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I suppose the CTA-Arsenal would have been a contender had it been a year later. The car appeared in practice for the French GP in 1947 and reappeared in 1948. On both occasions its performance was abysmal. As Formula 1 started in 1948 it was just too early.
But the V12 OSCA and the Arzani-Volpini weren't.
Moving on a bit we have the DB which proved that 750cc supercharged was not the way to go.
But putting the obscure makes to one side there is the Aston Martin . A manufacturer of successful sports cars produced a car that just yhadn't got it. OK it was front engined when Cooper had shown theat rear engines were the answer, but it was still far slower than the other front-engined cars.
And finally how about Arrows - 382 starts yielded 1 pole and 1 fastest lap. Ok, Minardi never even scored a pole, but they never had Arrows level of budget or quality of drivers.
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