The origin of this machine is unknown, as well as the company.

The observations that were made concludes to those observations :

-Autômato is the brand of this car prototype, this model, the only one that survived, is called N°88, in reference to his model name N881896.

-This car is electric, and the hand-crank acts like a dynamo, hence why, apart from all the machinery inside of it, the car is pretty silent and good sounding...

-...But we don't have an explanation as to why this model has an exhaust pipe, or why it can belch out smoke like it was oil-fueled.

-About the previous observation, in a normal drive, not a single millimeter of smoke is belched out. However, the car has a certain tendency to let out "toots" of smoke, like a cartoon car, so far it's the only "purpose" the exhaust pipe has.

-The headlights are actually functional watches, the left one gives the Greenwich Mean Time and the right one gives the Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00), maybe this car was built in Portugal ?

-The wooden "wheels" are in a surprisingly good state for a more-than-centenarian car, it also applies to the "engine" (a whole gears and nuts mess that is definitely different from the other electric car prototypes built at the time) and the headlights.

-At some times during the test drives, the car went "crazy", bounced, sputtered, popped, buzzed like an electric generator, and stalled as the driver drove closer to a lake, the same event happened when the driver tried to go to his mother's farm. Other things that this car "dislike" : Storms, rain, sand, leaves (yes, leaves), insects, high heat (it stalled pitifully on a very warm July day). it is unknown if an outside factor is damaging the inside mechanics , if the mechanics themselves are badly designed (hence why it never left the state of a prototype) or...No, this thing is not "possessed".

-However, it seems it can handle: icy and snowy road, rocky and muddy road, steep hills, roadless routes in sharp mountains (professional alpinists were beaten by one of the test drivers for Lord's sake !)

-The fuel hole, since it's an electric car, is another mystery. We tried pouring different liquids inside it...

-It handles milk, water, breton beer (what the hell--), however coke and pepsi weren't a good idea at all. The messy wiggling was enough for my head, I was stuck in the hospital for 5 weeks as we lost control of it.

-Irish coffee and sparkling water has good effects on it too, it goes faster and handles better the drifts.

-DO NOT POUR FOOD INTO THE HOLE. The soot it belched out on our faces was a clear "No thanks". The gurgling and the creaks the engine produced were pitiful.

-This car is stupidly strong. So far, scratches have been made, but the car survived all the crash tests we put it in so far...because this thing has apparently an automatic-break assistant. Revolutionary for its time clearly. And apart from that, when it did hit walls, the walls were damaged, but the car was as good as new, ready to go again.

-When the car mechanics go out of control, the headlights watches are touched too, the hands move and almost look like cartoonish expressions.

-One day, the car disappeared from the vault. We found it at a garage of a test driver. He insisted it came on its own and wiggled its rear at him...As impossible it sounds, there were no effraction signs on the car, and the finger prints of the test driver were nowhere to be found on the car, so it wasn't him who stole it.

More experiences to come. Along with a proper code name.