Category talk:One-off automobiles

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[edit] Name and scope

"One-off automobiles" isn't the perfect name, feel free to {{cfr}} it if you have an obviously better name.

I'm split over whether it's better for this category to exclude things like the Stout Scarab (6 produced, but they were intended to be sold to 6 different buyers). But I think that a category like this may eventually have enough members to be large enough to exclude things like the Enzo (400 produced, two orders of magnitude more than the Scarab).

One's first gut feeling might be to use the category only for famous automobiles, but that criteria may be too subjective. I think criteria like "total number produced" or "total number of owners" or "initially designed for X owners" is more objective. (and "a single vehicle that's notable enough to have its own article" is a close enough approximation to "famous" anyway) --0x845FED 14:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

And does the Owen Sedanca (or any other car that had a prototype built, and perhaps one or two production models built, but then the car was cancelled due to lack of success, and more were definitely intended to be built) count? --Interiot 12:55, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Should it include automobiles that weren't intended to be road legal, or weren't intended to be driven on the road? (eg. Mercedes-Benz T80) There's a great many race cars that have very few produced. --Interiot 17:03, 19 January 2007 (UTC)