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A '''flop'''  or '''product failure''' is a [[product (business)|product]] that doesn't reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its almost complete lack of success.

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* The [[Dassault Aviation]] [[Dassault Mercure|Mercure]] - this aircraft had extremely limited range and as a result only ten were built for the [[France|French]] domestic airline [[Air Inter]]
* The [[Northrop]] [[F-20 Tigershark]] - this [[fighter aircraft]] was designed as a private venture for export, but failed utterly as foreign air forces wanted the more prestigious [[F-16 Fighting Falcon]] used by the [[USAF]], despite the F-20 having superior performance and lower cost.
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===Automotive Flops===

*[[Ford Motor Company]]'s [[Edsel]]
*[[DeLorean]] automobile
*[[Electric vehicle|Electric cars]] - [[Ford Motor Company]] and [[General Motors]], who only had lukewarm interest in the technology, have dropped production of their [[electric vehicle|electric car]] models.
*[[Sinclair C5]] - a battery powered car designed by Sir [[Clive Sinclair]]
* The [[Bricklin SV-1]]
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* The [[INMOS Transputer]], a brave attempt at a different way of computing - but now largely forgotten.
*WebTV (now [[MSN TV]]). Internet delivery via television set and set-top box. Cited by Jim Louderback as one of the "eight biggest tech flops ever".
* The [[Sinclair QL]] an unsuccessful attempt by [[Sinclair Research]] to make a [[16 bit]] computer in the mid [[1980s]]
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===Video Game Flops===

*[[Sega]] has had numerous flops in [[North America]], for example the [[Sega Saturn]], the [[Sega Nomad]], the [[Sega Master System]] II and III, and the [[Sega 32X]]. (The Master System was successful in [[Europe]] and [[Brazil]], and the Sega Saturn was successful in [[Japan]].) The [[Sega Megadrive]] was not well received in [[Japan]].
*[[Nintendo]], not to be left behind, has produced the [[Nintendo Virtual Boy]] and [[video game light gun|light gun]] games.
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* The [[Tanganyika groundnut scheme]], a plan by [[Clement Attlee]]'s [[British government]], financed by British tax-payers, to cultivate tracts of what is now [[Tanzania]] with [[peanuts]].
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==Flops in science and engineering==

A scientific flop may be something that took years of man-hours and a lot of money to complete (or perhaps never completed) and ended in failure.

===Technical failures in aerospace===

* The [[Brewster Buffalo]] - this [[World War II]] [[fighter aircraft]] turned out to be no match for [[Axis Powers|Axis]] fighters
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*The [[UK Conservative Party|Conservative Party]]'s performance at the [[1997 UK general election|1997 general election]], and also at  [[2001 UK general election|2001 general election]].  In both [[General Election]]s the Conservatives were routed disasterously.  Their showing was both times far worse than that of Michael Foot.
==See also==

* [[product management]]
* [[management]]
* [[new product development]]
* [[product (business)|product]]