I often reminisce about this phrase:“hentai [nutcase] cars”. Basically, they are cars that most people don’t know the name of, don’t command the premium to be considered a classic car, and don’t even have a real market value.
About 10 years ago I developed a freakish interest in eccentric automobiles.
The Italian Fiat Multipla that looks somewhat like a bottlenose dolphin, for example.
The Cadillac Eldorado and the Lincoln Mark VIII. “American absurdities on wheels” that are enormous yet have only two doors.
The VW Sharan that was rebadged (although the Sharan itself was pretty inconsequential) as the FORD Galaxy. Not because they were unique, but because they were “uniquely” unpopular.
Unpopular cars that carried the air of “curious” or “absurd” were what my friends and I referred to as “hentai cars”.
I’m not really sure why, but we sure had an affinity to such cars.
Incidentally, the list of hentai cars that I have owned in the past include
the 1976 Mercedes Benz 450SLC.
A two-door cream-colored Benz. Who would ever choose the SLC over the SL convertible? Now, that is how you choose a hentai car. But looking at it now, the coupe might’ve actually been the more stylish of the two.
Unbelievably enough, the early stage of automatic transmission had this 4500 cc monster running on a 3-speed. A huge gas-guzzler.
Furthermore, the hood was like a ping-pong table and was so long that it was difficult to see anything in front of it. I used to have to drive around the block because I was too scared to stick the front end of the car into the T-intersection near my home. There were hardly any positives to driving that car. Maintenance was costly, too, but I took good care of it just the same. It made for a great “hentai car” (so I guess in that sense, it can’t be categorized as “hentai”). Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe it was a really great car after all.

Hentai cars list – To be con’t.