2023 is coming to an end, and the rim is ushering in the annual farewell moment. In 2023, there are many models that may have been with us or are with us that will be discontinued, some because of poor sales, some unable to adapt to the electrification revolution, and some will be replaced by successors. Today, let's say goodbye to the 10 models that will be discontinued in 2023.
1. Ford Fiesta
The Ford Fiesta, a small car, has almost disappeared in China, Changan Ford's domestically produced Fiesta has been discontinued as early as 2015, and the global model Ford Fiesta was officially announced in July this year at the Fu ** plant in Cologne, Germany. The Ford Fiesta was released in 1976 and has been produced for seven generations. By the time of the seventh-generation model, the Ford Fiesta was actually barely surviving, and the main sales area had shrunk from the world to Europe and Australia, with Ford's strategic adjustment and electrification impact, the Ford Fiesta finally ushered in a farewell in the summer of 2023, and its market share will be replaced by Ford's pure electric PUMA.
2. Changan Ford Focus
A generation of classic Ford Focus is heading for the countdown to end production, and 2025 will be the final goodbye moment. In the Chinese market, Changan Ford Focus has quietly stopped production in February this year. The fate of the Focus was actually doomed as early as the moment when the *** model was replaced with a three-cylinder engine in 2018, and the global sales glory created by the second and third generation models was ruined by the three-cylinder engine, although Changan Ford has since tried to change back to 1The 5-ton four-cylinder engine has brought back the market, but it is already too late. Ford has not announced anything about the successor to the Focus, and the familiar name will be slowly forgotten with the discontinuation of the Focus.
3. Kia Stinger
There was not even a moment of mourning for the suspension of production of the Focus, and it was the one who immediately rushed to the battlefield - Kia Stinger. As mentioned at the beginning of the article, some models were discontinued because they could not adapt to the times, and some were due to poor sales, and Kia Stinger clearly belonged to the latter, and it belonged to the kind of extremely poor sales. The Kia Stinger is a performance coupe model released by Kia in 2017 in an attempt to expand the territory of the Korean brand in the sports performance car market. By the end of 2022, the total global sales of Kia Stinger were only 210,000 units, and it was never recognized by the market from the release to the end of production, and the last Stinger rolled off the assembly line in April this year.
4. Mazda CX-9
Mazda's flagship SUV, the CX-9, was announced to be discontinued in the middle of this year. The CX-9 is a mid-to-large SUV launched by Mazda in 2006 for the North American market. After two generations of development, Mazda decided to axe the CX-9 and replace it with the more powerful CX-90. The CX-90 is larger and more advanced than the CX-9 and is also available as a plug-in hybrid. Of course, like the CX-9, the Mazda CX-90 is mainly launched for the North American market, and the CX-90 has also been introduced for the Australian and Southeast Asian markets.
5. Mercedes-Benz CLS
The most beautiful four-door coupe Mercedes-Benz CLS has been discontinued at the end of August this year. Mercedes-Benz CLS is a four-door coupe launched by Mercedes-Benz in 2004, its appearance broke people's stereotype of coupe, and since then Audi and BMW have launched four-door coupes, but the degree has always been less than Mercedes-Benz CLS. The discontinuation of Mercedes-Benz CLS can be attributed to the adjustment of Mercedes-Benz's product strategy, but in essence, it is the sales impact of electrification acceleration on performance fuel vehicles, and perhaps one day in the future, Mercedes-Benz CLS will return to the public eye as a pure electric vehicle. Along with the CLS, the E-Class variants were also the E-Class Coupe and the E-Class Convertible.
6. Audi TT
2023 is a particularly difficult year for niche fuel vehicles, the impact of electrification is more violent than traditional car companies expected, and many fuel vehicles that once used acceleration performance as a selling point have no place, and Audi TT is one of them. After a 25-year cycle of three iterations, the Audi TT will be discontinued in November 2023 with a total production of 662762 vehicles. Like many models that have said goodbye this year, the Audi TT has no successor, and Audi may launch a pure electric model with a similar positioning in the future, but it should not continue to use the Audi TT name.
7. Dodge Challenger
Are you still dreaming of your first American V8 high-horsepower muscle car?I'm sorry, but Dodge is going to ruthlessly destroy this dream of yours. The Dodge Challenger will be discontinued at the end of this month, along with the Dodge War Horse pure fuel version and Hellcat, and from 2024, Dodge's new pure electric model Charger Daytona SRT EV will make its debut, officially replacing the Challenger, War Horse and Hellcat. It is worth mentioning that when Dodge eliminated large-displacement fuel vehicles, it also completely eliminated the traditional dealer model and changed it to the popular online car ordering mode in the new energy era.
8. Porsche Paramela Sport Turismo
The new generation of Porsche Paramela was released in Shanghai in November, but after the live broadcast of the press conference, we did not see the release of the hunting version, that is, the Sport Turismo model, and then we got the news that the new generation Paramela will no longer launch the hunting version of the model. The main reason for the discontinuation of the Paramela Sport Turismo was poor sales, but there were also more practical reasons – the more powerful electric Taycan Cross Turismo was there, so what reason was there to have to be pure fuel?In the era of pure electric vehicles, performance is the least valuable, and the question is 2The tram that breaks 100 in 84 seconds only costs more than 200,000.
9. Audi R8
The death knell of new energy is not only ringing for the Audi TT, but also for the Audi R8. Audi's legendary supercar model, the Audi R8, will be officially discontinued at the end of this month, and the successor will be an all-electric supercar, but it will not adopt the R8 name, and Audi has made up its mind to embrace pure electric with open arms, as if any product named after the gasoline car era would make people wonder if its electrification determination is not strong. The Audi R8 was launched in 2006 and has gone through two generations of models up to the end of production, with the last model being the R8 GT RWD.
10. McLaren 720s
Like many high-performance gasoline supercars, the McLaren 720S will be discontinued in 2023. The McLaren 720S is a supercar launched by McLaren in 2017 to replace the McLaren 650S, and its M840T twin-turbo V8 engine can reach a maximum power of 720 hp, and the 0-100 kmh acceleration time takes 29 seconds. In addition to being more powerful, the McLaren 720S' modified carbon fibre shell is lighter and stronger than its predecessor, the 650S, with a curb weight of just 1About 4 tons. The successor to the McLaren 720s has been identified – the McLaren 750s. As the model numbers indicate, the latter will increase its maximum power to 750 horsepower, along with a lighter mass. The life cycle of the McLaren 750s will not be too long, the 750s will be McLaren's last pure fuel model, the limit of the internal combustion engine has been fixed, but the limit of hybrid and pure electric has yet to be explored, the era of pure fuel has ended, and it is as strong as McLaren can not swim against the current.