Quick Question

[Tomx17]

In the 90's many Japanese manufactures produced sports car in a as you would say "battle for the best" and most of most of them are discontinued by the end of 90's

Honda - NSX
Mazda - RX7
Toyota - Supra / MR2 ( SW20 )
Mitsu - 3000GT VR4 / Evo
Nissan - Skyline / 300ZX
Suburu - STi

Well my question is plain and simple sorta. Well at least to me around my area everyone knows what a NSX RX7 Supra Evo Skyline 300ZX STi and MR2 are but nobody really knows a VR4 is and this was one of the top 1s out there and I just recently went to the mall and I would see all these toy cars and again I see all except the VR4, The question is why dont the VR4 have such street credit as the rest of these other cars? Is it becasue its not rice or something? Or is it something else?