7 American Cars That Were 20 Years Ahead of Their Time

SUBSCRIBE! 🔧 (It's free)    / @whensteelspoketv   WATCH MORE: 🚗🏁    • American Power Stories   Seven American cars that did things nobody else was doing, decades before anyone else caught up. Turning headlights in 1948. A color touchscreen dashboard in 1988. A jet engine Chrysler let a Mexican president fill with tequila. Front wheel drive at 135 miles per hour. Engineers won the fights to build these things. Then lost the fights to sell them. The pattern is always the same. Detroit saw what was coming, put it on the road, and walked away before the rest of the world was ready. #AmericanCars #ClassicCars #CarHistory #Tucker48 #ChryslerTurbine #CordAutomobile #BuickReatta #CorvetteZR1 #GMEV1 #OldsmobileToronado #VintageCars #AutomotiveHistory #musclecars CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Detroit Saw The Future And Walked Away 0:34 - The Buick Reatta's Forgotten Touchscreen 2:17 - The Toronado Brings Front Wheel Drive Back 4:20 - The Cord 812 and The Hidden Headlights 7:14 - The Tucker 48 and A 74 Year Gap 9:39 - Chrysler's Jet Engine That Ran On Tequila 12:17 - The Corvette ZR1 King Of The Hill 15:19 - The EV1 GM Ordered Destroyed 18:21 - The Pattern That Killed All Seven