You won't be able to buy these cars in 2025

When this year comes to an end, some car models will be discontinued with it. This is not unusual at first. Cars that have been produced for a long time find it increasingly difficult to find customers, model changes keep the manufacturers' ranges fresh and the desirability of customers high. But at the turn of the year 2024/2025, another influence will be added: new technical regulations. They want to make our cars safer in several respects, in the event of a crash, but also in terms of cybersecurity.

Upgrading an older, perhaps no longer quite as popular car to the new standards is simply too expensive in many cases. A very prominent example is the Fiat 500. It went into production at the end of 2007, at a time when only the nerds in Silicon Valley could do anything with cybersecurity. Updating its electronics to the new standard is not worthwhile for Fiat. In any case, the 500 Electric is already the successor in the showroom. The situation is similar with the Porsche Boxster and its coupé offshoot Cayman. The technical basis is no longer brand new, unfortunately the (electric) successor is still missing. The 2025 model decline affects all classes and very different manufacturers.

The original e-tron is retiring as the Audi Q8 e-tron

It's been six years since Audi entered the world of e-mobility with the large SUV, which was only called e-tron at the time. There wasn't much competition back then, the Tesla Model X was one of them. The e-tron had the polished suspension comfort and first-class workmanship ahead of it.

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With 620 hp and eight cylinders, the Roma was the entry-level model of the Italian sports car manufacturer for four years.

Can you call a car that costs almost 200,000 euros an entry-level model? At Ferrari, you can't, you have to. Since 2020, the Roma has been tasked with fishing for customers at the lower end of the model range. With 620 hp, a top speed of 320 km/h, its almost four-liter V8, but above all with its coupé body shaped according to the classic ideal of beauty - long flat nose plus powerful rear end - the Roma brought strong buying arguments.

Now, after only four years, it's over again. The small Ferrari disappears, but not the eight-cylinder engine. It lives on in the SF90, combining its power with an electric motor and unleashing 800 hp in this drive combination. This means that it has finally outgrown the entry-level segment, as prices start at a hefty 417,890 euros.

Ferrari Roma

• Production period: 2020 to 2024
• Body variants: Coupé and Convertible
• Power: 456 kW (620 hp)
• Prices (as of 09/2024): 194,459 to 200,000 euros

He leaves with a smile: the Fiat 500 is discontinued and his cheeky Abarth brothers with it

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Abarth, Fiat's in-house tuning offshoot, formed the robust twins 595 and 695 from the lovely 500.

What do you get when you give a smile wheels and an engine? That's right: the Fiat 500. In 2007, the time had come. The little Italian with the cheerful face, which is screwed together at the Polish Fiat plant in Tychy, began to spread good humour in the European streetscape. And the 500 has really been doing that for 17 years now, without looking old today. Fiat was very economical with model facelift measures. The last noteworthy one was nine years ago.

After all, the strong brothers 595 and 695, called by the first name Abarth, are in the race for buyers' hearts. With 165 and 180 hp respectively, they are strongly seasoned and successfully give the youthful bullies, where the 500 acts a little restrained with only 70 horses under the hood.

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But the future is electric. It belongs to the Fiat 500e. It is always at least 95 hp strong and has also grown a bit without having outgrown its basic cuteness.

Fiat 500/Abarth 595, 695

• Production period: 2007 to 2024
• Body variants: Two-door and two-door with folding roof
• Power: 51 to 132 kW (70 to 180 hp)
• Prices (as of 09/2024): 17,490 to 31,490 euros

Ford loses focus: The fourth generation is also the last

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In the compact class, the chassis and steering of the Ford Focus were the benchmark by which the competition had to be measured.

Ford is completely turning its model portfolio upside down. Cars like the Fiesta, the Mondeo, but also the Focus no longer fit in there, the US manufacturer believes. SUVs are the focus of the new strategy. The compact Golf opponent is seemingly superfluous. This is bad news for friends of active cars, because in the compact class, the Focus has been a highlight for decades with its precise steering and agile handling (without neglecting driving comfort).

The station wagon version, called Turnier, also managed the balancing act of utility (luggage space up to 1,653 litres) and driving dynamics, and at popular prices just above the 33,000 euro mark. No Ford SUV can keep up with that. Ford has not yet announced a successor for the talented Focus.

Ford Focus IV

• Production period: 2018 to 2024
• Body variants: Hatchback and station wagon
• Power: 92 to 206 kW (125 to 280 hp)
• Prices (as of 09/2024): 32,100 to 49,850 euros

More affordable than almost any other: The Mitsubishi Space Star

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Always four doors and always cheap: The Mitsubishi Space Star had little competition on the German market.

A new car for less than 15,000 euros with four doors, there are not many of them left. And from the end of 2024, it will be one less again, because Mitsubishi is discontinuing the Space Star. The name of the small Japanese car, which is manufactured in Thailand, may be a bit confusing, because it originally referred to a minivan. That was fitting, after all, space stands for space, and vans usually offer that in abundance.

The current Space Star, on the other hand, with its length of only 3.85 meters and a narrow width of 1.67 meters, fits perfectly into the urban space, precisely because it does not take up more space than a city car should need. Nevertheless, its use of space is remarkable, even if the roof presses on the crown of taller rear passengers. For comfort-oriented small car enthusiasts, the small Mitsubishi was even available with an automatic transmission.

Mitsubishi Space Star

• Production period: 2013 to 2024
• Body variants: Hatchback
• Power: 52 kW (71 hp)
• Prices (as of 09/2024): 11,990 to 19,090 euros

The last mid-engined Porsches are leaving: Boxster and Cayman cross the finish line

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The 718 series has been on the market for eight years and has hardly aged since then. Porsche has always kept them fresh. Nevertheless, the chequered flag is now falling.

Eight years is a biblical age for most model lines from most automakers. This is because model cycles usually only very rarely last longer than seven years. But Porsche plays by different rules, including with the Boxster and the technically identical coupé called Cayman. Officially, the 718 model series will be launched in 2016. In fact, however, it is essentially based on the previous generation, which went on sale in 2012.

However, the major model facelift eight years ago refreshed the Porsche mid-engine models so much that both models still arouse great desire among sports car enthusiasts. Not least because Porsche knows better than any other manufacturer how to keep demand high with special models. Limited editions or variants with a strong focus on the circuit arouse the desire to buy. Now new safety regulations are putting an end to the Boxster and Cayman races. The 718 will have an all-electric successor.

Porsche 718 Boxster, 718 Cayman

• Production period 718: 2016 to 2024
• Body variants: Convertible, Coupé
• Power: 220 to 368 kW (300 to 500 hp)
• Prices (as of 09/2024): 63,945 to 158,700 euros

The Golf for the rough is called T-Roc: the last curtain falls for it and its convertible offshoot

VW customers who want an SUV can choose from five model series until the end of the year: T-Cross, T-Roc, Tiguan, Tiguan Allspace and Touareg. These are only the conventionally powered city SUVs. The electric models ID.4 and ID.5 will be added and we don't want to forget the Amarok either. The range seems a little boundless, especially since the T-Cross and the T-Roc are only ten centimeters apart in length. One has to go, and that is the older T-Roc. Which is especially a shame because it is also available as a convertible and it is one of the last reasonably affordable convertibles on the German market, the last open VW anyway.

But the T-Roc does not remain without a successor. The new generation is scheduled to come in 2025, one last time with a combustion engine, also as a hybrid, but unfortunately no longer as a topless version. The demand for open-top compact cars is close to zero, at least if you think in terms of VW.

VW T-Roc

• Production period: 2017 to 2024
• Body variants: four-door SUV, two-door SUV convertible
• Power: 85 to 221 KW (116 to 300 hp)
• Prices (as of 09/2024): 27,850 to 53,140 euros

source : The discontinued models 2024 | mobile.de