It's like someone took a verbal description of a Dymaxion transport ("the engine is on a pivoting frame with the single rear wheel") and tried to build it.
I went looking for production figures (I think it must be "one") and found this, w/ additional details:
What It's Like To Drive The Worst Car Ever Built
Quote:
I was able to drive the astounding Hoffmann thanks to our friends at the Lane Motor Museum, whom I asked specifically to find me their worst cars. When they polled everyone and came up with a list, only one car received a unanimous vote: the 1951 Hoffmann.
Of course, I was wildly interested. It helps that the car looks like something that’s very appealing to me at first glance — strange, streamlined, sort of like a zeppelin and a colossal robotic tortoise made angry love. But the more I looked, the stranger things got: odd, asymmetrical curves and details, oddly and seemingly willfully mis-aligned parts and trim, a general shape seemingly designed with either a gleeful disregard or outright contempt for both the human form and the laws of physics.
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Faster backwards? And how does that shift linkage work with the whole drivetrain spinning in circles?