Over the last 20 years, we’ve had some pretty memorable cars delivered to us. Go back even further, to the 1950s and 60s, and you have the classic vintage cars of those days and the muscle cars of old. Cars like the Mustang, Challenger, Camaro, and Corvette hit the road running and never let up. People loved them. In fact, people loved those cars so much that songs were even written about them!

But for every famous car that has been recorded into the annals of history via song, there are probably 50 that never made it to that level, and never will. Many of the cars on this list you’ve probably never heard of, and if one of the chief aspects of songwriting is connecting with your audience, then these aren’t the cars you want to be painting a picture of with your music.

Many of the cars on this list failed for good reason: they simply weren’t great cars. They were either crossbreeds or hybrids or crossovers that didn’t fit for the time period in which they were made. Hot hatchbacks and strange car-truck combinations—they were failed experimentations at best.

Other cars on this list are actually quite good—typically the small sports cars. But for whatever reason—either bad marketing, a bevy of technical problems, or something else—these cars simply never made it. And they’ll be forgotten forever because uninspiring and unimportant cars don’t deserve to be written into songs.

Here are 25 cars that everyone forgot, and that inspired no one.

25 Mitsubishi Starion

Here’s one last car you probably haven’t heard of, and which will never make it into the annals of “memorable.” The Mitsubishi Starion was one of the company’s least successful enterprises. There is quite a cult following for this car from the 1980s of people who loved the Supra, RX-7, and 280ZX (before the 300ZX and 350Z came out). But the Starion was a little too weird for people: it was the predecessor to the Eclipse and 3000GT, both of which would find traction. But the Starion never found much traction, and Mitsubishi ended up cutting their losses in 1989, just seven years after the car came out.

24 Chevrolet HHR

Here’s another car no one’s ever heard of: the Chevrolet HHR. The HHR is another strange crossbreed of cars, sort of like the SSR, but instead of a pickup-car, this is sort of a minivan-car, but it takes all the worst qualities of both and puts them together. According to cheatsheet.com, the Chevy HHR was one of the most highly recalled cars in history. The car ended up being completely forgotten due to its problems and lack of appeal, and it ended up inspiring no one.

23 Isuzu VehiCROSS

Before we had actual crossovers that carved out their own market segment and quickly became one of the most popular formats in the car world, we had cars like the Chevy SSR and HHR, and the Isuzu VehiCROSS: cars that couldn’t figure out what they wanted to be. This one came into the world with high expectations, as a sort of off-road SUV, but it ended up being a complete flop. One of the biggest disaster areas of the VehiCROSS was the lack of room it had, especially for an SUV. It ended up being quite a rocky drive, too, despite its huge wheels, which makes little sense.

22 Pontiac Aztek

We’ve already mentioned cars that have made it onto the top 10 worst cars ever lists, time and time again, but here’s the car that usually tops those lists. The legendary Pontiac Aztek. Unfortunately, it was legendary for all the wrong reasons. Maybe that’s why Pontiac isn’t around anymore: too many bad missteps like the Aztek. It was supposed to be a top-notch vehicle when it came out in 2001, with manufacturers hoping it would be a nice family car. Boy, were they wrong. It’s been almost 20 years since the car came out, and people are still talking trash about it.

21 Kia Opirus

The Kia Opirus looks like a Mercedes-Benz or a Jaguar, yet it is anything but. It was expected to be a solid luxury car for Kia, and Kia was riding on a bit of a wave at that point, so the Opirus was highly anticipated. In the end, this car ended up being a disaster piece. It’s been completely forgotten today, and most people have never heard of it. People disliked how heavy it was and how clumsy it was to drive, according to topspeed.com, and the car’s sales never recovered from those slights. It was in production for 7 years (2003-2010), but was never a big seller.

20 Renault Avantime

Renault is a company you don’t hear from a lot in the States, and that’s because we don’t get many (if any) of their cars over here. But on the other side of the pond, the Avantime was expected to be quite a solid family vehicle for Renault, who had done a good job with their cars up to this point. In the end, the Avantime was just plain ugly. It also had a lot of problems with its engine, according to carcomplaints.com, and it never took off in popularity. It’s probably for the best, though, because a song about the Avantime would be a sad one.

19 Toyota Echo

Toyota has some of the best-selling vehicles of all time under their belt. Time and time again, they come out with solid family and mid-size cars that sell like hotcakes. But even the great titan that is Toyota makes mistakes. And the Echo was one of those mistakes. Selling for just 5 years, from 2000 to 2005, the Echo forwent all the reliability and durability that Toyota had become known for. According to topspeed.com, the Echo wasn’t meant for its time: it didn’t succeed as a hybrid, because hybrids were not popular yet. Most people had never even heard of the term in the earlier years of the 2000s.

18 Chevrolet Aveo

Poor Chevrolet. They try to be innovative, but they end up being the most mentioned car company on a list about cars people forgot all about. The Chevy Aveo was not the success the company was hoping for. The manufacturer wanted the Aveo to be remembered as a reliable and long-lasting car, but the car is one of the least popular cars on the market today. Strangely and surprisingly enough, it is still on the market, which seems like a major blunder on Chevy’s part, because it’s not a good seller. According to cheatsheet.com, it also had quite a few problems.

17 Pontiac Sunfire

What is it with car companies trying to make successes by giving cars cool, unrealistic names? It’s like any car with the name “Fire” in it is doomed to fail (with the exception of the Firebird). But Pontiac did not do a good job of recreating the success they had with the Firebird with the Sunfire. It was a short-lived car that had a strange design, but it just didn’t get much attention from anyone. It did actually have a 10-year lifespan, but you might not have even heard of the car before. It had a strange interior in addition to its strange exterior, so people were not drawn to it.

16 Jeep Compass

Jeep has done a great job with their Wranglers and their off-roading vehicles over the years, completely dominating the market for which they are just about the single entity. And with their upcoming Jeep Gladiator pickup coming out based on the Wrangler, they’re set to conquer another market segment. But the Compass was a fail on their part. And here’s the reason: it failed at its primary function—off-roading. As a result, people avoided this car like the plague, and today the Compass is sometimes remembered for being forgotten and ignored.

15 Dodge Caliber

The Dodge Caliber doesn’t look too terrible at first glance—and it shouldn’t, because it was meant to be a reliable family car. However, this didn’t end up being the case, and the Caliber was doomed to fail. First, it was poorly structured and built from cheap parts so that Dodge could keep costs down. That made it quickly ignored by consumers and critics alike. According to topspeed.com, the car would essentially break down on itself after just the slightest inconvenience. For a car that looks sturdy, that’s a bad quality to have!

14 Dodge Avenger

Dodge has a knack for coming up with cool names that sound powerful: Challenger, Charger, Viper…and Avenger. The Dodge Avenger was first produced from 1994 to 2000, and then again from 2007 to 2014 (right when the MCU and the Avengers were starting to gain popularity). But they didn’t benefit from the rise of the other Avengers. One problem with the new Avenger was that it always needed repairs, especially with the transmission, which is always an expensive problem. People thought it would be a top-tier car, like the Charger or Challenger, but they were mistaken.

13 Renault Vel Satis

Another misfire from the popular French car company, Renault, was the Vel Satis. It didn’t end up making much of any impact on the car industry. It was passed over by buyers pretty much as soon as it was released, and it’s not fondly remembered today. According to carcomplaints.com, it also had a lot of issues with its engine and interior accessories. Due to these problems, people figured it was probably best to just steer clear, and for good reason. No one-hit wonders will be written about the Vel Satis, that’s for sure.

12 Dodge Nitro

The Dodge Nitro was supposed to be much more popular and better than it actually ended up being. In fact, it’s now considered one of the worst cars to come out in the 2000s, primarily because of the many problems plaguing the car. It had tons of problems with its engine and transmission, which would often end up scrapping the whole car, and made the whole buying experience a pain. The series ended up being discontinued in 2011, after a short-lived five-year stint. And now it’s been totally forgotten.

11 Panoz Roadster

Despite its foreign-sounding name, Panoz is actually a brand from the United States. Strange, huh, considering you’ve probably never heard of them? You definitely won’t be hearing any songs about their Roadster, like you might hear about a 1955 Chevy or a Cadillac-ac-ac. The Panoz Roadster kind of looked like a Plymouth Prowler, which didn’t do too much to help its sales, to say the least. Panoz is already an obscure company, and you can imagine how well their obscure Roadster did, despite being powered by a 5.0-liter V8 engine.

10 Porsche 968 Club Sport

It might be quite confusing to see Porsche on this list—and that’s not to say their 968 Club Sport was a bad car. Quite the contrary: it’s probably one of their best front-engined sports cars they’ve ever built. But unfortunately for the 968, it was built in the shadow of its predecessor, the 944, and its successor, the Boxster. And when you have other options like the always-classic 911 to buy, suddenly the rest of the lineup become quite obscure to most people. Even though this car was arguably the best non-turbo iteration of the 924/944/968 line, most people forget it even existed.

9 Volkswagen Corrado

The Volkswagen Corrado is another performance sports car that is actually quite a good car, but it never took off or gained any traction. The Corrado is the kind of car you might wish VW would make today: stylish, quick (with 178 horsepower), and nicely-running with its narrow-angle VR6. These cars have a bit of a cult following these days, but outside of that cult, they’re pretty forgettable and forgotten, and they haven’t exactly been inspiring the songwriting elite. In the end, the car only lasted from 1988 to 1995, which is a drop in the bucket compared to, say, the Beetle.

8 Dodge Omni GLH-S

When people think of quick, speedy little hatchbacks today, they probably aren’t talking about the Dodge Omni GLH-S. But maybe they should. The Omni was genuinely fast: its intercooled, turbocharged, 2.2-liter I4 engine gave the tiny car 175 horsepower—plenty to get around in a hurry—and it was capable of 14-second quarter-miles, and could easily get down to 12 seconds with some simple mods. Only 500 of these cars were produced in 1985, and by 1987, the car was completely defunct. It’s a shame, because it was the first Dodge car to be given the full Carroll Shelby treatment, and it’s actually fun to drive.

7 Ford SVT Contour

The Ford SVT Contour was expected to be a high-selling sedan for the most famous US car company. Unfortunately, the Contour had an exterior that was too dull—even for A Toyota. This compact sedan was a product of Ford’s Special Vehicle Team, but there ended up not being too much special about it. The SVT team was the same that produced the SVO Mustang, Mustang Cobras, and SVT Lightning pickup trucks. So you’d think they know what they are doing. But that’s not the case for the Contour, and it had a short-lived life from 1998 to 2000.

6 Suzuki Swift GTi

The Suzuki Swift GTi is another car that time (and people) simply forgot existed. This little hatch ended up looking like a cross between a Golf GTI and a Geo Metro, one of the most hated cars in the world, which was enough to steer people in the wrong direction. The Suzuki Swift and Geo Metro were pretty much the same car. The Swift focused on having high fuel economy, as well as running on a small, 1.3-liter, twin-cam engine. It also only weighed 1,768 lbs, and it had things that weren’t seen on compacts of the time: four-wheel independent suspension, and four-wheel disc brakes. But that wasn’t enough to save it from dismal sales figures.