Customizers around the world have been creating deliberately wild-looking cars for many decades.
The Corsair was one of the first models produced by Ford's disastrous new Edsel brand. Its styling was not the sole cause of Edsel's collapse after just three years, but it didn't help.
The latest in a long series of Ferrari Monza models are the SP1 and SP2, which combine state-of-the-art mechanicals with slightly retro - but also very dramatic - styling.
As designed by Fiat, the 8V was a quirky-looking sports car. Perhaps the most beautiful was the Supersonic body designed by Giovanni Savonuzzi (1911-1988) over at Ghia.
Halfway through the Multipla's life, Fiat had a dramatic change of heart. From 2004 onwards, the car had a far more conventional design which took most of the fun out of it
One of the most radical cars Ford ever put in production, the RS200 existed in road-going form for no other reason than to allow its maker to compete in international rallying.
Honda clearly did not feel that was the case when it launched the first-generation Insight back in 1999.
The Italia was a co-production between Hudson of Detroit and Carrozzeria Touring of Milan.
The H1 was the civilian version of the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV, or Humvee) developed and manufactured by AM General.
The X-Bow was the first car produced by Austrian manufacturer KTM, better known for its motorcycles.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lancia's rallying programme was based on the Fulvia Coupe. This attractive little car was replaced in 1973 by the altogether more brutal Stratos.
Although there have been many changes, the current G-Class is still recognisably derived from the G-Wagen (short for Geländewagen, or off-road vehicle) launched way back in 1979.
If the curious Isetta is the most recognizable bubble car ever made, the wildest must surely be the Messerschmitt KR175 and KR250.
The styling was unquestionably retro, though Chrysler also used the car to learn about using aluminum in a car's structure.
It was developed for sports car racing, but Porsche was obliged to build a small number of road-legal examples - known as Strassenversion, or Street Version - for homologation purposes.