4 Most Ridiculous Aerodynamic Cars Ever Built!

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4 Most Ridiculous Aerodynamic Cars Ever Built! Throughout automotive history, car designers have dreamed of building vehicles so aerodynamic that they could cut through air with almost no resistance. Some of these engineers pushed the boundaries so far that they created machines that looked more like spaceships than cars. In this video, we explore four of the most extreme aerodynamic experiments ever built, and discover why none of them ever made it to a dealership near you. The journey begins in 1954 Italy with the Fiat Turbina, a car powered by a jet engine. While most automobiles used traditional piston engines, Fiat engineers decided to try something completely different. They mounted a turbine engine that spun at an incredible 22,000 revolutions per minute, creating a sound nobody had ever heard from a car before. The Turbina had a drag coefficient of just 0.14, which was so good that it set a record that would last for decades. However, the turbine guzzled fuel at an alarming rate and generated dangerous amounts of heat, making the car impractical for everyday driving. Eventually, Fiat gave up on the project, and today the Turbina sits in a museum, a beautiful reminder of what could have been. Next, we travel to 1981 Germany, where Mercedes-Benz built the Auto 2000, a rolling laboratory designed to solve the fuel crisis. Mercedes engineers actually tested three completely different engines in the same car, including a diesel turbocharged motor and even a turbine engine like Fiat's. The Auto 2000 proved that with the right design, big cars could be surprisingly fuel-efficient without sacrificing comfort or safety. Meanwhile in France, Citroën was taking aerodynamics to a crazy extreme with their ECO 2000 prototypes. Engineers stripped away everything unnecessary, creating a car that weighed only 450 kilograms and could achieve over 100 miles per gallon at highway speeds. The SL 10 prototype proved that extreme fuel economy was possible, but it also showed the trade-offs: the car was too small, too slow, and too fragile for most drivers. Finally, we explore the 1992 GM Ultralite, an American answer to fuel efficiency that achieved an incredible 88 miles per gallon according to EPA testing. Built from carbon fiber with massive gullwing doors, the Ultralite became so famous that it actually appeared in the 1993 movie Demolition Man as a futuristic police car. ____ We do not own the footages/images compiled in this video. It belongs to individual creators or organizations that deserve respect. By creatively transforming the footages from other videos, this work qualifies as fair use and complies with U.S. copyright law without causing any harm to the original work's market value. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. _____