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Oct 2015
50m 35s

Cars That Never Made It (Part 2)

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For every car that makes it to the mainstream market, countless other bizarre experiments never see the light of day. Join Scott and Ben as they explore some of the strangest, most innovative or (in some cases) just plain doomed cars that never made it to the showroom.

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