The Bertone Stratos Zero, a 1970 wedge-shaped concept car, was so radically low-slung that the driver sat nearly reclined with their eyes barely above the hood line, making it virtually impossible to see the road ahead—yet Bertone built it anyway as a design exercise to explore the absolute minimum height possible for a functional automobile, proving that concept cars existed partly to ask “what if?” rather than “what works?”
Car Fact #10 — June 26, 2026
