From GM’s 550-horsepower twin-turbo sedan to Honda’s adorable little Fit, some smart ones were lost.
Trunks are an endangered species. Although there are 19 cars indexed here, one of which will be on a gap year, none of them is a crossover. Well, the Dodge Journey can plausibly be a crossover, however, it looks more like a front-wheel drive zit with seats for five. Like the cars they abandoned last year, 2021 will bring far fewer two-door coupes and four-door sedans. It also means fewer small, inexpensive cars, as they are replaced by small, inexpensive crossovers. Will the global be greater for these changes? Let’s hope 2021 is nothing yet joy and life. Because we’ve had enough of 2020 and we still have five months left.
The Acura RLX was sold in horribly pitiful quantities. In 2019, only 1,019 passed into the hands of U.S. customers. In 1988, Acura sold 70,770 Legends, its giant luxury sedan with a V-6 engine. The mighty once fell, and now it’s time to bury him. Thus, after 35 years of production, the Legend range of the circle of relatives, the last of Acura’s original models, will give its last breath VTEC.
Probably the most uncompromising and not-easy sports car available, it’s no wonder the Alfa Romeo 4C has never sold in giant quantities. In fact, sales were slightly detectable. Alpha discovered only 144 buyers for the 4C Spider and the remaining 4C cups in 2019. Sales so far in 2020? How about only 71? Toyota has so many Corollas that they fall off trains every week. And yet there is a certain sadness with the tearful eyes for the death of 4C Spider. Possibly there would never be anything like it again.
In June, BMW built its newest i8 superhymobile with a small engine/large battery. Available as a coupe or roadster, the i8 used a 1.5-liter Lilliputian three-cylinder internal combustion engine combined with a battery and electric motors to produce a total of 369 horsepower. Modest Dang for a car that looks so exotic, futuristic and absolutely unpleasant. There will probably soon be some other car of this type in the BMW range, not called i8. He will most likely appear first in the next film Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise taking him to an appointment with his doctor for a prostate check.
The calls still resonate in American automotive culture: Fleetwood, DeVille, Seville. Names that bore substance, presence and prestige wherever they went. A Cadillac sedan synonymous with success. But with a stupid call like CT6, the latter, and one of the most productive, of the great Cadillac sedans had no chance. Not even with the Blackwing V8 4.2-liter, 550 horsepower, double turbocharger, DACT, 32 valves, under the hood of the ct6-V high performance version. CT6 sales in the United States peaked in 2017 with 10542 units. A pathetic 7951 passed through dealerships in 2019. Sales of this great sedan were higher in China. Perhaps one day the great sedans will return when the generation raised in the crossovers rejects what their parents were driving. Or maybe not.
The last Chevrolet Impala produced on February 27, 2020 at General Motors’ Hamtramck plant in Michigan. A few days later, he hit the coronavirus. Coincidence? It’s up to you.
Chevy has used the so-called Impala from time to time since 1958, and this is unlikely to be the end. Possibly, this is too smart a call to use in a long-term independent crossover pod.
In 2011, Chevrolet sought to effectively launch the new Sonic subcompact. Then, in the parking lot of California’s Magic Mountain theme park, former professional skater and then MTV sensation Rob Dyrdek threw one into the air, rolled a full barrel, landed on another ramp and left. The Sonic introduced as a 2012 model. In large portions of the world’s exterior of the United States, the same vehicle has just generated the generation of the Yawning Aveo. Assembled in the same factory in Lake Orion, Michigan, as the all-electric Bolt, the Sonic is the only subcompact car bolted to the États-Unis.La line generated by the Sonic will begin assembling a new cross-version of the Bolt called Bolt. EUV in 2021.
The newest Dodge Grand Caravan, the fifth generation, was introduced for the 2008 and archaic style year around March 2010. It’s an undeniable box driven at the end through Chrysler’s familiar 3.6-liter Pentastar V6. It’s affordable to buy, incredibly helpful and reasonable to hire at Enterprise. So Dodge kept it because why not? The Grand Caravan is being replaced by the Chrysler Pacifica, announced for 2017, and the lightweight edition of this state-of-the-art minivan announced last year, the Chrysler Voyager.
The van’s dead. Get the van away.
The least-loved SUV of C/D, the last vehicle sold through Fiat Chrysler with four-speed automatic transmission and a vehicle that no one thinks about unless Avis has nothing else at the airport, the Dodge Journey is even though everything dies. About time.
Think of Journey as a wonderful edition of the circle of relatives of the Dodge Avenger sedan, then see what the Avenger looked like. Leave production already free of all V-6 or all-wheel drive options. All Journeys 2020 are front-wheel drive and are supplied with a 2.4-liter 173-horsepower four-cylinder engine. The only transmission is the newest of Chrysler’s well-known four-speed Ultradrive automatic transmissions brought for the 1989-style year for vintage pickup trucks and sedans such as Dodge Dynasty and Chrysler New Yorker. They probably wouldn’t cry.
In the fog beyond the 1990s, the Honda Civic coupe was the car in which the fashion of “compact sport” was built. But almost no one buys coupes today, and much of the Civic line game has been taken with the five-door hatchback style on which the crazy Civic Type R is based. The 2021 style year is a transition year for the Civic, as its tenth generation disappears in favor of a new 17th generation car logo in the calendar year. But the two doors don’t come back. Along with the announcement that the Civic Coupe had been sacrificed as a rabid rat, Honda also announced that beloved Civic Sedan would hibernate for a year before returning by 2022. Chances are the next one if presented as a sedan or hatchback.
When it comes to small cars, the Honda Fit has been one of the most successful drivers. But this segment has been marginal in the U.S. Sales peaked in 2008 with 79794 aimed at U.S. consumers, but fell to 35414 in 2019 and fell in 2020 before the arrival of COVID-19. Called Jazz in many other markets, the automobile will continue in production for the rest of the world.
Playing the role of a head-wheel-drive child between the ES front-wheel drive series and the rear-wheel-drive LS combat cruiser, the Lexus GS is easy to ignore, even when first launched in 1993 as a pocket edition of the Toyota. Aristo of the Japanese market. But all GS models, with rear-wheel or four-wheel drive, are made with the impregnable Lexus quality and the quiet luxury you’d expect from the brand. This will be a smart offering of used cars in the coming years. The cunning GS F is also advancing. The last two hundred copies of GS 350 models destined for the United States will be the special edition Black Line GS F.
Although this Lincoln Continental disappears from the scene after 2020, it is unlikely to be the newest Continental built through Lincoln. After all, the call first gave up the impression in 1939 and died in 1948. He then returned from 1956 and lasted until 2002. It’s too smart a call to stay forever. Beautiful and shoulder-wide, the latter Continental was not the classic rear driver that old-school buyers need or the complex hipster yacht that may have been sold to wealthy millennials. It is only the fact that much of the Continental’s prestige has been usurped through the reborn Navigator. With Lincoln bread and butter now SUV, the Navi is now the flagship product of the range.
Based on the modest Ford Fusion, the Lincoln MKZ is a look at the bad years when Lincoln abandoned all his smart calls in favor of a series of meaningless letters. In fact, MKZ called the Zephyr in its first year of production. Never incredibly popular, MKZ’s most productive promotion year 2007, when 34,363 discovered buyers. In 2019, only 17725 have discovered homes. Whatever the position of the MKZ in the Lincoln lineup, a combination of SUV crossover Aviator, Nautilus and Corsair. Although the mkZ call is probably gone forever, our money is in the so-called Zephyr that appears one day and at some other crossing.
The SL’s younger brother, the Mercedes-Benz SLC (called SLK until 2016) taken in a global that left roadsters behind, especially roadsters that seem like compromises compared to their older siblings. But the global can still change. And one day, there would possibly be some other SLK/SLC. But don’t count on that.
That’s some kind of deceptive. While the first two generations of the Toyota Yaris were bulky machines made through Toyota, the third generation, sold here since 2016, is a redecorated edition of the very intelligent Mazda2. It is therefore a disgrace that there is no genuine market at the moment for small cars, because consumers are coming out of the crossroads like lemmings. But Toyota and Mazda have come together and it looks like a forged marriage. The newest Yaris is perhaps the most productive known to be the first in a long series of collaborations.