There are some cars that can take your breath away with their overwhelming looks. On the other hand, there exist some cars with designs that are very mundane and ordinary, while some car designs can amaze you with their oddities and unusualness. Here is the list of 5 cars with weird designs:
1. Mercedes-Benz Count Trossi SSK
Even the safest cars can become hazardous if they suffer from design and manufacturing flaws. Modern automobiles have numerous advantages over their predecessors, such as specially designed crumple zones; driver, passenger and side curtain airbags that deploy within a fraction of a second should on-board sensors detect an accident; and seat-belt restraints that maintain a consistent area of pressure throughout the body of a passenger in order to disburse the affect of a collision over wider body surface area.
These marvels of safety innovation have saved countless lives, and would undoubtedly save countless more. But what happens when the very innovations designed to save lives take them, or fail to activate at the appropriate time? Drivers take for granted these safety features, but if defective products work their way into a car design it is the innocent that sometimes pay for these mistakes with their lives.
Marek Reichman was born in Sheffield, England in 1966, he received his BA in industrial design in 1989 at Teesside Polytechnic, based in Middlesbrough, England. He is also said to have attended Teesdale University in Newcastle where he graduated with a first class honors degree in industrial design and specifically vehicle design. He also studied vehicle design at the royal College of Art in London. After graduation, he began working for the Rover Group in Coventry England. In this position, he helped design and develop Rover’s flagship vehicles. In 1995, he joined BMW Designworks USA in California. He worked there as a Senior Designer and when BMW acquired Rover Group, he led the overhaul of the Land Rover design for future models, the most significant being the completely redesigned 2003 Land Rover. In 1998, he moved back to London to establish a London based design studio that was capable of producing full sized models.
In 1999, he moved to Ford and worked as a chief designer. The position he held was Director of Design for Product, Interior Design Strategy and Process. In that position, he led various advanced and production design programs. His position also put him to work under their Lincoln and Mercury divisions. Because he worked under these sub divisions, he had his first contact with Aston Martin. Ford Motor Company group vice president of Design and Chief Creative officer J. Mays was not happy to see him go as Marek has proven himself in a variety of design jobs throughout the company in the six years he spent with them. He was however, pleased to see a new chapter open up in Marek’s career life, allowing him to utilize his unique perspectives on British design.