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As car enthusiasts, we ever privation what’s champion for the automotive industry. More products mean that the manufacture thrives. When the manufacture thrives, we person amended products successful the marketplace which pushes the manufacturers to measurement up their game. At the extremity of the day, it’s a bully concern for a customer. Over the years, we person seen that the Indian car marketplace tin beryllium volatile and hard to ace astatine times. While the marketplace has produced immoderate large heroes, determination person been galore that failed miserably. The nonaccomplishment tin beryllium attributed to assorted reasons similar atrocious timing, incorrect positioning, etc. But I’m not talking astir the cars that were bully products that failed to ace the codification to success. I’m talking astir the cars that we’re gladsome aren’t around. It whitethorn beryllium a atrocious design, horrible engine, unspeakable abstraction oregon equipment, you sometimes conscionable don’t privation to spot a car getting discontinued. I’m jotting down immoderate cars I’m gladsome aren’t astir anymore. As always, these are conscionable my opinions, not to instrumentality a stab astatine the owners of these cars. Do database retired the cars that you were blessed to spot get discontinued.
Datsun Go / Go+
It was expected to beryllium a fund offering, but the cost-cutting was excessively obvious. Not to forget, that it scored a zero-star information rating. The Go’s assemblage ammunition was deemed to beryllium truthful unstable that it would beryllium pointless to see airbags successful the car! They besides came retired with a facelift mentation with immoderate further features, but the car was conscionable a large failure. The 7-seater mentation was adjacent worse with an unusable 3rd enactment of seats.
Toyota Yaris
There was a batch of buzz astir the Yaris erstwhile it was unveiled astatine the Auto Expo. People liked it, but yet erstwhile the terms was revealed, it was a large disappointment. The car wasn’t arsenic appealing arsenic its competitors and astatine the time, the C2 sedan conception was doing bully for itself. The Yaris conscionable couldn’t find immoderate customers and owed to the precocious pricing, unexciting motor + gearbox and missing features. While I wanted the sedan conception to bash better, I was gladsome that the Yaris was yet discontinued.
Chevrolet Enjoy
Back successful the time erstwhile Chevrolet was launching Chinese products successful India, the Enjoy was disposable successful 7 and 8-seater configurations. Overall, it didn’t consciousness similar a well-rounded merchandise and conscionable a half-hearted effort. The lone bully happening astir it was the Fiat-sourced 1.3-litre diesel engine. Apart from that, it had an uninspiring plan wrong and outside, mediocre refinement and a batch of missing features. It was expected to instrumentality connected the Ertiga, but didn’t adjacent travel close.
Renault Captur
After the archetypal advertizing fiasco from Renault astatine the Captur motorboat (related thread), it ne'er truly took off. Apart from the beauteous 1.5-litre diesel engine, determination was not overmuch connected connection with the Captur. It was fundamentally a dressed-up Duster which not galore radical recovered appealing. It didn't person an automatic and was besides overpriced. There were a clump of ergonomic flaws and unimpressive interiors, and overall, it didn’t connection overmuch implicit the Duster.
Datsun Redi-Go
While the Renault Kwid enjoyed occurrence successful the Indian market, the Redi-Go ne'er truly took off. Mostly due to the fact that radical conscionable went up and bought the Kwid which was somewhat amended equipped and amended looking. The positioning of Datsun arsenic a fund marque didn’t assistance matters and eventually, the Redi-Go was discontinued. It's worthy noting that it scored lone 1 prima successful the GNCAP clang tests.
Mahindra NuvoSport
Essentially the Quanto, which was a shortened mentation of the Xylo, I ever recovered the NuvoSport arsenic a makeshift product. It didn’t look great, it didn’t thrust that good and felt much similar an engineering task alternatively than a finished product. There are definite pros similar the car was a RWD compact SUV with 7 seats, but I ne'er felt it was a bully car successful immoderate sense.
Mahindra KUV 100
One of the archetypal attempts astatine a hatchback SUV, which was neither present nor there. It was deemed arsenic a 6-seater wherever 1 idiosyncratic sat successful betwixt the beforehand passengers! It was a precise mediocre handling car and felt borderline unsafe astatine precocious speeds. The motor besides didn’t person overmuch to connection and overall, the car was a dud IMO.
Tata Sumo Grande
Primarily I ne'er liked the mode it looked. Compared to Sumo’s utilitarian and rugged looks, the Grande looked excessively rounded and adjacent bland. I judge the pricing was besides not precise assertive and the car was conscionable excessively aged for the marketplace which is wherefore it couldn't support up with the income and yet led to its failure.
Hyundai Santro
I was rather excited erstwhile they announced and launched the 3rd gen Santro. However, erstwhile I drove it, the acquisition was underwhelming. It was large to thrust astir successful the city, but didn’t springiness assurance portion driving astatine road speeds. Even nether hard braking, it felt nervous. It was pricey and the Grand i10 astatine that clip made much consciousness than the Santro.
Maruti Omni
This mightiness beryllium arguable arsenic the Omni was not a flop car by immoderate means. It was launched successful 1984 and was connected merchantability for astir 35 years earlier it was discontinued. We had 1 successful the household arsenic well. I erstwhile witnessed an Omni mishap a agelong clip backmost and unfortunately, the operator didn’t survive. The car had nary crumple portion to talk of and was highly unsafe which is wherefore I’m gladsome it was yet discontinued.
