13 Worst Vehicle Fails Throughout History
These vehicles are epic fails throughout history as we know it. From cars voted the worst in England to the super ist pink cars! \r
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# 7 1899 Horsey Horseless\r
The 1899 Horsey Horseless was made in a time when automobiles were chugging alongside horse-drawn buggies, and so, its inventor Uriah Smith decided that horses needed to be slowly integrated with this new concept. In order to not spook horses with an engine drawn buggy, Uriah thought it would be smart to put a fake horse head at the front of their car. The fake horse would fool real horses just long enough so that by the time the buggy was turning the corner, the horse wouldnt even catch on! What a great idea. Its unknown whether any of these were ually manufured, but if I would have to guess, Id probably say no.\r
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# 6 1913 Scripps-Booth Bi-Autogo\r
Its kind of hard to identify this vehicle as a car or a bike since its kind of both. This mistake of a motorized vehicle was conceived by James Scripps-Booth, an heir to a publishing fortune and a self-taught engineer. This is the Bi-Autogo, a 3200-pound motorcycle that comes with training wheels. The entirety of its enormous weight would be put on two of its wooden wheels. At slower speeds, the driver could deploy two little training wheels to make sure that the bike wouldnt just flop over onto its side. The Bi-Autogo is not only an eyesore but a barely driveable bike-car hybrid thing. \r
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# 5 1955 Dodge La Femme\r
Back in the 1950s when blatant misogyny was Americas favorite pastime, Dodge came out with the 1955 Dodge La Femme - the car that even a woman could drive! It was basically a Dodge Royal Lancer with a pink and white paint job and pink interior seating and even came with a purse loaded with “everything a woman needs” and a pink umbrella. Surprisingly, the car didnt sell well. It might have been because the original Royal Lancer wasnt exly the best car in the world before its “feminization”. It was only manufured for two years before someone up in marketing realized women could drive any of the other cars they were making. \r
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# 4 Reliant Robin\r
The Reliant Robin first appeared on the markets in the 1970s. Their shtick was that they could be driven on a motorbike license, but in order to achieve that they needed to be below a certain weight limit. To get this car to meet that limit, it did shave down many features a standard car might have, which made it perform pretty poorly and feel pretty uncomfortable. It earned the nickname “plastic pig” because of its shape and fibreglass body. It was even voted “Worst British Car Ever” in new. They have maintained their relevance to the present day with middle-aged men who enjoy racing them. However, they dont go very fast, and theyre notoriously easy to flip over if they make a turn too fast, so the racing aspect might be a novelty. \r
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# 3 Disk Drive\r
This car from Washington state is a real ode to the golden age of computers when the internet was a new frontier and we used huge plastic disks to store two bytes of data. Its covered entirely in floppy disks and even comes complete with a license plate that says “DISKDRV”. So not only is this car outdated, its covered in outdated memory storage devices. \r
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# 2 1961 Amphicar\r
The 1961 Amphicar seems like an innovation in the auto industry rather than one of the Worst Vehicles In History, but its ually not as agile as it may seem. The Amphicar promises to make a seamless transition between land and water but when it came to ually executing that, it fell short. It was about as maneuverable on land as any 50-year-old car, but once it was treading water, it would slow to a speed of about 7 miles-per-hour. It also was not as watertight as one would hope it would be. If its bilge pump failed to remove water as fast as it leaked in, the Amphicar would quickly become an Amphi-Anchor. If you were going to drown in a boat going 7mph might as well do it in a stylish classic car.\r
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#1 1966 Peel Trident\r
This is half-car half experiment called the Peel Trident on the Isle of Man in the 1960s, most likely just for show rather than for utility. The Trident is 4 feet and 2 inches tall and almost that wide. Its a realization of those old retro-futuristic illustrations of what the future would look like complete with a plexiglass bubble top that makes you look like youre on the Jetsons. It might look cute and kitschy, but if you drove around underneath that glass roof, it would turn into a magnifying glass and cook you alive underneath the summer sun.
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# 7 1899 Horsey Horseless\r
The 1899 Horsey Horseless was made in a time when automobiles were chugging alongside horse-drawn buggies, and so, its inventor Uriah Smith decided that horses needed to be slowly integrated with this new concept. In order to not spook horses with an engine drawn buggy, Uriah thought it would be smart to put a fake horse head at the front of their car. The fake horse would fool real horses just long enough so that by the time the buggy was turning the corner, the horse wouldnt even catch on! What a great idea. Its unknown whether any of these were ually manufured, but if I would have to guess, Id probably say no.\r
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# 6 1913 Scripps-Booth Bi-Autogo\r
Its kind of hard to identify this vehicle as a car or a bike since its kind of both. This mistake of a motorized vehicle was conceived by James Scripps-Booth, an heir to a publishing fortune and a self-taught engineer. This is the Bi-Autogo, a 3200-pound motorcycle that comes with training wheels. The entirety of its enormous weight would be put on two of its wooden wheels. At slower speeds, the driver could deploy two little training wheels to make sure that the bike wouldnt just flop over onto its side. The Bi-Autogo is not only an eyesore but a barely driveable bike-car hybrid thing. \r
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# 5 1955 Dodge La Femme\r
Back in the 1950s when blatant misogyny was Americas favorite pastime, Dodge came out with the 1955 Dodge La Femme - the car that even a woman could drive! It was basically a Dodge Royal Lancer with a pink and white paint job and pink interior seating and even came with a purse loaded with “everything a woman needs” and a pink umbrella. Surprisingly, the car didnt sell well. It might have been because the original Royal Lancer wasnt exly the best car in the world before its “feminization”. It was only manufured for two years before someone up in marketing realized women could drive any of the other cars they were making. \r
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# 4 Reliant Robin\r
The Reliant Robin first appeared on the markets in the 1970s. Their shtick was that they could be driven on a motorbike license, but in order to achieve that they needed to be below a certain weight limit. To get this car to meet that limit, it did shave down many features a standard car might have, which made it perform pretty poorly and feel pretty uncomfortable. It earned the nickname “plastic pig” because of its shape and fibreglass body. It was even voted “Worst British Car Ever” in new. They have maintained their relevance to the present day with middle-aged men who enjoy racing them. However, they dont go very fast, and theyre notoriously easy to flip over if they make a turn too fast, so the racing aspect might be a novelty. \r
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# 3 Disk Drive\r
This car from Washington state is a real ode to the golden age of computers when the internet was a new frontier and we used huge plastic disks to store two bytes of data. Its covered entirely in floppy disks and even comes complete with a license plate that says “DISKDRV”. So not only is this car outdated, its covered in outdated memory storage devices. \r
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# 2 1961 Amphicar\r
The 1961 Amphicar seems like an innovation in the auto industry rather than one of the Worst Vehicles In History, but its ually not as agile as it may seem. The Amphicar promises to make a seamless transition between land and water but when it came to ually executing that, it fell short. It was about as maneuverable on land as any 50-year-old car, but once it was treading water, it would slow to a speed of about 7 miles-per-hour. It also was not as watertight as one would hope it would be. If its bilge pump failed to remove water as fast as it leaked in, the Amphicar would quickly become an Amphi-Anchor. If you were going to drown in a boat going 7mph might as well do it in a stylish classic car.\r
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#1 1966 Peel Trident\r
This is half-car half experiment called the Peel Trident on the Isle of Man in the 1960s, most likely just for show rather than for utility. The Trident is 4 feet and 2 inches tall and almost that wide. Its a realization of those old retro-futuristic illustrations of what the future would look like complete with a plexiglass bubble top that makes you look like youre on the Jetsons. It might look cute and kitschy, but if you drove around underneath that glass roof, it would turn into a magnifying glass and cook you alive underneath the summer sun.