The top car is a 1956 Astra-Gnome concept car (never actually manufactured for us). Photo credit / more info: https://www.petersen.org/vehicle-spotlights/1956-astra-gnome
The bottom vehicle is a dumpster sold by a wanker.
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This just shows that personal automobiles are bullshit. A bicycle has not changed fundamentally in over 100 years, meanwhile cars are constantly changing for no discernable reason.
The internal combustion engine is fundamentally unchanged since invention, so is the electric motor, both well over 100 years old too.
And personal automobiles are still fundamentally the same as a horse driven carriage: four wheels with a box on top for seating and sheltering from weather, and a driver in front for steering. The first mechanically driven carriage even predates the bike by more than 200 years.
The bicycle has changed quite a bit in the last hundred years. The modern derailleur was introduced in the 1930s. Moving the shifters to the handles was more recent. Clipless pedals and disc brakes were both introduced in the 70s. Carbon fiber frames reduced their weight substantially.
Their basic shape hasn’t changed much, but everything else has.