Yahoo Autos 17 Cars That Aren't Coming Back For 2016
The best new cars of the 2016 model year are just hitting the streets–cars, crossovers, SUVs, minivans and trucks, like the Honda Civic, Volvo XC90, and Chevy Camaro.
Then there’s the list of cars headed to their demise–early, or well after their freshness date has expired.
Before they’re gone and forgotten, it’s time to pay respects to that group of cars, crossovers, trucks and vans–the ones that you won’t see in showrooms next year. Send your condolences to the automakers of these cars:
The Spark EV was one of the better electric cars we’ve driven in the past few years–but an older architecture and a limited selling area (just a handful of states) were only a couple of its issues. Another one: the Bolt electric car, with 200 miles of battery-powered driving, coming in production form to January’s CES.
Oh, Crosstour. The ill-conceived Accord fastback went so far for so little styling and cargo-carrying payoff. It may have even gone in reverse, where looks are concerned. Nonetheless, the same idea’s been applied–to rollicking success, we’d say–with the new 2016 Civic sedan.
Honda’s great idea: “let’s hybrid the Accord with a new and clever gas-electric drivetrain.” Done. It won Green Car Reports’ Best Car To Buy award in 2014, but sold only in handfuls before car-buyer indifference sent it back to the drawing boards. (A new plug-in Honda Clarity hybrid is likely to take its place in a couple of years.)
The hybrid versions of the Civic were strong sellers for a time, when gas prices hovered near $4 a gallon. But after state incentives and HOV access withered, so did sales. You can’t even blame the Insight and CR-Z hybrid hatchbacks that sat in the same showroom. Honda’s dropped the Civic for the 2016 model year and we don’t expect it to make a comeback.
Q all the things! When Infiniti changed its car names, it needed a clever way to keep selling the former G37 sedan while it pivoted its product lineup. Hence the Q40 that made a single model-year appearance–and joins other one-hit wonders like the Kia Borrego in the annals of “oh, so we’re not doing that now?”
Pardon us while we curl up into a ball and cry. It’s gone, replaced by the smaller but just about as expensive F-Type.
The LR2 was the replacement for the unloved Land Rover Freelander, but it didn’t warm the cockles of the SUV-shopping public. It’s taking a dive in favor of the much more evocatively named Discovery Sport, which practically implies some sort of sub-Saharan safari could happen at any moment once you bang a right out of the soccer-field parking lot.
