i dont understand why the boxer v12 though. the testarossa had one, the 917 had one pretty sure some f1 cars had it too and so did many leman cars. subarus have a third of it as well Personally would have put in the duesenberg straight 8 in place of the boxer v12
@@xtreme814 Had this discussion a while ago. Fact is: all these (Ferrari 512 BB/BBi and the Testarossa, which was more or less the direct descendant to the BBi, 917 and some siblings, AFAIR even some flat 8) have V12 180°, not Boxers = other crankshaft layout. The only real 12cyl Boxer seems to have been the Subaru F1 engine, built by Motori Moderni (italian manufacturer), but failed. Seems like the boxer layout doesn't scale well beyond 6cyl, but can't tell in which aspect. On the other hand, all 2/4/6 flat engines (Lancia, Alfa, BMW, Citroen, Subaru, Porsche and a bunch of earlier ones) were real boxers.
Fun fact: Chrysler Turbine was a way for Chrysler to test out how turbines would work on tanks. Today, we have the M1 Abrams which uses none other than turbine engine Edit: M1 was made years later, but they tried puting turbine in tanks even before the Abrams, though unsuccessful
4:00 I thought the idea of having two engines on the 2CV was brilliant, it's like what they do on planes, the redundancy for air safety, if one engine fails, there's another. I thought it was sensational that you have autonomy and total control over each engine individually and be able to choose the desired traction, whether front, rear or four-wheel just by operating the motorcycles. Really, the 2CV surprised me once again!
I just have visions of a couple of Citroen engineers in the 60's coming back from a bottle of red wine one lunch time and drunkenly bolting that second engine in the back just for a laugh. et voila!
Another good one would’ve been the Tatra 700, the last passenger car from Czech automaker Tatra built from 1996 to 1999. It had an air-cooled V8 in the rear with up to 400hp. Crazy thing
@@TopCarsTV Tatra was more sophisticated and interesting, but was no longer competitive with the fall of the iron curtain I believe. They still build trucks
Another speciality about the Tucker's engine is that the whole engine-gearbox-axle assembly can be swapped quickly. The idea was that Tucker mechanics would swap a loaner drivetrain into your car so you can drive while they fix yours
That's an interesting image, but I have to wonder if they'd charge you a fee to borrow that drivetrain, like with a rental car, or if it would be free.
@@sambrown6426 I think that because it's a selling point of the car that it would be free. The factory would just ship out a few sets of engine-gearbox-axle assemblies to every mechanic and then it would just be a service for them. Fucking ingenious car, Im saddened by the loss of a great inventor in the automotive world.
Another car that is a bit strange is the Briggs and Stratton Hybrid from the 80s. It was a concept car that aimed to combat the rising fuel prices of the 80s by being a gas/battery hybrid, the first of its kind. It was a bit unusual with its 6 wheel arrangement because an extra axle had to be added to support the enormous weight of the batteries. The engine was a 694cc 2-cylinder air cooled boxer engine producing 18 HP @ 3600 rpm, and is essentially the same engine that was used in many lawn and garden tractors at the time. It was able to deliver very good fuel economy but the technology just wasn’t there to make it realistically feasible for the market. They used lead acid batteries which are very heavy, bulky and very inefficient compared to modern lithium batteries. And as you can imagine, 18 HP is not going to win you any races but it was assisted by electric motors being a hybrid. It was too ahead of its time but is nonetheless an interesting piece of automotive history. Jay Leno has a video of the Briggs and Stratton Hybrid car.
I would have mentioned the Eunos Cosmo instead of the REPU. It's the only ever production car to come with 3 doritos, and yeah, I know it's just a 13B with an extra rotor, but still. Plus, it sounds amazing and it makes very good low-end torque (296 lb/ft @ 3000rpm) because of having sequential turbos. Anyways, I really liked the list. My personal dream is to own a Passat Variant W8
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The big 3, Ford, GM and Chrysler banded together to kill The Tucker. The turbine engine was raced at the Indy 500 and led many laps before a failure that had nothing to do with the engine.
Not sure how accurate the Tucker movie was, but didn't seem to be his "business" sense that screwed him up, it was more the big 3 just shutting him down. He used the helicopter engine out of necessity as it was all he could find without making a complete engine from the ground up.
You didn't mention that the B5 Passat had its engines longitudinally mounted, but was front wheel drive. The only brands I know that did that in the 90's were Audi with the A4/A6 (same platform as the B5 Passat) and the Acura Legend.
I can't be the only one who caught the fact that he used a Fallout transition noise for the Turbine car, since all the cars in FO4 are turbine/rocket powered 👌
you could've mentioned the Oldsmobile Diesel V8 from the late 1970s yeah the 8-6-4 engine was underpowered and computers weren't developed enough at the time to actually work well in this application my late maternal grandmother had a used 1981 Cadillac Coupe Deville with that engine in it she didn't have major issues with the car other than people stealing/tampering with it and eventually traded it in for a used 1984 Buick Skylark
Ok…hear me out….take the 2CV Sahara, leave 1 flat twin engine fully functional. Then LS swap the one on the back. Pull up next to a Challenger at the light reving that tiny 2 cylinder. When the light goes green. Turn of the 2 and turn on the LS and smoke em…:ultimate deceiving sleeper😂💀
Tucker 48 make me think why dont they like use a plane combustion engine in cars or like engine that was designed to be bulletproof into a car if it was possible maybe it bc the cost
Heres a few top 7 car list I wish to see some day. Top 7 Ugliest Ferrari's ever made Top 7 Best EV money can buy Top 7 Car trends makes no sense i.e fake exhausts 'Cough cough Audi and Merc' Top 7 Cars brought back in the wrong way i.e ford puma
As soon as i heard Volkswagen Passat criticism, i heard my Balkan heart shatter. I also heard the whole Balkan wake up to kill the creator for the word against the Passat
the same thing with the cadillac happens to my father's 2010 suburban. when it shifts into 6th (mostly at highway speeds), it cuts off half the engine.
Great video thanks for sharing. As much as I’d definitely pass on the rotary that Repu is a good looking Ute 😂🤣😂 pretty sure I could find a great little engine that would do it justice. Love quirky cars so needless to say I did love the Citroen 2CV, the Chrysler turbine and the Tucker48 along with a long list of unusual and unique cars and bikes alike.
@@TopCarsTV yeah I do know the Ford Courier very well I drove one for a number of years working at Tallawarra Power station for a few years here in Australia. 😂🤣😂 Bugger a 4 banger I was thinking more of one of our 6 banger turbo Ford Barra 325T engines that put out 436hp and 425lb ft of torque. 😂🤣😂 because you can never have to much stick. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
0:29 In the 80s BMW turned an old engine from a cheap 60s saloon into the most powerful F1 engine ever. How about weird truck engines? The Commer TS3 comes to mind: A 3 cylinder two stroke with 6 pistons.
Citroen making that sahara car thing: "Hey Pierre, how do we make this all wheel to go on the dessert?" "I don't know Paul, try and ask your unborn infant." "No, that would be child labor!" "..then just put another fvcking engine." "w-wait what?" "put another engine on the thing's back, don't you understand Pierre? That's your all wheel drive and let me sleep, these damned schedule leaves me with 6 business hour to sleep"
I think you need to educate yourself about Preston Tucker and his car, He was hounded out of business by Henry Ford and some of his cronies because Tucker posed a threat to their sales margins, so they did everything they could to financially ruin him. the Government also played a part too. your mocking of Preston is unwarranted and I am sure that if he had not suffered at the hands of the big boys in Detroit we would all be driving very different cars today.
The 4WD is the only car to have crossed the Sahara without any support at all. The owner did it twice years apart. He drove it to be getting away from civil wars in Africa. He worked as an agricultural consultant in Africa - driving a Land Rover being British - he wouldn't have made the local farmers listening - he would just have been another British imperialist telling them what to do. That particular 2CV had a story like no other car. It was fully restored. I can't remember the price it fetched at auction - Either it was put up for sale asking 146,000 Euros and fetching 164,000 Euros or the other way round. You could be making a video about that car. It's one of the most amazing stories in automotive history. The English gentleman that owned the car never bragged about it. The car sat in a garage for years - them somebody learned about the history of the car and the owner and restored it to mint condition and put it up for auction. It could have been in the Guidelines Books of Records - but it wasn't the purpose of driving the car the Sahara Desert twice - he loved the car and both times the owner and the car got back to Europe safely without any incidents. Apart from crossing from Marocco to Spain onboard a ship - it drove from the middle of nowhere in Africa to England all by itself - twice. It's one of those stories proving reality can be more strange than fiction. But both trips are fully documented. The two motors worked as a redundant system. You could be driving 2 WD choosing if you wanted it to be a back or front wheel driven. The car would be even slow - but it could lump back to safety. It's the only serial production car ever to be having that feature!
In the early to mid 70's the Subaru 350 was still for sale at dealers. They came in two passenger cars versions, a pick up and a van. They were powered by a Kawasaki 350cc snowmobile engine. If the engine didn't start, you could take your belt off, wrap it around the shaft pulley, and give it a good pull, just like your lawn mower. Obviously they were micro cars, but were pretty cool to own and drive (just not on a highway). I have been in a car and the van, in 1978, in Kansas I went to a junkyard for a part (for a Borgward) and the owner took me to the parts car in his yard car, a Subaru 350 pick up. (he did start it with a rope).
6:48 Passat is not booring, it's a confortable and power sedan, well balanced, safe and nice to drive If you need emotions buy a Lambo, not a Passat, but please don't say this shita
The Chrysler turbine car suffered from horrible acceleration and dangerous throttle response. Something that plots had to beware of when transitioning from piston engine fighters like the F4U Corsair, which had enough torque to flip itself on it's back if the throttle was rammed home too quickly at low speeds, to cussing a horribly slow accelerating early jet. I watched a turbine car run a 1/4 mile, I can't remember the exact number, but it was more than 20 seconds. Pulling out to pass could be deadly. It had the same horsepower as a slant six, much worse fuel economy, and less acceleration. Also, the hot exhaust was dangerous.
Tucker was bamboozled by the big 3, in collaboration with the federal government. The cars were made so well that 47 of the 51 survived and most are still in drivable condition.
the movie tucker some scenes were filmed in my hometown got to see jeff bridges in person it was all so filmed in city's close to us. the speed way scene was Antioch speed way the car shop scene was in west Pittsburg now bay point
Citreon 2CV came in several models including the little cargo van that you can pack a whole bunch of teenagers into for the distant Journey Down the Autobahn bouncing along at around 45 mph. How much joy and much fun was had, half the size of a Volkswagen van with the steering wheel in front of the tires, also a lot of fun that American cars could not imitate.
Yes, they did a good job, but I find this category of race cars for the actual road a bit stupid still. Chris Harris said in his review of the AM Valkyrie that he could no handle more than 30 min of that car on the regular roads. The noise, the harshness... It's may have a set of number plates, but that car is terrible outside if the track. But hey. It's a bragging right. Nobody cares if Zonda R is faster. That's no street legal car. You can't act superior to everyone else when you park it in front of some expensive restaurant
The mopar V10 was a truck engine of cast iron first, then for the Viper, the blocks were cast in alloy by Lamborghini. The V10 Mopar engine was based upon their LA V8 engines.
Why so much hate towards the fifth gen passat?! Still to this day it is the best looking passat ever! The pinnacle of german sophistication, especially after the face lift!
Tucker actually bought the Franklin Engine company to ensure the supply for his cars. Add to this that the original design was AIR-COOLED. And hell yeah, it was reliable…Franklin had built beautiful, reliable cars for 30+ years. Even an air-cooled V-16.
2:01 The reason Mazda put a rotary engine in a pickup truck is just like "Why not"? At the time, Mazda put rotary engine in literally EVERY vehicle lines they sell. From a compact Familia, to a bus. Yes, a goddamn 26-seater bus with 2 rotors. They even tested 1 rotor with kei car(this one never went into production though)
The Porsche Carrera GT used a V10 engine that was originally made by Porsche specifically for formula 1 which was later on used in their Le Mans prototype car before ending up in the Carrera GT. The Z-Tune edition which was final model of the R34 Skyline GT-R used the RB26DETT “Z2” 2.8 liter engine that was derived from engine that Nissan was using in GT500 class of the Super GT racing.
I am sitting on the unpublished design of a unique 1 Stroke hybrid piston turbine (+ optional e-motor/generator in the same sized package, which is a 25cm long, 20cm wide/tall (cylindrical) unit for a 1L engine.. It can idle at 0 RPM and is incredibly high torque as it's literally 1L per stroke, and each stroke combines combustion, followed by flush while compressing the air-fuel mix the other end. It's an air-hammer to rotary power BEAST!.. Combustion and compression both provide power. -- The 'piston' is just a narrow head, about 20mm wide at its widest (the outer edge that holds a couple of o-rings). It also combines a novel Stirling inspired heat-engine. I'm not going to describe it fully because it's too cool but you may be able to work out roughly how it works. No stupid off-centred wankle / crank rubbish, or having to run at stupid RPM all the time. It's a 2 way (reciprocating) piston + turbine rotary ICE + heat engine. I have the most compact design. LOL at every other ICE ever designed!
The 2CV Sahara wasn't the only one with such an AWD system, in 1987 Volkswagen participated with a twin-engine Golf Mk II at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb: ruclips.net/video/c-KrmljU36Q/видео.html And in the 2000s the tuner MTM (they're just a few kilometres away from Audi's HQ/main plant) built the Bimoto, a TT with two 1.8T engines, it aimed at 400 kph, however it didn't but at least 393: ruclips.net/video/zizLBs_svgw/видео.html And the Carrera GT isn't exactly true, it seems that Porsche developed a 3.5l V10 engine for the Footwork-Arrows F1 team but AFAIK it never ran a race and then was later pulled from the drawer for the LMP2000 project with no more pneumatic valve springs displacement increased to 5-5.5 litres and air restrictors, however this was also canceled in favor of the Cayenne and to avoid a competitor to Audi's R8 and finally it became the engine of the Carrera GT.
More Chrysler Turbine cars were built than Tucker 48 cars.........the people that drove the Chryslers were selected from Dealer Submissions of good regular customers and they also only had the car for a month. then the car would move onto the next person. The Turbine continued to be developed and was put into production in the M1 Chrysler Tanks when Chrysler was awarded the contract. On the Bail out, Chrysler was required to turn all the technology over to NASA who know owns all of Chrysler's Turbine technology. Chrysler wasn't the only company that build turbine powered cars, Rover of the UK did too. Preston Tucker was a great business man, it was Washington that kllled the car when they charged Tucker with Financial crimes.....he was innocent and exonerated but it killed the company he was trying to build.....a real shame..
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No nobody wants to support this channel or waste their money on it
A WHOLE DAY?
Honorable mentions.
Cizeta V16T (V16 engine)
Ferrari betlinetta boxer(flat 12)
Audi q7 tdi V12(V12 Diesel)
3/3 nice job 👍
I didn't get the Ferrari 😬
i dont understand why the boxer v12 though. the testarossa had one, the 917 had one pretty sure some f1 cars had it too and so did many leman cars. subarus have a third of it as well
Personally would have put in the duesenberg straight 8 in place of the boxer v12
well done
@@xtreme814 Had this discussion a while ago. Fact is: all these (Ferrari 512 BB/BBi and the Testarossa, which was more or less the direct descendant to the BBi, 917 and some siblings, AFAIR even some flat 8) have V12 180°, not Boxers = other crankshaft layout. The only real 12cyl Boxer seems to have been the Subaru F1 engine, built by Motori Moderni (italian manufacturer), but failed. Seems like the boxer layout doesn't scale well beyond 6cyl, but can't tell in which aspect.
On the other hand, all 2/4/6 flat engines (Lancia, Alfa, BMW, Citroen, Subaru, Porsche and a bunch of earlier ones) were real boxers.
so youre telling me, if I buy 2 Passat W8's, I basically have a veyron? cool
Good luck finding them 😀
@@TopCarsTV in Europe you can for around 8-10k each but it's auto and abused by former owners 😅
@@audi-tt-6180 why would people abuse those? They are rare and special vehicles, bound to be future collectibles. Why not treat them nicely?
@@TopCarsTV Because it's like e36 m3, at one time it was cheap and people used to treat them badly with cheap (or lack of) maintenance
@@audi-tt-6180yea fr lol
Fun fact: Chrysler Turbine was a way for Chrysler to test out how turbines would work on tanks. Today, we have the M1 Abrams which uses none other than turbine engine
Edit: M1 was made years later, but they tried puting turbine in tanks even before the Abrams, though unsuccessful
cool
"The VA has not found any any connection between your service on the M1 Abrams and your hearing loss"
@@gaveintothedarkness realistic situation
@@gaveintothedarkness "Leg blown off? Not service related"
Chrysler defense did design the M-1. That’s why the Chrysler defense division was sold off to the government during the buyout in the early 80’s.
Stype is really teaching us all about cars
Yeah like at 7:25 when he called a w16 “a pagani”
@@caboose22320 bruh he said bugatti
@@memorimusic420 he said bugani
Except for interiors which he’s stated he has no interest in
@@OriginalSarn bruh who cares about interiors tho... they arejust an extra
4:00 I thought the idea of having two engines on the 2CV was brilliant, it's like what they do on planes, the redundancy for air safety, if one engine fails, there's another. I thought it was sensational that you have autonomy and total control over each engine individually and be able to choose the desired traction, whether front, rear or four-wheel just by operating the motorcycles. Really, the 2CV surprised me once again!
I just have visions of a couple of Citroen engineers in the 60's coming back from a bottle of red wine one lunch time and drunkenly bolting that second engine in the back just for a laugh. et voila!
Yeah actually it is a great idea, at least for a car that is supposed to drive in the desert were you can be really fucked when the engine is broken
7:39 Damn that W8 sounds agressive
Yeah too bas the majority was automatic, manuals are rare as f
@@audi-tt-6180 they Made them with automatics? I have'nt seen one with and automatic yet
Man, you're like dessert of a content creator. After i had my fill of Hagerty with Jason, throttle, and carwow, i come here for the cake 🎂
What, no Donut and Ideal Media?
Another good one would’ve been the Tatra 700, the last passenger car from Czech automaker Tatra built from 1996 to 1999. It had an air-cooled V8 in the rear with up to 400hp. Crazy thing
I always wondered if Czechs were more proud of Tatra or Škoda
@@TopCarsTV Tatra was more sophisticated and interesting, but was no longer competitive with the fall of the iron curtain I believe. They still build trucks
The Tatra V8 is also a very nice bike engine:
ruclips.net/video/3cdVsfirEzQ/видео.html
They're still around. Seen them at car shows in Slovakia.
tata is highly alive
Another speciality about the Tucker's engine is that the whole engine-gearbox-axle assembly can be swapped quickly. The idea was that Tucker mechanics would swap a loaner drivetrain into your car so you can drive while they fix yours
Tucker, too far ahead of its time.....the competition had to get rid of him....
Ingenious transmission policy!!!
That's an interesting image, but I have to wonder if they'd charge you a fee to borrow that drivetrain, like with a rental car, or if it would be free.
@@sambrown6426 I think that because it's a selling point of the car that it would be free. The factory would just ship out a few sets of engine-gearbox-axle assemblies to every mechanic and then it would just be a service for them.
Fucking ingenious car, Im saddened by the loss of a great inventor in the automotive world.
Another car that is a bit strange is the Briggs and Stratton Hybrid from the 80s. It was a concept car that aimed to combat the rising fuel prices of the 80s by being a gas/battery hybrid, the first of its kind. It was a bit unusual with its 6 wheel arrangement because an extra axle had to be added to support the enormous weight of the batteries. The engine was a 694cc 2-cylinder air cooled boxer engine producing 18 HP @ 3600 rpm, and is essentially the same engine that was used in many lawn and garden tractors at the time. It was able to deliver very good fuel economy but the technology just wasn’t there to make it realistically feasible for the market. They used lead acid batteries which are very heavy, bulky and very inefficient compared to modern lithium batteries. And as you can imagine, 18 HP is not going to win you any races but it was assisted by electric motors being a hybrid. It was too ahead of its time but is nonetheless an interesting piece of automotive history. Jay Leno has a video of the Briggs and Stratton Hybrid car.
9:53 despite of 1940's design Tucker torpedo design is still looks so cool. 😁👍👍
"AMGay 1"☠️
Rare footage of an English speaker discovering the German language:
@@Tornado2409 I'm from Finland however my English is good even though it's my 2nd language
I remember that 8-6-4 and it was such an amazing idea. Also the Phaeton W12 was weird as well!
Phaeton W12 = Audi W12 = Bentley W12. So it's somewhat common.
But a one and only W8, and in such a boring and overlooked car. Now that's special!
OGs know that Stype re-used the script he had for the Chrysler Turbine
Parts of it, yes. Well spotted!
0:16 Mercedes benz amg one
1:44 mazda repu
3:13 citroen 2cv
4:51 cadillac 6-4
6:14 vw passat w8
7:58 chrystler turbine
9:54 tucker 48
Do we need this?
I would have mentioned the Eunos Cosmo instead of the REPU. It's the only ever production car to come with 3 doritos, and yeah, I know it's just a 13B with an extra rotor, but still. Plus, it sounds amazing and it makes very good low-end torque (296 lb/ft @ 3000rpm) because of having sequential turbos.
Anyways, I really liked the list. My personal dream is to own a Passat Variant W8
When this channel uploads, it put huge smile to my face ☺️
Whenever you upload it is ALWAYS amazing
This channel is a rehab clinic for an old beer pocket 90's lover and a sensibly clear and concise Tom Bergeron kick in the bollox to overpiced vanity products and to pampered social anxiety content influencers.
What about the Nuclear powered car Ford I believe had as a concept. It inspired all the cars in Fallout games
it was just a concept and never went into production
Great video man! Nice to see the W8 getting some love
Thanks man. Couldn't have done it without your clips
The big 3, Ford, GM and Chrysler banded together to kill The Tucker. The turbine engine was raced at the Indy 500 and led many laps before a failure that had nothing to do with the engine.
The Tucker looks absolute beautiful!
"am-gay one"
Not sure how accurate the Tucker movie was, but didn't seem to be his "business" sense that screwed him up, it was more the big 3 just shutting him down. He used the helicopter engine out of necessity as it was all he could find without making a complete engine from the ground up.
True and it was rear engined while the front had a frunk
Imo the turbine car is the craziest one of them all. Ive been in love with that car since seeing it on jay leno's garage
Saying your car has a helicopter engine really is one of the weirdest flexes in history.
You didn't mention that the B5 Passat had its engines longitudinally mounted, but was front wheel drive. The only brands I know that did that in the 90's were Audi with the A4/A6 (same platform as the B5 Passat) and the Acura Legend.
Subaru.
@rossbrumby1957 Subarus are AWD. Or were there FWD Subarus in the 90's?
@@damilolaakanni Oh yes. The XT and the SVX were both available in FWD and AWD configurations.
The Carrera GT sounds so good it doesn't matter if its not an actual F1 engine
This engine Design for LeMans not for fomula one.
@@rainerknuth it was designed to be an F1 engine 1st but then used in a Lemans car
Such an underrated channel, this guy needs more views
Subscribed after hearing the W8 explanation. LOL.
“Damn, I gotta take a sh** all of a sudden” 💀💀💀💀💀
Adding Arnold Schwarzenegger with the choppa dialogue was epic. Seen this video, had to see it again 🎉
Dude said, "PassaNt" 🤣🤣🤣
I can't be the only one who caught the fact that he used a Fallout transition noise for the Turbine car, since all the cars in FO4 are turbine/rocket powered 👌
you could've mentioned the Oldsmobile Diesel V8 from the late 1970s yeah the 8-6-4 engine was underpowered and computers weren't developed enough at the time to actually work well in this application my late maternal grandmother had a used 1981 Cadillac Coupe Deville with that engine in it she didn't have major issues with the car other than people stealing/tampering with it and eventually traded it in for a used 1984 Buick Skylark
RIP first AMG One 😢
Ok…hear me out….take the 2CV Sahara, leave 1 flat twin engine fully functional. Then LS swap the one on the back. Pull up next to a Challenger at the light reving that tiny 2 cylinder. When the light goes green. Turn of the 2 and turn on the LS and smoke em…:ultimate deceiving sleeper😂💀
Video recommendations:
Top cars that made cars of other manufacturers famous
Tucker 48 make me think why dont they like use a plane combustion engine in cars or like engine that was designed to be bulletproof into a car if it was possible maybe it bc the cost
Franklin built air cooled automotive engines from the earliest days of motoring.
Here s an insane car. Ford Nucleon. It was a concept for a nuclear powered engine.
Heres a few top 7 car list I wish to see some day.
Top 7 Ugliest Ferrari's ever made
Top 7 Best EV money can buy
Top 7 Car trends makes no sense i.e fake exhausts 'Cough cough Audi and Merc'
Top 7 Cars brought back in the wrong way i.e ford puma
Already working on your 3rd topic
As soon as i heard Volkswagen Passat criticism, i heard my Balkan heart shatter. I also heard the whole Balkan wake up to kill the creator for the word against the Passat
you son of a gun!! i almost pissed myself when the laughing guy appears and you continue with "its not funny"😂
the same thing with the cadillac happens to my father's 2010 suburban. when it shifts into 6th (mostly at highway speeds), it cuts off half the engine.
Your low key jokes are funny af
Honorable mentions:Audi Q7 V12 tdi, Ferrari 512 bb,Vector W8.
2/3
That Bill Cosby joke threw me off guard 😂
same😂
Tucker was not a bad business man...his company were killed by the big 3......he made a car that was TOO good to come on the market.
Great video thanks for sharing. As much as I’d definitely pass on the rotary that Repu is a good looking Ute 😂🤣😂 pretty sure I could find a great little engine that would do it justice. Love quirky cars so needless to say I did love the Citroen 2CV, the Chrysler turbine and the Tucker48 along with a long list of unusual and unique cars and bikes alike.
If you don't like Rotary, there the Ford Courier. Same looking Ute, built by Mazda, but with Ford badges and a 4-cyl
@@TopCarsTV yeah I do know the Ford Courier very well I drove one for a number of years working at Tallawarra Power station for a few years here in Australia. 😂🤣😂 Bugger a 4 banger I was thinking more of one of our 6 banger turbo Ford Barra 325T engines that put out 436hp and 425lb ft of torque. 😂🤣😂 because you can never have to much stick. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
0:29 In the 80s BMW turned an old engine from a cheap 60s saloon into the most powerful F1 engine ever.
How about weird truck engines? The Commer TS3 comes to mind: A 3 cylinder two stroke with 6 pistons.
The Corvette had the same kinda engine as the Caddy, turning ciinders on and off. And there are more cars doing that.
oops sorry, you state that later!
Audi Q7 (V12 Diesel) as well as Ferrari BB
"if this car was a spice. It would be more like flour" OMG !!!!!!!!!! I love it
Finally! I thought it was the best joke in the video, and only you mentioned it :)
@@TopCarsTV It's epic funny lol keep up the good work
Your voice sounds like toys commercial in late 90s-early 2000s
Citroen making that sahara car thing:
"Hey Pierre, how do we make this all wheel to go on the dessert?"
"I don't know Paul, try and ask your unborn infant."
"No, that would be child labor!"
"..then just put another fvcking engine."
"w-wait what?"
"put another engine on the thing's back, don't you understand Pierre? That's your all wheel drive and let me sleep, these damned schedule leaves me with 6 business hour to sleep"
Nice list Stype
11:18 Well shiiieeet... Lets just say I didnt expect that XD
"Rotary engines are unrreliable and don't make much torque." *Rob Dahm has entered the chat* "EXCUSE ME?"
Before you have an depressing opinion about the 2CV sahara just read some background about the car and its origine.
The same about Preston Tucker.
I think you need to educate yourself about Preston Tucker and his car, He was hounded out of business by Henry Ford and some of his cronies because Tucker posed a threat to their sales margins, so they did everything they could to financially ruin him. the Government also played a part too. your mocking of Preston is unwarranted and I am sure that if he had not suffered at the hands of the big boys in Detroit we would all be driving very different cars today.
actually Tucker only made the 48 IN 1948 & only 51 cars were ever made
The 4WD is the only car to have crossed the Sahara without any support at all. The owner did it twice years apart. He drove it to be getting away from civil wars in Africa. He worked as an agricultural consultant in Africa - driving a Land Rover being British - he wouldn't have made the local farmers listening - he would just have been another British imperialist telling them what to do.
That particular 2CV had a story like no other car. It was fully restored. I can't remember the price it fetched at auction - Either it was put up for sale asking 146,000 Euros and fetching 164,000 Euros or the other way round. You could be making a video about that car. It's one of the most amazing stories in automotive history. The English gentleman that owned the car never bragged about it. The car sat in a garage for years - them somebody learned about the history of the car and the owner and restored it to mint condition and put it up for auction. It could have been in the Guidelines Books of Records - but it wasn't the purpose of driving the car the Sahara Desert twice - he loved the car and both times the owner and the car got back to Europe safely without any incidents. Apart from crossing from Marocco to Spain onboard a ship - it drove from the middle of nowhere in Africa to England all by itself - twice. It's one of those stories proving reality can be more strange than fiction. But both trips are fully documented. The two motors worked as a redundant system. You could be driving 2 WD choosing if you wanted it to be a back or front wheel driven. The car would be even slow - but it could lump back to safety. It's the only serial production car ever to be having that feature!
In the early to mid 70's the Subaru 350 was still for sale at dealers. They came in two passenger cars versions, a pick up and a van. They were powered by a Kawasaki 350cc snowmobile engine. If the engine didn't start, you could take your belt off, wrap it around the shaft pulley, and give it a good pull, just like your lawn mower. Obviously they were micro cars, but were pretty cool to own and drive (just not on a highway). I have been in a car and the van, in 1978, in Kansas I went to a junkyard for a part (for a Borgward) and the owner took me to the parts car in his yard car, a Subaru 350 pick up. (he did start it with a rope).
If it works, it ain't stupid
WHEN WILL STYPE REACH A MILLION, IVE BEEN WAITING FOR HALF A DECADE NOW
I swear to God the Crysler Turbine Looks AMAZING Like a Car for Fallout 4 before to Nukes Hit
6:48 Passat is not booring, it's a confortable and power sedan, well balanced, safe and nice to drive
If you need emotions buy a Lambo, not a Passat, but please don't say this shita
Engine is in the other end , that is the trunk ! 😂
The Chrysler turbine car suffered from horrible acceleration and dangerous throttle response. Something that plots had to beware of when transitioning from piston engine fighters like the F4U Corsair, which had enough torque to flip itself on it's back if the throttle was rammed home too quickly at low speeds, to cussing a horribly slow accelerating early jet. I watched a turbine car run a 1/4 mile, I can't remember the exact number, but it was more than 20 seconds. Pulling out to pass could be deadly. It had the same horsepower as a slant six, much worse fuel economy, and less acceleration. Also, the hot exhaust was dangerous.
I just love how this old cars looks like. For me, modern cars just looks like too mutch the same.
Tucker was bamboozled by the big 3, in collaboration with the federal government. The cars were made so well that 47 of the 51 survived and most are still in drivable condition.
Bruh the bill Cosby edit 😂
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My man’s on the Tyler Durden vibe, love it 👌🏼😄
I would SO drive a Tucker if somebody revived them today! Lovely car.
the movie tucker some scenes were filmed in my hometown got to see jeff bridges in person it was all so filmed in city's close to us. the speed way scene was Antioch speed way the car shop scene was in west Pittsburg now bay point
Citreon 2CV came in several models including the little cargo van that you can pack a whole bunch of teenagers into for the distant Journey Down the Autobahn bouncing along at around 45 mph. How much joy and much fun was had, half the size of a Volkswagen van with the steering wheel in front of the tires, also a lot of fun that American cars could not imitate.
Stype, I remember you said in an old video that the AMG one is stupid... So I guess they did a good job?
Yes, they did a good job, but I find this category of race cars for the actual road a bit stupid still.
Chris Harris said in his review of the AM Valkyrie that he could no handle more than 30 min of that car on the regular roads. The noise, the harshness... It's may have a set of number plates, but that car is terrible outside if the track.
But hey. It's a bragging right.
Nobody cares if Zonda R is faster. That's no street legal car. You can't act superior to everyone else when you park it in front of some expensive restaurant
Also. A mandatory engine rebuild after 30k miles?
That's a lot for a hypercar of a car but still...
3:42 Great captioning!
HOW DARE YOU BLAME TUCKER'S BUSINESS ACUMEN FOR HIS COMPANY'S COLLAPSE!?!?!?
The Big 3 wanted him DEAD!
Wasn't the 1st Viper's 8 litre V10 taken from a lorry?
The mopar V10 was a truck engine of cast iron first, then for the Viper, the blocks were cast in alloy by Lamborghini. The V10 Mopar engine was based upon their LA V8 engines.
Why so much hate towards the fifth gen passat?! Still to this day it is the best looking passat ever! The pinnacle of german sophistication, especially after the face lift!
Tucker actually bought the Franklin Engine company to ensure the supply for his cars. Add to this that the original design was AIR-COOLED. And hell yeah, it was reliable…Franklin had built beautiful, reliable cars for 30+ years. Even an air-cooled V-16.
2:01 The reason Mazda put a rotary engine in a pickup truck is just like "Why not"?
At the time, Mazda put rotary engine in literally EVERY vehicle lines they sell. From a compact Familia, to a bus. Yes, a goddamn 26-seater bus with 2 rotors. They even tested 1 rotor with kei car(this one never went into production though)
My g, you are real g coz cars bring us together and you simply spoke you way which is awesome! I gotta go take a shir😅😂😂
The Porsche Carrera GT used a V10 engine that was originally made by Porsche specifically for formula 1 which was later on used in their Le Mans prototype car before ending up in the Carrera GT.
The Z-Tune edition which was final model of the R34 Skyline GT-R used the RB26DETT “Z2” 2.8 liter engine that was derived from engine that Nissan was using in GT500 class of the Super GT racing.
Dont forget the Ford Nucleon, which uses a nuclear reactor to power a car 😂
So a steam engine?
Haha love the memes in-between, very tastefully done. 😂👍
my grandpal was one of the people lucky enough to be able to test the turbine car very nice video
Love the duke nukem 3d "kill me" refernece.
I would suggest Tucker's business savvy wasn't the issue as much as government and big 3 interference.
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My dad had one of those Mazda rotary engine trucks when I was a kid. I remember it was bright red.
Bad Guy punting the pug! LOL! Wonderful selections and informative. Thank you!
I am sitting on the unpublished design of a unique 1 Stroke hybrid piston turbine (+ optional e-motor/generator in the same sized package, which is a 25cm long, 20cm wide/tall (cylindrical) unit for a 1L engine.. It can idle at 0 RPM and is incredibly high torque as it's literally 1L per stroke, and each stroke combines combustion, followed by flush while compressing the air-fuel mix the other end. It's an air-hammer to rotary power BEAST!.. Combustion and compression both provide power.
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The 'piston' is just a narrow head, about 20mm wide at its widest (the outer edge that holds a couple of o-rings). It also combines a novel Stirling inspired heat-engine. I'm not going to describe it fully because it's too cool but you may be able to work out roughly how it works. No stupid off-centred wankle / crank rubbish, or having to run at stupid RPM all the time. It's a 2 way (reciprocating) piston + turbine rotary ICE + heat engine. I have the most compact design. LOL at every other ICE ever designed!
The RX-Ute would have sold really well if it was in Australia or later in the USA
I enjoyed a good chuckle. Thanks!
Hi Stype love your vids, what about a top about bad kw (or hp) per liter ?
That will just be American cars from the 70s. Repeating the same story 7 times... I don't think that people will want to watch that
Government killed Tucker with major car makers.
The 2CV Sahara wasn't the only one with such an AWD system, in 1987 Volkswagen participated with a twin-engine Golf Mk II at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb: ruclips.net/video/c-KrmljU36Q/видео.html
And in the 2000s the tuner MTM (they're just a few kilometres away from Audi's HQ/main plant) built the Bimoto, a TT with two 1.8T engines, it aimed at 400 kph, however it didn't but at least 393: ruclips.net/video/zizLBs_svgw/видео.html
And the Carrera GT isn't exactly true, it seems that Porsche developed a 3.5l V10 engine for the Footwork-Arrows F1 team but AFAIK it never ran a race and then was later pulled from the drawer for the LMP2000 project with no more pneumatic valve springs displacement increased to 5-5.5 litres and air restrictors, however this was also canceled in favor of the Cayenne and to avoid a competitor to Audi's R8 and finally it became the engine of the Carrera GT.
I'm aware of those cars, but they aren't production models, so no mention.
More Chrysler Turbine cars were built than Tucker 48 cars.........the people that drove the Chryslers were selected from Dealer Submissions of good regular customers and they also only had the car for a month. then the car would move onto the next person. The Turbine continued to be developed and was put into production in the M1 Chrysler Tanks when Chrysler was awarded the contract. On the Bail out, Chrysler was required to turn all the technology over to NASA who know owns all of Chrysler's Turbine technology. Chrysler wasn't the only company that build turbine powered cars, Rover of the UK did too. Preston Tucker was a great business man, it was Washington that kllled the car when they charged Tucker with Financial crimes.....he was innocent and exonerated but it killed the company he was trying to build.....a real shame..