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Weirdest Car of the Week

Every Friday we crown one auction car as the week's most gloriously pointless. Sourced from Cars & Bids, verified, and never invented.

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Weirdest Car of the Week: a Geo Metro with a V8 where the back seat went

Cars & Bids just sold a street-legal 1996 Geo Metro with a mid-mounted LS4 5.3-liter V8 for $16,000. The official car of 50 mpg has discovered horsepower the hard way.

Weirdest quirk The factory 1.0-liter three-cylinder was replaced by a mid-mounted LS4 5.3-liter V8 sitting where the back seat used to be, with rear-wheel drive and flared rear arches.

November 6, 2026 · 2 min read