Most cars fade into used-car obscurity. Another of many buzzing around the roads and slowly dying behind some guy's barn until they get crushed. Others hang around just long enough to become the car ...

Image Credit: betto rodrigues / Shutterstock. Some cars fail because they are bad. The more interesting ones fail because they ask buyers to stretch a little further than the market is ready to go.

For the most part, all of the strangeness we used to see in cars has been engineered out in the name of chasing broader appeal and higher sales. However, every once in a while, a car will slip through ...