We took a wrong turn. On purpose.

Wrong Turn Garage is a car blog for people who see a three-wheeler with no reverse gear and think "brilliant," not "why?"

Plenty of car sites will help you pick a sensible crossover, and plenty more seem determined to turn every car story into an argument. We're not doing either. We're here for the weird stuff: the impractical, the over-engineered, the under-thought-through and the gloriously pointless.

What we cover

• Glorious Mistakes: ideas that should never have made it to production, and the world is better because they did.
• Weird Engineering: decisions that look mad until you hear the reasoning (and sometimes still look mad afterwards).
• Impractical Legends: cars too small, too thirsty, too loud or too strange for any rational buyer.
• Spec Sheet Nonsense: the numbers, features and "why would you?" details that make us grin.

Who's behind it

Wrong Turn Garage is written and edited by the Wrong Turn Garage editors: car enthusiasts with a soft spot for three-wheelers, kei trucks and anything with a spec sheet that makes no sense. Every article's byline links back to this page. In Auction Watch, cars are picked purely for weirdness: we don't sell them or take a cut.

The No-Politics Pledge

This is a politics-free zone. No culture wars, no hot takes on policy, no picking sides. We don't care who you vote for. We care whether you've ever reversed a Countach while sitting on the sill. Car people come from everywhere, and this place is for all of them.

The No-Nonsense Facts Rule

We're irreverent about cars, not about facts. Specs, dates and production numbers are checked against reputable sources, and every article links to its sources at the bottom. When the history is fuzzy or the story is legend, we say so. If we got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it, cheerfully.

How we fact-check

• Sources first. Specs, production numbers, dates and prices are checked against reputable sources such as museums, manufacturers, period reports, motoring publications and auction houses. Every article ends with a "Fact-check pit lane" listing the sources it was checked against, with links.
• Real prices only. Every sold price in the Quirk Database links to the auction result it came from, in the currency it sold in. "Bid to" and "reserve not met" results are never logged as sales.
• Legends are labelled. When a story is folklore, disputed or only claimed by the maker, we say so in the text.
• Opinions are obvious. The jokes and the "Sensible?" verdicts are ours. The facts aren't.

Corrections

Spotted a mistake? Send it through the tip line with a link to a source and we'll check it and fix the article.

About the pictures

Our article images are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under their Creative Commons or public-domain terms. We crop them to fit. Article photos are shown in their original colour; the thumbnails on our homepage are stylized with a duotone poster treatment. Every photo is credited (author, licence and a link to the original) under the image on its article, and all of them are listed on the photo credits page.