We did just that. The residual value made it a steal. In addition, I my car only has 14K miles, why return the car, leave money on the table, and then have to fight the battle to buy a new car.

I wonder how many folks who leased shortly before Covid found themselves with a relatively cheap buyout in the last 12 months and just decided to buy the car outright. My parents were in that boat with a 3 year old Q5 that had like 12k miles on it. The pre-determined buyout price made it a steal.

And after that he designed the Hino Samurai, which also never got to race. It was so good in testing that Toyota leaned on race officials to change the rules so it couldn’t compete.

Damn, their sources didn’t even request to be anonymous for this. They clearly had their lawyers review the article beforehand, and the sources absolutely do not give a fuck. Kudos.

Yeah, however, Barris was sort of beyond a normal customizer in many respects.

I thought of the Chrysler Turbine and dismissed it because there were multiple made. But there’s a turbine car that is a one off - the GM Ecojet.

The Cadillac Sixteen. 1,000 HP / 1,000 lb/ft 13.6l V16

How can it be anything other than the Chrysler Turbine car?  I suppose it’s not really a ‘one-off’ since 50 were made... but the insanity of it deserves mention.

They also stuffed one in an X5 for some reason.

Since someone already posted Furai, I nominate Maybach Excelero

What if a 1971 Pontiac Firebird and a Ferrari Daytona had a baby? It’s an insane question, but GM came up with this answer:

The Nissan GTR Juke was pretty rad. Ended up making five of them so probably disqualified. 690 horsepower in this thing, bananas. 

how about the 1938 Phantom Corsair. Built on a FWD V8 Cord platform, used aluminum body work, supported by a steel tube frame, push button automatic doors, and all kinds of other weird stuff for the time. It was also funded using Heinz ketchup money!

Without a shadow of a doubt, the V8 Cygnet, a car that made little sense as it was, and even less sense with a V8 (although it’s cool as heck)

Shelby Daytona Type 65 “Super Coupe” (Chassis CSB3054) with the 427ci. It had a completely redesigned body by original designer Pete Brock. As the front had to be extended to accommodate the 427 block. And, since that changed the dynamics of car, he had to reshape the whole thing.

Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 7

BMW 750 with a V16 and trunk mounted radiator. Goldfisch

I’m also going to nominate the Mazda Furai to this list, because well… Furai…

Lamborghini has to make this list, so I will nominate perhaps the weirdest one of them all: Egoista

BMW M3 Pickup