What are the famous design failure cars?

[freebeard]

The best non hybrid it's Peugeot 208 active:

Thread drift. The subject is 'famous design failure'. I saw a Tribeca on the street yesterday.

Dymaxion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5jdpGpEEuw

[lico]

I was talking about the first and second series of the European fiat uno, in europe was not selled with ethanol capability.

uno mk1 1983/1989
uno mk2 1989/1995

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Uno

after this we have the fiat punto, in 1993, the fiat uno was keep just in south america

[lico]

to go back in topic in Italy we have other two catastrophic failure:
the alfa romeo alfasud and the alfa arna, second was tremendous

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by lico

I never see the wagon version or the blind van version.
in europe have just selled 15.000 vehicles, i know in south america was a success story.

The panel van was IIRC never available in South America, was meant only for export. Could've probably had some good acceptance locally, but the Fiorino pick-up was also more favored by not being liable to a tax enacted during José Sarney's presidential term.

the basis it's a fiat uno. for the time was selled it was certainly a good and clever car, but didn't meet the design for europe. and to be honest fiat uno was way better

Just a remind: the Brazilian Uno was actually more like a rebodied 127/147.

[Natalya]

I agree with sam about the old Honda Insight.
- Leaky roof on every car
- Terrible hybrid battery management, absolutely guaranteed to kill the battery
-- The batt management is bad in so many ways, it's almost comical
-- Car is unsuitable for 95% of drivers if the battery dies
- Faulty design of EGR valve (such a simple part yet they got it wrong!)
- Ground straps always break for some reason??
- Lower engine mounts begin to fail at only 100k due to faulty design
- Spoiler has weak mounts which crack and break on every one of these cars
- Even the Trip and MPH//KMH buttons were designed poorly and fail on each car

All that said it's absolutely my favourite car of every type of car I've sat in or driven, including a Tesla Model X.

[wdb]

Yugo. As a Fiat 128 it was a popular car, but this Polish version sold in the US was a horrible car and a dismal failure. They made a "sport" version labeled the Yugo GY, as in, gee why would anyone actually pay even more money for one of those awful things.

[wdb]

Bricklin. I worked as a mechanic at a dealer who sold these, briefly, when they were new. The reputation is deserved.

[Angel And The Wolf]

Originally Posted by Coroplast

What do you think is the most failed car in design?

The First Generation Corvair's rear swing axle.

The Ford Pinto gas tank. (Had one, and survived!)

[airbiteses]

Yugo was produced by the Czech company Zastava. The Polish product looks like this:


It was not popular in Poland, the Fiat 127 was popular.

[gone-ot]

Originally Posted by Angel And The Wolf

The First Generation Corvair's rear swing axle.

The Ford Pinto gas tank. (Had one, and survived!)

Had three different Pintos (coupe 1.6L; two S/W's 2.0L, 2.3L) and never had any problems, even when wife was rear-ended (no fire!).