We all know the feeling of walking around town, looking up, and seeing a car that blows our minds. Some cars inspire admiration while others leave people shaking their heads in disbelief, wondering what possessed them to open a line of credit for it.

Automakers make no shortage of rides that feel doomed from the start. From cars with poor engineering, to those with questionable safety and design choices so crazy they’ve become legendary for all the wrong reasons. 

These aren’t just quirky fails, some of these cars posed real dangers on the road and drained their owners’ wallets with constant failures. These cars gained reputations as the ones no driver should ever have to deal with and here’s why they should never have been on the road.