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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Why would you call that a failure? Still gets better mpg than just about anything out there, and mine's still going after 18 years and ~200K miles.
Compare that to say the Chevy Vega :-)
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Because the design turned out to be way too expensive to produce at a price people would pay? Because nearly everyone at the time found it to be hideous? Because designing it as a pure commuter with only two seats killed any future it had in most markets as a mass-appeal car?
It was a design experiment that did one thing well and made compromises everywhere else... and flopped.
I love my car and you'll pry it from my cold, dead hands, but I like oddball unpopular cars. The Aztec was also great at what it did, but everyone thought it was so ugly and didn't fit into a sales category and it was a failure too.
You can love a car and admit it was a failure.