Things/ideas that never really caught on?

[Papa Hotel]

sjabrown said:

Most electrical things in Citroens e.g electric armrest (see Xantia thread in Readers Cars).

That vibrating seat bolster nonsense that Citroen played around with a few years back.

[CraigyMc]

Baryonyx said:

swerni said:

They were cool at the time, god knows why.

At the time, it was extremely difficult to make a metal roof for a limo that wasn't creased, so they were fitted with vinyl roofs instead. Much cheaper and didn't warp. Then Joe Public decides he wants a vinyl roof too, and suddenly they are in fashion.

Mark Donohue was charged with racing an AMC car for a few years (Javelin, iirc?) for Roger Penske.

The car was a dog, but one of the things they did to it was race it with a vinyl roof. Reason?

They had been acid dipping the cars (making everything thinner, reducing weight), and had overdone the roof, so it looked awful in paint.

It's in his book.

[Vince70]

The long speedo which was found in BMC cars in the mid to late sixties never really caught on,

[PJ S]

New Lexus 4th Gen GS has rear wheel counter steer as an option.
I suppose you could say it never did catch on, since it's not a standard feature on the mass market cars.

[trackerjack]

Bead seat covers.
CB radio.
metric wheel sizes.
wankel engines.