The American Cars That Made the Future Look Better Than Today

In 1959, America built a car you steered with a joystick, that ran on a jet turbine and could spot a crash with radar. Then we crushed it. This is the story of ten American cars that made the future look better than the present we actually ended up with. From the 1938 Buick Y-Job, the world's first concept car, to the nuclear-powered Ford Nucleon, the radar-equipped Cadillac Cyclone, the jet-powered Chrysler Turbine Car that ran on tequila, the stainless-steel DeLorean, the one-off Chrysler Norseman that sank with the Andrea Doria, and the electric GM EV1 that was crushed in the desert, these are the dream cars, concept cars and forgotten American machines that predicted today's technology decades early. Backup cameras, adaptive cruise control, self-driving, battery swapping, a home-charged electric car. America imagined and built all of it 50 to 70 years ago. So what happened? Watch to the end, and tell me which one you'd bring back. Sources: Buick Y-Job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Y-Job Tucker 48: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_48 Buick Centurion (1956 rear-view camera): https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-bui... Backup camera history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_camera Chrysler Norseman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Nor... Ford Nucleon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon Cadillac Cyclone (radar): https://gmauthority.com/blog/2015/10/1959-... GM Firebird III: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Moto... Chrysler Turbine Car: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Tur... DeLorean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_Mot... GM EV1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Moto... Who Killed the Electric Car (2006): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_t... #ConceptCars #AmericanCars #AutomotiveHistory #DreamCars #RetroFuturism #CarHistory #ClassicCars #EV1