1981 DeLorean DMC-12
The DeLorean has been immortalized in the Back to the Future movies, but the truth is quite the opposite about the cool-looking car. Driving one in real life is quite a different experience than the one you expect from the movie. As awesome as it looks, the Delorean engine isn’t strong enough to hack the job of powering the heavy frame without a flux capacitor. In addition, the gullwing doors would malfunction. The car didn’t take off and the maker, John DeLorean, was hit with a money-laundering scandal and the company shut down.