1923. Persu, the power of fantasy
18 May 2020 1 min read 3 images
It first introduced the innovation of placing the wheels inside the bodywork, it was arranged in similar fashion to how helicopter cabins are configured today: passengers in the front and the engine to the rear generating maximum aerodynamic efficiency, it placed the rear wheels close together without any differential system allowing it to reproduce the shape of a falling water drop… but the car the Romanian engineer Aurel Persu presented in 1923 could also compete, with a pretty good chance of winning, for the prize of the ugliest car in the world!
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