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BinB Article Prompts Flood of 'Crazy Cars' Stories
A while back I published an article about what can happen if you don’t research the market properly before you launch your new product. As the example, I chose an obscure 1970s car called the Panther Rio. Through Business in Berkshire, the article was hastily picked up by the search engines and attracted an amazing readership and loads of follow-up emails which are too good not to share. Here’s a selection of my favourites. If you like crazy cars, read on…
The article prompted a flood of messages from car enthusiasts, many of whom were drawn by the ‘rare car’ nature of the article. Keen to share their own stories about weird and wacky motors, here’s a few samples:
“The weirdest car ever has to be the 1960s Amphicar – it could go on land and water. Great idea but they forgot one small detail – they didn’t bother to rustproof it, so most ended up sinking eventually…”
“The Facel Vega – an odd attempt at building a luxury French car. Nicely made, with a big Chrysler V8 engine. Ringo Starr had one… can’t think of anyone else though”
“The AM Pacer – supposed to be a sensible economy car but with a 5 liter engine? You’d expect it to be a good performer then, but no…it struggled to get to 90mph. Absolute rubbish”
“The Austin Allegro with its ‘quartic’ (rectangular) steering wheel.”
“Morris Marina Coupe – the classic ‘sheep in wolf’s clothing’. Why did they bother?”
“The Fiat Strada – they used to advertise it as being ‘built by robots’. Should that have read ‘driven by ********’ – an Italian/English translation error perhaps?”
“Sinclair C5 – or does that even count as a car?”
“The 1970s Stutz reissue. Their promotional gumph read ‘the only car Elvis drives personally’. Elvis was a great singer but not well renowned for his subtle and classy taste. (The other famous Stutz owner was Evel Knievel)” The Stutz is also pictured at the top of this article
“Aston Martin Lagonda with the computer that kept telling the car it had broken down even though there was nothing wrong with it… if they’d left out the computer it would have been a great car!”
To finish, a favourite from my own collection of previous cars: 1977 Cadillac Seville with electronic boot-closing device. Flat battery? Oh, well you can’t close the boot then… bungies to the rescue.
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