What car technologies were super exciting when they were revealed, but never really took off?
Inspired by Bose’s fascinating suspension technology, we’re wondering what other technologies were hailed as amazing when they were first announced, but for whatever reason never became mainstream.
Inspired by Bose’s fascinating suspension technology, we’re wondering what other technologies were hailed as amazing when they were first announced, but for whatever reason never became mainstream.
For example, Bose’s suspension was deemed too heavy and expensive to implement into normal cars… let us know what else never caught on in the comments!
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Way before Tesla was even an idea, GM had the thought of mass producing an EV.It was cool and all, but rumor has it oil corporations and GM’s upper management quickly shutdown research and crushed all cars.
Technically, it isn’t really dead as we now have the Chevy Bolt, but is interesting to think that we had EV vehicles back in the 90s, but then GM mysteriously took them all back and destroyed them.
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These oil tycoon Ceos really have to get locked up or other means tbh. They are the reason we don’t have more alternate power sources. They have assassinated people who have claimed they made anything that makes them loose money like 2 days before showing it to the whole world.
Toyota actually did something similar with a small fleet of all electric rav4s. They were crushed as well.
I know Jay Leno and one other person still have their GM EVs. Jay had enough money to fight their legal team and the other guy straight up hid his car.
I’d recommend watching “Who killed the electric car?” if you’re interested, its a whole document about this event!
Nuclear reactors like in the Ford Nucleon concept never really got their time to shine.
Some people said it was “too dangerous” to drive around on a nuclear bomb.
But hey, they had electric vehicles with ranges up to 8.000km back then.
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I played Fallout, these things would of probably been mini nukes.
The tech from F1 such as the “fan car”, FRIC suspension, double diffuser. All these stuff could have made their way into road cars.
VVT-i
Is that Matt Farah’s million mile Lexus in the thumbnail? ;)
I want one
Four wheel steering like the 3000gt
The Chrysler Turbine. Was totally radical and a pretty cool idea but natural design flaws with the engine prevented it from really making any impact in the market. Still looks pretty damn cool though http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Chrysler/63-Chrysler_turbine_Ghia-Orng-DV-07-MB_02.jpg
The wankel rotary engine. Its first use was in the NSU Wankel Spider. Mazda put the rotary engine in a few vehicles such as the rx7 and rx8. Mazda then stopped producing rotary cars due to several factors such as emissions. Despite its drawbacks the rotary engine has several advantages. It is very simple and a two rotor engine has three moving parts as opposed to a comparable four cylinder engine which can have over 40 moving parts. The rotary engine also has a ridiculous amount of horse power per liter. The rx8 produced almost 180 hp per liter compared to 75 hp per liter from a BUGATY VERON SS!!! Mazda recently made a prototype rotary sports car but as of now there is no rotary engined car in production.
Hybrids