Automobile Malfunctions Since 1983: 5 Cars We Didn’t Miss

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This car, which fell into the coffin of bankruptcy after the rust king Alfasud, eventually threw Alfa into the arms of Fiat. Who knows, maybe Italian design and Japanese quality would work? But please don’t let it be the other way around! Arna was the staid Japanese compact Nissan Sunny, badly assembled in southern Italy. In 1986, after almost three years of an almost buyer-less existence, “Alfa Romeo Nissan Automobili”, or Arna for short, came to an end.

Maybe Mercedes had handled the “moose test” fiasco of the first A-Class not just well, but too well, and believed it could sell anything with a star on it: the Vaneo was supposed to pay homage to the compact van boom, but just with a higher A -It was class. Unfortunately, it is sold at real Mercedes prices, without its quality and comfort. In the fourth year, the Swabians were embarrassed and released Vaneo in 2005.

The idea was good, but it wasn’t the car: the electric sliding doors on the 3.73-metre little car save less space in the car park than expected, open too slowly and make the car heavy, making it cumbersome, lame and very thirsty – and very expensive. Only one year of planned production was sold in the fifth year and ended in 2009. It’s a shame, though, because such failures often cost the courage to try something new.

A Subaru Impreza with a Saab logo! We might say that in 2004, Saab’s parent company, General Motors, was not helped by forcing the misunderstood and therefore ailing Swedish subsidiary to sell its then-GM partner Subaru’s then-rustic Impreza as an elegant Saab in the US. Quite the opposite: two years later it was over. At the same time, the Chevy TrailBlazer 9-7X with the Saab logo also failed. And in the end, none of this could save Saab.

In the summer of 2019, the second generation of this plump retro baroque king was phased out – okay, the design is a matter of taste, but we will not miss: Since 2011, the Beetle has been sold in two editions from mid-range (Europe) okay (America), but Golf to the flower vase in the cockpit Despite this, the clone remained just a tired imitation, especially in the first generation (picture), leaving us without hope that the Beetle could be just as harmonious and perhaps return. In fact, electrically it’s like Fiat’s 500 or Mini.

Source: Blick