In baseball, you can strike out in basically one of two ways: swinging and missing or staring down a pitch right in the strike zone without swinging. (Yes, there's foul tips and dropped third strikes, but don't bother me with details while I'm trying to make a point.) To my Little League coach, the latter amounted to essentially a sin against Babe Ruth and all that is holy in Cooperstown - ya gotta stop thinking, take the chance, and get that Louisville Slugger off your shoulder rather than trudge back to the dugout wondering what might have been.

Similarly, carmakers can strike out either by releasing a vehicle that misses the mark entirely or by failing to produce a vehicle that would've sold in bonkers numbers, gone on to define an entire segment, and established that company as a leader among its peers. (Nobody on that long walk back to the dugout envisions themselves swinging at that called third strike and hitting a foul ball or a dribbler back to the pitcher - it's always a game-winning home run, right?) So let's take a moment today to consider which carmakers passed on the biggest missed opportunities over the years.




For complete Hemming’s article. 65https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2022/01/28/question-biggest-automaker-missed-opportunity