https://wrongturngarage.com/ A car blog celebrating gloriously impractical cars, baffling engineering decisions and spec-sheet nonsense. en-us https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/automatic-seat-belts/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/automatic-seat-belts/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 22:00:00 GMT For about 15 years, American cars strapped you in with a little motor that dragged the shoulder belt along the door frame. Here's why they existed, five cars that had them, and a vote. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/best-factory-color-combos/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/best-factory-color-combos/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:30:00 GMT Turquoise over ivory, silver over red leather and a Gremlin upholstered in fake jeans. Ten of the best paint-and-interior combos carmakers ever actually sold. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/ai-companies-as-cars/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/ai-companies-as-cars/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:00:00 GMT OpenAI is the minivan that started a craze, Google is an SUV with five names and Anthropic drives a Volvo 240. Five AI labs, matched to five US-market cars. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/coolest-car-features/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/coolest-car-features/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT Headlights that steer, doors that sink into the floor and a roof that folds into the trunk. Five genuinely clever car features that were ahead of their time. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/weirdest-car-names/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/weirdest-car-names/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:00:00 GMT A Lettuce, a Thing, a Naked and a Mysterious Utility Wizard. Here are the strangest car names ever put on a tailgate, plus two famous naming 'blunders' that are total myths. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/cars-with-worst-reputations/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/cars-with-worst-reputations/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT Unsafe at any speed, the worst car of the millennium and one very famous white Bronco. Ten cars famous for the wrong reasons, and a fair verdict on each. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/ford-pinto-history/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/ford-pinto-history/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:00:00 GMT Under 2,000 pounds, under $2,000 and built in record time. The Pinto was a huge hit, a porthole-windowed van wannabe and a legal landmark. Here's what really happened. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/wildest-car-reveals/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/wildest-car-reveals/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:00:00 GMT Longhorns in downtown Detroit, a Mustang on the Empire State Building and a 'shatterproof' window that shattered. These are the most absurd car unveilings on record. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/bedroom-wall-poster-cars/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/bedroom-wall-poster-cars/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT Wedges, wings and V12s you could only afford in paper form. Here are ten classic poster cars, why they got pinned up, and the deeply impractical quirk each one hid. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/cars-with-the-most-screens/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/cars-with-the-most-screens/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:00:00 GMT Is the Cadillac Escalade really the king of in-car TVs? We counted every factory display in the most screen-happy cars on sale. The winner isn't a Cadillac. https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/crotch-vent-cars/ https://wrongturngarage.com/posts/crotch-vent-cars/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT Once upon a time, a little vent under the steering column blew cold air exactly where you needed it. We tracked down the cars that really had one, and counted honestly. 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 trunk 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 fiberglass body and an aluminum 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 center 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.