The Autozam AZ-1 Is a Ridiculous, Tiny, Surprisingly Fun Sports Car 

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Also the fact it doubles as a casket

No, you can't do that - literal guy.

Or you just put a handle in it and pull it around like a classic red steel pull wagon!

You have to take the autozam for walks like a dog

It looks like a go cart when Doug does that.

Same!

Try same with smaller Lotus elise:)

I had a similar experience with a Ford GT40 replica. It was weird to kneel next to a car and still be looking down into it.

He looks like a giant next to the car.

yesss hidden camera glasses😏or if hes feeling fancy a head mounted gopro

Yes, I was hoping he would show the speedometer because I was curious how fast he was able to get it going. But the in-car camera only shows Doug's sweaty face 😂

@@robertjenkins6132 It's important to see Doug's lovely sweaty face at all times.

Ikr, I love his attention to details in these vids.

Maybe he expected a 4-5 judging by the spec and the time it was made, so 6-7 is "shockingly good"

He's not IGN. He actually rates from 1-10.

Yup. I don't get this guy. He didn't do well in school. He says it's highly saught after. =fun factor 6?

It's a good score for a 60 hp car

iclassified1 Yes. This guy has reviewed cars that go 0-60 in 2 seconds. A 10 on that scale is high.

Was thinking the exact same thing

I have wanted to swap a Mazda K series V6 into one of these for years. The bay looks like it'll take it. 200ish hp and a 6 speed would be fun.

@@DrewLSsix an mr2 on all the drugs basically 😂 would be sick

@@DrewLSsix put a powerful motorcycle motor in it and throw a turbo on it. I’d love to have one of these with decent power but adding any significant weight to it, which a 6 cyl would, would destroy what’s best about it. I’d look for the highest HP I can find without adding much additional weight.

Needs a Hayabusa swap.

@@DrewLSsix A 1.0L ecoboost 3 cylinder would do wonders here. Or an LS swap lol.

Damn imagine the Doug score for that thing

Yay, have a child during covid and the upcoming greatest depression and NWO. Completely genius!

@@overthehilldill3626 found the guy who wont ever reproduce lmao

@@CaptainFordo21 why add to human misery? Seems extremely selfish.

@Russell Campbell try realist. Things will be getting bad real soon. Have fun optimists.

The 1500cc version on the X19 is actually pretty cool!

I owned 1 also...F.I.A.T. (FIX IT AGAIN TOMORROW)

@@sarahconner9433 Better than Found On Road Dead FORD!

I had an X19 Bertone. It was fun when it wasn't broke down! I will say it was built like a tank!

buy ot

I was at a "party" once with him. Should have seen him then if you were impressed with this

Funniest shit I've ever seen

@Team rocket rockin your sweaty ass in the comment section

Do you find something comical about Doug's appearance when he's driving his automobile? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gkBqVVbnZ1c.html

No it's the price. 30,000 dollars lol

Lol no:)

…and?

@@joemcascio annnnd it’s awesome? Lol

@@Flickawho Yes?

Wow, can you imagine Doug in an animated discussion with Scotty Kilmer? They'd have to make sure they were at least 6 feet apart or they'd be banging knuckles.

Me too ... a Porsche.

@@DoesMamaKnow Cayman brothers assemble

@@Farquad76.547 nope. He means power wheels-those small electric drivable cars for children

He didn't even show it

@@gregorsamsa1364 , the process would have been fun to see, like watching a convertible top fold into the trunk.

@@ericcarabetta1161 Definitely a mistake for him to not include it

reminds me of Shaq O'Neal driving a Smart Fortwo

How about rolling two of them out? I think they might fit.

@@markjames8664 I think the 2021 Escalade could easily fit one along with a ramp if all the read seats are folded down

I was going to say that Tundra it was next to could EAT this car!

yes tyey do

Tay!!

glad to know i watch the same videos as tayzonday

Hi Tay!

This is the starter, it evolves into MR2 at level 16 and into Testarossa at level 36.

Looks like this is an opportunity for you to own one!! I wouldn’t have guessed you were a car fan….

LS is a NO! Better a litter bike engine

Turbo Hayabusa around 300hp would be a lot of fun!!!

rotary swap would be cool since how compact rotary engines are

A new Hayabusa engine actually works better awesome!!! But I'm really waiting for the ones that are making an EV conversion... It's going to be awesome!!!

Electric motor swap! 200 hp 350 ftlbs of the big turks.

Everyone deserves Turbocharged Air conditioning.

How does a person fit in there?

@Alex P. I would love this car if it had a central driver seat.

Altho having an intake for the AC for such a small car considering the AC pretty much takes a lot of power from the engine when its on, is pretty genius if you ask me. Even if it gets really underpowered, you at least can enjoy the AC when travelling at higher speeds. My car has 0.9 3 cylinder turbocharged engine and when I turn on the AC, the engine also loses quite more than I would expect from it when turning it on. Nonetheless, its really fun car to drive and turns out quite more reliable than the standard 4 cylinder cars.

@@royliber3824 "quite more reliable than the standard four cylinder cars" That is SUCH a broad, bold, and likely untrue thing to say... Lol. You know that rotaries were reliable for at least some people right? Ferrari's can be more reliable than their owners Toyota's, that they drive during the week. Not every engine is made the same. Even within what's supposed to be the same exact engine. Sometimes you get a turd from a really good, known to be reliable engine. Sometimes you pull a gem out of a (toilet) bowl of turds. To say anything at all is reliable, based on a sample size of one, is incredibly misleading and probably inaccurate. That being said, I'm incredibly happy to hear that your vehicle has been reliable for you, as well as a joy to drive. Did you mention what it was? Did I somehow miss that?

Probably because it might not be factory.

@@cristiansalas6374 true it looks it's been done by a seatmaker with thisk ind of color and stitching.

Good point.

How did u forget ur grammar.

Just read the Cars and Bids page for this car, the red seat upholstery are aftermarket, hence why they aren't mentioned in the video

I will have to respectfully disagree. If you have a look at the ones from a couple of years ago and earlier, the introduction and transitions were more natural, so to speak. There were outside recordings while the vehicle was being driven. And before that there were scenes which had somewhat of a spontaneous air to them, even though they might have been conceived beforehand... but they tended not feel artificial. This might be somewhat of a glorification of what is referred to as the supposed past but it seemed like a time, a great time where there was less of a focus on monetary aspects like viewer counts and catering to viewer patterns, using simplification and repetition for example, in order to preserve the viewership and therefore the income and in some sense also an economic dependence possibly impairing creative aspects.

What a self contradicting statement

I like how his mom still lays his clothes out in the morning

If memory serves he now shoots with an iPhone, but used to use an old Canon camera or something for his earlier vids. Phone cameras have come to far, so it’s like why use anything else now?

Dude's like a cartoon character. Arms flying all over the place, body bobbing and weaving while talking.

6"2 if Congress is in session

Thank you for the comment Sir Broccolington The Third

geo prißem but not cool míami v8cé faries lamghi farri 308 gt

jußt got elric farri 308 gts

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5 for styling is pretty reasonable

Yeah...for real. It's like a Ferrari Testarosa or 348 and a VW New Beetle mated and this was their love child...7/10 easily. Doug's opinions only matter to Doug Score. Or maybe if an MR2 & Alto Works mated? Yeah...that's probably more accurate.

Dude, really? This car is fun but monkeybutt ugly.

Also "handling is a JOY, really _THRILLINGLY_ fun": 7

Man, next to the pickup it is SHOCKING how tiny it is.

@@realityshotgun next to the pickup brings big cock energy tho

exposing the most intimate of areas

Such a Doug thing to do

😂😂😂😂😂 Had not seen that 😅 hilarious

Just don't use it,because the chances are the car will flip over and your bottle will stay sealed 😲

Every car has one, use the metal door latch on the inside of the door. Won't scratch the paint.

@@GenericDino But be careful. Easy to break the neck of the bottle.

@@GenericDino You can also use the metal part of your seatbelt to open a beer while driving

@@KoenOnbekend that might be the most reckless comment ever, and it’s awesome!

waluigi in his kart lol

@@samuelkim1827 YES!! My favorite character! His laugh kills me XD Definitely the right size ratio

He didn’t do it for profit, he did it for access to more cars…

@@Icehawks7 his brain is too big

@@Icehawks7 and the acces to more cars means more videos means more Money...

@@pinut187 not everyone is focusing their business on money. He is the absolute definition of a car enthusiast and he even has low profits on his website. Each car that sells he only gets 4.5% or something like that

@@akafxde7245 i mean he didnt even want to sell Shirts with his "thisss" and Arms extended, I think it Shows that he really did not want money from people. Only miss were those Pictures with him in Front of cars but that was short try

@UNLISTED Alas, RU-vid's report button seems to do nothing. I report all these spam bots but they're still up.

I was in one of these when a squirrel ran in front of the car. It was totaled and I spend 6 months in the hospital, the squirrel walked away without a scratch.

His length varies from 1,89m to 1,96m. That's pretty much. Maybe he is like Inspector Gadget. lol

Depends on whether he's wearing high heels

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Haha! Just noticed that.

lmao thank you for pointing that out, I missed it

Well he did say the words ‘everything open’.

@@MrCumstein valves as well?

Yup yup

Same

Wait, they have something like that?

@@Cloud007. dammit, I actually laughed out loud when I read that. 😂

DiTC as in ditzy 😏

We need more: Peel p50 The original Mini Cooper Isetta The tiny Messerschmitt one that I can’t remember the name of

@@kingofsludge7262 That Messerscmitt was magical, maybe some more Lada's!

@@kingofsludge7262 Doug’s reviewed the Isetta, it’s so bizarre

Doug is gonna have a lot of fun in Japan, not just with kei cars.

@@alexsaffamerica Ohhhh yeah ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I bet it is harder to find an American car in Japan then these kei cars lulx. The big trucks and stuff would be impossible to drive and the like sports cars have engines to big.

I meant it is easier to find a Kei car in America then an American car in Japan. Obviously finding kei cars in Japan is easy.

Doug in a honda motocompo! make it happen....

James Pumphrey of Donut is 6'4" and his knees were in his face when he got in.

What is Chilaquil???

@@MrTonypetrucci e is a basketball super star

@@MrTonypetrucci Sister species of Cyndaquil.

Wow, can you imagine Doug in an animated discussion with Scotty Kilmer? They'd have to make sure they were at least 6 feet apart or they'd be banging knuckles.

To meet the low tax requirements the car also needs to have a max of 660cc.

I think 660cc will accomplish the fuel economy...

Good fuel economy was a fortunate side effect...LOL

At this point, I probably should get one for daily and ditch my pickup truck. I'm still keeping my Crown Vic tho

A RU-vidr who makes videos about living in Japan bought a Honda Fit. He said the biggest delay was needing an official inspection of his parking space before he was allowed to buy it. I think the idea of Kei cars is that they are exempt from that.

I think it's because he focuses on the stuff that matters to most regular would notice and experience in a car. Weird storage cubby holes, how the indicator stalk feels, how you, er, fit in it.

fax 💯 best youtuber

It's nice because he reviews /the car/. He doesn't review the brand, or the reputation of the model or past versions of the model. I mean, he mentions it but other review channels let it bias the entire thing.

It's definitely very low-budget editing, but the "beauty" in watching Doug's videos is that he really goes out of his way to do his homework before turning on the camcorder. There's a lot of things he points out that I would never notice about the cars he reviews...at least not at first.

Yeah, this guy just has so much character

@@gingerninjer355 was just going to say that

@@gingerninjer355 I’ve seen a few videos of turbo’d hayabusa swaps in these. They’re awesome.

At that point it would be a deathtrap in every sense of the word.

I talked with an owner of an AZ-1 and he said a Hayabusa engine wouldn't fit without major cutting

@@TheJacobshapiro re amemiya x greddy did a monster autozam az1 dubbed vi-az1 it has 20b rotary engine here with its new owner ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-peYUBZHf20Q.html

My thinking also.

I was thinking the same thing if I can find one I'll probably do it

Yeah, break the sound barrier and then it disintegrates 😂

i wouldnt even mind if it just had a little bigger turbo you can actually hear spool.

I actually vote for a Connaught 2L V10. That would put it in the league of supercars properly

Him mentioning the hayabusa engine swap and I can only imagine how nice that would be if it had been engine swapped

@@freetheinsanity5257, one famous Russian old man made a Smart Roadster with Hayabusa engine swap and full carbon body kit

Or any kind of small sport cars/sedans on American roads today, surrounded by lifted trucks and SUV.

This is me whenever I pull up next to anything bigger than a mid-size SUV in my tiny little kei sportscar. Overtaking a bus really scares me I hope the driver doesn't just change lanes

Rather be on a bike any day, at least with a bike you can fly to some grass hopefully. My biggest fear would be to get trapped in this car while it’s on fire

Looks like a shrunk MR2 or fiero .

@@v_isforvictory9366 yeah agree, she must low self esteem..a real keeper

Oh my god, can't fit a large pizza in the trunk! That's so small! That's impressively small.

70 mpg 😳

Bro just fold the pizza

@@FiveTwoSevenTHR I have a tiny trunk rack I've been debating installing. This may be the excuse I need.

Unless you are making a funny car you certainly don't need 3 rotors... Probably one rotor would be quite enough

*Air break* :-))

geo metro beter car

1980 FIAT X19 here....same. Really only used it on the highway. It was a fun car though.

geo metro beter

Bullshit the average height of a Japanese man is 5’8

A quick Internet Search finds the average height of Japanese man is 5'7"; and the American man just a fraction less than 5'10". Point well taken - Doug is nearly a foot taller than the average driver. Or course he's uncomfortable. It's the price one pays when their either too tall or too short for the product.

@@InfoSecGuardian That's a really long way of saying, "I agree with everything you said!", but I'll take it!

And people were even smaller 30 years ago when there cars came out.

@@dongatello6969 Surprisingly it is not far off. When I went to Japan I was surprised that people under 45 were a head taller than old Japanese people. What was yet another surprise was that (I traveled across Asia in 2005) in Korea they were even taller. Many, many women 5'8 and many men 6'2. Women 5'11 and men 6'4 were not uncommon, maybe because of the sheer number of people in the city of Seoul. But I also went to Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines and their women were 5'2 and 5'5 for men.

My dad had a 1975 Cadillac coupe deville, that’s almost a foot longer than twice the length of this car, my caprice is 6 inches short of twice the length of this thing.

Dos the AZ-1 change lengths based on the video? (Doug "I'm 6'3"/6'4" tall" DeMuro...) 🤣

@@harz426 What do you mean? He's always stated he is 6'3"?

@@joelellis9480 r/woooosh

@@joelellis9480 Some videos he has said 6'4"

They did make some black Mazdaspeed and M2 versions. And you're right about the price - they originally sold for 1.5 million yen (about 11k USD), so they're a fair bit more now than they were when they were built.

Some of the cost of these is going to be over the whole having to import it from Japan and all the legalistic paperwork that has to happen for that, which in the US is a headache and a half.

@@austingee238 Yeah, I can imagine that getting one shipped in a container is gonna run you quite a bit of cash (I once had a Sterling Sovran kitcar brought over from the UK). Over here in the Netherlands the paperwork is a pita as well and feels like they just do it on purpose to milk extra cash. Like every import you have to get a full examination of the car first and pay a ton of cash just to register it on Dutch plates; even though we already have our yearly MOT examinations anyway. Buying the car is easy, but the costs are in getting it to you, registering it, and then the annual servicing with lots of costs when something breaks. Ah well, I'm still happy with my tiny litte Nissan Pixo. It may be just a tiny A-type shopping cart but it's black (my favorite color for a car), has AC/power windows/central locking, and it gets me where I need to go. It just had one MAJOR flaw in that the AC condenser&radiator sits in a fully open space behind the bumper. So it's in plain view at road level without any protection; so that one got hit by tiny stones and other debris constantly while driving on the freeway and eventually sprung a leak resulting in a pretty nasty repair bill of almost €500. So I had the mechanic add some of that black aluminium racing mesh across the front that I bought for less than 20 bucks off Amazon. Now at least it has some additional protection against incoming road debris and it also looks cool (actually, it now looks like how the car should have rolled off the assembly line). Pretty ridiculous how these companies make such (intentional?) mistakes when a bit of metal mesh could have prevented this. Apparently also several Porsches (911's, Boxsters and Caymans) have exactly the same issue where the radiator/condenser is completely unprotected (which is crazy because ... it's a Porsche! They couldn't even add some mesh in the bumber in the factory??). So any Porsche people out there may wish to check and put a cheap mesh grill of less than $20 across the front that not only looks cool but may also save you a ton of money from a broken AC unit. I imagine that the ones from Porsche are a lot more expensive than my little Nissan.😅

This is definitely Doug at his most entertaining, but I get why he does so many boring modern vehicles, he’s one of the best names on RU-vid when it comes to car reviews. Most car owners care way more about what the interior is like and comfort of the vehicle than performance credentials. RU-vid car reviews five years were all these tuned sports cars and usually had an obnoxious presenter telling some unrelated story. I think the only car channel that gets more views per month than him is ChrisFix so I can’t really blame for doing things the way he does

SUVs are equivalent to vinyl roofs.

😂😂😂 underrated comment...OMG! That face will haunt me in my nightmares.

The way you perfectly timed @21:36 😂

haha!

I’m dead 😂

Not when retards are buying oversized lifted landboats for daily use.

problem is no one in their right mind would drive one outside of a city

@@JonnyMaxximum well it has a top speed of 87 mph, so it can keep up with the traffic. Just I am interested how is the noise when you reach the top speed.

@@m4dc4t speed isn't the issue, it's more the problem of being turned into a prop for Monster Jam as soon as you touch some jerk's Raptor on the highway

Hitting an f250 with this would be like squashing a bug lmao