What Car's Technology Was Too Far Ahead Of Its Time?

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Raphael Orlove
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Some cars are maybe a bit too ambitious for their own good.

Take the Aston Martin Lagonda. It had a digital dashboard back in the 1970s! It was decades ahead of its time.... and it showed.

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The car’s systems were hopelessly unreliable with lots of proprietary work and “juvenile at best” construction, as one owner put it.

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What other cars had technology hopelessly ahead of their time?

Photo Credits: Aston Martin

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