Hearses are no longer the monopoly of creepy-looking limo wagons. Check this one out.
The car has been around since 1886, but the funeral coach version of it didn’t appear until a couple of decades later. While electric motor-powered iterations of the hearse were supposedly already in use around Paris—warranting a story in the May 1907 issue of Scientific American—according to Kathy Benjamin, author of Funerals To Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest And Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions And Practices Ever, the very first unit with an internal combustion engine fitted onto the body of a horse-drawn hearse with a bus chassis appeared in 1909.