The maintenance fee and the fees of getting the Kizashii parts in America was the demise of the car. For some people the maintenance fee was more than what the car was worth.
The Yugo was in-between a normal car and a bus pass. It was said that the bus pass was a better value and more reliable. Two Men and Yugo got arrested in Oakland CA followed by a push by shooting.
I got one for you: The Yugo could not have a radio because the communist authorities didn't people listening to Voice of America. So the designers commune with the Spirit of Tito to know what to say when people complain about no radio like cars made in the West have. Tito's Crypt replies, "tell them that they wouldn't be able to hear a radio anyway since their knees will be up around their ears."
Yugo is good looking and reliable car if you look after it. Also you can fit 1.5 lancia 1.6 vw engines to make it faster. Here in Serbia where Yugo is made you can fully tune and style a yugo under 3k $ and you can buy good Yugo's for 200-300$ because average pay here is about 3-400$ only here are €. Type on youtube Yugo tuning and prepare to be amazed
come on GM. then those youngsters could save only a few more weeks’ worth of cash to get a V8 Vantage with the unlimited mileage Bumper to Bumber Warranty.
Paul Jr. Harrington there were no way near to afford a V8 Vantage when SSR was being produced, were V8s even being manufactured when SSR was in market?
The VW didn't flop because of marketing it flopped because they were like ''Hey wanna pay top dollar and look like you're driving an ordinary passat?''
Exactly, quite a boring look. Mercedes, Jaguar, Bentley, Porsche could always include design ideas or elements from very famous and distinctive predecessors. For the Phaeton, VW had none (no, an oversized Käfer/Beetle does not suffice 😊) , and they had no new design ideas either.
Cadillac made huge mistakes thanks to bean counters... 1)No interior with seats covered in other than leather or mohair should ever have been installed in a Caddy. Interior color keyed to paint color, not just mousefur grey or mousefur brown. 2)Never an engine with less than 8 cylinders and always a 12 cylinder option on the Fleetwood. 3)All new platforms shaken out by Olds, then to Cadillac for upscaling. Only later back to first Buick, then Pontiac and finally to Chevrolet.
I have a 04 SSR and I love the hell out of how people look and won't to try me I bust that a--. And others have just love it. For me I wanted something no one else is really driving. I also own a can am spyder, I love being different like 2 chains and the migos.
No,It may look ugly,but it was a very popular (it’s still,but now at least I can understand why) compact car. The reason is that it was something totally new here in Germany and people were interested. Btw the car was practical.
@@68404 There was a plan to bring the Holden Ute over as a Pontiac G8 Ute for the 2010 model year, but GM sold out to China and axed Pontiac before the car ever had a chance to reach our shores. Sad.
Hector, right now the only SUITABLE platform for a new El Camino Ute would be the Buick Insignia / Regal, which would also translate into a new Commodore Ute for Australia. But since the new PSA-based Opel makes them in Germany it would suffer from US Chicken Tax (25%) ailment unless they use the Malibu version before they axe it. Even though the Regal / Insignia / Malibu / Commodore is FWD-based it'll still work for a "very light duty pickup" as El Camino was in its' heyday and it wouldn't be too small (roughly close to the 2G Honda Ridgeline midsizer). It could still pack engines as large as the 300+ hp NA-3.6L V6, which is plenty for the intended purpose (close in output to the same-sized engine in the 2G Colorado / Canyon, but with a bit less torque.
Blame the gov for the death of the El Camino and Ranchero. Being based on cars instead of truck platforms meant they had to comply with all the car CAFE and safety standards instead of the truck standards. While I don't think that would be as big a problem today as it was in the '80s it just wouldn't make economic sense to bring them back now. They couldn't be built any more cheaply than a compact pickup.
ron dill it was a flop since it tried to be many things while being terrible at each thing it tried to be: it was too weird and small to be a good convertible, it was too exotic to serve as a good pickup truck (also it's a unibody vehicle not BOF) and not peppy and sleek enough to be a credible sports car. That is why it didn't sell, if it was even slightly capable at even one kind of usage they would have sold many more of these. Plus the retro look car kind of came and went with the cars that invoked it like the latest Thunderbird, the PT Cruiser/Chevy HHR (both designed by the same guy) , and the Plymouth Prowler
That SSR is downright awesome. That sleek body is wonderfully retro-futuristic. I could easily see that coming if for a landing in 2015 Hill Valley. I could even see it doing a trench run on the Death Star, as long as you kept the top up.
Trailblazer ss should be in here, they only made 26,411 ever I have one it's also got the ls2 but people hate on them. Ls2 4:10 gears rwd or awd. What else could you want
The Chevrolet SSR looked really cool, but the price of 41,000 Dollars might have been the sticking point. I don’t think the younger generation could afford one.
The Kia Borrego would have been a good candidate for this list because it debuted in the United States during the midst of the economic downturn in the late 00s and early 10s. It looked great and was perfect for the outdoorsy types, but it just wasn't the right time for the Kia Borrego to make its debut. Since Kia is planning on taking a chance at proving themselves in the Luxury SUV market with the Kia Telluride; I can only hope that Kia might consider the idea of bringing the Kia Borrego back to the US.
Jack McKenna Ford pre-planned a short lifespan for the retro T-bird so there was never an expectation that the car would last more than a few years. Today in my market, good condition used ones sell from 25-45k, for a car that's basically a dolled up Crown Vic.
My father bought a 2002 in the ‘t-bird turquoise’ color...really a striking color in person. He bought it new in ‘02 and now I have it. It only has 9k miles on it and whenever I drive it, people always comment on it and can’t even figure out what it is. They are not popular at all where I live. Really not a bad car, but basically a Lincoln LS.
+Kelly's E92 M3 If They Were To bring them back, They better make them look Like A Muscle-Truck Like how it was at one point. Hopefully it won’t have some cheap ass V6 In It. But, You Never Know. :P
Though the Blackwood was a complete flop for obvious reasons, it's still a bit of a treat to see one in the wild every now and then, and they go for roughly $10,000 or less so it's affordable, just rare. Only one here listed for sell in the Chicago area.
Yeah anyone who has a Blackwood should definitely hang on to them and maintain them, they will soon be worth a ton of money in original condition, give it about 10-20 years.
Really liked the SSR and if I were among the more economically advantaged I would have bought one. However, I would have preferred a smaller, more fuel-efficient engine.
I test drove an SSR with the intention of buying it. Hated the way it drove, and it had numerous problems even on a test drive such as clunking brake noises and a hard pull to the right, and even with the performance engine it lacked exitement. I drove it around the block once and back to the dealership. Never looked back.
SuperBigblue19 It WAS like the Brat, but they ditched the seats in bed. Brat 2.0. It did, however, have some unique cargo setup possibilities. Neat car, too bad it didn't sell.
The SSR had $41000 price tag, yet aimed at millenials. I dont know many in my generation who can afford that. It would take me 5 years to earn that much at my income level, more if I wanted to have that in my bank balance. No wonder it didn't sell.
Thot Slayer, First of all, I don't work in fast food. Second, I make $11 an hour, and but my job doesn't give me more than 20hrs work time a week (15hrs is my average). My take home pay comes to about $150 every week after taxes, except the second week of every month, when I lose another $21 for Union Dues for a Union that allows the company to keep part time workers in poverty. If I could land a better paying job, don't you think I would take it.
My boss had a yellow SSR with a license plate that said “cha Ching” he had constant problems with it including a leaky roof that they could never get right. That “cha Ching” was the sound of the money he wasted flushing down the toilet
7205buttas - we have a Chevy SSR and love it ! Had it since 2011. Nothing wrong with it. Try to buy one now. You'll pay a pretty penny and then some, with only 25,000 ever made. We get heads turns and hand waves all the time. Enjoy the SSR.
I genuinely liked the design of the Pontiac Aztec and the Chevy SSR, but at the time loved my '94 Dodge Stealth R/T with full sports package much better.
I thought the SSR was always pretty cool it was just way to expensive , that and the Plymouth prowler, the every day person couldn't afford one and if you could you were considered a rich kid ! They come out with cool cars a lot but always do something ether wrong on price or under power it. Like a Miata the car was totally under powered and still is had they put a turbo on it and kept up on the handling at a right price it would still be as great as it was, now to many car manufactures are jumping on board and getting in there market, America needs to get back into the built in the USA type of cars that can show the industry we still have what it takes in design and engineering ,
@@ORWELL_USA Which came first? The first one is obviously not the copycat. Sure, they changed the appearance some (made it uglier if you ask me) but Chevy definitely copied the Chryslers.
Fun fact. Aztek became that way because the designer said "Yes" to every request the GM executives made. And he ended up as head of GM Performance division designing Corvettes and Camaros.
So the SSR was meant to attract younger buyers but they priced it at over 40k? Wonder why it didn’t sell? If it was in the mid to upper 20’s I’d have bought one! As for the Aztec it’s a great design, nobody will notice if you’re in a crash since it looks like it’s already been crashed!
Lead engineer was a gal. One of her other bright ideas was a front wheel drive pick-up. That was another dud, with a loaded bed it LOST TRACTION severely.
The later model Ford Thunderbird was also a sales flop. I thought it looked alright but I believe the price tag was a little too staggering and there are probably some other reasons I'm forgetting.
faceup5 That and the car like that only appealed to the older generation. Bringing back muscle cars appeals to all generations...the T-Bird was a classic that needed to not have its name reused.
faceup5 it also used the jag/Lincoln v8 which was quite impressive as a little v8 engine but I don't think I have seen one go over 100000 miles it was very unreliable.
I think they targeted the wrong market. There are definitely those who mourn the loss of the original 2-seat T-Bird. But that car only lasted three years out of the fifty year history of the car. If they had brought the T-Bird back as a true performance sedan, something akin to the BMW M-series, I'm confident sales would have been stronger. Instead, they came out with something nobody was looking for, a boulevard cruiser with no room for the family and a 2-seater without the performance you'd expect from a 2-seater. It didn't compete with the 'Vette the way the original T-Bird was meant to and it didn't compete with more agile cars like the S2000 or MX-5. It really needed to be basically a Mustang GT with a functional back seat. That's one thing the American market is missing, a performance sedan.
My uncle was one of those baby boomers who bought one. However this is after he literally went nuts, so this should tell you something. In his case, after a fall from a ladder, he changed from a solid, respected schoolteacher to acting like a wild teenager. Very sad, he liquidated savings to buy ‘toys’ including the SSR. And no it was not just midlife crisis - he also cane to believe Katie Couric was sending him special messages....anyhoo, SSR is a Cool looking car, but too overpriced for its target market. A big part of the cost was paying for the top mech./construction which was farmed out to ASC, as are most low-run convertible conversions/ folding hardtops in the auto industry since the late 60’s.j
The aztek is awesome. I'll admit i thought it hideous when it was released, and for years afterward, but it doesn't look nearly as unattractive to me today, perhaps because I'm now comparing it to modern SUVs and crossovers which actually share more resemblance with it than other SUVs of its day and before
I see a few daily, this was supposed to be cars that no one bought. They sold over 100,000 a year for several years so I don't think it should be on the list.
I was surprised that the Prowler wasn't on the list. I don't know why it didn't sell, but I suspect it was similar reasons to the failure of the SS/R - too expensive.
Glad you mentioned the Blackwood. For some reason (probably the way they made the thing look like one of those teak wood 60s CrisCraft speedboats!) I've like this truck since it came out. I think if they released it today it would sell pretty well.
The Delorean DMC-12 initially had the moniker of 12 in the name because it was supposed to cost only $12,000 when the Delorean ended up costing $25,000 it was changed from the DMC-12 to just the DMC.
@@markg7030 Well that was initially their objective when they started but obviously they couldn't build them that cheap, idk what ever made them think they could build them that cheap.
The Cadillac Allante had high hopes but porous convertible tops and manual operation killed them. The running gear was bullet proof and the styling was classic but the overall quality was lacking.
On the subject of mini mpv/crossovers I think the Ford Fusion was one even tho I quite like the car because there’s one in my avatar pic also the Ford Focus c-max
It should have been a huge news story how the framed auto maker was attacked from completely unscrupulous agents and they never bothered retracting news of his innocence! He should have had a slander case and settlement.
Tery Nichols I don't think so. Anything American is already a flop in Australia. Even the mustang sales are drying up with poor resale on the second hand market. Also Holden Australia is dead. GM America made sure of that.
Me too. A friend bought it and he got stopped by the cops 2-3 times a day just so they could take a look at it. He ended up crashing it and could never find a way to restore it. He died a few months ago for unrelated issues
I would love to know the sales figures for the Chevrolet Vega. I had 2 of them. The first one got wrecked 8 months after I purchased it. The second one had everything you could possibly hate in a small car. Power glide transmission, no AC and a vanilla bland interior. And the engine was just awful.
Michael Falke Vega was quite popular. And totally crap. I owned a Kamback. Carried a case of oil with me everywhere. It was 2 years old when I bought it. Garbage.
The DeLoean was not a flop. It sold 9,000 cars. The company was a flop as it was poorly managed - not the car. The car sold well in relation to the market economic conditions.
I want to be a car designer and I went to a car design camp and the teacher, Brian Baker, actually designed the SSR and he owns one which he brought to the camp, it was so cool!
The Aztec was called the Quasimodo of cars. The SSR was way overpriced, and only old, well-to-do men bought them (like my idiot uncle.) The Delorean was tragic.
Wasnt shopping for a SSR but the one I saw in a Chevy showroom was $52000. The turnoff? Plastic trim on grill and around top of seats resembling brushed aluminum. I mean really. At that price needs to actually be brushed aluminum. The Fiat 500L. Saw one brooken down at a stoplight last week. A friend had one. Felt like I was sitting in a helicopter.
kevin fosgate I opened the hood on one in the dealership and the engine was buried so deep and so far back I thought, you`d never be able to turn a wrench on this thing without dropping the whole assembly out from under it.
During the 60's In Australia we had a small fiberglass mini car . The Lightburn Zeta . This amazing car had a two stroke engine , it had no reverse gear , turn the key anticlockwise and the engine fired up and ran backwards for reversing the car ……. true story .
no prowler!?!?!?! NOTHING was ever more hyped than this. if you are old enough you remember it. it was on tv on radio on the news paper at school(lol) in the bathroom, magazine. chrysler was saying to people to forget about mustangs and camaro. muscle cars were dead as the new 'production hot rod' would take over. turn out you could only order it with a shit v6 and automatic transmission and werent allowed to drive past 120mph and clocked the 1320 at 15.40. the thing could barely spin and was grossly overpriced, the hype was VAPORISED even before the first was sold as the first official demo lended to testers were ANNIHILATED by critiques...in the end only few boomers buyed some to park beside their fifth wheel and go to the marina on sunday. they only sold 11 000 in 5 years. chrysler admited that they wanted to stop it at the first years but to save face they gave it a full run. they lost vast amount of money with that!
My mother worked for a Chrysler dealership when they were released. I still have a factory model of the Prowler in purple. Neat looking little cars but my mother said people would take them on a test drive and leave in a Caravan as it had better performance and handling ability.
The Edsel is probably the most notorious car failure. Introduced after several years of intense hype in late 1957, it was funny looking (or downright ugly) and otherwise nothing really special, despite the pre-release publicity. It was an obvious catastrophe after only a few weeks because of terrible sales. Ford manufactured 1958 and 1959 models, and killed the Edsel at the beginning of the 1960 model year. It was a huge mistake and generated tons of bad publicity.
I put an 66 LTD 390cid into an Edsel wagon back in 1993 for my boss at the time.... I heard he had the original engine rebuilt and put back in later and sold it for a respectable $33,000......
When I heard flop, I was thinking honest to God, Maybe like 20 or so. lmao I'm not even kidding. 24,000?! It's hard to grasp but I guess with the population being at 4billion, I guess their could be that many
I'm within the first six hours and I demand some answer! Maybe monitor whether your audience is more in the US or in Europe, as I only saw bad selling US cars in here but kinda feel European flops such as the Renault Wind, Nissan Murano or VW EOS are left out.
Nice analysis and presentation! I am a huge fan of the SSR. I'd love to buy a totaled one and restore it, fixing the major deal-breakers like limited horsepower, no regenerative breaking coupled to a hybrid capacitor motor, maybe add some auto-nav sensors, and a manual transmission! I'd also like to do similar for the equally ill-fated Plymouth Prowler. Could you do a video on why the Chevrolet Corvette has replaced the Dodge Viper as the US king of the muscle cars? There are so many reasons easily identifiable if you research the two cars, many of which were similar mistakes you've mentioned in this video. Slainte!
The car looked fine. I think it was the name. No other Japanese car sold in the US has a Japanese name. Except for the Samurai. But that word is well known in US.
I owned one and it was a great car. Great fuel economy, I could get 37 mpg on the highway and it was advertised to only get 30 mpg. It had an amazing Rockford Fosgate stereo system. It was actually kinda quick for what it was.
The SSR is a huge hit at classic car shows all over the country, and they are becoming increasingly in demand by buyers. They didn’t make that many of them, and that car is destined to be VERY collectible.
The biggest selling car brand in the World,as FIATs are built under license in 62 countries, and only Americans can't drive them. I owned and raced both FIAT X-1/9's and 1800 Spyders, great fun for the buck!
If you want to talk about Suzuki flops talk about the Suzuki Samurai that would roll over on a dime, my step sister and one of my good friends each had a 4 door model one and they were ridiculous dangerous and would rollover super easy!
The SSR looks even better in real life. I saw one in bright red, and it was simply beautiful. If you want performance to match the looks, though, buy the 6.0L V8.
Aztec failure: Reason It's design of its hull or shell was pretty much what killed the car. Performance I heard was fairly decent. Irony: The Majority of Cross overs, hybrids and modern SUV's all share the Aztecs features Aztec had the nose and tail been cleaned up likely would have fared well. Chevy SS: Reason for failure. Chevy literally got greedy and shoved all the tech into what was supposed to be a car to sell to youth in the late teens to young adults but didn't remember that wages for the modern day didn't fit modern prices (still doesn't) and that maybe making models in lesser versions probably would have been more attractable. . Design wise it was fine and personally i like its retro design. Had Chevy made various versions from a strip down basic model and of course its premium model I bet they would have made some decent sales. Irony: Ford made the Thunderbird which also didn't do that well but learned its lesson quick and the Modern Mustangs pretty much laughed its way to the bank. Delorean: Reason for failure: Electrical issues in the American model due to 1st generation issues was a pain, but the primary reason was the US desire to shove a fuel regulator which literally killed the car's performance everything else the video posted is correct. The European models were decent performing cars however. The Other reason was that car companies didn't like competition, and made efforts to kill it, The founder was acquitted of the drug charges especially as it turned out it was staged to get him in trouble in the first place. He simply chose the wrong time. Irony: The Delorean refuses to die into obscurity, the Back to the Future movies and fans managed to get the Delorean to continue to be built in limited old models to now being built as new productions and all existing models don't have the performance issues anymore . Seem's the car at least had the last laugh. The other cars appears to be true mistakes due the Mercedes cause no one was that stupid to buy what was essentially a oversized clone of another model. The Suzuki cause bad design and poor choices The Lincoln.. Really do I need to point out the obvious??? The last one meh..
I'd own one of those Chevy utes for sure here in Australia... After all we invented the ute. An Aussie lady sent Henry Ford a letter saying she wanted a car she could take family to church and carry hay bails for the farm and he thought that was great idea so he did. And with Delorean, the FBI entrapped him, he did nothing wrong.
Tony B that's true, it was a Sting operation, for which John Delorean was acquitted and never served any time And, as with any well known person being arrested on charges like that, it's front page news but when they're acquitted it's on page 6
Fiat 500L (and the rest of the Fiat brands in the USA) were also burdened by a CEO that was more interested in finding another car company to buy FCA than by making, marketing, and selling good cars. It's a shame that Sergio Marchionne was no longer interested in ongoing operations as they had many good cars that needed help in the QC area and a little marketing zing but were poised for greatness.
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At least Pontiac predicted the housing crisis by offering a tent and a mattress as options for the Aztek.
I would Legit buy an Aztec - ONLY FOR THE TENT AND MATRESS CUZ WE BROKE
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Some of them failed cars would be wonderful to own especially the SSR and the Suzuki in my opinion
People seem to think the same, the later SSRs can go for up to 50k!
Where I live, Suzuki is EVERYWHERE. alto and wagon r are the cars from suzuki I see the most
@@firstone1135 Are u Indian?
@@n.sudarsan231 nope
The maintenance fee and the fees of getting the Kizashii parts in America was the demise of the car. For some people the maintenance fee was more than what the car was worth.
They wanted the ssr to appeal to young people so they made it unaffordable and look like its from the 1950s.... good shit chevy.
Eric Cosmo hahahaha
That car doesn't look like it is from the 1950's to me, just a palimpsest of such at best
Chevy should have done a retro on their highly successful 57 Chevy pickup.
@@jclements007 or a remake of The Nomad. I don't think GM will ever build another Coupe though. Excepting the Corvette and Camaro of course.
It looks like a futuristic car from the 50s but I like it
I’ve seen a lot of people with the Fiat 500L where I live
Me, leaving in Italy: that the most sealed car of the last 10 years.
Same here
In Italy is full of 500 L
Where?
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The Yugo. The only car ever built that they installed rear window defrosters to keep the owners hands warm when pushing it in the winter.
When they first came out I went to a dealership to test drive one. It was so bad I refused to take it off the lot
The Yugo was in-between a normal car and a bus pass. It was said that the bus pass was a better value and more reliable. Two Men and Yugo got arrested in Oakland CA followed by a push by shooting.
I got one for you:
The Yugo could not have a radio because the communist authorities didn't people listening to Voice of America. So the designers commune with the Spirit of Tito to know what to say when people complain about no radio like cars made in the West have. Tito's Crypt replies, "tell them that they wouldn't be able to hear a radio anyway since their knees will be up around their ears."
You could double the price of a Yugo by filling it with gasoline.
Yugo is good looking and reliable car if you look after it. Also you can fit 1.5 lancia 1.6 vw engines to make it faster. Here in Serbia where Yugo is made you can fully tune and style a yugo under 3k $ and you can buy good Yugo's for 200-300$ because average pay here is about 3-400$ only here are €. Type on youtube Yugo tuning and prepare to be amazed
"Aimed at millennials"
"$41,000"
10/10 marketing
Haha
come on GM. then those youngsters could save only a few more weeks’ worth of cash to get a V8 Vantage with the unlimited mileage Bumper to Bumber Warranty.
Paul Jr. Harrington there were no way near to afford a V8 Vantage when SSR was being produced, were V8s even being manufactured when SSR was in market?
GeroX TV True, but I was comparing the SSR’s new price to the Vantage’s used price.
Exactly. If they had made something look cool for 20k at the time it would have done great. All they had was cavalier death traps.
The VW didn't flop because of marketing it flopped because they were like ''Hey wanna pay top dollar and look like you're driving an ordinary passat?''
Exactly, quite a boring look. Mercedes, Jaguar, Bentley, Porsche could always include design ideas or elements from very famous and distinctive predecessors. For the Phaeton, VW had none (no, an oversized Käfer/Beetle does not suffice 😊) , and they had no new design ideas either.
It looks boring in pictures, but when you see in live its a different experience. It has presence
malcolmfood lol no it doesn't
certainly has more road presence than a 90s "luxury" cadillac
Cadillac made huge mistakes thanks to bean counters...
1)No interior with seats covered in other than leather or mohair should ever have been installed in a Caddy. Interior color keyed to paint color, not just mousefur grey or mousefur brown.
2)Never an engine with less than 8 cylinders and always a 12 cylinder option on the Fleetwood.
3)All new platforms shaken out by Olds, then to Cadillac for upscaling. Only later back to first Buick, then Pontiac and finally to Chevrolet.
The DeLorean is one of the most sought after cars now...as well as being the most recognisable.
@Sam Colt I didn't say it wasn't junk - I said that it was one of the most sought after cars now.
The camper tent on the Aztec looks like a giant car diaper 😂😂
lol
The Chevrolet SSR was just way too expensive
David Norris well it was like a corrvete pick up truck so that’s why
And underpowered, if it had at least 450-500hp.
When they first came out I saw one listed in the showroom in Kamloops B.C. for $57,000 Canadian.Yikes!!
Christopher Adams the LS ones had a ton of power for the time
no it’s just horrible
The SSR was cool looking. Just WAY too overpriced.
My uncle has one, one of the coolest cars I've been in. It's an eye catcher for sure in bright yellow.
I have a yellow 2004 SSR. It's very exciting to drive and one of the coolest ones around. Only problem is a lot of electrical issues.
But why would a person buy one? Who was the market for that silly thing? Anyone can drop a 'Vette motor into a pickup. It's not that big a deal.
It looks like a baby that worked in the coal mines and caught black lung and resided in a care home
I have a 04 SSR and I love the hell out of how people look and won't to try me I bust that a--. And others have just love it. For me I wanted something no one else is really driving. I also own a can am spyder, I love being different like 2 chains and the migos.
Imagine being a Suzuki engineer being bested by spiders in the fuel tank.
Gotteem!!
I always thought the older A-class from the mid-2000's was kind of a fail.
Yeah, popular though
Viral Vehicles Yeah, more in a financial way but you're right.
It really went upside down. Literally.
No,It may look ugly,but it was a very popular (it’s still,but now at least I can understand why) compact car. The reason is that it was something totally new here in Germany and people were interested. Btw the car was practical.
Dávid Nyerges I know im from Deutschland too, but im pretty sure Mercedes lost money with that vehicle. That was my point.
They need to bring back the El Camino
unique username - Don’t give them ideas.. They will ruin it and make it a crossover SUV for the soccer mom’s. Just like the Blazer!! 💀👎🏼👎🏼
They had the perfect opportunity when they were rebadging Holden Commodores. The ute was perfect for the El Camino badge
@@68404 There was a plan to bring the Holden Ute over as a Pontiac G8 Ute for the 2010 model year, but GM sold out to China and axed Pontiac before the car ever had a chance to reach our shores. Sad.
Hector, right now the only SUITABLE platform for a new El Camino Ute would be the Buick Insignia / Regal, which would also translate into a new Commodore Ute for Australia. But since the new PSA-based Opel makes them in Germany it would suffer from US Chicken Tax (25%) ailment unless they use the Malibu version before they axe it.
Even though the Regal / Insignia / Malibu / Commodore is FWD-based it'll still work for a "very light duty pickup" as El Camino was in its' heyday and it wouldn't be too small (roughly close to the 2G Honda Ridgeline midsizer). It could still pack engines as large as the 300+ hp NA-3.6L V6, which is plenty for the intended purpose (close in output to the same-sized engine in the 2G Colorado / Canyon, but with a bit less torque.
Blame the gov for the death of the El Camino and Ranchero. Being based on cars instead of truck platforms meant they had to comply with all the car CAFE and safety standards instead of the truck standards. While I don't think that would be as big a problem today as it was in the '80s it just wouldn't make economic sense to bring them back now. They couldn't be built any more cheaply than a compact pickup.
The Chev SSR was just priced way too high.. thats why it didn't sell very good. 44K for any car is too damn much!!
ron dill it was a flop since it tried to be many things while being terrible at each thing it tried to be: it was too weird and small to be a good convertible, it was too exotic to serve as a good pickup truck (also it's a unibody vehicle not BOF) and not peppy and sleek enough to be a credible sports car. That is why it didn't sell, if it was even slightly capable at even one kind of usage they would have sold many more of these. Plus the retro look car kind of came and went with the cars that invoked it like the latest Thunderbird, the PT Cruiser/Chevy HHR (both designed by the same guy) , and the Plymouth Prowler
ron dill Ever truck nowadays is at least $40,000 in NY at least.
Yes I agree with you but it was cool looking
@Christian Barrett New York is corrupt lol
@Christian Barrett Yeah tellin me I can't have certain features on my guns but criminals can. Lol
That SSR is downright awesome. That sleek body is wonderfully retro-futuristic. I could easily see that coming if for a landing in 2015 Hill Valley. I could even see it doing a trench run on the Death Star, as long as you kept the top up.
I used to be so hyped whenever I saw a Suzuki Kizashi
Haha I still am
I’ve got a 2012 Kizashi. Love it.
Gundeep Virdi me too
I friend had one all throughout highschool, one of the coolest cars that most people won't get to experience
Gundeep Virdi same here, I loved the way it looked
I actually like the chevy ssr looks
It kinda reminds me of hot rod type cars
Muhd arbaaz Khan same I like that Chevy pickup I don’t think it is ugly at all
Same!
Muhd arbaaz Khan like a Plymouth prowler feel
Muhd arbaaz Khan I loved it to, but the kind of people who liked it could not afford it.
mkbaaz 909 well good...the designer would thank you....thats exactly what they were going for...derpa der
7:26 I love how the Subaru is coming apart at the end 😂
I think that’s the fog light cover coming off.
The Chevy SSR is a beautiful vehicle when the top is off. But that price though.
Actually in Europe they cost 60-80% new price sooo.....
My black garaged ssr is in perfect condition and I love it.
@@debracannonrndsn2564 really? that's so cool!
Trailblazer ss should be in here, they only made 26,411 ever I have one it's also got the ls2 but people hate on them. Ls2 4:10 gears rwd or awd. What else could you want
cableaddict -sorry you aren't able to afford one. You're missing out on FUN !
The Chevrolet SSR looked really cool, but the price of 41,000 Dollars might have been the sticking point. I don’t think the younger generation could afford one.
Precisely. They made a major flub, and it was the most obvious thing to avoid they could. But man are they SNAZZY cars!
Lol every car here in singapore is by least $150 000
41,000 might have been the price but you couldnt buy one for that, dealers all had their mark up price and it was over 50
Pp
You would have to be aweful young (6) and an abused choir boy to want a SSR
You have no idea how many people own ssr’s in Tennessee. You see hundreds of them every day
I may have to take a trip there to see if I could buy one.
Love how these are like all the cars Doug De Muro has reviewed😂😂😂
The Kia Borrego would have been a good candidate for this list because it debuted in the United States during the midst of the economic downturn in the late 00s and early 10s. It looked great and was perfect for the outdoorsy types, but it just wasn't the right time for the Kia Borrego to make its debut. Since Kia is planning on taking a chance at proving themselves in the Luxury SUV market with the Kia Telluride; I can only hope that Kia might consider the idea of bringing the Kia Borrego back to the US.
2003 Ford Thunderbird...a dealer told me $35K at which I laughed in his face and said "good luck with that". Guess I was right.
Jack McKenna Ford pre-planned a short lifespan for the retro T-bird so there was never an expectation that the car would last more than a few years. Today in my market, good condition used ones sell from 25-45k, for a car that's basically a dolled up Crown Vic.
My father bought a 2002 in the ‘t-bird turquoise’ color...really a striking color in person. He bought it new in ‘02 and now I have it. It only has 9k miles on it and whenever I drive it, people always comment on it and can’t even figure out what it is. They are not popular at all where I live. Really not a bad car, but basically a Lincoln LS.
I hope Chevy brings back the El Camino
HNP Cars dude they almost did back in 2008 with the Pontiac G8 ST but GM went bankrupt and tanked the Pontiac brand
Also you can order a Holden Ute from Australia do the conversion with the Chevy SS interior
Problem is, if they do it will be 40-50 grand.
HNP Cars HELL NO
+Kelly's E92 M3 If They Were To bring them back, They better make them look Like A Muscle-Truck Like how it was at one point. Hopefully it won’t have some cheap ass V6 In It. But, You Never Know. :P
Though the Blackwood was a complete flop for obvious reasons, it's still a bit of a treat to see one in the wild every now and then, and they go for roughly $10,000 or less so it's affordable, just rare. Only one here listed for sell in the Chicago area.
MAN_ON_WHEELZ i sold my fathers blackwood about a year ago for 7500
That was a mistake, if you could have afforded to keep it. That Truck, do to how few were made, will be worth somthing in anither 10 years.
I still have mine. 117k miles.
Yeah anyone who has a Blackwood should definitely hang on to them and maintain them, they will soon be worth a ton of money in original condition, give it about 10-20 years.
MAN_ON_WHEELZ Popular with blacks.
Really liked the SSR and if I were among the more economically advantaged I would have bought one. However, I would have preferred a smaller, more fuel-efficient engine.
I test drove an SSR with the intention of buying it. Hated the way it drove, and it had numerous problems even on a test drive such as clunking brake noises and a hard pull to the right, and even with the performance engine it lacked exitement. I drove it around the block once and back to the dealership. Never looked back.
What about the Subaru Baja? That part car, part truck looking thing
Was it like the Brat with the suicide rear facing seats in the back?
SuperBigblue19 nope it was basically an outback truck
Had one. Loved it. With a manual transmission.
The Platypus of the car world.
SuperBigblue19 It WAS like the Brat, but they ditched the seats in bed. Brat 2.0. It did, however, have some unique cargo setup possibilities. Neat car, too bad it didn't sell.
The SSR had $41000 price tag, yet aimed at millenials. I dont know many in my generation who can afford that. It would take me 5 years to earn that much at my income level, more if I wanted to have that in my bank balance. No wonder it didn't sell.
Lol yep. Kinda failed.
David Lemmo 5 years? Maybe you should quit McDonalds.
Thot Slayer maybey u should find out how taxes work
Thot Slayer, First of all, I don't work in fast food. Second, I make $11 an hour, and but my job doesn't give me more than 20hrs work time a week (15hrs is my average). My take home pay comes to about $150 every week after taxes, except the second week of every month, when I lose another $21 for Union Dues for a Union that allows the company to keep part time workers in poverty. If I could land a better paying job, don't you think I would take it.
Maybe they were going for the Generation X market?
My boss had a yellow SSR with a license plate that said “cha Ching” he had constant problems with it including a leaky roof that they could never get right. That “cha Ching” was the sound of the money he wasted flushing down the toilet
Heh
7205buttas - we have a Chevy SSR and love it ! Had it since 2011. Nothing wrong with it. Try to buy one now. You'll pay a pretty penny and then some, with only 25,000 ever made. We get heads turns and hand waves all the time. Enjoy the SSR.
Any vehicle good enough for Heisenberg is good enough for me
I genuinely liked the design of the Pontiac Aztec and the Chevy SSR, but at the time loved my '94 Dodge Stealth R/T with full sports package much better.
How about the Cadillac Cimarron? It was basically a Chevrolet with a Cadillac badge and a $10,000 higher price.
Cimarron should have been included in the video.
Believe it or not, they sold many of them, in the same way Jeep sold tons of Compasses.
didn't that have the horrible 4-6-8 engine?
No. This was a rebadged Chevy Cavalier.
Wasn't the Cadillac Fleetwood of 1980 have the V8 6 4?
I thought the SSR was always pretty cool it was just way to expensive , that and the Plymouth prowler, the every day person couldn't afford one and if you could you were considered a rich kid ! They come out with cool cars a lot but always do something ether wrong on price or under power it. Like a Miata the car was totally under powered and still is had they put a turbo on it and kept up on the handling at a right price it would still be as great as it was, now to many car manufactures are jumping on board and getting in there market, America needs to get back into the built in the USA type of cars that can show the industry we still have what it takes in design and engineering ,
In fact I would say the SSR was a clone of the Prowler, just as the HHR was a clone of the PT Cruiser.
@@marvinmeeker5765 Clone--you're insane.
@@ORWELL_USA Which came first? The first one is obviously not the copycat. Sure, they changed the appearance some (made it uglier if you ask me) but Chevy definitely copied the Chryslers.
First gen Miata underpowered?
Tell that to Laguna Seca lol
Fun fact. Aztek became that way because the designer said "Yes" to every request the GM executives made. And he ended up as head of GM Performance division designing Corvettes and Camaros.
Next episode idea 10 worst car's under 10k
Zakariyya Moosaji Vehicles Virgin made a video on that
Surprisingly the Fiat Multipla was not a flop
Crusard Modding ikr that should have been for the looks
They actually sold quite a few of them!
The multipla was extremely practical, and had a huge and confortable interior for its time, it sold because of that... but it was ugly, yeah
The Multipla belongs to the category "so ugly, it's actually cool"
So the SSR was meant to attract younger buyers but they priced it at over 40k? Wonder why it didn’t sell? If it was in the mid to upper 20’s I’d have bought one! As for the Aztec it’s a great design, nobody will notice if you’re in a crash since it looks like it’s already been crashed!
Boat Axe I would buy an SSR just as a weekend car used but I wouldn't spend $44k on one. Lol. Rather have an 06' Silverado SS
Hugh Mongus You've said multiple times.
Jackson Suzick What?
I was trying to pay attention to the content but the music on the background was making me dance.
PrivateVoidNoname i thought i was the only one
@@narissax freaking good lounge beat man hahaha tried to shazam it but no success tho wish I could know the name :think:
I thought it was porno music
The Pontiac Aztek looks like a SUV version of Fiat Multipla
Kenan Kocak 😢but i like the Aztek
Kenan Kocak I think it looks like the father of the Nissan Juke
Lead engineer was a gal. One of her other bright ideas was a front wheel drive pick-up. That was another dud, with a loaded bed it LOST TRACTION severely.
Kenan Kocak yeh it looks like a reliant supervan and a Suzuki Kakashi gave birth to it... XD
Kenan Kocak nah the Aztex is better
Surprised that Nissan Cube & Murano Convertible didn't made to the list.
the cube sells well in some countries this only refers to usa, in new zealand even old cubes are quite sort after, very roomy for a small car
@@debeeriz The 2010 Versa is surprisingly roomy for its small size also.
Cube does decent in the USA. Murano Convertible would have been great on this list.
My verry tall friends love Nissan Cube for BIG ROOM and gas.
I think The kizashi actually looks decent much better then other small saloon cars like the jetta
Agreed, I'd buy it.
Actually, that car was designed and built after VW bought Suzuki and is why it looks similar to the same year Jetta. I would take one over a Jetta.
I saw the SSR at Kroger last week.
The later model Ford Thunderbird was also a sales flop. I thought it looked alright but I believe the price tag was a little too staggering and there are probably some other reasons I'm forgetting.
faceup5 That and the car like that only appealed to the older generation. Bringing back muscle cars appeals to all generations...the T-Bird was a classic that needed to not have its name reused.
faceup5 it also used the jag/Lincoln v8 which was quite impressive as a little v8 engine but I don't think I have seen one go over 100000 miles it was very unreliable.
I think they targeted the wrong market. There are definitely those who mourn the loss of the original 2-seat T-Bird. But that car only lasted three years out of the fifty year history of the car. If they had brought the T-Bird back as a true performance sedan, something akin to the BMW M-series, I'm confident sales would have been stronger. Instead, they came out with something nobody was looking for, a boulevard cruiser with no room for the family and a 2-seater without the performance you'd expect from a 2-seater. It didn't compete with the 'Vette the way the original T-Bird was meant to and it didn't compete with more agile cars like the S2000 or MX-5. It really needed to be basically a Mustang GT with a functional back seat. That's one thing the American market is missing, a performance sedan.
The SSR looked fine, no interior space because of the folding hard top and 4700 lb curb weight, no sale.
I'd buy it, but owners want to make a killing. They're not THAT special. I'll pass.
My uncle was one of those baby boomers who bought one. However this is after he literally went nuts, so this should tell you something. In his case, after a fall from a ladder, he changed from a solid, respected schoolteacher to acting like a wild teenager. Very sad, he liquidated savings to buy ‘toys’ including the SSR. And no it was not just midlife crisis - he also cane to believe Katie Couric was sending him special messages....anyhoo, SSR is a Cool looking car, but too overpriced for its target market. A big part of the cost was paying for the top mech./construction which was farmed out to ASC, as are most low-run convertible conversions/ folding hardtops in the auto industry since the late 60’s.j
I love and loved the SSR but couldn't afford it.
@Todd Crabby probably because he spent it on a black 1964 impala convertible and then his head is on fire
4:58 the legendary "Méjbaak" 😂
Chevrolet SS didn’t sell that many units. Even though it should have, because it’s a true drivers & enthusiasts car.
Ford Falcon too
I have gxp and ss and I can’t really understand why gM brought them here from Australia but never EVER marketed them 🤔
It was to give the Australian factory more work, and delay shutting it down, fooling Holden that GMNA cared about them.
The aztek is awesome. I'll admit i thought it hideous when it was released, and for years afterward, but it doesn't look nearly as unattractive to me today, perhaps because I'm now comparing it to modern SUVs and crossovers which actually share more resemblance with it than other SUVs of its day and before
how ON EARTH is the PT Cruiser not on this list ;-;
I see a few daily, this was supposed to be cars that no one bought. They sold over 100,000 a year for several years so I don't think it should be on the list.
They made them for(get this shit)for 10 years!Plus the PT Loosers sold really good in the first 5 years.The Prowler should be on the list.
I was surprised that the Prowler wasn't on the list. I don't know why it didn't sell, but I suspect it was similar reasons to the failure of the SS/R - too expensive.
I see them all over town
Star Pivot the TITLE of this video was SALES FLOPS. Not, cars Star doesn’t like. You need to pay attention before posting.
Glad you mentioned the Blackwood. For some reason (probably the way they made the thing look like one of those teak wood 60s CrisCraft speedboats!) I've like this truck since it came out. I think if they released it today it would sell pretty well.
The Delorean DMC-12 initially had the moniker of 12 in the name because it was supposed to cost only $12,000 when the Delorean ended up costing $25,000 it was changed from the DMC-12 to just the DMC.
I don't think so. 12k for a stainless steal car?
@@markg7030 Well that was initially their objective when they started but obviously they couldn't build them that cheap, idk what ever made them think they could build them that cheap.
I have a 2004 SSR. I love it. Bought it new. Still as exciting and fun to drive as the day I got it.
Madison Boswell those are the ugliest cars I’ve ever seen.
Nebula Sky - you haven't seen many cars then from jail.
The Cadillac Allante had high hopes but porous convertible tops and manual operation killed them. The running gear was bullet proof and the styling was classic but the overall quality was lacking.
On the subject of mini mpv/crossovers I think the Ford Fusion was one even tho I quite like the car because there’s one in my avatar pic also the Ford Focus c-max
DeLorean was never arrested, it was determined that it was a classic case of entrapment, aka he was innocent but the damage was already done
He was arrested, but charges were dropped. It ruined him either way.
It should have been a huge news story how the framed auto maker was attacked from completely unscrupulous agents and they never bothered retracting news of his innocence!
He should have had a slander case and settlement.
Thank You. He was totally framed, At least some people know the facts.
Chev should have released the SSR under a Holden badge in Australia, it would have been a good seller.
Tery Nichols I don't think so. Anything American is already a flop in Australia. Even the mustang sales are drying up with poor resale on the second hand market. Also Holden Australia is dead. GM America made sure of that.
i LOVE the chevy SSR i think its really cool!
Me too. A friend bought it and he got stopped by the cops 2-3 times a day just so they could take a look at it. He ended up crashing it and could never find a way to restore it. He died a few months ago for unrelated issues
It looks like a toy
I saw a ssr couple of weeks earlier and It did look cool it's not ugly. IDK why people say it's ugly, it's amazing
I would love to know the sales figures for the Chevrolet Vega. I had 2 of them. The first one got wrecked 8 months after I purchased it. The second one had everything you could possibly hate in a small car. Power glide transmission, no AC and a vanilla bland interior. And the engine was just awful.
Michael Falke extremely popular......from street to drag racing....in the 70s and 80s there were at least two on every street
Michael Falke Vega was quite popular. And totally crap. I owned a Kamback. Carried a case of oil with me everywhere. It was 2 years old when I bought it. Garbage.
Doby Pilgrim What?
Michael Falke one of the most popular cars of the 70s
Some actually looked good 😂
Justo I
Yeah If you are blind
Only if you're broke. Then they are all beautiful
Justo aztec is cool
Nathaniel ssr chevy truck?awsom
The DeLoean was not a flop. It sold 9,000 cars. The company was a flop as it was poorly managed - not the car. The car sold well in relation to the market economic conditions.
John Burns The video said John DeLorean was arrested, but the charges were dropped. Some say it was a setup to kill the company.
DeLorean was acquitted in court not let off.
There is a Texas company trying to start the DeLorean back up they do own all of the old back stock and there is a website
The company was a flop. 9000 isn’t a goo sales number for even 2 months
I want to be a car designer and I went to a car design camp and the teacher, Brian Baker, actually designed the SSR and he owns one which he brought to the camp, it was so cool!
The Aztec was called the Quasimodo of cars. The SSR was way overpriced, and only old, well-to-do men bought them (like my idiot uncle.) The Delorean was tragic.
Wasnt shopping for a SSR but the one I saw in a Chevy showroom was $52000. The turnoff? Plastic trim on grill and around top of seats resembling brushed aluminum. I mean really. At that price needs to actually be brushed aluminum.
The Fiat 500L. Saw one brooken down at a stoplight last week. A friend had one. Felt like I was sitting in a helicopter.
kevin fosgate I opened the hood on one in the dealership and the engine was buried so deep and so far back I thought, you`d never be able to turn a wrench on this thing without dropping the whole assembly out from under it.
The Range Rover Evoque convertible will fail.
Jeruelle Apigo agreed
Jeruelle Apigo I hate that thing as well
Dont forget the Nissan Murano roadster as well , a suv as a fake ass convertible
Jeruelle Apigo Lol I saw one yesterday but I do agree with you
Jeruelle Apigo already has.
During the 60's In Australia we had a small fiberglass mini car . The Lightburn Zeta . This amazing car had a two stroke engine , it had no reverse gear , turn the key anticlockwise and the engine fired up and ran backwards for reversing the car ……. true story .
no prowler!?!?!?! NOTHING was ever more hyped than this. if you are old enough you remember it. it was on tv on radio on the news paper at school(lol) in the bathroom, magazine.
chrysler was saying to people to forget about mustangs and camaro. muscle cars were dead as the new 'production hot rod' would take over. turn out you could only order it with a shit v6 and automatic transmission and werent allowed to drive past 120mph and clocked the 1320 at 15.40.
the thing could barely spin and was grossly overpriced, the hype was VAPORISED even before the first was sold as the first official demo lended to testers were ANNIHILATED by critiques...in the end only few boomers buyed some to park beside their fifth wheel and go to the marina on sunday. they only sold 11 000 in 5 years. chrysler admited that they wanted to stop it at the first years but to save face they gave it a full run. they lost vast amount of money with that!
Ragimund VonWa
My mother worked for a Chrysler dealership when they were released. I still have a factory model of the Prowler in purple. Neat looking little cars but my mother said people would take them on a test drive and leave in a Caravan as it had better performance and handling ability.
hahaha your mom is a riot
They didn't sell well then. But it's crazy how they have been holding value lately. They look timeless IMO.
I'd love to have one.
the dmc company is open in Texas you can still buy a brand new one google it lol lol lol
It kinda is, but they're just starting to make electric prototypes of them
I know one gentleman that has had 2 SSR's. The first got totalled a few months back and he bought another.
Even now, I love the SSR! I would still love to own one!
The Edsel is probably the most notorious car failure. Introduced after several years of intense hype in late 1957, it was funny looking (or downright ugly) and otherwise nothing really special, despite the pre-release publicity. It was an obvious catastrophe after only a few weeks because of terrible sales. Ford manufactured 1958 and 1959 models, and killed the Edsel at the beginning of the 1960 model year. It was a huge mistake and generated tons of bad publicity.
Several months of intense hype - -
hebneh mn
BMT Actually it was the K car that saved the company.
but it had teletouch transmission... TELETOUCH!!!
I put an 66 LTD 390cid into an Edsel wagon back in 1993 for my boss at the time.... I heard he had the original engine rebuilt and put back in later and sold it for a respectable $33,000......
24,000 Chevy SSR sales??! that sounds more successful than i would have imagined. surprised they sold more than a couple thousand
When I heard flop, I was thinking honest to God, Maybe like 20 or so. lmao I'm not even kidding. 24,000?! It's hard to grasp but I guess with the population being at 4billion, I guess their could be that many
aa bbb - to bad for you that you could never afford one with your job.
During the 90s cars were notorious for neon colors.. It was the equivalent of how popular lug nut spikes are popular today
1:52 the origin of the "ok boomer" meme
So a random guy saying “baby boomer” in a video about cars with poor sales started the meme? Ok
Ronald McDonald ever heard of a joke? No wonder your customers get diabetes.
Ugly is in the eye of the beer holder
WHO ELSE LOVES THE DeLOREAN
OriginStudios Everything except the engine, I hate cars that look fast but aren’t.
OriginStudios me
Boat Axe because that's old supercars
Meeeee
OriginStudios 88 miles per hour...hold your hats
How to decor ur portfolio.
Voo. - Vangaurd (etf)
Wsr- (reit)
Iwm- russel 2000 (etf)
Dia- dow jones (etf)
- Cramner picks
- cramner pick
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Deloreon are a strong hit in Texas, full car dealers
I'm within the first six hours and I demand some answer!
Maybe monitor whether your audience is more in the US or in Europe, as I only saw bad selling US cars in here but kinda feel European flops such as the Renault Wind, Nissan Murano or VW EOS are left out.
+Suidman haha most of my audience is American!
Ah fuck em Muricans
The first car was my friends sister car . LMAOF
Nice analysis and presentation! I am a huge fan of the SSR. I'd love to buy a totaled one and restore it, fixing the major deal-breakers like limited horsepower, no regenerative breaking coupled to a hybrid capacitor motor, maybe add some auto-nav sensors, and a manual transmission! I'd also like to do similar for the equally ill-fated Plymouth Prowler. Could you do a video on why the Chevrolet Corvette has replaced the Dodge Viper as the US king of the muscle cars? There are so many reasons easily identifiable if you research the two cars, many of which were similar mistakes you've mentioned in this video.
Slainte!
I wanted the ssr! I saw it randomly at my college and fell in love
Suzuki Kizashi looks good tho!!
So good, you would not bump it?
@@Anatoli_Punto duh!!!!
The car looked fine. I think it was the name. No other Japanese car sold in the US has a Japanese name. Except for the Samurai. But that word is well known in US.
I owned one and it was a great car. Great fuel economy, I could get 37 mpg on the highway and it was advertised to only get 30 mpg. It had an amazing Rockford Fosgate stereo system. It was actually kinda quick for what it was.
Nice car..should have sold....
The SSR is a huge hit at classic car shows all over the country, and they are becoming increasingly in demand by buyers. They didn’t make that many of them, and that car is destined to be VERY collectible.
The Pontiac Crossfire, almost every Saab, Mazda RX8, Dodge Viper, Nissan 300zx, Dodge Stealth, & Hyundai Tiburon
Cadillac Cimmaron, Any Oldsmobile Diesel, PT Cruiser, Chrysler/Maseratt TC
@John Barber And what complete idiot designed the 1993 Camaro? I call that the "Geo Camaro" because they look like a Geo Metro...
Chev SSR is pretty good looking though
If it actually carries the ls2 than i would grab that and scrap the body and put the ls2 in something like a honda ...lol.
The 500L???? That Fiat sold in droves in the UK and in mainland Europe... I'm guessing they didn't sell in the US?
Europeans have bought every crappy car ever made and somehow loved them no matter how big a steaming pile they were.
Fix It Again Tony
@@mikecastellon3022 , lol the FIAT is a crappy car? As an American you are talking about european crap cars? lol...
Oh, they sold, but we all laughed at them like we laugh at Smart Cars
The biggest selling car brand in the World,as FIATs are built under license in 62 countries, and only Americans can't drive them. I owned and raced both FIAT X-1/9's and 1800 Spyders, great fun for the buck!
If you want to talk about Suzuki flops talk about the Suzuki Samurai that would roll over on a dime, my step sister and one of my good friends each had a 4 door model one and they were ridiculous dangerous and would rollover super easy!
I wish vw buses came back.the 60s style,i bet those would sell really good
hippie-mobiles!
To have them meet current crash standards? Wouldn't work.
They are or even have come back, as electric
you can import those from Brazil...
Th ey are but all electric
The Bricklin SV-1
If the Delorean is on here so should the Bricklin.
Right. This video could have been "the 38 cars that were sales flops".
2:42 the delorean is far from a sports car
It was meant to be though
It was a sports car, The engine is in the back and everything
Nate Hahn ...with under 150 horsepower...thats 15 hp more than a prius
Is a Grand Tourer, not a sportscar.
In overall design it is a sports car. But does it have the performance of one? Not really.
The SSR looks even better in real life. I saw one in bright red, and it was simply beautiful. If you want performance to match the looks, though, buy the 6.0L V8.
You mean the 6.6L LS2? (390 HP)
OOPs sorry, that was my typo , I meant 6.0L
turly56 Sorry yeah that was the 6.0. That engine really helped the SSR.
Aztec failure: Reason It's design of its hull or shell was pretty much what killed the car. Performance I heard was fairly decent. Irony: The Majority of Cross overs, hybrids and modern SUV's all share the Aztecs features Aztec had the nose and tail been cleaned up likely would have fared well.
Chevy SS: Reason for failure. Chevy literally got greedy and shoved all the tech into what was supposed to be a car to sell to youth in the late teens to young adults but didn't remember that wages for the modern day didn't fit modern prices (still doesn't) and that maybe making models in lesser versions probably would have been more attractable. . Design wise it was fine and personally i like its retro design.
Had Chevy made various versions from a strip down basic model and of course its premium model I bet they would have made some decent sales. Irony: Ford made the Thunderbird which also didn't do that well but learned its lesson quick and the Modern Mustangs pretty much laughed its way to the bank.
Delorean: Reason for failure: Electrical issues in the American model due to 1st generation issues was a pain, but the primary reason was the US desire to shove a fuel regulator which literally killed the car's performance everything else the video posted is correct. The European models were decent performing cars however. The Other reason was that car companies didn't like competition, and made efforts to kill it, The founder was acquitted of the drug charges especially as it turned out it was staged to get him in trouble in the first place. He simply chose the wrong time. Irony: The Delorean refuses to die into obscurity, the Back to the Future movies and fans managed to get the Delorean to continue to be built in limited old models to now being built as new productions and all existing models don't have the performance issues anymore . Seem's the car at least had the last laugh.
The other cars appears to be true mistakes due the Mercedes cause no one was that stupid to buy what was essentially a oversized clone of another model.
The Suzuki cause bad design and poor choices
The Lincoln.. Really do I need to point out the obvious???
The last one meh..
I'd own one of those Chevy utes for sure here in Australia... After all we invented the ute. An Aussie lady sent Henry Ford a letter saying she wanted a car she could take family to church and carry hay bails for the farm and he thought that was great idea so he did. And with Delorean, the FBI entrapped him, he did nothing wrong.
Tony B that's true, it was a Sting operation, for which John Delorean was acquitted and never served any time
And, as with any well known person being arrested on charges like that, it's front page news but when they're acquitted it's on page 6
As I recall, the problem with the HHR is that the "bed" area really isn't functional, especially with the top down.
SSR looks pretty cool
Ikr
Fiat 500L (and the rest of the Fiat brands in the USA) were also burdened by a CEO that was more interested in finding another car company to buy FCA than by making, marketing, and selling good cars. It's a shame that Sergio Marchionne was no longer interested in ongoing operations as they had many good cars that needed help in the QC area and a little marketing zing but were poised for greatness.