The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has a Dome-0, a white one, and it's a beauty. I have a special love for Wedgemobiles. It's no wonder the Imperial Star Destroyer is my favorite Star Wars ship.
we had a programmable thing called itself a 'computercar' (you could set it with instructions to go forward, back turn etc, basically like a big trak) that we only realised was of a real car (this one) until many years later - and the crazy thing is while both my broter and i both remember it clearly i can't find any trace of them existing online. very weird
What a great story. People often don't think of the power to weight ratio, yet here we see an excellent example of what can be achieved. This principle can still apply to Lotus sports cars.
10:15 I was recently given a vintage lime green scale pull back diecast model of this Dome-0, it seems to be in the collection you showed. Thank you for providing the history of this model, very interesting.
Kyoto seems an ideal location for a break, recalling how it was given a reprieve from being listed among the possible Atom Bomb sites to choose from, as a General had his honeymoon there. A strange world we have.
Fun fact: toys of this car were still being made in the early 2000s and one of them turned it into a Transformer. The version of Hot Rod (or Rodimus) that was made for the 2006 "Classics" toy line - a figure that's become pretty well-known in the "Transformers" community - transforms into a customized Dome Zero that has been modified with the Hot Rod character's iconic features: a flamboyant fiery paint job, long angled exhaust pipes on the sides, L-shaped headlights, a Batmobile-esque rocket booster, a massive orange swept-wing spoiler in the rear, and an exposed supercharged engine block in front of the windshield.
I have a fond memory of sitting in the prototype at AutoExpo back when. Difficult to impossible as I am quite tall. Rather sure that I still have a brochure somewhere.
I remember getting that Riad&Teack issue with the car on the cover in 1979; I was 20 years old at the time. Never forgot it to this day. Always wonder what ever happened to it; looked so promising at the time.
kind of reminds me of a hybrid of the Lancia Stratos and the Stratos HF Zero concept car but with a cool angular Japanese flair- Totally awesome looking
Thr Dome P-1 is the exemplar for design expression, whilst the following models are a compromise which do not work aesthetically. Amazing effort from a small team!
11:10 when regulations stifle innovation and on occasion destroy new companies with great ideas. On the other hand, the Tesla Cybertruck will never be sold in Europe because it lacks any kind of pedestrian safety whatsoever. In the late 70's that wasn't (yet) the case. Fun fact, there still isn't any law in the US that wants to keep pedestrians safe, it still doesn't exist. The US bumper regulations sure made it look ugly, like it did with most European cars of the time. Racing is so hard, they had more than bad luck as well. Thanks for this nice one! 👍💪✌
nooo, this can't be! two weeks ago I got this car in Gran Turismo 5, but I never used it, since it wasn't better than my other cars in that class. yesterday, I used it in B-Spec mode (which I never play) for the fiirst time and today this video get's recommended to me 😨they are watching me 😋
@@carwashadamcooper1538 they're definitely not exactly the same thing you goofball. "Adding lightness" simply is an extremely clumsy and robotic way to say removing weight.
88mph they were onto something there the exact speed for temporal displacement all they needed was a flux capacitor every time traveller knows 88 is the key speed for time travel
Lol. Where did you do you reseach? This is why the internet sucks. All your info is wrong. Minaru is great, but don't confuse him with the other "hayasi's"
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto. Could they possibly steal from the Italian wedge prototypes of the early 70s any more? Unlike the Italians though, they couldn't give it some balls. 2.8L straight-6? Hell no. Hell no not now and HELL TO THE NO in the 1970s. Walk over to the US Navy base and get a 455 cu-inch V-8, someone over there is bound to own a 1971 Firebird Trans Am. Turbocharge it and you can rename yourself Vector.
i'm about halfway through watching it right now. When it's over i'm going to see if I can find where the transcript for this video was taken from...because it really feels like a lazy copy and paste by someone who doesn't know very much about cars.
Come on, it's not a super car because it looks like one. Super cars are all about performance. Usually they look spectacular as well, but that's not what it is about.
A independent person designs a incredible design and the major manufactures with design teams give us boring bland ugly designs. America was the worst. BIG LONG weird cars that highlighted our cheep gas prices without regard to interesting and exciting now what we call super car designs. Chevrolet was the worst it had the corvette and could of easily made something really cool but left that to ford in the GT and GT2 cars. At least Chrysler created retro designs which Chevy sort of went with but they weren't even close.
While excellent story, you should work a bit on presentation. You are dropping your audience in far too deep far too quickly, a bit of introduction would make this much more enjoyable
It wasn't popular because it looked shite, and is only known because it was in Gran Turismo. I do like it, but if this was designed in France, Italy or England, people would have laughed at it and called it a disaster and tacky, it just looks like a boy designed his own Countach. Look at the tiny space called a door, come on now.
The retro digital gauge panel is the coolest looking even today.
ID4 has one available with various presets similar to things like the S2000, and whatnot. Not sure how customizable they are.
Thank you, Grand Turismo 4, for introducing this car .
It's a lot of fun in GT7 too.
@@PeeFunk2008now that's nice to know that they kept it in the series
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has a Dome-0, a white one, and it's a beauty.
I have a special love for Wedgemobiles. It's no wonder the Imperial Star Destroyer is my favorite Star Wars ship.
I had a die-cast pullback toy of this car in the 80's as a child. It was a really cool looking car.
Me too, I loved it.
It was one of my favorites as well.
there's an appearance of this as a toy car in the new anime "overtake"
we had a programmable thing called itself a 'computercar' (you could set it with instructions to go forward, back turn etc, basically like a big trak) that we only realised was of a real car (this one) until many years later - and the crazy thing is while both my broter and i both remember it clearly i can't find any trace of them existing online. very weird
I doubt what you had was this car. It's way more likely one of Gandini's designs when he was at Bertone.
What a great story. People often don't think of the power to weight ratio, yet here we see an excellent example of what can be achieved. This principle can still apply to Lotus sports cars.
I was going to say, 'Gandini', a beautiful car in my eyes. Each element works perfectly with the next. Rarely are graphics so effectively used.
10:15 I was recently given a vintage lime green scale pull back diecast model of this Dome-0, it seems to be in the collection you showed. Thank you for providing the history of this model, very interesting.
This car should return to Gran Turismo series.
Kyoto seems an ideal location for a break, recalling how it was given a reprieve from being listed among the possible Atom Bomb sites to choose from, as a General had his honeymoon there. A strange world we have.
14:36 An even cooler time machine.
Wow what a gem of a channel. Your descriptive and long form documentaries are great to listen before bed 😁 Keep up the good work 🤩
Yet another car that we've 'forgotten'. Not me. This was one of my favourites. Fascinating and beautiful machine. 👏
Fantastic video very informative thank you for all your hard work making it
Thank you
i first saw this car in sega GT 2002, and just fell in love with the design of it, and its great to see them still around even.
That 1 man in the UK being on time was a miracle
😂
Fun fact: toys of this car were still being made in the early 2000s and one of them turned it into a Transformer. The version of Hot Rod (or Rodimus) that was made for the 2006 "Classics" toy line - a figure that's become pretty well-known in the "Transformers" community - transforms into a customized Dome Zero that has been modified with the Hot Rod character's iconic features: a flamboyant fiery paint job, long angled exhaust pipes on the sides, L-shaped headlights, a Batmobile-esque rocket booster, a massive orange swept-wing spoiler in the rear, and an exposed supercharged engine block in front of the windshield.
Looks way cooler than a Cybertruck.
the pontiac aztek is cooler than that pile of shit
@@erics8192 Tru.
I have a fond memory of sitting in the prototype at AutoExpo back when. Difficult to impossible as I am quite tall. Rather sure that I still have a brochure somewhere.
What a NEATO memory - CHEERS from AUSTRALIA
I remember getting that Riad&Teack issue with the car on the cover in 1979; I was 20 years old at the time. Never forgot it to this day. Always wonder what ever happened to it; looked so promising at the time.
thanks for including the shots driving in Kyoto before they tore out the street cars. 😢
That was a mistake.😔
They will regret that some day and hopefully put them back.
kind of reminds me of a hybrid of the Lancia Stratos and the Stratos HF Zero concept car but with a cool angular Japanese flair- Totally awesome looking
Same name hmmm
@@toddaulner5393 the stratos hf zero was a concept car that preceded the production stratos, so that's why the name scheme was the same
Thinking exactly the same thing! However, I'm certain that both Lancia Stratos cars predated Minoru Hayashi's prototype.
I had a Dome Zero car toy. Mine was painted Pink for some reason.
Thr Dome P-1 is the exemplar for design expression, whilst the following models are a compromise which do not work aesthetically. Amazing effort from a small team!
What a NEATO story - at least they made it to the big races - many never even get there. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA
“they needed to but a race car but their budget was only $27.“
Japan doesn't often make supercars but whenever they do, they seriously cook.
2nd model looks cool, event with 2x4 plank like bumpers. Better then Lambo Countch with “safety” bumpers.
Fantastic video. Thank you.
Another beautiful piece.
Tho i wonder when barchetta does a video on the fiat barchetta, had alot of interesting stuff going on in the background
Great video. I wish all content creators had such good annunciation and pronunciation, flowing, strong and clear.
Excellent work all around👍
The Transformer Hot Rod 1986 cartoon movie was based on this car.
The initial Hot Rod design is considered as original, but 2006 Classic Deluxe Rodimus toy alt mode is based on Dome Zero.
All of us boys in the early 80’s had a toy of this car. Many nights at the library trying to figure out what it was. LoudLove
How'd you get the DOME font?
So this is the story of a dreamer that never managed to make his dream real despite many attempts and a burning passion.
I love the seats in the zero.
11:10 when regulations stifle innovation and on occasion destroy new companies with great ideas.
On the other hand, the Tesla Cybertruck will never be sold in Europe because it lacks any kind of pedestrian safety whatsoever. In the late 70's that wasn't (yet) the case. Fun fact, there still isn't any law in the US that wants to keep pedestrians safe, it still doesn't exist.
The US bumper regulations sure made it look ugly, like it did with most European cars of the time.
Racing is so hard, they had more than bad luck as well.
Thanks for this nice one! 👍💪✌
Looks a lot like the Lancia Stratos 0...
Quite the impressive car built on a shoestring! They should've moved construction to the UK, which has rules quite favorable to small constructors.
as example Tommy Kaira did with the zz & Tom`s do with the Angel TT-1 😊
I had that car as a toy car. Only now I now what it was based on... Lol
Thanks for sharing
Looks like the Italian wedge shaped design exercises. The front is Countach
I think the P2 rear bumper looks better than the original.
Hey Cybertruck team! This is how you do angles.
They wanted to do that, but the stupid safety law prohibited anything look like that form ever on to any test since 2006
@@Saviliana What law is it You mentioned?
Also, Cybertruck is banned in EU territory anyway.
They can sue the garden tractor companies for stealing their wheel design for their weighted wheels 😂
This cat was available on auto modellista and the jiotto caspita
Wow what a great story!
No mention of Hotrod from Transformers G1?
there's an oldies cartoon based on this car...it's called "Pole Position"
Its very cute. Not a door-stop. Its a door-go.
Would have looked like the Vector if it did not have that rear side window.
Reminds of the Aston Martin bulldog
The test track looks very familiar to me
Thanks sega gt 2002 and grand turismo 4 for letting drive this wonderful machine
The Zero looks an awful lot like a Countach and less like a WW2 fighter.
nooo, this can't be! two weeks ago I got this car in Gran Turismo 5, but I never used it, since it wasn't better than my other cars in that class.
yesterday, I used it in B-Spec mode (which I never play) for the fiirst time and today this video get's recommended to me 😨they are watching me 😋
Dash looks like the Cybertruck, yet another thing they stole.
The toy company’s name? Modelo
crazy they didnt use the prelude motor 🤔
New one on me. Never heard of these.😮
I believe it was letter "O",not zero. And it spells as is written,DOME - it's not an english word (spelled doum).
"Adding lightness" is the opposite of removing weight.
With the same result. A distinction without a difference.
No, they are exactly the same thing.
Logic is not easy for you, eh?
@@carwashadamcooper1538 yikes shots fired! It's not unreasonable to say that you're both wrong. But are you both not correct?
@@carwashadamcooper1538 they're definitely not exactly the same thing you goofball. "Adding lightness" simply is an extremely clumsy and robotic way to say removing weight.
One of my favorite channels 🎉
Thanks for watching
If a Lamborghini, Delorien and Mazda had a child
Wow didnt even know this existed!
It looks heavily inspired by Gandini's work.
I love more classical cars. Especially the Toyota 2000 GT
This is where the NSX and S660 got their styling from😎
italdesign shigera vibes
Oooooh, gorgeous 😍
Better than a Delorean 😏
I have one of these in my garage right now......
In Gran turismo...
😂😂😂😮😮😮😊😊😊
88mph they were onto something there the exact speed for temporal displacement all they needed was a flux capacitor every time traveller knows 88 is the key speed for time travel
Great channel.
Much appreciated
First race agaisnt some of the baddest porsches to ever race. Talk about wake up call.
Monte carlo meets stratos meets lambo meets deloreon.... ish
S2000 anyone?
Definitely in the future!
Had one, great car but it was not perfect. Honestly my old 92 Mr2 NA T-top was always back in my mind. I really miss that car.
Nah ..... the modern day safety requirement gonna fcuk u up
Had 2x of them. Loved them!!
It says FORGOTTEN, not every third jdm post
Did you record this while brushing your teeth?
Stratos Zeroesque or Maserati Boomerang?
170 dollars?? Even back then thats nothing.
Looks like the alfa
dome
dome
gettin' dome in the rental
Lol. Where did you do you reseach?
This is why the internet sucks. All your info is wrong.
Minaru is great, but don't confuse him with the other "hayasi's"
It’s fucking rad
Yeah very original :P
Its not like it looks like an "Lancia Stratos Zero" from 1970 :P even the name LOL.
Or the iconic "Lancia Stratos"
Capitan Daimos?
Parts from Nissan, Toyota and Subaru? Far out!
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Roboto. Could they possibly steal from the Italian wedge prototypes of the early 70s any more? Unlike the Italians though, they couldn't give it some balls. 2.8L straight-6? Hell no. Hell no not now and HELL TO THE NO in the 1970s. Walk over to the US Navy base and get a 455 cu-inch V-8, someone over there is bound to own a 1971 Firebird Trans Am. Turbocharge it and you can rename yourself Vector.
A Japanese delorean ?
Michael Jackson's car.
Bertone-desu
Shame it looked like that but had 140 bhp 😑
The more i watch this video, the more bullshit i hear....
i'm about halfway through watching it right now. When it's over i'm going to see if I can find where the transcript for this video was taken from...because it really feels like a lazy copy and paste by someone who doesn't know very much about cars.
"the front bumper doesn't carry the angular momentum of the bodywork"
Why should DATSUN parties sell a supercar ? only sell some ?
they can only do cheap cars, small margins ! Marketing !
Pretty sure the GTR isn't a small margin car.
Come on, it's not a super car because it looks like one. Super cars are all about performance. Usually they look spectacular as well, but that's not what it is about.
A independent person designs a incredible design and the major manufactures with design teams give us boring bland ugly designs. America was the worst. BIG LONG weird cars that highlighted our cheep gas prices without regard to interesting and exciting now what we call super car designs. Chevrolet was the worst it had the corvette and could of easily made something really cool but left that to ford in the GT and GT2 cars. At least Chrysler created retro designs which Chevy sort of went with but they weren't even close.
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While excellent story, you should work a bit on presentation. You are dropping your audience in far too deep far too quickly, a bit of introduction would make this much more enjoyable
This guy’s lisp is thick…
So is your comment 🤪
It wasn't popular because it looked shite, and is only known because it was in Gran Turismo. I do like it, but if this was designed in France, Italy or England, people would have laughed at it and called it a disaster and tacky, it just looks like a boy designed his own Countach. Look at the tiny space called a door, come on now.
Garbage clickbait "documentary".
Not sure why you think that.
Is this AI generated channel? Never hear the creator mess up with his voice...
Garbage? Know your damn place, pal!
@@Sauceyjames It's called audio editing.