18/06/2012 11:45 | By Chris Rees, contributor, MSN Cars
Wonky wonders: cars that are not symmetrical

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The new Hyundai Veloster has dual doors on one side and a single one on the other. An asymmetrical car - crazy!

Surprisingly this is not a new idea - there have been lots of cars with the same layout. But it got us thinking about other cars that boast lopsided designs.

Pretty much every car is asymmetrical, of course, because you normally have the steering wheel on either the right-hand or left-hand side. But bodywork is almost always completely symmetrical. Why? Partly because it looks good, partly because it's aerodynamically sound.

But that hasn't stopped manufacturers coming up with designs that are skew-whiff, wonky, off-centre and cock-eyed. Here are our favourite cars with imperfect symmetry.

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Hideous?!! That Ghia XNR is gorgeous... from an age when designers dared to dream of 'the future', instead of just creating the latest 'must have' mass-consumerist iGadget.
10/09/2012 12:40
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Fascinating, the early cars especially (and the Renault 4 factoid).
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