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6 Three-Wheeled Hatch
Believe it or not, this funky little three-wheeled hatch is actually a British icon and, according to Carolenash is a “symbol of British eccentricity. Its history dates back to 1973 and often led to confused drivers who thought they were certified to operate it but actually weren’t due to its weird classification as a three-wheeler.
It goes by the name Reliant Regal, and it was powered by a 750-CC engine.
A few years after it went into production it was updated to an 850-CC engine that could push this weird, ugly little car up to as much as 85 mph. That seems a little stout for a car with just one front wheel, but that world is a crazy place.
5 The Wedge
Look at this weird, wedge-shaped, EV known as the Citicar. It was built by a U.S. company known as Sebring-Vanguard. Since it came to be during the fuel crisis of the 1970s, it was actually a pretty successful model and even had a hand in moving Sebring-Vanguard up to being the No. 6 auto manufacturer in the United States. Over a period of about three years, from 1974 to 1977, some 2,300 examples of this all-electric wedge were produced. That’s a lot of ugliness, folks. According to various reports, the Citicar could travel between 40 and 50 miles per charge and could get up to 25 mph in a mind-numbing 6.2 seconds. Top speed was rated at about 34 mph on models with eight six-volt batteries.
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