Tennessee creator Tyler Fever built an absurdly wide car after previously turning a Ford Festiva into a street-legal sliver.
Tyler Fever has already made people look twice with a Ford Festiva he transformed into one of the thinnest street-legal cars ever built.
Now the Tennessee creator behind the YouTube channel Prop Department has gone to the opposite extreme.
His latest creation is so wide that, at first glance, it appears as though two conventional cars have been fused into a single vehicle.
The internet has already found a fitting name for the bizarre machine: the automotive equivalent of an iPhone Duo.
Fever’s previous project started with a 1988 Ford Festiva.
He stripped the car down, sliced it through the middle and rebuilt it into an extraordinarily narrow street-legal vehicle.
The finished machine was roughly half the width of the original Festiva. Because the factory engine no longer fit, Fever powered it with a compact electric motor.
He even managed to take the unusual vehicle onto public roads around Nashville, Tennessee.
His latest project takes the exact opposite approach.
Instead of trying to make a car as narrow as possible, Fever has created something dramatically wider. The orange vehicle appears to span almost two cars’ worth of cabin space.
From the front, it looks almost as if someone took his famously skinny creation and reversed the entire process.
That creates a completely different question for anyone who sees it.
Rather than wondering whether they can squeeze into the car, the obvious question becomes just how many people can sit across the front.
The unusual proportions have already attracted plenty of attention online.
One TikTok user summed up the design by calling it ‘The new iPhone duo’.
Another compared it to the sort of strange vehicle someone might encounter while browsing Facebook Marketplace, writing: “Type s**t marketplace has when [you’re] looking for an air fryer.”
Then came perhaps the most fitting reaction of all: “I’m riding shotgun!!… we all are, bro.”
That comment captures the strange appeal of Fever’s creation.
The front of the car appears wide enough for what would normally be a passenger seat to become something closer to an entire passenger row.
Suddenly, ‘riding shotgun’ is no longer something reserved for one person.
It becomes a group activity.
The creation also fits perfectly with Fever’s previous work, which has repeatedly pushed ordinary ideas about car proportions in unexpected directions.
His Festiva project required lasers, extensive fabrication and an electric motor. Even the steering wheel had to be modified because there wasn’t enough room for everything inside the radically narrowed vehicle.
This time, Fever has flipped the challenge around.
Instead of asking how narrow a street-legal car can become, his latest creation asks a much more entertaining question: how wide can one get?
Judging by the reactions, the answer may be wide enough for the entire gang.