Before viewing the Nissan Juke it is essential to re-align your brain's interpretation of the visual stumuli being fed to it by staring at this web page for 30 seconds before viewing the picture above. Otherwise the Juke will appear to resemble a giant fetid jelly being sucked into a trans-dimensional vortex. Or something.

The 'microcar' is not actually micro at all, in fact it is roughly the same size as most other small cars. i.e. about the same size as the torso of an elephant.

The 5GT is billed as being 'the first of its kind' - we suspect it may actually be the 'last of its kind'. It's fairly obvious really - if you want a load of stuff shifting around, you shouldn't use your executive motor, you should get someone else to do it for you.

The 1007 was conceived as a convenient way of shifting a pair of heavy doors from A to B, and it works remarkably well for this purpose. In 2005 three of these cars succesfully carried 6 heavy doors to John O Groats where the owners then had a cup of tea and took some photos.

This is a funny little convertible thing from Renault. We'll skip the obvious references to passing gas and move on to saying that a tramp from Aberdeen remarked that it looked rather like a partially-sucked toffee. Whether that's true or not I don't know - but it does look better with the roof down - mainly because there is then less of the car to look at.

Dodge seem to have achieved the impossible with the Avenger and taken the name of a 1970s Hillman whilst basing the design of the front end on a 1970s 4-bar electric fire you'd find in a council estate in Skegness.

In the classic episode of The Simpsons where Homer meets his long lost brother, he gets to design his dream car. Well it turned out to be so good we had to include it here. Unfortunately for homer it cost $82,000 to build and ruined his brother's business - but at least it played "La Cucaracha" when he sounded the horn. There is no truth in the rumour that Citroen tried to license the design.

Aparrently Honda designed this concept car, which resembles the fusion of a Dalek and a photo-booth, as sort of a mobile disco where the occupants could groove in their seats as they were almost standing upright, whilst the driver steered using a wheel designed to look like a DJ's turntable. According to Honda it was also supposed to ride like a skateboard, but why anybody would want that we have no idea. Bizarrely for this site, all the above is actually true! This concept appeared at the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show.

Folks from over the pond have nominated the Pontiac Aztek more times than any other model - and that's not really surprising is it? According to the Pontiac web site the Aztek won the "Most Appealing Entry SUV" - in a recent JD Power Survey! This stunned me for a while and I though perhaps it was a typo and "Appealing" should have been "Appalling", until I read a bit further and it was revealed that people only voted for its powertrain, interior and sound system - phew, for a moment I thought there might be some sort of contagious myopia epidemic over in the US.

Orlando Bloom is a handsome English actor. The Chevrolet Orlando is not English, not handsome, and was not in The Lord of the Rings. The city of Orlando in Florida isn't really good looking, but you can have a whole load of fun in it. The Chevy Orlando also isn't very good looking, but I can't imagine you'd be smiling in it unless you filled the cabin with nitrous oxide and ice cream.