Henrik Fisker debuted his latest creation at Detroit Auto Show last week, after much hand wringing and threats of lawsuits back and forth with his former employer Aston Martin over styling. That all turned out to be much ado about nothing as the re-imagined Dodge Viper with a testosterone-infused name – the Force 1 – didn’t actually look like an Aston at all.
Fisker’s folly… I mean ultimate expression of style and performance, does have one balls to the wall crazy show car feature however. That’s a nest, as it were, for a pair of champagne bottles on the rear of the transmission tunnel. Two Buck Chuck won’t do here, peons!
This is perhaps the craziest feature of any show car at this year’s Detroit Show, but is it the craziest Show Car feature ever? If not, what in your book is?
Image: Autoguide
Hooniverse Asks: What's the Craziest Show Car Feature Ever?
By Robert Emslie
Jan 19, 2016
Kamil Kaluski 
Jeff Glucker
It was just a scale model, but the 1958 Ford Nucleon was intended in its fullsize form to have a nuclear reactor as its power source. If that’s not crazy, I don’t know what is.
http://cdn.damninteresting.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/nucleon.jpg
Beat me by literally seconds. Also, let’s not forget the rather literal interpretation of Cab Forward design (or Forward Control, if you prefer).
Which was somewhat of a necessity to try and keep the people as far as possible from the radiation…
It is pronounced : Nu-klur dipstick ( fine pick by the way dipstick)
Pick any Sbarro entry from any year. How about the frontal pedestrian-mincers on the Sbarro Autobau – a big FU to EU pedestrian impact rules. http://sbarro.perso.neuf.fr/voitures/Autobau/Sbarro_Autobau_road_av.jpg
Speaking of pedestrian-mincers… http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/images/cars/helicron_1932_web/helicron_1932_web2.jpg …did the Helicron ever make it to a car show? Because apparently it passed at least the French safety inspection! http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/helicron-1932
The H&H Range Rover sees your bubbly and is amused.
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/GLOB/legacy_thumbnail/800×450/format/jpg/quality/85/http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/09/rr_hh_of_lo_06.jpg
That one included booze holders too.
was that not also the car featured on an older Topgear that also includes a top up service on your booze stocks? you just ring the factory when you’ve necked the champers and single malt (a fine cocktail by the way) and they’ll pop round and replenish the drinks cabinet and fridge
The combination of driving, booze and shooting is always a smashing success!
I’m going to have to go with the Pontiac Stinger. Not a production car, but it was featured at auto shows.
• Removable, door-mounted drink coolers.
• Removable front seat cushions that converted into beach chairs.
• Removable radio that converted into boom box.
• Trunk-mounted twin backpacks, hand vac, camping table, first aid kit, extension cord, and garden hose.
Accessory swag PWNED.
http://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3591/3471822643_65f4d92f00.jpg
Surprised they missed out on the opportunity to add a camping shovel to the equipment list; it could have been made by combining the nose and wheelbrace.
Didn’t about a third of that type of thing make it into the Aztek (Asstech).
I enjoy the ratcheting up insanity as they list the features in the promo video.
Why on earth would you need two vacuum cleaners?
For cleaning the sand inside a tent?
But are TWO really necessary?
Maybe they were made by Lucas?
Everything a smash-n-grab thief dreams of!
I haven’t seen pictures of it in action, but the Mitsubishi SUP had a shower.
http://images.thecarconnection.com/med/2002_mitsubishi_sup_concept_100005136_m.jpg
Rightfully so – and with an eye-bleach dispenser right beside it.
**edit: Did Nissan crib this for the Murano? That sadsack face and droopy lines…
In the vein of tonyola, I present the Ford Gyron. Yeah, not as whacky as putting a nuclear reactor in a car, but it’s a 2-wheel car stabilized by gyroscopes!
http://oldconceptcars.com/wp-content/uploads/1961_Ford_Gyron_02.jpg
How about the 1957 Studebaker-Packard “Astral”? It has one wheel, gyroscopes, force fields, the ability to hover, nuclear power, and was designed for interplanetary excursions.
So THAT’s where they spent the money earmarked for the all-new 1957 Packards! 😉
That was actually done in 1913 – Count Peter Schilovski’s gyrocar
Sbarro’s hubless wheel on the Osmos:
http://www.banovsky.com/archive/sbarro-osmos
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5151b481e4b01fd1f7075ea1/54afd080e4b00ea2870407b1/54afd082e4b01174ce3e0992/1420808322994/1989_Sbarro_Osmos_concept_03.jpg?format=1000w
Citroen’s uh, lounge?, in the Kar-A-Sutra:
http://www.banovsky.com/archive/citroen-kar-a-sutra
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5151b481e4b01fd1f7075ea1/53d23acce4b02e9f4fd31011/53d23acee4b076e5e3fae146/1406286542438/karasutra_09.jpg?format=750w
I can’t believe mdharrell doesn’t own one yet. Would come in handy on those rock finding excursions!
Craziest, or best?
http://image.motortrend.ca/f/85241191+w640/2015-Kia-Sedona-SX-Limited-by-Ballast-Point-side.jpg
While not a show car, it (luckily) remained a one-off, so i’m going to nominate the 1954 ROLLS-ROYCE SILVER WRAITH by Vignale, which featured a television (not bad for 1954)
http://www.coachbuild.com/gallery/d/21498-2/Vignale_Rolls-Royce_Silver_Wraith_1954_06.JPG
and, under the right rear passenger seat, a toilet with a gold painted toilet seat (which the owner said was only used as a champagne cooler…).
http://www.auto-blog.com.mx/wp-content/gallery/rolls-royce-silver-wraith-1954-vignale/Silver-Wraith-Vignale-1954-4.jpeg
You may actually need that toilet as soon as you see how hideous it looked:
http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Rolls-Royce/54-Rolls_Silver_Wraith_Vignale_DV_08-BC_06.jpg
In the 1990 Sbarro Chrono, this is how you access the engine
http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/studio/large/1990_Sbarro_Chrono_02.jpg
see it in action at 1:39
Ah yes, a car whose engine compartment is inaccessible when the engine refuses to start. That’s brilliant!