From flying cars to amphibious vehicles, solar-powered saloons to rockets on wheels, Top Gear's new Daft Cars book features over 50 of the daftest cars ever devised. We've picked out our five favourites!


#1: GM Firebird III (1958)

The Firebrid project was an attempt to fit gas-turbine engines into road cars. What it amounted to was a jet plane without wings.



#2: Honda Wow (2005)

'WOW' stands for Wonderful Open-hearted Wagon, but the name is the least of our worries. In essence the WOW is an MPV where the dog comes first and its owner a distinct second.



#3: Amphicar (1961)

History's only mass-production amphibious car appeared in Germany in 1961, Two Amphicars crossed the English Channel in 1968, apparently in a storm. For that we all must doff our caps.



#4: Honda Fuya-Jo (1999)

Literally translated as 'Sleepless City', the Fuya-Jo is a mobile-bar-cum-nightclub. Drinking and driving, all rolled into one neat, little urban package. Ingenius.



#5: Moller M200G (1974)

The brainchild of American Dr Paul Moller, the M200 is one of the first, and most infamous, flying cars to have made it into 'production'.




Top Gear: Daft Cars is published by BBC Books on 14th May 2009, £9.99.

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Featuring everything from practical experiments such as the hatchback fire engine, and ideas that have managed to make it into production, to stunning yet impractical supercar concepts, this book both celebrates and cringes at some of motoring’s most idiotic notions.