The Biggest Flops Of The Decade - 10 Cars You Will Never Miss

When it comes to cars, failure can be measured in a variety of ways: Sales, perception and desirability are but a few. Yet when a model does fail, it's rarely in a spectacular blaze of glory. More often than not automotive failures atrophy and (like a bad sitcom) disappear without notice.

Remembering them is the purpose of this story.

A lack of sales performance is the most objective way to measure failure, but the numbers seldom tell the whole story. Sometimes a design team creates a car so repulsive they're liable for crimes against humanity. Often a marketing department takes too many liberties with a new model's expectations and reality pulls it back to Earth with an audible thud. And sometimes a car just doesn't make sense financially or otherwise.

 

thetruth01 - 7/9/2013 2:34:07 PM

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The LS600hL should not be on the list. It's an engine/wheelbase combo of a sucessful car. Does that mean that AMG models which sell only in the hundreds are failures?

cidflekken - 7/9/2013 4:32:30 PM

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I think the LS600hL is included not only for its low sales but moreso for its lack of a performance/economic advantage over its gas-powered siblings, unlike an AMG or M model that fulfills a promise of higher performance levels for the premium price.

The one that definitely belongs, but is a major disappointment is the Honda Insight. It still baffles me how badly Honda did with this product, and all of its iterations thereafter. How did Toyota get it so right and Honda get it so wrong?

HughJass - 7/10/2013 7:54:54 PM

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Wasn't the advertising V12 performance, V8 mileage or something like that?