[pfflier]

The 84 Pontiac Fiero needs to be there.

I'll confess I bought one.

Underpowered, only available in two colors lousy suspension and a gas tank between the occupants and right in front of the firewall. I had six recalls on it in the first year just trying to control the spontaneous combustion problem.

[Joe 6-pack]

Over the course of a few years, Pontiac got everything just about perfect with the Fiero, then having done so, they decided in 1988 that there was simply no future or profit in a small, lower end, two seat sports car.

The following year, Mazda introduced the Miata.