Three Cars With Unusual Design

Designing a car is one of the core functions of entire car making process. The four wheeled, power driven wagon can be put together in infinite number of ways. Lakhs of car models have come on roads till date. In the world of automobiles these models have separate basis for categorization. In these lakhs of car models, there have been a few hundreds, which have looked unusual when compared to other models. There may be various purposes behind designing cars in a distinguishable manner. But these unusual cars sure do raise few eye brows when they are around because of their looks or qualities. Unusual in this context means, something that is really different at the time of its birth. Three such models are picked in this article and a few aspects of their design have been discussed here.

Tango 600:

Standing at 3 ft 3 inch in width and 2.57m in length, Tango 600 is one of the thinnest cars of modern times. It is a car which was built, keeping in mind the road traffic and parking problems in USA in current era. The electric car can seat the driver and another passenger within the small cabin. It is said that, with these cars the vehicle capacity of roads are doubled with no hassles of traffic jam. The top speed of this car is up to 150 mph. It is surprising that Tango 600 is slimmer than some of the bikes available in USA.

Isetta:

This was a car built after World War when the countries struck by the war were badly in need of cheap mode of transport. An Italian firm came up with the unique design of this car which resembles a bubble. Thereby these cars and all those models that followed in later stages which carried same design were called ‘bubble cars’. These cars have their doors on front and can accommodate two to three people. The steering wheel assembly is mounted on the door itself. The rear axle is slightly shorter in length than the front axle making the tail of the car smaller than the face. Isetta models used single cylinder engines and very highly fuel efficient which increased their popularity and inspired many other car makers to come up with similar models.

General Motors Firebird:

General Motors had no other intention than showcasing the extremes of technology in designing cars when they built Fire Bird models. These cars were simply concepts which gave wheels to fighter jets. They used gas turbine engines and had lot of build qualities that resembled jets. The company showcased this concept in three different stages. The first model was a single seater car which resembled cockpit. The second car had four seats, tail fin, air intakes and used 200 hp gas turbine engine. This car used kerosene for fuel and also had disc brakes. All the models of Fire Bird concept had bubble like top cover which let the driver and passenger have free view of the world around.