus two headlights similar to frog eyes. The BMW Isetta is simply a physical version of the Q version of the car in an animation.

The way the front door is opened is really weird, but in fact, the purpose of this design is to facilitate passengers to get on and off. After all, the size of Isetta is too small, and it is too difficult to bend down from the side of the car. Perhaps in order to give passengers another way to get on and off, BMW Isetta also designed a very fashionable soft-top convertible system. For a low body, it seems not difficult to turn over and get off from the convertible position.

In terms of power, the early Isetta was equipped with a 0.236-liter single-cylinder engine with a maximum power of 9.5 HP, but later BMW also introduced an upgraded version of maximum power 12 HP. At the same time, in order to improve the driving stability of the vehicle, the original three-wheel design was changed to four-wheel.

Finally, the really interesting design of this car. The BMW Isetta three-wheel version has no reverse gear, which means that as a car, it can only move forward, and it can only get off and push when it needs to reverse. Maybe the designer thinks it is not difficult to push such a light car, but he may forget that the design of the front door can't control the direction when pushing, so if you drive a BMW Isetta three-wheeled version, you must think about the route and parking position to avoid going back.

Vehicle name: Confidence number? robin

Funny reason: motorcycle or car? Nicknamed "plastic pig", rollover accidents occur frequently.

Description: It is hard to say whether this is a motorcycle or a car, because in the process of R&D and design, the manufacturer wanted to build an economical and low-end car, but after Robin was officially released, it was defined as a three-wheeled motorcycle by the British government. The advantage is that buying this car in Britain can enjoy the same taxes and license fees as motorcycles, which is much cheaper than cars. At the same time, you don't need a motorcycle license to drive this car. I don't know these benefits.

Reliant is a British automobile manufacturer. 1973, the company launched the Robin model, aiming at creating an economical car that everyone can afford. In fact, the appearance of the car at that time was quite dynamic and novel. The double-door shape, the design similar to sliding back and a waistline design running through the side of the car body all make it look very suitable for the positioning of economical small cars.

But the interesting thing is. The car has a three-wheeled design, which is different from the BMW Isetta above. The car puts independent wheels on the front axle of the car, which is completely the design of a three-wheeled motorcycle. For such a "car" with a length/width/height of 3327/ 1422/ 1372mm, this design looks like this.

You can imagine how easy it is to roll over, but that's not the point. In order to reduce the weight of the car, Robin's body is all made of glass fiber. As a result, it is really light, weighing only 450 kilograms, and it is really fragile! You don't have to collide. When you roll over, it will cause serious injury to the occupants in the car. Therefore, combined with the design of small feet and big body and fiberglass body, the driver gave a nickname: plastic pig.

Robin's power is better than the above two cars. It is equipped with a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 0.848 liters, and the transmission system is also matched with a 4-speed automatic gearbox, which is much more advanced than the above two cars. However, from the perspective of car safety and stability, such "excellent" performance is neither a blessing nor a curse.

Vehicle name: Saab 92

Funny reason: As long as you drive, you must keep stepping on the accelerator, otherwise the engine will be damaged due to insufficient lubrication.

Model description: As we all know, Saab is a manufacturer that started with the production of airplanes, so what will the cars they produce look like? Saab 92 is the first mass production model produced by the company. The car was officially released on 1949. At that time, the car had many advanced technologies, including the ultra-low wind resistance of 0.30, the body formed by stamping all steel plates and so on.

As the first mass production model of Saab, Saab 92 is highly anticipated. The car officially went offline on 1949 and was positioned as a coupe. As a car produced by an aircraft manufacturer, how can Saab 92 not have a bright spot? The first is the appearance design of the car body, which may not be obvious in front, but the side shape of the car body is very streamlined. The large slip-back design is very elegant, and it also provides the car with ultra-low wind resistance of 0.30. Was this drag coefficient horizontal at that time? Is Ferrari F40 classic enough? The drag coefficient of Saab 92 is lower than that of this super sports car that was launched decades later!

In addition, the body strength of Saab 92 model is also a highlight. The car used a very advanced stamping process of a whole steel plate at that time, and the whole body was formed, and then the door, hood, trunk lid and other parts were removed and reinstalled. This greatly improves the safety performance of the vehicle.

After the advantages, let's look at its funny side. Let's talk about its power first. The car is equipped with an in-line two-cylinder gasoline engine with a displacement of 0.746 liters, and the maximum power can reach 28 horsepower. The transmission system is a 3-speed manual gearbox. Such performance parameters were already at the dominant level at that time, but it was precisely because of this two-cylinder engine that Saab 92 was the funniest.

This kind of engine must add fuel containing engine oil when working, that is to say, if there is no gasoline to bring engine oil into the engine, the engine will be damaged due to lack of lubrication. In order to avoid this situation, the car must always be in the state of stepping on the accelerator when driving, and the oil will be under-lubricated when receiving oil.

Perhaps Saab's engineers thought that there was no conflict when designing this car, and sliding without neutral could be avoided. But they seem to forget that there is another road called downhill, that is to say, when the car goes downhill, it can't slide in neutral, and it can't lift the throttle. Even if the inertia speed is too fast, it must step on the throttle. This death squad driving mode is worthy of being a car produced by an aircraft manufacturer.

I found four "funny" models for you today. They are all "classics" in the history of 135 years. In fact, you should also find that no matter how funny these three cars are, each car has a classic design worth learning in their time. It is precisely because of the experience and lessons of these models that we can repeatedly accumulate the advantages and disadvantages of the design and finally have our modern car.

In fact, even in modern times, there are many funny models similar to these four cars, and the appearance of these cars also contains many reasons. The former is a bad manufacturer worthy of sympathy or opportunism. In the final analysis, they are seeking to change and break through themselves, while the latter may gain benefits in a short time, but will eventually be eliminated and condemned.

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