https://wrongturngarage.com/ A politics-free car blog celebrating gloriously impractical cars, baffling engineering decisions and spec-sheet nonsense. en-us https://wrongturngarage.com/auction-watch/2026-11-02/ https://wrongturngarage.com/auction-watch/2026-11-02/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT An amphibious convertible, an East German fire truck, a pink kei truck, a scooter designed to live in a hatchback's boot and a Geo Metro with a V8 where the back seat used to be. https://wrongturngarage.com/weird-news/2026-11-02/ https://wrongturngarage.com/weird-news/2026-11-02/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cars that flee parking lots, a foot bath under the passenger seat, a drone cannon in a bumper, a crab-walking stalk, a copper supercar and two recalls that will make you check your wheel nuts. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/bmw-isetta/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/bmw-isetta/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT To get into an Isetta you open the entire front of the car, and the steering wheel and dashboard swing out with it. It probably saved BMW. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/subaru-brat/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/subaru-brat/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMT Subaru put two rear-facing plastic seats in the cargo bed so the US government would call its little pickup a car. It worked. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/mazda-cosmo-sport/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/mazda-cosmo-sport/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT Everyone else gave up on the rotary engine. Mazda spent six years fighting it, then raced it for 84 hours straight at the Nürburgring. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/reliant-robin/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/reliant-robin/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT One wheel at the front, a fibreglass body and an aluminium engine. Britain's most famous three-wheeler is a glorious mistake, and it wasn't really as tippy as TV made out. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/nissan-s-cargo/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/nissan-s-cargo/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT Nissan's Pike Factory built a little van that looks like a snail, is named after one, and was made to be a rolling billboard. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/peel-p50/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/peel-p50/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The world's smallest production car didn't bother with reverse. If you got stuck, you got out and picked it up. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/lamborghini-lm002/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/lamborghini-lm002/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lamborghini tried to sell an off-roader to the military, failed, and sold it to everyone else instead. Thirst included. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/saab-ignition-between-seats/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/saab-ignition-between-seats/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT For decades, Saab drivers groped around the centre console for the key slot. The reasons were smarter than they looked. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/citroen-ds-hydropneumatics/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/citroen-ds-hydropneumatics/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A brake 'button' instead of a pedal, a car that stands up when you start it, and 12,000 orders on day one. The Goddess was gloriously strange. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/tatra-t87/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/tatra-t87/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A slippery Czech sedan with three headlights, a fin, and a V8 behind the back seat. Its handling became a legend of its own. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/lamborghini-countach-rear-visibility/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/lamborghini-countach-rear-visibility/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The wedgiest wedge ever drawn had almost no rear visibility, so owners invented the 'Countach reverse.' Pure spec-sheet theatre.