These cars, SUVs and trucks are being killed off with the 2024 models by slumping sales or because the manufacturer is moving to hybrid or EV versions of the discontinued gas-powered one.
Vehicles that won’t be back in 2025 follows a similarly long and depressing list of models that were killed off for the 2024 model year
It’s an especially bad year for sedans and sports cars, with a least a half-dozen models being axed.
Stellantis cancelled the Chrysler 300, Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger with 2024 models, and continues to trim its garage by dropping two Alfa Romeo models for 2025.
Chevrolet is dropping both the Camaro – its last sportscar- and the Malibu – it’s last mid-size sedan. And say bye-bye to the performance sedan Maserati Ghibli. Another sedan biting the dust is the Volvo S60.
At the other end of the spectrum, the small, affordable Mitsubishi Mirage – one of the last vehicles you can purchase new for under $20,000 – also is being axed.
Since these vehicles won’t be back in 2025, it means you can get a good buy now on the final 2024 models.
Alphabetically – these additions to the great big parking lot in the sky of cancelled models range from budget models to fast and furious high-priced droolers.
Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio
The Quadrifoglio is the brand’s alpha (pardon the pun) performance model – compare it to Mercedes-Benz AMG or the BMW M line.
But Stellantis may be killing off only the gas-powered version. There are hints it will be back down the road as a hybrid or EV.
Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio
Alfa is also discontinuing the 505-horsepower Stelvio Quadrifoglio SUV
Blame weak sales, because who really needs a 505hp SUV, even if it is an Alfa Romeo. Blame parent company Stellantis shifting from internal-combustion engines for battery-powered performance instead.
Audi A4 & A5 Coupe & Convertible
The popular mid-size sedan is biting the dust – sort of. At least the gasoline-powered version is biting the dust.
Starting soon, Audi is converting all its even-numbered models to electric, such as the A4 and A6. Odd-numbered models will continue to be sold as gas, such as the A5, which essentially replaces the A4.
No word, though, on whether that applies also to the S line or the SUV line, the Q.
The carmaker based in Ingolstadt, Germany, also is killing ff the A5 Couple and A5 Convertible models, but the A5 will continue to be available as a sportback.
Got it?
Chevrolet Camaro
Last year Chevy killed the four-cylinder Camaro. For 2025, the entire Camaro line drives off into the sunset, joining its old sibling and rival, the equally muscled Pontiac Firebird.
Both muscle car models were launched in the 1960s, along with the Ford Mustang.
GM killed off the Pontiac brand in 2010, as part of its bankruptcy re-organization.
The final sixth-generation 2024 Camaro is a hunky 650-horsepower ZL1 1LE with a manual transmission – one of the last manuals on the road. But even that’s not enough to save it.
Chevrolet Malibu
The last one rolls off the assembly line in November 2024 after 10 million in sales over a couple of decades in the line-up.
It is Chevy’s last mid-size sedan, once the core of the brand, along with the Camaro muscle car.
GM is spending around $400 million to convert the factory where the Malibu is produced into churning out EVs only, including the replacement for the Bolt EV which Chevrolet killed off last model year.
The reborn Bolt is expected to be re-introduced for the 2026 model year.
Fisker Ocean
The boutique EV manufacturer filed for bankruptcy in June. That effectively ended production of the promising SUV.
Motor Trend reports that the bankruptcy causes serious service and repair issues for current owners, along with major impact on the resale value.
https://www.motortrend.com/features/bankrupt-fisker-ocean-ev-owner-buying-advice-faq/
Ford Escape
The Ford Escape was the 25th best-selling vehicle in America last year with more than 140,000 units sold. But in a fiercely competitive compact SUV market, that’s not enough for the model to escape (pardon the pun) the end of the road.
The Escape joins the larger Edge SUV and the Explorer Hybrid in that great garage in the sky.
Infiniti Q50
This is the last sedan in the Infiniti line, so dropping it means Infiniti will be selling only SUVs and crossovers, unless it introduces another sedan in the future, which seems unlikely.
It’s still possible to buy a new 2024 Infiniti Q50, with a starting price of $44,200, including destination.
Jaguar XE, XF, F-Type, I-Pace EV and E-Pace
It’s a massacre at Jaguar/Land Rover.
The Jaguar XE and XF sedans, F-Type sports car, I-Pace electric SUV and E-Pace SUV are being axed with the 2024 models year as the automaker prepares to relaunch its brand in 2026.
The F-Pace SUV will live on.
Maserati Ghibli
After 11 years on the market, and as Maserati moves toward electrification, it’s apparently not worth updating this generation of the Ghibli.
Although maybe it’s worth re-tuning it as an EV or hybrid.
Mitsubishi Mirage
With a starting price of $17,955, the five-door is one of the most affordable vehicles available in the USA, and a popular first car for students and those with limited budgets.
Say goodbye to both the hatchback and sedan versions.cheapest cars in America, and say goodbye to another good buy under $20,000.
Mini Clubman
This is very confusing.
At the same time MINI is bailing on the popular four-door Clubman, it is announcing BOTH a brand new four-door Countryman, touted as the biggest MINI ever, and also a brand new four-door Aceman EV that looks to me just like the outgoing Clubman.
Very confusing.
Nissan Titan
Its size may be titan, but not its sales. It just can’t keep up with the perennial best-seller Ford F-150, and competition from Ram 1500 and Toyota Tundra.
Maybe Titan will be back in a hybrid or EV version. After all, the Nissan Leaf helped make EVs a popular alternative so Nissan certainly knows how to produce an EV.
Ram 1500 TRX
Speaking of Ram 1500, the souped-up 702-horsepower TRX is dead, maybe because the price of the super-charged model is dangerously close to $100,000.
It’s being replaced by the new RHO sport performance model, which will sell for $30,000 less – “just” $69, 995.
Please somebody explain how the same company can produce essentially the same vehicle for 1/3 less.
Porsche 718 Boxster / Cayman
This applies to Europe only where the two models do not meet the General Safety Regulation of the European Union, which includes cybersecurity.
But cybersecurity is an issue in the USA also – GM just agreed to stop selling our computerized driving information to data brokers, which can drive up (oops, another pun) insurance costs.
Volvo S60
The Volvo S60 sedan, which is produced in the company’s Ridgeville, South Carolina, plant, is being killed off to make room on the production line for the new EX90 three-row EV SUV, and also the Polestar 3 EV (Volvo and Chinese automaker Geely own Polestar).
Because it’s made domestically, base versions of the seven-seat EX90 should qualify for the $7,500 tax credit. It starts just below the $80,000 threshold for the revised point-of-sale credit. But that’s another article for another time.
Super Luxury Sports Cars
These high-end vroomers aren’t returning, either. But you probably could afford them anyway.
- Ferrari SF90 and 812 GTS
- Lamborghini Huracan
ecoXplorer Evelyn Kanter is a journalist with 25+ years of experience as a newspaper and magazine writer, radio & TV news producer & reporter, and author of guidebooks and smartphone apps – all focusing on travel, automotive, the environment and your rights as a consumer.
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