I love concept cars, I love how people design cars that they know are just too out there to ever go into production, but they attract the crowds at the auto shows. Take a look at 6 decades of whacky, crazy and way too cool concept cars.

It’s odd that in 60 years of car companies building concept cars, not much has changed, they always seem really rounded, even when the styles where boxy, and always, very futuristic.

The flyboat, one very early concept that may not have even had any wheels. OK, not really a car, but I love this one.

Nazi Racecar

 1938 concept Phantom

Another vintage concept car, not sure what is is, but it sure must have been a cool ride back then.

1950 Futureliner from GM – kinda a bus, wagon and mack truck all rolled into one crazy car.

Buick Vintage Concept Cars from the 1950’s

Vintage Concept Car

1964 GM Stiletto, the look of the future?

1964 future car, not sure what they where thinking here because this is just plain ugly. Most Concept cars look sleek and hopefully cool, no matter what year, this one here looks like a bad Jaws movie coming at you. Jaws may be too cool for this one… OK,  how about a salmon swimming upstream at you? The front end just reminds me of fish… go figure.

1950ish Model D concept

1970 Porsche Tapiro

1980 GM Epcot

1988 GM SunRaycer – Arrival of the solar powered cars? guess we never saw that one happen.

1989 Solar Car, not made by a large auto manufacturer, I think, But still cool

2005 mercedes hydrogen car

2003 GM Hy Wire Concept

Mercedes Benz Formula One

Pontiac Solstice

 Here are a few more recent models

A Suziki Concept SUV from 2007

This one is awsome, this is the Mazda Taiki concept car, reminds me of ocean waves… you can see why I’m sure.

3 wheel car/bike?

Asian Concept from an auto show a few years back

1970 style Dodge Challenger concept

This really is one cool ride, kinda a cross between a Soap Box racer and a minivan bred to a ATV. Now if George Clooney has one, the ride must be incredibly cool. Noww, George Clooney is a big boy and I gotta admit I just can’t see him squeezing into that thing and put putting around town. But, George does look ultra cool leaning on the very compact car.

Let’s check out the speed of these tiny autos. Here is a drag race between the two rivals, Tesla EV VS. Tango EV. Now, I hear if you get one of these your trips to the gas station may be cut down to a once year chore… if you use it for short distances, it may go as far as once in a car’s lifetime.

Yep, seems ship builders did in fact learn something from the Titanic…. If you wanna build the world’s largest ship, make sure it sails in tropical waters. That is exactly what Royal Caribbean plans on doing with the “floating city” it is building.

The giant ship will be called “The Oasis of the Seas” and will accommodate 5400 guests plus 3000 crew. Now that’s more people than what occupy the city I live in.

Royal Caribbean  says the ship will have two 24 hour buffets and have 16 decks to hold the 2,700 state rooms they pan on having. The Oasis will be around 1200 ft. long, 154 ft. wide and come up 213 ft. above sea level. This ship is going to actually have neighborhoods that revolve around certain themes.

I found this chart for comparison of past giant vessels, btw, the Oasis will weigh 220, 000 tons

The infamous Titanic dwarfs in the midst of the Oasis of the seas.

Passenger / Military
1912 Titanic – White Star Line 46,328 tons 9 decks 3,000 people
1934 Queen Mary - Cunard 81,237 tons 12 3,131 1,019
1939 Bismark German-War Ship 50,000 tons  880 people
1962 Carrier Enterprise -US Navy 89,600 tons 5,830 people
1973 Carrier Nimitz - US Navy 97,000 tons 5,680 people1,092 134 30
1991 Monarch of the Seas - Royal Caribbean 73,941 tons 11 decks  2,350 people
2000 Explorer of the Seas - Royal Caribbean 138,000 tons 15 decks 3,114 people
2001 Adventure of the Seas - Royal Caribbean 138,000 tons  15 decks  3,114 people
2002 Brilliance of the Seas -Royal Caribbean 90,090 tons 13 decks  2,501 people
2004 Queen Mary 2 – Cunard 150,000 tons 23 decks 3,873 people
2006 Ultra-Voyager -  Royal Caribbean 160,000 tons  4000+people

Hopefully, Unlike previous monster ships, these guys will at least include enough life rafts for the 8000+ people aboard…. just in case the floating city needed an evacuation.