8 Cars That Were Sales Flops!! (No One Bought Them)

eight cars that became sales flops what's up everyone we're all familiar with cars like the Camry in the f-150 being massive sales successes there are some cars however that completely missed the mark eventually becoming massive automotive flops far under-reacting the manufacturers sales expectations here they are number one Pontiac Aztek a car that played a major role in Pontiacs demise was definitely the Aztek a strange-looking SUV built from 2000 to 2005 its daring design was the biggest issue with this car and despite its functionality the ugliness is what drove this car to the rock bottom of US sales figures with features such as built-in competent bicycle and snowboard racks the Aztek was supposed to speak to adventurous widely considered as one of the ugliest cars ever built the Aztek was a major flop despite being a decent car many people argue that the Aztek failed because the market wasn't ready for something new but we believe that it was just about the bland execution of an amazing 1999 concept its appearance in Breaking Bad earned it a dose of ironic popularity today but sadly Pontiac isn't with us anymore number two Chevrolet SS are in the midst of the mid-2000s retro craze Chevrolet development team came up with a crazy idea to produce a nostalgic two-seater convertible pickup for the muscle car performance and a 40 1995 dollar starting price the result was the SSR a vehicle that looked unlike any other car on the market which a lot of people didn't like the 1950s inspired design didn't work so well for most so the SSR was considered ugly I loved it though personally the idea behind this lifestyle pickup was that it would attract younger bias but it quickly turned out that it mostly appealed to aging baby boomers that made it even more uncool despite the fact that it packed three hundred or even 390 horses from the ls2 v8 engine despite many efforts to make the SSR appealing to the intended audience chevrolet managed to sell just around 24,000 of these oddballs in a painful realization that they need more than simply a wild imagination to make that concept work number three DeLorean dmc-12 one of the most famous and also the most spectacular car flops in history was John DeLoreans personal project called the mc12 the xgm executive behind the Pontiac GTO wanted to make his own flamboyant sports car with brushed stainless steel body and gull wing doors but the project was plagued from the very start first of all DeLorean chose the worst time to build a sports car smack bang in the middle of a recession next the car ended up with a rather disappointing v6 engine and finally there were a lot of early quality issues since the car was being built by inexperienced workers in Northern Ireland the dmc-12 was produced from 1981 to 1983 but the company eventually went bankrupt and its founder was arrested with large quantities of cocaine which he planned to resell in order to save it from closing its doors despite all its flaws and poor reception the DeLorean dmc-12 became an automotive legend thanks to the Back to the Future movies number four Volkswagen Phaeton who wouldn't expect a brand whose name literally means people's car to enter the market segments such as ultra luxurious limousines but Volkswagen did exactly that with the Phaeton built as a halo model as well as the foundation for Bentley Continental Flying Spur sedan VW Phaeton was a flop from the very beginning and a missed opportunity the market really wasn't ready for the brand that gained fame on affordable models to introduce a luxurious land barge but the Phaeton failed worldwide despite being a fantastic car as much as it was a flop it was also a missed opportunity imagine it being marketed as an Audi a10 for example sound more reasonable yeah it does but VW didn't think so killing the brilliant Phaeton in the process but hey at least their failure gave us one of the best affordable luxury sedans on the second-hand market number five suzuki Kizashi with the name that roughly translates as a sign of something great coming but also omen and warning the 2009 suzuki Kizashi was more off the latter it was a midsize sedan with sporty aspirations being powered by it 2.4 liter engine with a hundred 85 horsepower and optional AWD and his design was beefed up and dynamic while all of that was rather good on paper it couldn't translate to sales figures because of bad marketing and rather bizarre recalled due to a possibility of spiders weaving webs in the fuel tank also the Kizashi usually sold within Hyundai and Subaru dealer networks say buyer simply chose brands they were more familiar with all that led Suzuki to pull out from the American market in 2012 and the Kizashi was left without a replacement number 6 the maybach 57 and 62 historically speaking Mercedes have never made a market mistake at least until they decided to revive the Maybach brand built to compete with BMWs revitalized rolls-royce phantom and the Bentley Continental Flying Spur owned by VW the uber luxurious Maybach was a revival of a long defunct German manufacturer with the name familiar only too true automotive connoisseurs this was the first step towards its demise next both models looked almost exactly like the s-class only bigger a bit more luxurious under the double six figures a whole lot costlier of course lack of brand recognition and an uncanny similarity to a mass-produced model didn't do so well with the world's richest so the production was halted in 2013 after years of disappointing sales figures number 7 the Lincoln Blackwood although pickups have become as luxurious as SUVs or premium sedans their main selling point is still functionality back in 2002 when the Blackwood was introduced pickups weren't that big on luxury and Lincoln completely forgot about the functionality parts causing it to completely flop the Blackwood was based on the f-150 underpinnings with looks inspired by the much more popular navigator SUV and it was only available in black double cab configuration black curve versatility the virtually unusable covered truck bed and a huge price tag of 53,000 dollars killed the first Lincoln pickup really fast the model sold for one year only with just three thousand three hundred and fifty-six manufacture examples number 8 Fiat 500l vietze returns a US soil was marked by several models such as the 500 city car the 1 to 4 roadster and it's rather fantastic sporty Abarth versions then there was the 500 L the car had failed to establish itself in the compact crossover class in Europe let alone the USA the 500 L was to compete with the MINI Countryman but unlike this retro style crossover it couldn't offer any performance driving feel or any form of excitement Fiat had to do much better in order to conquer the American market but they failed because the 500 L was the worst selling car in this segment for years the 500l is still in production due to somewhat better sales figures in Europe but is slowly being replaced by the more exciting 500 X but there you are what other cars became sales disasters let me know in the comments please remember to like or dislike the video I reply to everyone in the first 6 hours Cheers

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Published: Fri Jan 12 2018

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Suzuki Kizashi looks good tho!!