About Weird Car of the Day

Publisher's note

Weird Car of the Day exists because I have never had much interest in looking at cars the standard way.

The cars that stay with me are usually the ones sitting slightly outside the spotlight: the oddballs, the near-misses, the overcomplicated ideas, the regional curiosities, the ambitious failures, and the machines that made total sense to somebody, somewhere, for a brief and glorious moment.

Those cars usually have more to say than they get credit for.

WCOTD is where I write about them properly. Not as list filler, not as nostalgia paste, and not as internet sludge flattened for easy sharing. The goal is simple: to build a readable, worthwhile archive of unusual, overlooked, and memorable cars.

Some pieces are longer stories. Some are shorter notes. Over time, I want the site to feel like a place you can browse by instinct: following a category, a country, a design era, or just a hunch.

Still curious? A few good places to begin: Car of the Day, Notes, Japan Bubble Economy Cars, SUV, Microcar, France, or use the search above.

I’m Michael Banovsky, an automotive journalist and editor. Weird Car of the Day is one of the clearest expressions of my taste: the cars I notice, the details I care about, and the kinds of stories I think are still worth telling.

The internet does not make life especially easy for small, specific, human projects. That is part of the reason this exists as a reader-supported publication. If you enjoy original automotive writing and the stranger corners of car culture, subscribing helps keep it going (and gives access to all stories).

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Michael