- Every once in a blue moon,
when the wind blows just right car manufacturers decide to
make absolutely redonkulous cars, but they only make one.
I'm talking about one offs today.
Today we're going to take a look at some
of the most insane one off cars that
unfortunately never made it into production,
but do actually exist and drive.
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You are (indistinct).
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- [Voiceover] VW GTI.
- Let me ask you a question, okay?
You can answer me down there.
How many liters of diet Fresca do you think
you can drink before going into a coma?
I'm asking for a friend.
Two liters, three liters?
Well, what if I told you there's a six-liter,
twelve-cylinder engine made by Volkswagen
and some crazy son of a goof decided
to put it back in the back of a Golf.
I want to meet the guys.
The GTI W-twelve 650 has a six-liter twin Turbio
W-twelve engine from a Bentley continental GT
and the gearbox from a Phaeton stuffed in the back
of a tiny Mark five Golf body.
And as the name implies,
it is capable of making an insane 650 horsepower's,
which can propel this little baby up to 202 miles per.
This is a small hatchback that can go 200 miles per hour.
But, unfortunately for us Dubbers,
Papa Dub only made one of these.
They did it in just eight weeks leading
up to the Wortherseetreffen Festival in 2007.
I just want to take a moment to give a big shout out to
Bridget, one of our editors, and her husboy, Dan.
They were supposed to go to Worthersee this year
for their honeymoon, but the world had other plans
and it was canceled.
They're both very cool and they have a bunch
of really cool V-Dubs.
But none of them are as cool as this one, though!
I mean, the looks alone makes me want
to put this higher on the list,
but if I tried, Max would freaking sue me.
You edit the show, Max, you can put
it in whatever order you want.
I don't even say the numbers, Joe does.
Please stop suing me.
- [Voiceover] G-eight Sport Truck.
- Speaking of Max, he made me put this next car on the list,
even though it's not technically a one off,
but actually a very popular car down under in Australia.
My favorite country slash island continent.
At the 2008 New York Auto Show,
Actor Fifty Curtis Jackson Cent
unveiled the Pontiac G eight-ST,
or Sport Truck, but don't be fooled.
Pontiac G eight shared its platform
with the Holden Commodore, which means that this
is basically just a Holden Ute with a facelift.
So it's not really that insane.
It's just a Holden Ute for America.
What is insane is that they didn't sell it to us.
With no weight on the butt and 361 Horsepower's,
this thing was a burnout machine.
And the fact that actor slash rapper Curtis Fifty Cent,
star of, "Power" on the Starz network was there
to debut the car in 2008 was pretty cool,
but even if Pontiac never made this for America,
you can actually get your own G-eight converted
to youth spec by this company in Colorado
who imports chopped up Holden pieces
and graphs the body panels
onto your Pontiac, like (indistinct).
Neat.
Do you think that Fifty Cent
uses antitheft devices on his cars?
Do you think he uses da club?
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- [Voiceover] McLaren F-one Powered wagon.
- I don't think that we've made an episode of this show
that did not include a five series wagon.
Coincidentally, my editor slash director, Max,
drives a five series BMW wagon.
It's almost as if Max is using his internet power
to drive the value of his car up,
but it's in this list, so I gotta talk about it.
The BMW E thirty-four M-five wagon has got to be one
of the sickest cars of the last thirty years.
The iconic S thirty-eight inline six made
around 335 Horsepower's, but it wasn't enough
for the engineers over at BMW.
BMW had recently been contracted to make some naturally
aspirated twelve-cylinder engines for McLaren.
After they engineered and built a few prototypes,
they needed to test the new engines in something.
So they did the logical thing and dropped the engine
that was about to power the fastest car
in the world into a dad wagon.
Strap in (indistinct)!
It is time to go to the school bus!
German people don't all talk like that.
The V-twelve M-five wagon is one of BMW's best kept secrets.
And they've never actually let the public lay
their sweaty, little eyes on it.
But, I would imagine that driving an early nineties M-five
that has more power than a present gen M-five competition
would be, A, very fun, and two, very scary.
- [Voiceover] Hellephant Super Charger.
- It's no secret that Dodge loves making loud, powerful
behemoth's with cool-ass names.
They got the Demon, they got the Hellcat,
they got the Stratus, so it wasn't that surprising
when Mopar came out with a 1000 horsepower Hemi V-eight
crate engine with the sickest name ever.
The Hellephant! (makes elephant noises)
It's an elephant from hell.
Any other company, and it would be like,
"What are you doing?"
Dodge, for some reason, they can pull it off.
The engine is a full seven liters of diet Fresca,
but if that's not enough diet Fresca for you,
you got a massive three-liter twin screw blower strapped
on top of the elephant.
This is the Arby's meat mountain of engines.
Now don't get me wrong, it's delicious,
but it's literally a crime against nature.
Just like the meat mountain needs a vessel, I E the bun,
Dodge needed a vessel for this four-digit horsepower heart.
The 2018 CEMA convention, Dodge dropped this big, old boy
in a 1968 charger body and called it the Supercharger.
It coincided with the Fiftieth Anniversary of the charger.
And the name of the engine itself was a tribute
to the iconic Mopar engine.
Dodge modernized a classic charger
and made it look absolutely (kisses).
I saw it in person at SEMA.
Wide body fenders, that wide mama hood scoop,
the grill that extends in front of the headlights.
Are you freaking kicking me, guys?
Let us know in the comments if you want
to see Nolan swap a Hellephant into his 1952 Imperial.
I would not suggest it.
It's got some weird breaks.
- [Voiceover] Shelby, "Lonestar" Cobra.
- Just like Dodge, Carroll Shelby is a true American icon.
Put my gum in just for this one, for Carroll Shelby.
Like Matt Damon.
That was his character for Carroll Shelby.
"Oh yeah Carroll Shelby chews gum."
Like Dodge, Carroll Shelby is a true American icon.
You probably know him from his chili kit,
but one thing you might not know
is that he also used to make cars.
Shelby and Ford had just debuted the 427 Cobra in 1965
and good old Shelb's is working on a followup,
called the Cobra three when Hank the Deuce pulled
the plug on development, but the car
was pretty much done already.
So Shelby basically stole the prototype
and drove it back to Shelby American
and renamed it after his home state
of Texas, "The Lone Star."
Sometimes I feel like a lone star, isolated in my house.
The Lone Star drew inspiration from European race cars
at the time and would have looked insane cruising
down American Boulevard's.
I mean, it looks like a (indistinct) prototype.
The Ford 289 V-eight that's in The Lone Star
made 320 Horsepower's and has made it
to a five-speed ZF gearbox.
That sounds really fun, even though I will never
be able to afford it or even fit in it
if it made it into production.
The car sat in storage for fifty years
until all the heat was off and was restored
in time to debut at a Florida car show in 2018.
And if you think about it, Carroll Shelby
was the human equivalent to an insane one-off.
Rest in peace, King.
- [Voiceover] V-eight Cygnet.
- Now for a car that's insane
for a completely different reason.
Some of you probably drive a Toyota IQ and I respect that.
But what if you could buy the same car for twice the price?
Well, that's what happened when Aston Martin re-badged
the IQ as the Cygnet back in 2011.
Just like the imperialists that they are,
they took a foreign car, planted a union jack on it
and said, "This is ours, now, for the queen in the kingdom."
And you might be saying,
"James, you already talked about this car."
Well, I know, but I didn't talk
about this one off version.
Aston Martin did something incredibly cool with one of them.
They dropped a big old V-eight from the Vantage in it.
Not only that, they also gave the V-eight Cygnet
comically wide fenders and converted it
from front wheel drive to rear wheel drive.
The so called, "Super Cygnet" makes 430 Windsor Grey's.
Those are the horses that the royal family owns.
It's stupid, but I like stupid.
That's kinda my thing.
- [Voiceover] The Corvette Rondine.
- I love when people name cars
after people, like the Beau James truck
or the Gentlemen Jim.
Corvette Rondine coop is named after a woman named Rondine,
which I'm assuming is the female version of Randy.
And let me tell you this car is Randy as hell.
I'm talking Austin Powers horny, baby.
"Austin Powers" was a movie that came out
when I was a kid, before most of you were born.
And when I was in grade school,
all you had to do to be funny was just say lines from it.
And then everyone would be like, "Oh, that's a funny kid,"
but I'm over here in the back of the class,
giving them original gold material.
I still think that guy's funny because (indistinct), baby.
I'm not bitter.
Rondine answers the question,
"What would happen if Pininfarina,
the guys who designed most Ferrari's, designed a Corvette?"
Because that's what happened.
Pininfarina literally designed this Corvette.
Chevy commissioned the iconic Italian design house
to produce this concept car for the 1963 Paris Auto Show.
It boasts a 327 small (indistinct) V-eight
making 360 Horsepower.
The power, she is nice yes, but the look, look at the face.
She's absolutely... (laughs)
From the angry front valence to the fastback,
Pininfarina captured the essence of the Corvette
while lending their own European twist to it.
Now the only Rondine ever made sold
to Barrett-Jackson auction in 2008,
but can still be seen roaming the American Southwest,
collecting Social Security checks
and eating at Cracker Barrel.
- [Voiceover] Fiat Panda Monster Truck.
- On one hand, people hate monsters.
Okay?
They're literally hunted by dudes
with torches and pitchforks, okay?
On the other hand, people love pandas
and it's literally illegal to hunt them,
unless you're the owner of Jimmy John's.
Then you can hunt whatever you want
and people still buy your frigging subs.
Or that dentist who killed Cecil, the lion.
You think we forgot?
Rest in peace, King.
So what happens when you mix a Panda and a monster?
You get the Fiat Panda Monster Truck of cars.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
Fiat Panda has been a little off-road legend in Europe
for decades, but Fiat wanted to do something special
for the third gen refresh back in 2011.
They took a Panda four by four, put it
on a Jeep CJ floor panel and threw
some big old thick boy tires on it.
How big you say?
Fifty-nine inches tall and almost twenty inches wide.
The Panda itself is only sixty-two inches high.
So the tires on the Fiat Panda Monster Truck make up
almost half of the vehicles height.
In case you were wondering, a fully grown giant Panda
is only three feet tall.
But don't get all excited
and go checking Facebook marketplace or Craiglist
or carsbymax.com for a Fiat Panda Monster Truck
because it was only meant for an ad campaign
by Fiat to showcase the Panda's four
by four off-road prowess.
And it worked.
I want a freaking Panda now.
Both the car and the animal,
but like not, "Tiger King" style.
Like I would take really good care of my panda.
I would grow him bamboo and try and find him a girlfriend.
- [Voiceover] Mazda Furai.
- Before Rob Dom's four rotor RX-seven,
before Rob Dom's three rotor RX-seven,
there was the Mazda Furai concept.
Now this, this really is the one that got away.
This three rotor (indistinct)-powered Mazda concept
not only looks futuristic AF almost 13 years
after it debuted, it also has some of the most insane specs
of any driving concept car ever made.
The three rotor motor boater made about 450 Horsepower,
but what's truly the most insane thing about this car,
it weighs less than 1500 pounds.
To put that into perspective, that is 900 pounds
less than a Miata with almost three times
the amount of power.
It was lighter than the 2016 spec F-one car.
That's certified cuckoo bananas.
Are you even kidding me?
I don't even know if I can do this video anymore,
I'm going so crazy.
Sounds like a car that Mr. Beast made.
It was designed using Mazda's Nagare design language,
which is Japanese for, "Flow."
And the name Furai itself translates
to, "The sound of the wind."
And that's apparent in its futuristic aerodynamic shape.
It even had little brake lights that had
its name on it in Kanji.
That's sick.
I want brake lights to say my name on it.
However, the dream of the Furai was over before it began.
When my uncles at Top Gear were testing it,
the rotary engine caught fire and the entire car
was burned down to Barney rubble.
- [Voiceover] Mustang Shorty.
- Now it's no secret that when I was in high school,
I rapped under the name, "Mustang Shawty."
So it was quite the surprise when I learned
that Ford motor company had stolen and used my rap name,
Mustang Shorty, from one of their prototypes years
before I was even born.
The nerve.
Mustang Shorty was a prototype of the Mustang
that Ford was toying with a full two years
before the Production Mustang debuted.
And look at this thing, it's freaking sick.
It had a wheel base a full sixteen inches shorter
than a production Mustang and a 302 V-eight.
This is like an American 240Z
with five liter V-eight in it.
People went absolutely bonkers for it
when Ford debuted it at the US Grand Prix in 1962.
And despite a bunch of expressions of interest
and people clamoring to put their orders in,
Ford never put it through to production.
But who knows?
If it was made maybe we would have had some sort
of butterfly effect and Ashton Kutcher
would have never been born and
we would have never gotten punked.
And Zach Braff would have never beaten up that child.
That's a real thing.
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If you want to learn more about that insane W-twelve engine
check out this episode of, "Bumper to Bumper."
That's it.
I'm going to bed.
It's my daughter's birthday.
Max, don't Sue me, please.