Cars that Never Caught on

[Keep it stiff]

Glancing through a '68 Autosport I came across this report on the Quasar-Unipower. Ahead of it's time perhaps in terms of spaciousness (early SUV) but I somehow suspect that the idea of driving a greenhouse was the reason it never caught on!

[Yertis]

I note that it's the April edition.

[Tom8]

Pope mobile!

[rev-erend]

The NSU RO 80.

[Puddenchucker]

I suppose it comes down to you interpretation of 'Cars that Never Caught on":

Cars that were ahead of their time and/or a radical design, or, cars that were as sales flop due to other issues.

I'd argue that the NSU Ro80 and cars such as th Caterham 21, fall intio the latter category.
Whereas cars such as the Citicar (below) fall into the former.



Edit to add: The Sinclair C5, if you can call it a car, probably falls into both categories.

Edited by Puddenchucker on Friday 26th May 09:55

[Llew]

Here's a few that spring to my mind

Tucker 48 (Torpedo)
Delorean DMC-12
Renault Avantime
Bricklin SV-1

[Halmyre]

Edsel.

According at the wiki article, Ford lost the equivalent of $2bn on it.

[GoodOlBoy]

rev-erend said:

The NSU RO 80.

They made over 37,000 of them.

Probably would have been better for NSU if they'd been a total flop - then they wouldn't have had so many warranty claims and who knows ?

Fantastic car though.

[Turbobanana]

[Risonax]

[Turbobanana]

[Super Sonic]

Honda Insight. Never seen one otr.

[Tom8]

I really like that Lotus! Shame that didn't catch on.

[Keep it stiff]

Turbobanana said:

What is this?

[Turbobanana]

Keep it stiff said:

Turbobanana said:

What is this?

Gyro-X, 1967:

https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/it...

[Yertis]

Turbobanana said:

"You can go about your business – move along, move along."

[carboy2017]

Lloyd Alexander TS (West German automobile,well micro car actually, it never caught on even in Germany!)

[LimmerickLad]

rev-erend said:

The NSU RO 80.

You have just reminded me of the NSU Prinz Sport - my 1st ever car and paid £8 for it!

[Keep it stiff]

Turbobanana said:

Gyro-X, 1967:

https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/it...

Same idea.

[GTRene]

Turbobanana said:

seen one long time ago, not a red one, kind a like it, compact a little bit cool-ish and strange