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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?
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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
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I just turned 71 and the auto manufacturers should ponder why I will never buy a new car in the next 20 years. Nothing basic, overpriced, and few manuals. I’ll go the next 20 years in my 1991 Mazda 626 (manual), 1998 Sable wagon (auto), 2004 Focus ZTX (manual), and my late father’s 2004 LeSabre (auto). Then there are the six classics. So while I won’t be buying anything I do notice that a basic truck and sedans will be vanishing with me being a sedan guy.
I rode in a Camaro once. It was the most uncomfortable car, difficult to get in and out of. And the “trunk” was useless. The entire time I was in the car I was thinking we should have taken my Saab 900 instead. I am surprised the model lasted this long
Gm doesn’t care about cars anymore. They only want to sell 70000 and up trucks. The same problem two decades ago and probably heading for bankruptcy again and another strike in three years because of only a 54% ratification vote
Sajeev is echoing what I’ve been saying for years now: looking back on history, I think we’ll see the discontinuation of the Excursion & Panther platform as a definitive turning point that leads to the demise of FoMoCo. The high point of vehicles in general was the mid to late 2000s before they all became half-azzed space shuttles, the tipping point before the average owner didn’t stand a chance of being able to diag/repair their own ride. All the pandering to these safety zealots has got to come to a head. Keep your car in good condition, keep your eyes open, your nose out of your damn phone & stop driving everywhere Mach 3 with your hair on fire, that’s all the safety anyone needs!
Mirage is like the Yugo, I owned an ’88 GVL with air & it was a much better car than what the press & urban lore would have you believe if it was taken care of. The Mirage CVT is one of the few that I think suits the torque curve of the engine & will happily putt around town w/o exceeding 2000 RPM all day if you stay out of it. It has the personality of a tractor which is perfect for its intended mission & the only car I ever rented that I drove almost 50 miles w/o putting a drop of fuel in but still showing full on the gauge at return time.
The Jag F-type had one of the most beautiful sounding factory exhausts I’ve ever heard on anything, a pure thundering symphony of perfectly weighted V8 goodness. If nothing else, its passing should be lamented on sound alone.
Camaro… if GM would come to their senses & realize that the average adult is NOT 5’8″ & would stop designing seating more suitable for aliens instead of humanoids, it would’ve easily survived on performance alone. I sat in 1 once, had the seat pushed back all the way, seatback leaned hard into the bottom rear seat cushion but my head still rubbed the headliner. Camaro has almost always had superior ultimate performance to Mustang, stock vs stock, but takes an absolute hind seat to practicality, looks & the Tupperware dash is so cheesy! Same as Corvette, I wouldn’t care if it did .5 light speed, ugly is UGLY!
Ram 1500 Classic, no surprise, hard to keep the line going when U-Haul is about your only customer. But I bet all the remainder will be snapped up by U-Haul because of the rampant batch of Silverado trans failures.
The GT-R, hard to believe it’s being built by a company that once built the Skyline & is now on the brink of financial ruin. Yes, events were set in motion long before getting hooked up with the frogs but that definitely sealed the deal. I think it’d be a terrible mistake on Honda’s part to jump in bed with them.
The Lambo, I’ll always think of it as I’m revving out the V10 in my E450 box truck LOL. No sound like a stretched out 10, even huffing thru a Flowmaster.
Agree !00% with the relatively inexpensive Mitsubishi Mirage. Decades ago, my wife and I bought a brand new 1988 Eagle Summit (which was essentially a ‘built-in-Japan’ Mirage that was sold at Jeep-Eagle dealers). It was a 5-speed with A/C and Cruise Control… but other than that, it was pretty basic. However, the car still looked great and ran ‘like a top’ even after it had 168,000 miles on the odometer. At that point, I was T-boned by a guy who ran a red light; but we got a great insurance settlement because that old car had no rust, the paint was still nearly perfect, and the interior still looked new!
Sad to see the Camaro leave once again. Who runs GM? Nobody, at least no one that likes cars. Electrification of the automobile is a long way off if it even happens. Improvements in the ICE will continue until perfection. I am hoping. I am sad to see the GTR leave but then Nissan isn’t doing well. Just ask Honda. But……the Japanese plan to bring back some sports cars leaving the only American sports cars to the Corvette…….Unless Ford fights off the electric brainless in the company to keep the Mustang a Mustang. I am hanging on to my Chevelles if nothing else to remind me of what was once a great company that build cars for the masses not the government.
Ask any New York cab driver about last gen Crown Vic’s. Near bulletproof in use and cheap to fix as they changed little and parts were available and cheap!
Limo builders loved the Lincoln’s due to RWD, easy to convert.
I will greatly miss the Mitsubishi Mirage. I had a 1991 model that served me well for over 350,000 miles. A humble vehicle with hints of ‘Rally’ heritage even though 90 mph was the maximum top end (downhill with a tail wind) in my basic specification. Always ran like a champ, and the front to rear crossmember protected the oil pan when I took it places it had no business going…those 155 width tires did great in snow and mud!!! My only regret was not doing a 4G63 swap which was fairly easy if you got the Mirage GT engine mounts. Mitsubishi has lost their way and the deletion of a basic transportation car to their line-up (in addition to anything remotely performance oriented (where are the EVO, Eclipse or off road stuff like the Montero) makes me wonder how they stay in the car business. Their bean counters drink the wrong flavor of Sake!!! From a company that once made the A6M Zero airplane the current offerings are not so much. It’s sad that Mitsubishi is now better known for their air conditioning units.
the crown vics had the WORST trunk design layout ever for a full size sedan – esp if you kept the full spare in there. was one of the main reasons i chose not to consider one for my needs . . roadmaster/caprice was much better in that department – shame GM killed that line much too early 1996 vs 2012? you ford lovers got it good
Agree wholeheartedly on the F-type – design is a worthy successor to the iconic E-type, its sound is unbelievable (SVR takes it up a notch), and AWD 575hp makes for constant grins! Hard to imagine it won’t have enduring appeal and some collectibility given its attributes and scarcity
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