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The Scarab prototype arrived in 1932; during this time Stout was also working on a number of other concepts and prototypes, none of which ever made it to production.
The Stout Scarab is considered one of the rarest vehicles on the planet because only a few were made between 1934 and 1939. Some claim Stout Engineering Laboratories made as many as nine, while ...
1932 Stout Scarab. The Stout Scarab is believed to be the world's first minivan, possibly the world's first aluminum unibody, and definitely the world's first truly ugly car.
The true inspiration for the electric vehicle's shape was the Stout Scarab, a wildly aerodynamic Art Deco car built in Detroit in the 1930s and ‘40s.
The automaker wants you to think of the car as an "electrified streamliner," and Ha even said that the Stout Scarab – a 1930s-era concept car – served as inspiration. Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik ...
Honing in on two cars most car buyers have never seen, the 1934-39 Stout Scarab and the 1938 Phantom Corsair, they have produced a swoopy teardrop of a sedan with the hard edges ...
The sleek new all-electric Ioniq 6 looks very different from the original Ioniq EV. It doesn’t even look like the Ioniq 5, for that matter. It’s based on Hyundai’s Prophecy concept, which ...
The scarab was carved from serpentinite, a greenish-gray metamorphic rock, and measures roughly 2.6 inches (6.6 centimeters) long. It was set in gold and suspended on a 30.5-inch-long (77.5 cm ...
Hyundai claims the 1930s Stout Scarab as inspiration—and though that obscure machine and the Ioniq 6 are nearly a century apart, once you see pictures of the two, you know the notion isn't just ...
“That's a 1935 Stout Scarab. And Bill Stout was an aircraft engineer by trade, and he actually developed the Ford Tri Motor Airplane.
We don’t see the Ioniq 6 as perfect by any means. The 11.2-cubic-foot trunk is small, rear-seat space is tight for adults, and taller folks will need to do a duck-and-slide to get in.