“Mall crawler” Jeep Wranglers. And these things are EVERYWHERE!

Lifted bro trucks.

Pickups, every brand. There’s just too many out there doing nothing truck related except for being too big.

Full Sized pick-up trucks with trailer hitches that can’t stay in their own lane or be contained to one parking spot. 

Eh, it was just fine.  Which was its actual problem. It didn’t stand out in anyway against the competition. Everybody and their dog was selling just fine SUVs in that size class at the time. 

...also note I didn’t include favorite “worst cars” like the Pinto or Pacer, because despite how people feel about them now, they were always intended to be shitty cars and they sold well.

I don’t think the word ‘flop’ means what you think it means. 

The think is they made a pretty good car that maybe did not wear well. The customer base was completely wild about it. It had promise to follow up with an improved model and maybe disrupt how GM did business. However GM just hated the whole thing from the product, to the plant making it, to the way it was sold.

Let’s just save everyone the time:

1.) Ford Edsel
2.) Delorean DMC-12
3.) Pontiac Aztec
4.) Jaguar X-type
5.) Lincoln Blackwood
6.) Chrysler Airflow
7. ) Aptera 2e
8. ) 20th Century Motors Dale Car
9. ) Bricklin SV-1
10.) Chevy SSR
11.) GM EV-1
12.) Cadillac Cimarron
13.) Chrysler TC by Maserati
14.) Studebaker Avanti
15.) 2002 Ford…

Apparently reincarnation is a thing?

The Dale.

Dodge Dart (and by extension, its Chrysler 200 counterpart). Great looking compact car, but was released at the exact moment that segment died in the U.S.

I think with the Tucker, the car itself wasn’t a flop.  It’s just that the company ran out of cash before they could go into full production. 

That was more of an assassination than a flop.

As the DeLorean was already mentioned, I’m nominating the Honda CRZ. Looks great, but the performance didn’t live up to its billing as a successor to the CRX. 

I nominate the Phaeton. I guess they eventually ended up selling decently in China, but the rest of the world reacted with incredulity when they saw the price tag on this VW.

If I recall correctly, I think the Borrego also debuted when gas guzzling SUV’s were falling out of favor because of high fuel prices. I think it got like 15 city/20 highway mpg with the V8. Only lasted two model years, 2008-09. 

You have to hand it to Chrysler in 1934. How they could be amazingly innovative and suffer such a sales disaster, they nearly tanked Chrysler and DeSoto due to the (then) radical looks of the Airflow:

The Cadillac Catera. Cadillac’s effort to bring in younger buyers with an Opel-based sedan was accompanied by a huge marketing campaign featuring a duck for some reason. Both failed.

I don’t know why this is the first one that comes to mind, but the Kia Borrego shows what a difference a decade makes. Kia managed to flop at selling a 3-row SUV, in the US, even though it was supposedly perfectly adequate! Now, 15 years later, they’re selling nearly as many Tellurides in a single month as they…