Gadgetory

now you can slice and dice a list of worst cars a hundred ways but I've chosen five cars that bombed largely because of their tech or engineering innovations I'm Brian Cooley with the top five worst selling cars that tried too hard deliver something we probably didn't want and they really couldn't do number five the Plymouth Prowler 8200 total sales the Prowler was advanced for its heavy use of bonded aluminum construction but they wasted that tech on those absurdly over posturing outboard wheels with pontoon fenders that's an Indy car q guys you should back that up with more than a v6 on a four-speed automatic number for the Pontiac Aztek I know predictable 5020 sold I hate to pile on but the Aztek was a mess it's high-tech look of conflicting body panels and glass panels and weird angles was awful and one of the first cars developed primarily on a computer maybe if they had done more physical mock-ups they would have come in the office one day and seen this thing in gun gas and killed it being number four on my list about the kindest comment it ever earned number three the Studebaker Avanti 4,600 sold it pains me to put the Avanti on here but it was a dud the Raymond Loewy team designed a hot looker with rare front discs and an optional supercharger all good tech but the complexity of the fiberglass body eluded studi production delays led to canceled orders led to the cancelling of the company number two the Lincoln Blackwood 3300 sold this ghetto-fabulous take on the f-150 turns the bed into a carpeted power linen trunk that yet couldn't really access basically it neutered a perfectly good pickup offered it to you in only one color and charge you 50 grand for the honor Chevy's Avalanche sold circles around that by being oddly innovative in a more useful way the number one dud seller with wacky tech was the Studebaker wagon air 940 sold it's a collectible these days this oddball was a wagon with a roof retracted from the rear to the front leaving you with kind of a Ranchero but with high sides what do you carry in there and how do you load it without making your chiropractor rich add in the fact that that complicated roof leak like a rain forest and this was a piece of engineering before its time I'm not sure a car maker could pull it off today for all the latest on cars and they're hopefully successful tech innovations head over to see net on cars.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching