7 Vehicles We’re Going to Miss in 2025
Another year is upon us, and that means we have to say goodbye to a batch of cars that, for good reasons or bad, will no longer grace us with their presence. Some of these losses are worth lamenting for their performance or what they’ve come to mean to enthusiasts over decades, others simply for what their absence will mean for the new car market in 2025.
Most of us on the Hagerty Media team will miss at least one vehicle that’s going out of production in 2024. One of us is going to miss none of them. Which car among the below will you miss most, or do you agree with our sole contrarian?
Chevrolet Camaro
I’m going to miss the Camaro. My brother owned a 1967 Camaro RS when I was about four years old, so I go way back with this model. I was also in Detroit when Bob Lutz introduced the fifth-gen concept. I loved the look of those cars, but it was the performance of the sixth-gen that I’ll really miss.
When Chevy launched it in late 2015 as part of its “Find New Roads” campaign, I got to drive a 2016 Camaro SS across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. I’ve driven turbo four-cylinder, V-6, SS, and ZL1 versions on track and the Alpha chassis is just so good no matter the variant. I think that an early sixth-gen SS 1LE is probably my favorite late-model, but there are so many great variants from every generation that I hold out hope that the Camaro can somehow make another comeback. —Brandan Gillogly
Mitsubishi Mirage (yep!)
I’m going to miss the Mitsubishi Mirage. Not that I’ve ever driven one, or been in one, or even seen one in the last, I don’t know, year or so. But like bald eagles and tardigrades and guys who play drums on buckets, I just like knowing they’re out there. With so much focus in the last several years on both HORSEPOWER WARS! and, more recently, EVs nobody wants, ultra-affordable basic-ass transportation has been completely brushed aside. Call me a “poor,” but I can’t imagine paying $100,000 for a pickup truck, no matter what’s powering it or how many tailgates it has. But I absolutely can imagine paying $15,000 for a year-end clearance stripper with a five-speed, an AM radio, and manual everything. I’m not alone, either. —Stefan Lombard
I’ll miss the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, a car I loved but dismissed because the first three I drove all had some sort of electrical glitch. But that’s not my answer. Neither is the Nissan Titan, a stalwart, unappreciated, often underpriced full-size pickup. It isn’t even the lovely Jaguar F-Type, or the Ram 1500 TRX, at whose press event occurred the only instance in which a manufacturer actually encouraged me to jump the vehicle. No, my most-missed will be the Mitsubishi Mirage.
In 2014, it was the worst new car I had driven since the Yugo and the Smart, but it has since improved and tales of the Mirage’s near-bulletproof reliability abound. At $17,840, including shipping, it’s the cheapest new car you can buy, and it has a very good warranty and roadside assistance. I have an affinity for cheap new cars, dating back to a $6000 Toyota Tercel, equipped with air and a four-speed manual transmission, that served us so well during the first years of marriage. With the departure of the Mirage, and next year the Nissan Versa, the lengthy era of super-affordable new cars ends. I don’t see it returning unless we’re successfully invaded by the Chinese. And that makes me sad. —Steven Cole Smith
Jaguar F-Type
Jaguar’s the talk of the town these days—or, wait, that was last week. As the newly branded company chases novelty, I’m getting nostalgic for the F-Type, modern Jaguar’s own exercise in nostalgia. Built from 2014 to 2024, the F-Type was a beautiful coupe (or convertible) that harkened back to the E-Type. Oh, and the F-Type was available with a supercharged, 575-hp V-8. I drove a droptop version with that engine in 2022 and would jump at the chance to drive one again: It’s expensive and stiffly sprung, with an infotainment system that’s already dated, but it hits me in the feels. It can out-bark a Hellcat and it’s prettier than any Corvette since the chrome-bumper C3. That’s my type of muscle car. —Grace Houghton
Ram 1500 Classic
That the Ram 1500 Classic is going away should surprise no one—after all, it had been around in the same basic form since 2009. I don’t have a particular affinity for it or any great memories from my time behind the wheel of one, but its departure means one less simple, basic truck offering on the market, and that’s something to lament. Besides the Camaro, there’s not much else leaving the market that I’ll miss. —Eddy Eckart
I’d like to second the Ram Classic. As someone who’s hoping to make the leap to a truck in the near future, I always saw the Ram Classic as sort of a last bastion of affordable full-size pickups. Whether or not the math would bear that out, I’m not sure. But it was more psychological for me.
Still, times change and product lineups do, too. The new Ram is very impressive (particularly in the RHO guise) and the other full-size offerings are plenty compelling as well. —Nathan Petroelje
Chevrolet Malibu
Like the Mirage, the current ninth-gen (2016–24) Chevy Malibu isn’t anything to write home about. Its departure after this year wouldn’t be that noteworthy, either, but for the fact that it’s the last sedan built by GM’s biggest brand. The four-door sedan used to be the default body style on American roads. Times have changed, and now there are only a handful of domestic options left. For 2025 Cadillac will be the only GM division with sedans in the lineup. —Andrew Newton
Lamborghini Huracán
The Huracán marks the end of the V-10 road car era, one that began with the Dodge Ram and Viper, took a detour to BMW and Audi, but was never represented better than by Lamborghini. Even though my last drive in one (a Technica) was brief, it was wild. On the narrow roads of Emilia-Romagna, it was easier to place and therefore travel faster than bigger brother Aventador. And my ears are still ringing from the noise! —Nik Berg
Nissan GT-R
The passing of loved ones sometimes marks eras in a person’s life. The end of the Nissan GT-R—in its current form, anyway—may force me into a mid-life crisis. The R35 generation hit the street in 2008, when I was still in high school and since then I’ve heard, read, and watched plenty of tales about how fast and impressive the car was. Its appearance barely changed, allowing me to feel like I was in high school again for a moment whenever I saw one. Now the number of “in the wild” sightings of R35s is sure to drop, and with it my ability to mentally play pretend and be a senior in high school, bench racing in the auto shop while doing a clutch replacement on a Toyota pickup. Farewell, GT-R. You never changed much, and I loved you for it. —Kyle Smith
And Sajeev’s pick …
Oh heck no, I call BS on this question. There is nothing I will miss in 2025, and not just because the Mirage stopped being offered with a five-speed manual. I will only weep for what happened in 2012, when Ford finally ran out of time to squeeze the last bit of profit out of the Ford Ranger, and the trifecta of the Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, and Town Car.
This quartet of body-on-frame vehicles likely died for several reasons, but the biggest one in my mind is Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 226. We may never know the full stories of why we are losing each of the above-mentioned vehicles in 2025, but one thing is for sure: Do you even care after what was TAKEN FROM US in 2012? —Sajeev Mehta
