A newsletter about strange, forgotten, misunderstood, and occasionally brilliant cars | Since 2014

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A home for unusual, overlooked, and memorable cars

Weird Car of the Day is an independent publication about strange, charming, and fascinating vehicles, with original features, archive-worthy stories, and shorter notes along the way.

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Notes

Shorter posts, observations, fragments, links, and smaller ideas that deserve a place on the site.

Japan Bubble Economy Cars

Peak-era ambition, exuberance, and wonderfully strange engineering from Japan’s bubble years.

SUV

Utility vehicles with odd proportions, unexpected ambition, or a story worth revisiting.

Microcar

Tiny footprints, outsized personalities, and the joy of very small automotive thinking.

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