10 Most Unusual Cars In The World
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10 Most Unusual Cars in the World
If you ask me, I think car designs today are pretty boring. Yeah I know they have the latest gadgets and
doohickeys you can imagine, consumer grade cars aren’t really anything unique to look at. In the past,
however, things were very different.
From cars that are used by one of the most important people on earth, to one that is powered by
turbine engines, here are 10 of the most unusual cars in the world.
Number 10. The Pope Mobile
This car definitely looks unusual, but it’s weird looks has a noble purpose; and that is to transport the
head of the Roman Catholic Church on his travels across the globe. And there isn’t just one of these
vehicles, there is a fleet of them. Dubbed by the world as Pope Mobiles, they aren’t custom built
vehicles but rather are heavily modified versions of production cars that allow the Pope to be seen by
crowds.
Many of the Popemobiles are modified Mercedes-Benz M-Class and G-Class SUVs that are customized
with elevated platforms and surrounded with bulletproof glass. However, Popes often use locally
manufactured vehicles when he parades around in foreign countries. In South Korea for instance, it was
a Kia Sorento, and while on a U.S. trip, both a Jeep Wrangler and 500L have been used.
The Pope’s current daily driver used in the Vatican is a modified Dacia Duster SUV.
Number 9. The Karlmann King
What looks like an F-117 stealth fighter, is priced like a supercar, and is outfitted with a uniquely
luxurious interior? It’s the Karlmann King. Built in 2018, it was and still is the most expensive SUV in the
world. This stealth looking SUV is no soccer mom car, weighing at nearly 5 tons and comes with the even
heftier price tag of $2.2 million.
Like all things this outrageous, the King generated massive media attention when it was first introduced.
And why wouldn’t it? It’s a custom SUV built on the chassis of a Ford F-550 that stands out for their size
and weirdly angular shape. It’s absolutely massive and bears a startling resemblance to Batman’s
Tumbler, but it’s the insides of the vehicle that truly set them apart.
This monster of a car is outfitted with a 45-inch flat panel display, any game console of your choice,
opulent reclining seats, a built-in coffeemaker, and much more.
Number 8. The Stout Scarab
Chrysler is famous for coming up with the concept of the minivan, and the 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid
is one of the best ones you can buy today. However, the minivan concept goes back far beyond the first
Dodge Caravan; it goes all the way back to 1935 with Stout Scarab.
Only nine of these cars were produced, making the surviving examples prized among collectors. It was
rear-engine and rear-wheel-drive, with a unique unibody construction instead of the more standard
design of a body riding on a separate chassis. The Scarab setaed up to six people in its well-furnished
cabin. It included polished wood trim, a headliner made of wicker, and a card table. The middle seats
could swivel 180 degrees, making the vehicle the perfect mobile office of the time.
The Stout Scarab’s designer, William Bushnell Stout, was a Ford Motor Company executive and also
worked on the most successful airplane of the era – the Ford Tri-Motor.
Number 7. The Suzuki x-90
In the early days of the SUV-boom, designs were far from what we call standard today. Automakers
experimented with many different designs, which in hindsight, was the automotive equivalent of
throwing anything at a wall and see which one sticks. Some of the designs did work, while others not so
much, like the bizarre vehicle we now know as Suzuki X-90. Talk about having an identity crisis, this
subcompact vehicle was part two-door coupe, part SUV, and kind of a convertible, with a T-top roof.
Aside from looking like a giant, rolling tennis shoe, the X90 didn’t have much success. Despite having a
car like appearance, it was built on a truck’s chassis, which meant that it didn’t handle very well. It also
had a car like trunk that was too small to be really useful. Its 95 horsepower engine didn’t actually burn
rubber as well.
About the only time it found success is when the Red Bull energy drink company strapped huge Red Bull
cans to the roof and trunk, turning the cars into rolling billboards. The X-90 was only sold from 1996 to
1998.
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