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So far, the losers!
Created by a good car? Not the fact that it will be sold. A bad the more doomed to failure. Today, we remember the more ambitious American cars, the complete collapse of the victims.
Ford Excursion. The last of the giants
This car was too big even for the United States. He appeared in 1999 and had to compete with the Chevrolet Suburban. Apparently, "fordovtsy" wanted to take the number: Excursion titanic size is based on the F-250 pickup truck series Heavy Duty (more than 3,900 kilograms curb weight - by our standards, it is a truck).
Dry figures: length - 5, 75 meters. Wheelbase - 3, 5 meters: it is more than the length of the Citroen C1! The width and height - over two meters. The maximum number of seats - 10. Curb weight - more than three tons. The weight of the towed trailer - 9 tons! And the amount of luggage, if you add up all the seats except front - 4, 2 cubic meters.
The base engine - V8 of 5, 4 liters capacity of 259 horsepower with a torque of 475 Nm. In addition it also offered ten-(!) Engine Triton (this engine would be better to call Godzilla or Behemoth) of 6, 8 liters (314 horsepower and 576 Nm) and a pair of turbodiesels series PowerStroke V8 - of 6, 0 (330 hp ., 759 Nm), or 7, 3 liters (253 hp, 718 Nm).
However, the dynamics Excursion with V10 was far from the Porsche Cayenne Turbo: until hundreds speedometer climbed for 11 long seconds, and top speed of just 153 kilometers per hour. But he ate like an elephant: the claimed fuel consumption on the road - 16, 8 liters per 100 kilometers! In fact, even on the track it came out almost twice as much. Therefore, the volume of the fuel tank 167 liters looked transcendent.
Initially things went well: in the first full year, Ford's sales sold more than 50 thousand cars (though the family Suburban was still more than three times more popular), but then it all went wrong.
The main reason for the failure of the market Excursion was the rise in oil prices - to fill the car was expensive. In addition, the Americans discovered that maneuver through the streets on a durynde hard and park - and at the feat.
Dodge La Femme. Car transvestite
In the first half of the last century was a matter of driving purely masculine, but in the mid fifties, women also became interested in cars. Dodge Company saw in a weak field and strong commercial prospects did as it seemed, a car specifically for women.
The name of the wise do not become - the car was named Dodge La Femme, «Dodge woman." In fact, it was not a separate model, but merely a modification of the serial coupe Royal Lancer. The body was painted in white and pink colors and silver nameplates Royal Lancer have been replaced with golden La Femme.
Inside - a triumph of pink and two bags with ladies accessories - umbrella and rubber boots for bad weather, lipstick, cigarette case, and things like that. Included with the machine was a bag made of the same materials as the interior decor. The car cost 132 dollars more expensive than the usual Royal Lancer
More, according to the founders of La Femme, a woman in this life nothing is needed - even for power supposed to pay extra. The car was sold in 1955 and 1956 and has been a complete failure - on "Freestuff" handbag pecked all 2,500 women. More so clumsy with women motorists marketers flirted.
Vector W8. Spacecraft with V8
One of the most ambitious American supercars. By Vector W8 model when creating actively using technology from the aerospace field. Actually, the company itself and referred to as "air-mobile»: Vector Aeromotive.
Monocoque aluminum honeycomb structure with about 5,000 aircraft rivets. Body panels - carbon fiber and Kevlar. Aerodynamics was worked out well: in the good performance of downforce drag coefficient Cx was only 0, 32.
That's only power plant was far from the space-based technologies. On W8 established banal six-liter "eight» Chevrolet, albeit with a couple of turbines and absolutely indecent superkarovskim standards for transmission - a tri-band "automatic» B & H. However, the engine develops a whopping 625 to 1989 horsepower and 854 Nm of torque, allowing it to accelerate to a speed of 354 kilometers per hour. It was very quick.
But here's the problem: the car was worth 455,000 dollars. In 1989, for the money you could buy a whole pack at once a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Therefore, it was released only 19 models W8, two of which have remained prototypes.
The company later switched to the release of the model M12, set up on the chassis Lamborghini Diablo. But she was quite banal: fiberglass body panels, 500-horsepower engine from the same Lamborghini, the price is less than 200 thousand dollars. And it did not get - have released a total of 14 machines.
In 2007 the company re-established itself, rolling at the auto show in Los Angeles prototype model WX8. Ambitions this time was even more: the car to be fitted with 2000-horsepower V8 engine capacity of 10 liters, and its estimated maximum speed - over 300 miles per hour (482 kilometers per hour 7)! According to the "official" photographs, collected the car in the garage service, but never collected
AMC Gremlin. Terrible name
The name of the car was, to put it mildly, strange. AMC Gremlin is considered the first American compact hatchback, and enthusiasts still shouting at each corner, it was a precursor of modern practical and economical models.
But creating a Gremlin, engineers decided not to deviate from the classic layout: the car was a long hood and a six-cylinder engine positioned longitudinally. As a consequence - seats for passengers inside the car at short almost gone.
Not everything went smoothly turned and economy: the six-cylinder motor. And while Gremlin was not fast: to disperse hundreds he needed agonizing 15 seconds. Produced, however, more powerful version: Gremlin can be ordered with a five-liter V8, and there was even a special version Randall 401-XR twenty machines equipped with motors of 6, 6 liters! But the most reasonable proposal was the two-liter engine EA827 concern Volkswagen (yes!) - Let the car with him absolutely not "riding", but at least it was economical.
We bought AMC Gremlin of despair - it was awful, but cheap. However, even its competitor - Ford Pinto, a weak and miserable "samovosplamyanyayuschimsya" fuel tank - was sold four times better.
The only good year for "Gremlin" was the 1974 th, when it was sold 171 000 vehicles. While raging oil crisis, and the government introduced draconian taxes on the powerful machines. For Gremlin this was the hour of glory! But the next year, sales fell immediately by 67 percent.
Ford Taurus. Gift competitors
Japanese manufacturers have to say a big thank you "Ford" model of Taurus and its designer Jack Telneku person: it was he who had done this self-propelled misunderstanding, in the form most similar to the Loch Ness monster. Ford Taurus became the third generation of a grand failure that helped model Toyota Camry enter the leading position it holds to this day.
Ford miracle Yudo will appear at dealers in 1996. But neither advertising nor active product placement in movies and other marketing tricks do not help - people do not want to buy an ugly Taurus. During a focus group conducted one dealership in Dallas, more than half of the participants admitted that they hate the looks of this model.
Sales, however, were kept at the secondary level: Thanks to corporate customers to buy Taurus habit - the share of sales in the "Fleet" for the first time in the history of the model exceeded 50 percent. Perhaps corporate Taurus sedans were given only to managers at fault.
Later, Ford was trying to sell a new model in Australia (where it was called Taurus Ghia), but after a year and a half turned the sale, the car disappeared from showrooms, Australia and sighed quietly.
The result is predictable - already by 1999 the car made a special restyling: Illumination returned to the traditional form, disposed of, where possible, from the "tumor" and ovals. But as the body remains the same, Taurus fourth generation (as it was called officially) market continued its flying upside down. In a year when the sale of the car stopped, they were five times less than the original, and almost ten - compared to second-generation Taurus
For me, the worst car is pontiac aztek.
EVERYTHING!
Taken from here motor.ru
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Ford Excursion. The last of the giants
This car was too big even for the United States. He appeared in 1999 and had to compete with the Chevrolet Suburban. Apparently, "fordovtsy" wanted to take the number: Excursion titanic size is based on the F-250 pickup truck series Heavy Duty (more than 3,900 kilograms curb weight - by our standards, it is a truck).
Dry figures: length - 5, 75 meters. Wheelbase - 3, 5 meters: it is more than the length of the Citroen C1! The width and height - over two meters. The maximum number of seats - 10. Curb weight - more than three tons. The weight of the towed trailer - 9 tons! And the amount of luggage, if you add up all the seats except front - 4, 2 cubic meters.
The base engine - V8 of 5, 4 liters capacity of 259 horsepower with a torque of 475 Nm. In addition it also offered ten-(!) Engine Triton (this engine would be better to call Godzilla or Behemoth) of 6, 8 liters (314 horsepower and 576 Nm) and a pair of turbodiesels series PowerStroke V8 - of 6, 0 (330 hp ., 759 Nm), or 7, 3 liters (253 hp, 718 Nm).
However, the dynamics Excursion with V10 was far from the Porsche Cayenne Turbo: until hundreds speedometer climbed for 11 long seconds, and top speed of just 153 kilometers per hour. But he ate like an elephant: the claimed fuel consumption on the road - 16, 8 liters per 100 kilometers! In fact, even on the track it came out almost twice as much. Therefore, the volume of the fuel tank 167 liters looked transcendent.
Initially things went well: in the first full year, Ford's sales sold more than 50 thousand cars (though the family Suburban was still more than three times more popular), but then it all went wrong.
The main reason for the failure of the market Excursion was the rise in oil prices - to fill the car was expensive. In addition, the Americans discovered that maneuver through the streets on a durynde hard and park - and at the feat.
Dodge La Femme. Car transvestite
In the first half of the last century was a matter of driving purely masculine, but in the mid fifties, women also became interested in cars. Dodge Company saw in a weak field and strong commercial prospects did as it seemed, a car specifically for women.
The name of the wise do not become - the car was named Dodge La Femme, «Dodge woman." In fact, it was not a separate model, but merely a modification of the serial coupe Royal Lancer. The body was painted in white and pink colors and silver nameplates Royal Lancer have been replaced with golden La Femme.
Inside - a triumph of pink and two bags with ladies accessories - umbrella and rubber boots for bad weather, lipstick, cigarette case, and things like that. Included with the machine was a bag made of the same materials as the interior decor. The car cost 132 dollars more expensive than the usual Royal Lancer
More, according to the founders of La Femme, a woman in this life nothing is needed - even for power supposed to pay extra. The car was sold in 1955 and 1956 and has been a complete failure - on "Freestuff" handbag pecked all 2,500 women. More so clumsy with women motorists marketers flirted.
Vector W8. Spacecraft with V8
One of the most ambitious American supercars. By Vector W8 model when creating actively using technology from the aerospace field. Actually, the company itself and referred to as "air-mobile»: Vector Aeromotive.
Monocoque aluminum honeycomb structure with about 5,000 aircraft rivets. Body panels - carbon fiber and Kevlar. Aerodynamics was worked out well: in the good performance of downforce drag coefficient Cx was only 0, 32.
That's only power plant was far from the space-based technologies. On W8 established banal six-liter "eight» Chevrolet, albeit with a couple of turbines and absolutely indecent superkarovskim standards for transmission - a tri-band "automatic» B & H. However, the engine develops a whopping 625 to 1989 horsepower and 854 Nm of torque, allowing it to accelerate to a speed of 354 kilometers per hour. It was very quick.
But here's the problem: the car was worth 455,000 dollars. In 1989, for the money you could buy a whole pack at once a Ferrari or Lamborghini. Therefore, it was released only 19 models W8, two of which have remained prototypes.
The company later switched to the release of the model M12, set up on the chassis Lamborghini Diablo. But she was quite banal: fiberglass body panels, 500-horsepower engine from the same Lamborghini, the price is less than 200 thousand dollars. And it did not get - have released a total of 14 machines.
In 2007 the company re-established itself, rolling at the auto show in Los Angeles prototype model WX8. Ambitions this time was even more: the car to be fitted with 2000-horsepower V8 engine capacity of 10 liters, and its estimated maximum speed - over 300 miles per hour (482 kilometers per hour 7)! According to the "official" photographs, collected the car in the garage service, but never collected
AMC Gremlin. Terrible name
The name of the car was, to put it mildly, strange. AMC Gremlin is considered the first American compact hatchback, and enthusiasts still shouting at each corner, it was a precursor of modern practical and economical models.
But creating a Gremlin, engineers decided not to deviate from the classic layout: the car was a long hood and a six-cylinder engine positioned longitudinally. As a consequence - seats for passengers inside the car at short almost gone.
Not everything went smoothly turned and economy: the six-cylinder motor. And while Gremlin was not fast: to disperse hundreds he needed agonizing 15 seconds. Produced, however, more powerful version: Gremlin can be ordered with a five-liter V8, and there was even a special version Randall 401-XR twenty machines equipped with motors of 6, 6 liters! But the most reasonable proposal was the two-liter engine EA827 concern Volkswagen (yes!) - Let the car with him absolutely not "riding", but at least it was economical.
We bought AMC Gremlin of despair - it was awful, but cheap. However, even its competitor - Ford Pinto, a weak and miserable "samovosplamyanyayuschimsya" fuel tank - was sold four times better.
The only good year for "Gremlin" was the 1974 th, when it was sold 171 000 vehicles. While raging oil crisis, and the government introduced draconian taxes on the powerful machines. For Gremlin this was the hour of glory! But the next year, sales fell immediately by 67 percent.
Ford Taurus. Gift competitors
Japanese manufacturers have to say a big thank you "Ford" model of Taurus and its designer Jack Telneku person: it was he who had done this self-propelled misunderstanding, in the form most similar to the Loch Ness monster. Ford Taurus became the third generation of a grand failure that helped model Toyota Camry enter the leading position it holds to this day.
Ford miracle Yudo will appear at dealers in 1996. But neither advertising nor active product placement in movies and other marketing tricks do not help - people do not want to buy an ugly Taurus. During a focus group conducted one dealership in Dallas, more than half of the participants admitted that they hate the looks of this model.
Sales, however, were kept at the secondary level: Thanks to corporate customers to buy Taurus habit - the share of sales in the "Fleet" for the first time in the history of the model exceeded 50 percent. Perhaps corporate Taurus sedans were given only to managers at fault.
Later, Ford was trying to sell a new model in Australia (where it was called Taurus Ghia), but after a year and a half turned the sale, the car disappeared from showrooms, Australia and sighed quietly.
The result is predictable - already by 1999 the car made a special restyling: Illumination returned to the traditional form, disposed of, where possible, from the "tumor" and ovals. But as the body remains the same, Taurus fourth generation (as it was called officially) market continued its flying upside down. In a year when the sale of the car stopped, they were five times less than the original, and almost ten - compared to second-generation Taurus
For me, the worst car is pontiac aztek.
EVERYTHING!
Taken from here motor.ru
Source:
