Yahoo Autos These Vehicles Are Dead for 2025
While 2025 will see the arrival of multiple new vehicle nameplates, it'll also mark the end of others. In fact, more than 20 different vehicle models won't make it to the 2025 model year. These range from budget subcompacts such as the Mitsubishi Mirage to legendary sports cars like the Nissan GT-R. Scroll through to see the other vehicles that are calling it quits at the close of the 2024 model year.
Audi A5, S5, and RS5 Coupe and Convertible
For 2025, the Audi A5 model line comes exclusively in four-door fastback form, with the automaker selling the latest generation A5 and S5 alongside the soon-to-be outgoing A5, S5, and RS5 Sportbacks. Two-door A5, S5, and RS5 variants, however, bite the dust with the conclusion of the 2024 model year. Presumably, Audi intends to revive the model's coupe and convertible body styles at a later date—maybe even as soon as the 2026 model year. Then again, there's always the possibility that 2024 marks the end of the line for the two-door A5 family.
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Bugatti Chiron
The arrival of the Bugatti Tourbillon also marks the end of the line for the Bugatti Chiron. After approximately eight years on the market, the Chiron's 500-unit run ends with the 2024 model year. It's not yet the end of the line for Bugatti's quad-turbo 8.0-liter W-16 engine, though, as the engine lives on for the 2025 model year powering the open-top Mistral. Nonetheless, the W-16's days are numbered, as evidenced by the new V-16 in the gas-electric hybrid Tourbillon.
Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet's pulling the plug on the Camaro... again. The bow-tie brand first nixed the two-door muscle car in the early 2000s, only to bring it back for 2010. The reborn Camaro was a looker saddled with middling chassis dynamics and gun-slit windows that limited outward visibility. A redesign for 2016 fixed the former issue while arguably exacerbating the latter. Sharing underpinnings with the era's Cadillac ATS and CTS (now CT4 and CT5), the sixth-generation Camaro had the chutzpah its predecessor lacked, and it ended up earning a spot on our 2016, 2017, and 2018 10Best lists. Alas, dwindling sales eventually led Chevy to call it quits on the Camaro, and the American brand unceremoniously marked the model's final year with an available Collector Edition getup. Still, Chevy claims it's not ready to retire the Camaro name yet, and it plans to affix the moniker to a seventh-generation model in the coming years.
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Ferrari 812
The introduction of the Ferrari 12Cilindri marks the death of the Italian automaker's 812 model line. It seems there's just not enough room in Modena for two front-engine V-12 two-door models. Though the 12Cilindri is sure to whet the appetites of Ferrari fans hungry for a 12-cylinder grand tourer bearing the prancing horse badge, its retro-inspired design lacks the flamboyance of the outgoing 812—especially in Competizione guise. We're sure future variants of the 12Cilindri will kick the model's style and performance up a couple of notches, but we'll still always hold a special place in our hearts for the 812.
Ferrari F8 Spider
The death of the F8 Spider is the end of an era at Ferrari. Want a mid-engine V-8 model from the Italian sports car brand? You can have one via the SF90, but you'll also have to take that model's plug-in-hybrid bits, too.
Fisker Ocean
Given Fisker's bankruptcy, it's no surprise that the Ocean does not make it to the 2025 model year. While the battery-electric SUV had its fair share of innovative features, including its California mode that lowered all windows and a rotating center touchscreen that allowed for either landscape or portrait display modes, the rest of the Ocean was rather middling, from its poor software integration to its low-quality interior materials.
Infiniti Q50
Infiniti's killing the last car in its lineup, the Q50 sedan, after the 2024 model year. The more-than-decade-old model may have benefitted from a handful of changes over the years, including the introduction of a twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6, but it never received the love it needed to truly stand out from its sports-sedan peers. The Q50 may never have proven itself a segment leader, but its demise still leaves us a little choked up. After all, even a middling rear-drive sports sedan is better than nothing. At the rate that sedans are exiting the marketplace, the body style is an endangered species nowadays.
Jaguar E-Pace
Jaguar's in the middle of an identity crisis, and while the British brand sorts out where exactly it fits in the modern marketplace, it's abandoning ship on just about every vehicle it currently offers come 2025. Among these models is the E-Pace subcompact luxury SUV. The small front-drive-based crossover never really found its footing. Neither particularly great to drive nor especially luxurious, the E-Pace struggled to carve out a niche for itself in a competitive segment that includes more spacious options such as the BMW X1 and Mercedes GLB-class and more chic ones such as the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque.
Jaguar F-type
The Jaguar F-type ends its decade-plus run with the 2024 model year. Though Jaguar offered the two-door coupe and convertible with four-, six-, and eight-cylinder engine options throughout its model run, only the V-8 setup survived to power the sports car in the final years of its life.
Jaguar I-Pace
An early entrant in the post-Tesla long-range battery-electric vehicle marketplace, the Jaguar I-Pace combined low-slung looks with hatchback versatility and more than 200 miles of driving range, per EPA estimates. Unfortunately, newer and less expensive (the I-Pace stickered for around $70,000 when originally introduced at the end of the 2010s) competitors quickly undermined Jaguar's efforts. It didn't help that even in its final model year, the I-Pace still suffered from a similarly steep starting price and a maximum EPA-estimated driving range of 246 miles—a mere 12 miles more than the original 2019 model's maximum estimate. Admittedly, the I-Pace's range is more than enough for most consumers, but in a world where the similarly priced Lucid Air Pure nets an EPA-estimated range of 420 miles, 246 miles just doesn't cut it anymore.
Jaguar XF
As the replacement to the Jaguar S-type, the XF proved the British brand need no longer be synonymous with stodgy styling. But the 2009 XF didn't just look good, it drove well, too. This combination landed it a spot on our 2009 10Best list. Unfortunately, Jag struggled to keep the momentum going, and the XF faded into the background as the years went on. A complete redesign for 2016 saw the XF adopt an aluminum architecture. Unfortunately, the same level of innovation was not applied to the model's exterior design, which looked largely the same as its handsome but aging predecessor.
Kia Forte
The Forte nameplate is dead more than the idea of the Forte itself. This is because Kia’s compact sedan is recast as the K4 for its 2025 redesign, a change that better aligns it with the K5 mid-size sedan. The new model is more appealing than before, but the Forte moniker, which has been around since the 2010 model year, is no more. Prior to Forte, Kia's compact sedan bore the name Spectra, and before that, it went by the name Sephia. Maybe K4 will be the name that finally sticks.
Lamborghini Huracán
The Huracán was the “entry-level” Lamborghini sports car of sorts, providing a sensational follow-up to the Gallardo and expanding Lambo’s global sales significantly throughout its production run. Its screaming V-10 engine, shared with the now-defunct Audi R8, was mid-mounted and gave this “baby” Lambo a distinct character compared to its V-12 stablemates. An all-terrain Sterrato variant (pictured) sent it off with a bang. Next up is the Temerario, which aims to continue in the spirit of the Huracán but goes about its business in an entirely different way: its sole powertrain is a plug-in-hybrid setup with a V-8.
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Maserati Ghibli
The idea of the Ghibli seemed like a good one back in 2014. The semi-affordable sports sedan combined Italian driving characteristics and standout styling with the prestige of the exotic Maserati brand name. But the execution was less than stellar, and the Ghibli served to cheapen the Maserati mystique more than anything. Still, it lasted a while, and versions with the Ferrari-derived V-8 engine were real performers. But we won’t miss the Ghibli too much, and it isn’t slated to get a replacement, either, as an eventual next-generation Quattroporte is due to take on the Maserati sedan mantle all by itself.
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Maserati Levante
Once Porsche jumped on the SUV bandwagon, it was only a matter of time before other sports car manufacturers took the same path. Maserati was a bit late to the party with its Levante, which arrived in 2016 and never really made a name for itself in the crowded luxury-performance SUV segment. We’re not sure what’s coming next to fill this mid-size hole in Maserati's SUV line, but the smaller Grecale SUV will have to do for now.
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Maserati Quattroporte
The Maserati Quattroporte has a long history dating back to the 1960s, and its name—meaning "four-door"—likely isn't gone forever. But the current Quattroporte is dying off for the time being, and its rumored electric replacement is reportedly delayed until several years from now. Available with turbocharged V-6 and high-revving V-8 engine options, the sixth-generation Quattroporte offered a distinctly Italian alternative to big luxury sedans such as the Mercedes S-class and BMW 7-series, but it could never match those rivals in terms of refinement and polish.
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Mini Clubman
With its cheeky styling, unique barn-door hatchback setup, and spunky driving character, the Clubman embodied many of the best elements of the Mini brand. This station-wagon-esque play on the classic Mini hatchback was offered with a range of powertrain choices from mild to wild—the performance-oriented JCW versions offering the most fun. The Clubman departed with a Final Edition model that included a handful of styling tweaks. It seems the upcoming electric Mini Aceman will serve as a replacement of sorts.
Mitsubishi Mirage and Mirage G4
The Mitsubishi Mirage was always a joyless ode to basic transportation, offering a low base price and a long warranty but little else to please car shoppers on a budget. Even still, the Mirage enjoyed surprisingly strong sales, posting a huge increase in the first three quarters of 2024 and showing that there's still plenty of demand for an affordable small car. We don't think Mitsubishi has plans to replace the Mirage any time soon, so perhaps its continued sales success even in the face of discontinuation will give another automaker the idea to take advantage of this open opportunity on the unglamorous but pragmatic end of the new-car spectrum.
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Nissan GT-R
We all know that it's difficult to kill Godzilla, and this applies to Nissan's high-tech sports car, as well. The R35 generation lasted from 2008 until 2024 and has received myriad updates over the years. Though it still looks mostly the same as it did way back when, its power output has gone up steadily, with the NISMO version ultimately producing 600 horsepower from the car's twin-turbo 3.8-liter V-6. Once a technological powerhouse, the current GT-R's complex all-wheel-drive system has since been eclipsed by newer competitors. Still, Nissan will have big shoes to fill with the next-generation GT-R, which will no doubt incorporate some sort of electrification.
Nissan Titan
With the death of the Titan, Nissan seems to have given up on its attempt to do battle with the Big Three domestic automakers' full-size pickups. It was a valiant enough effort, starting in 2003 with the first-generation Titan that brought impressive V-8 power, daring styling, and a few innovative features to the segment. But the sales figures never reached anywhere near the heights of its rivals. The arrival of the second-generation Titan for 2016 did little to change the truck's fate, as the addition of the XD variant—meant to fit into a middle ground between light- and heavy-duty trucks—ended up pleasing neither set of customers.
Ram 1500 Classic
The Ram 1500 Classic dates way back to 2008 because the truck brand simply kept building the previous-generation 1500 pickup, internally known as the DS, long after the new-generation model arrived for 2019. Consider that Ford and General Motors redesigned their full-size pickups several times during the continuous production of the DS-generation Ram. The aging Ram pickup finally reached the end of the road after the 2024 model year, at which point Classic was a bit of an understatement.
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Toyota Venza
The Toyota Venza already died once and came back to life. The first Venza was a Camry-based crossover sold from 2009 to 2015. Then there was a gap of several years before Toyota revived the nameplate and applied it to the Japan-market Harrier, a derivative of the RAV4 Hybrid. The new-for-2021 Venza was pitched as a mid-size, two-row crossover designed to compete against rivals such as the Ford Edge and Nissan Murano. Alas, the Venza was too small, too expensive, and too similar to Toyota's other offerings to stand out from the crowd. It's now been replaced by the Crown Signia, a lower, longer, and wider two-row SUV that looks almost like a wagon and better lives up to its near-luxury mission.
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