[vvijay]

Out of nowhere this came to my mind. I’m not sure of the numbers it sold but I’m sure it deserves a place in this thread-

[deehunk]

How can we forget Chevrolet Enjoy? A Chinese intruder into Indian market. The so called MPV which was plagued by engine failure issues, its vinatge dash board and tiny wheels could have only distracted the prospective buyers.

[PrideRed]

Originally Posted by Superleggera

I would like to add Renault Captur to the list. It is an old duster in new clothes, the company tried to sell it as if its a different car sold overseas which eventually was rejected by the customers.

Marketing aside, Captur is actually a decent car. It had decent interiors, felt mre solid than Duster and had decent kit. Only thing that worked against its favor is the crossover styling. Also it was priced on par with Creta without offering additional value.

[gupta_chd]

Originally Posted by MCR

How can we forget these two from MSIL.

1. Zen Estilo
2. A-Star

A-Star was launched in Nov 2008, not the last decade. So it may have disqualified for this list. I remember as I was raring to buy one before launch. Booked first gen i10 on the same day A-star was launched after having a glance. Dashboard was horrible. Interiors were claustrophobic. It could lose to Maruti 800 in race to interior space. Above all, SAs were high headed after Swift saga. One arrogantly told me that waiting period is 9 months on launch day. (Off topic: I can feel same high headedness in Kia guys these days)

I guess Estilo was too launched around the same time frame though do not remember exactly.

[Sherlocked]

Can I add Celerio Diesel to the list as well?
It had the worst diesel engine ever mated to a passenger car IMO (a two cylinder, 793 cc unit).

[Sanidhya mukund]

Another car worth an honourable mention is the Mitsubishi Montero. This 2 decade old model was relaunched recently, with very minor tweaks. The car is not bad at all, but is way too old, and at the price it comes, it's like a situation where Toyota would relaunch the qualis at the price of the current Innova crysta:

[landcruiser123]

The Chevy Sail was not as bad a car as it's sales figures would suggest. It was sold by a weak brand. I've spoken to few Taxi drivers who were satisfied with the car. It was GMs answer to Toyota Liva.

DC Avanti is a case of "The owner of this restaurant eats here!" - from whatever I've read and heard, it had too many compromises/shortcomings for a car that costed over INR 35 lakh. A customer paying a big sum would never accept any compromises.

Pleasantly surprised to not to see Tata in the list, but will call out Mahindra for not building a new platform for their smaller cars.

[vinya_jag]

A couple that I can think of

VW Ameo
Qute - If one considers this as a car

I guess, on public demand, GTO, would you like to add KUV to the original list?
I was wondering, how a DC designed KUV would look

[zehhatter]

Toyota Yaris
An overly optimistic price tag made sure it was dead on arrival. Toyota India has always given us the step-motherly treatment with old watered models and slow life cycle updates.


Mitsubishi Cedia
A slowly ageing Lancer was given a cosmetic treatment but a shoddy service network and dated features and interiors killed it.

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO
A lot of enthusiasts were waiting for it since ages and we finally received the final generation model which was priced exorbitantly.

Mahindra
Mahindra has a history of releasing quirky and straight-up weird designs.

[SS-Traveller]

What's surprising is that both Mahindra and Tata set off with designing and launching cars that turned out to be utter flops, then re-engineered & renamed them to see success.

Cases in point:

Mahindra renamed the Quanto as Nuvosport, and subsequently re-designed the shell into the TUV3OO




Tata's Aria flopped, but the re-designed bodyshell in the form of Hexa proved to be a moderate success

[Waspune]

A little surprised to see some of the folks mentioning A-star to be a part of the list. Yes it wasn't spacious but that's it.
Came with a decent engine, squat like stance which imparted fun handling that no other car in that segment could even think of. The dashboard, plastics and built were in fact better than the Swift.Also the front seats were quite spacious.
It was a fun little car which was quite European in feel.

[five46]

I would probably add Tata's (failed) Venture to this list. Kind of still perplexed whom were they targeting with its optimistic pricing.

Somehow feel that Tata lost an opportunity to make a worthy competitor to the Eeco, with an oil burner.

[nickatnite]

How can anyone omit the TATA Manza from this list. I remember seeing this car first at my local TATA Motors service station being prepped before launch and the staff was embarrassed when i noticed the car and asked them about it. And sure enough it was a sales disaster for TATA.

[McLaren Rulez]

Originally Posted by Waspune

A little surprised to see some of the folks mentioning A-star to be a part of the list.

Given enough time, these threads tend to end up listing virtually every car on the market.

The A-Star was, as you pointed out, quite an excellent city car if you didn't care about rear seat space.

[Shreyans_Jain]

Originally Posted by SS-Traveller

What's surprising is that both Mahindra and Tata set off with designing and launching cars that turned out to be utter flops, then re-engineered & renamed them to see success.

Cases in point:

Mahindra renamed the Quanto as Nuvosport, and subsequently re-designed the shell into the TUV3OO


Tata's Aria flopped, but the re-designed bodyshell in the form of Hexa proved to be a moderate success

Quanto and Nuvosport were derived from a chopped Xylo platform, while the TUV300 is built on the current Scorpio chassis.