Cars are made to make money. Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they're discontinued quite quickly. Sometimes they're just bad. Sometimes they're a Saab 9-5.
I know we've had kinda-Utes but it's not the same. The Ford Maverick, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Honda Ridgeline, Ford Explorer SportTrac, Chevy Avalanche, Chevy Silverado EV and the Electric Hummer Truck are all SUTs or Sport Utility Trucks. What we need are true Sedans with truck beds in the back
2:52 ok yeah the cough is warranted because it looks atrocious but the SSR doesn’t get appreciated for how batshit insane it is. LS-powered, RWD, 6-speed, hardtop-convertible, 50’s retro-modern styled, PICKUP TRUCK. Three years is an admirable production run for such a coke and amphetamines-fueled shotgun wedding baby of a machine
The Cadillac CT6-V lasted for 2 model years, 2019 to 2020. In actual fact, it probably had the shortest availability run, as deliveries began in Oct 2019, and CT6 was canned in Jan 2020. So you only had a 3-month window to actually buy these cars. The CT6-V has a bespoke Blackwing twin turbo V8, never to be offered in another car again. Production number clock in at around 1500, making it about as rare as the F40.
I’m still waiting on more ELR and Volt ownership stories. I love the idea of the Volt architecture. If the SSR didn’t have a carpeted bed it would be the perfect weekend car for Home Depot runs, car shows and autocross.
@@jewishcrusader3939Correct, the Ram 1500's also come with the same eTorque mild hybrid system. It works ok until the alternator/belt drive motor goes bad which happens around 100k.
The Lincoln Blackwood essentially had a huge trunk that was perfect for what its customers would use it for. It could hold 4 full size golf bags and 4 large suitcases. Its problem was that people don't buy trucks bases on what they need, they buy trucks based on how cool they make you look. And even though people were never going to use the bed to haul anything, it was painfully uncool to look like you were never going to haul anything.
9:43 technically, that was only the GMT400 based 1st generation; 2001 saw the Escalade move to the GMT800 platform where its success as a luxury SUV took off like a rocket.
There’s one car which is even rarer than the 9-4X. 2011 Saab 9-5 Sportcombi was produced for less than 6 months, only 37 cars were made. Nowadays it costs around 100k
Isuzu Axiom 2002-2004 Was even in a movie (Spy Kids 1) Plus they touted the 2004 model as being the first production vehicle with a direct injection engine that sold for under $100,000.
On a similar note, the Isuzu Vehicross, only 1999-2001 in the U.S., sort of predecessor to the crossover but also pretty odd looking. They even got Joe Isuzu back to advertise for it!
That must be some marketing nonsense where they twist statement cause Mitsubishi had gasoline direct injection engines in the 1996 Galant, the 1997 Carisma and the 1999 Pajero Jr, and they were definitely nowhere near 100K. Maybe first in America, although I thought the Galant was sold there, the other two probably weren't they were pretty small, maybe first in a SUV?
But there were cars before it that had direct injection and were cheap. Mitsubishi had their GDI engines and Renault had the iDE. Also, BMW was preparing to roll out the N series of engines which had direct injection.
Well, it was already being made and sold and had been for 3 years here in Australia but by the time it got announced for you guys Pontiac was already on the chopping block, it’s a shame it probably would have been quite popular. Same for the Monaro or the GTO for you guys it was already over halfway through its production cycle by the time you guys even got it.
@@Gengargamer2_ Going to be honest, no it wouldn't, it would be like the SSR a niche enthusiast vehicle that in the year 2008-10 would sell like shit on a hot day
@@nickrustyson8124 Well, look at the ssr. It's ugly, pretty small, and not a very useful bed since it is so skinny, plus its price wasn't very competitive. The VE ute might not have been that successful. It's hard to tell, but there is every chance it would have well enough for it to continue to be sold in the states, and considering the population difference and it still staying in production with the units sold over here, it may have stuck around for a while longer and even into the VF model.
The G8, a rebadged Holden, was rebadged again into the Chevy SS from 2013 to 2017. So while the Pontiac badged Holden was discontinued, the platform itself was revived in America only 4 years after 2009.
9:22 Good to see the Saab 9-4X mentioned however, I was surprised to not see the Saab 9-5 Sportcombi mentioned which was produced along side the 9-5 saloon as an estate version with only around 70 produced
The G8 is the one that hurts the most. Even though it was just a rebadged holden, it was a great vehicle and importing the ute variant would have helped a lot.
GM should've kept Pontiac as their performance brand and discontinued Buick instead. At least in the U.S. They could've continued the brand in China, where it is quite popular.
6:00 Actually, KIA officially announced to stop producing Mohave just a few weeks ago due to changing their manufacturing line from mohave to tasman, which is a new pick up only saling for AUSTRALIA . It means no more mohave and frame body SUV doesn't exist in kia :(
It's still a surprise they managed to keep it in production for so long (too bad they ditched petrol engines around 2019). And with body on frame pick-up there's still hope that they might design suv based on it (to compete with Fortuner, MU-X, Everest and Terra).
@@Kierdziol Well since Mohave was the only option for someone who needs body on frame SUV except ssangyong(nowdays, it's named KGM) which was almost bankrupted few years ago. And It would be hard to expect next generation of frame body SUV cause Hyundai and kia group is now mainly focusing on NEV platforms not traditional ICE cars :(
@@gtr9794 If their truck suceeds (which would be hard to do with such competitive market), designing suv based on it shouldn't be that much resources consuming. SsangYong, while going near bankrupcy several times still managed to make at least one body on frame suv (and pick-up derived from it). However with their new owners they're also heading in direction towards ev.
A cool little bit about the Pontiac G8, when pontiac went down, us aussies got a version of the commodore called the "SS V Special Edition" which was essenitally a pontiac g8 but without the pontiac badges- quite the terrible look.
Except the G8 was based on the International, hence why the International package was produced. When they were building them I was so frustrated that we were building such a low spec car for export. I was told by management at the time that they are doing this is GM HO doesn't (Didn't) want it to compete with the new Cadillac and the SS & SS-V would have. When they visited we didn't even attempt to show them the Calais. The profit margin on the Cadillac was huge compared to virtually breaking even on the G8. From memory it was 23% compared to 5% but it was a long long time ago.
The fact that this channel has come a long way from a simple Mac startup sounds video from a decade ago is pretty amazing in and of itself. The production quality of this video (except for the change in audio quality due to the removal of copyrighted music by RUclips's terrible AI) is outstanding and out of nowhere. I can't wait to see where this channel goes from here.
Very interesting. But you forgot one of the most famous short run cars. The 1958-1960 Edsel. Built by the Ford Motor Company. This division of Ford was only 3 model years.
Missed opportunity to mention that the Cadillac ELR was produced for 4 years but only sold for 2 model years, 2014 and 2016. That's right, 2014 AND 2016, not through. It was only sold for two *nonconsecutive* model years, the latter of which came with a massive 25%+ price cut and far more features.
We had a Merc Vaneo - it was a fantastically useful car with a slide out boot floor - ideal for moving tennis wheelchairs around and was an excellent motorway car too. The auto gearbox started grumbling and we traded it in. Many were converted into WAV - wheelchair accessible vehicles - in the UK and I see them on the road sometimes. Thanks for the reminder.
Another very short lived car you may not have heard of is the Lonsdale YD41/45. Essentially a rebadged Mitsubishi Sigma, it was offered in the UK only from 1982-83, and no examples are known to survive today. Really good video as well, the style just works and your presentation skills are top notch. Nice.
The Vaneo also had the problem that they marketed it under Mercedes-Benz Nutzfahrzeuge (commercial vehicles), meaning that you wouldn't usually stumble upon it in a Mercedes-Benz passenger car showroom. And if you were looking for a Sprinter or Vito the chances of stumbling upon a Vaneo and thinking 'I need that!!' are very slim. Maybe if they did a cargo version it would have made more sense.
China market: Wuling Baojun RM-5. Launched Sept. 2019. Dead by mid-to-late 2020. In fact, SAIC affiliated brands had a lot of car models with extremely short shelf life.
I owned the bonus Escalade for a few years. Honestly, it was a bang up car. Yanked it out of a widowers yard for almost no money at all, drove it for 4 years and put 200k miles on it, and sold it for a profit. Had a barn door opener, split window too. Full leather interior, even had a DVD player, not that I ever used it. 5.3 LS in it. Good little truck.
Isuzu vehiclecross was produced from 1999 - 2001 in the united states with 4,153 units. In japan 1997 - 2001 had 1,805 units. In total 5,958 isuzu vehicross were made.
The Hyundai Entourage Minivan was only in production for 2 years the reason they sacked it was they did not want to do the re-badge thing and also because of slow sales.
I thought it was a problem with my wifi but now it's just weird. I mean this whole channel last uploaded 9 years ago and now uploaded a new video. Also there is just so many lags in the video overall...
There are (at least) 5 Vaneo in my area here in Germany. 2 are campers and 3 are fitted with a wheelchair ramp. And it's probably a neat choice for those purposes.
Great video! Love your presenting style. Others I would nominate if you ever do a Volume 2: -1978-'80 Oldsmobile Cutlass and Buick Century fastback sedans (the four-doors only lasted through '79) -1988-'89 Renault/Eagle Medallion (an Americanized Renault 21 that Chrysler killed off as soon as it fulfilled its contractual obligations) -1999-'01 Mitsubishi Proudia and Dignity (large front-drive luxury sedans that housed Mitsu's only production V8, the 8A8)
The Talbot Tagora was on sale for about 18 months between 1981-1983 Found at the bottom of the chest when PSA Group bought Talbot off failing Chrysler in 1980 only to find out it was competing with PSA's very own Pug 505 after it went on sale... Then how about the Yugo Sana ? Possibly the shortest run of RHD imported cars ever into the UK.. and the only car ever officially sanctioned to death by the United Nations... Staying with RHD oddity, Delorean built a tiny handful of production to launch RHD versions of the DMC 12 just before the Thatcher government pulled the funding of the Northern Ireland plant In Australia Leyland where just about to launch the Force 7 sports coupe only for parent British Leyland to pull their plughole of dome on them... resulting in the 60 .... yes 60 production cars being scrapped !! Thankfully a hand full where saved by collectors.. Great channel
nice vid. the tribeca was more like a 'pre-facelift' than a separate generation but hey, suburu made it a whole separate generation... most likely due to wanting to separate itself from the backlash, even intentionally removing the 'B9' designation.
Don't forget Fiero which only lasted 4. They pulled the plug on it in 87 for the 88 model which is when Pontiac figured out the issue with em catching fire and fixed it for the 88 lineup.
Honorable mention: Mazdaspeed6/Mazda 6 MPS 2005-2007 out of the US and only 2006 & 2007 in the US Roughly 15,000 made total worldwide and about 8000-9000 of those sold in the US
Great video! I liked that you even included rebadges, I think it gives a nice perspective on how some cars do really well in some markets but terribly in others, but personally I wouldn’t consider them to be failures, only if they fail everywhere haha but I think they deserve to be included as honorable mentions hahah The astra for example is very popular in Europe and Brazil and particularly in Brazil it was sold for decades. There’s still a ton of them around 😂
You forgot one very special car! The east-german Trabant 1.1 had a production run from may 1990 to April 1991 because it was too expensive, the factories were being closed, and because the berlin wall had fallen. It only produced 39,474 units in that time, and (almost) nobody bought them!
To go into the more uncommon brands, there was also the infamous Facel Vega 6 Facel Vega was a luxury brand in France founded in 1954 The Facel Vega 6 was sold only during one month, starting in September 1964 until Facel Vega went bankrupt in October 1964, at only 44 units
One of my favorite cars ever made was the Pontiac Can Am. Not many people know much about the car, nor even know of its existence. The Pontiac Can Am was on sale in January 1977 (1977 model year) for less than a month before it was taken off the production line. According to Pontiac, they sold anywhere between 1,000 to 1,400 before cancelling it due to production and quality control issues. It had similar appearance and performance to the 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, and 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix.
Legend has it one of the main reasons it was killed off is because the part of the tooling for molding the three-piece rear spoiler got damaged and GM refused to spend the money to replace it.
as a guy living in germany, i can say that we do see quite a few vaneos left here. Sometimes when i go to poland, i see even more of them. My family also owned such a car for almost 10 years, and it was a very practical 7 seater van. After 2016 however the car got more and more issues, which us (as mechatronics) were more and more struggling to repair aswell as funding the parts required. The engines were the exact same ones as in the first generation A-Class, making them pretty painful to repair. Our vaneo was a 1.7l CDi and then totally gave up in 2018 with cracked pistons and no compression. Edit: The main problems of these vehicles are rust, suspension, and injectors. Because most of them have been roughly used and not treated well
The Cadillac ELR wasn't ahead of its time. It was a very poorly rebadged Chevy Volt, a hybrid economy car wearing a Cadillac skin, proving they never learned their lesson from the Cimarron.
Amazed that you missed the Impala. Only car to get all new sheet metal: 1958 - 1959 - 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965. Only high production car to have ever done that,
I own a 2009 Saturn Aura, one of Saturn's last models. It's essentially a restyled Chevy Malibu, and it certainly is one of the cars of all time. I didn't know it was possible to make suspension that is BOTH vague AND harsh on a vehicle that isn't a dump truck, but here we are.
I'm a car buyer for a salvage yard. In my year of doing the job so far I've bought 2 Buick Reattas and 1 Lincoln Blackwood. I was super excited about them and told all my coworkers how special they were, but in the end we sold no more parts off them than the standard cars and trucks that come through, and they're all crushed now. Was unaware of the Astra's rarity, going to add those to my list of neat cars.
That's a shame, the Buick Reatta is my all time favorite car, ever made. They just don't have the demand they should, it seems that they're being sold for scrap at a higher rate than to be driven. Though of course they're extremely few and far between where I live (Rhode Island), never even seen one in person. From what I've gathered online their highest concentrations are around the midwest, Florida, and California or something along the lines of that. What state is your yard in?
@ebbamb Kansas. The 2 I bought here and 1 in my hometown growing up are the only 3 I've ever seen as well. 1 was white with red interior, rusted and the interior was trashed, had been sitting in a back lot of a former dealer for 20 years. Other was red with the later non-touchscreen tan interior and decent shape still, but was sold to us after the transmission went out around 230k miles
Here is an idea, the longest running production car. Rules. 1. Can’t include facelifts or other generations, just has to be the same unchanged car sold though out. 2. Only changes that are allowed are changes to fit with changes in vehicle regulations by law.
@@BasicType Close, 1959-2000, though the Beatle comes second from I around 1938-2002, the longest running production car is the Morgan +4 (1950-2020 and still almost unchanged with the new "plus four" model.)
The style of presentation is really cool and fun to follow. Keep up the good work! Initially i thought Vaneo was trying to beat Renault Kangoo sales since they kinda looked the same
I worked on a Chevy SSR at my job a month or so ago. Replacing all original tires(from the factory), 28K miles on the clock(45KM for the international crowd), and man. It was a rare opportunity to drive such a ungodly vehicle that is so rare. I actually liked it. Guy who got it drove it all the way from Iowa to Kansas, on wires... I died inside a little because he did that, risking a blowout and damaging a rare vehicle.
I used to work for the Chrysler Newark, De plant when they built the Durango/Aspen. Saturn also had a production plant in New Castle (Boxwood) Del. that also closed down in the recession. There was a lot of unemployed former autoworkers in Delaware in the late 2000’s
great video very well thought out. I just found your channel and find myself looking for more from your work. Great job sir.
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The Subaru Tribeca lived on until 2014. They just dropped the "B9" from the name when it had a facelift in 2007, so actually it was in production for 10 years.
I have seen two distinct Cadillac ELRs in my life!! In Canada, which saw 84 sales in total!!! (I took a picture of both, different plates). That's probably the rarest car I've seen in my life (even counting car shows), and I saw 2!!!
The original Toyota Solara, (re-born 2 door camry) ran just 1999. The lights and bumper were slightly redesigned for 2000. The whole body was redesigned for 2001-2008.
What's funny about Lincoln is that they tried TWICE to sell Lincoln-ified F150s and failed. Ford realized that people eyeing luxury trucks don't want a luxury badge and would rather pretend to be working class. Now we have F150s that are more expensive and sell better than most Lincolns
3:24 the g8 is one of the best and most underrated cars of the last 20 years. Fight me on it , I feel in love with my g8 after 5 minutes behind the wheel . It's a shame
Love how this channel’s first upload was 9 years ago, its second upload was a few days ago
Fr that’s crazy💀
He forgor his password 💀
It’s crazy cause they just been chilling and then randomly decided they want to be a RUclipsr you like lol
big boss energy
😂😂
You caused me a damn near heart attack with that quality switch, I thought my really expensive wireless phones died.
Same
The fact that Pontiac was going to bring over the Holden Commodore Ute as well but never did as they were killed off pisses me off...
For real. We were *this* close to finally getting back our beloved El Camino, only for GM to kill Pontiac.
How long was the Subaru Brat around for ?
@@davidspearie6921 Not OP, but the Brat ended production in the States in 1987.
I know we've had kinda-Utes but it's not the same. The Ford Maverick, Hyundai Santa Cruz, Honda Ridgeline, Ford Explorer SportTrac, Chevy Avalanche, Chevy Silverado EV and the Electric Hummer Truck are all SUTs or Sport Utility Trucks. What we need are true Sedans with truck beds in the back
That made me sad.
Ah GM, you never seem to disappoint.
Except every time they make a car
2021 Malibu RS owner here, love it but hate the transmission.
SAAB MENTIONED 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Always gets brought up with the topic of “things that die too soon”
Saab now exists as an EV.
@@channe3049 in name only, nothing about those are really SAABs
Unfortunately! 😢
WTF IS A KILOMETER 🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸
2:52 ok yeah the cough is warranted because it looks atrocious but the SSR doesn’t get appreciated for how batshit insane it is. LS-powered, RWD, 6-speed, hardtop-convertible, 50’s retro-modern styled, PICKUP TRUCK. Three years is an admirable production run for such a coke and amphetamines-fueled shotgun wedding baby of a machine
That Mercedes a class van thing got Doug demuro written all over it 😂
The Cadillac CT6-V lasted for 2 model years, 2019 to 2020. In actual fact, it probably had the shortest availability run, as deliveries began in Oct 2019, and CT6 was canned in Jan 2020. So you only had a 3-month window to actually buy these cars. The CT6-V has a bespoke Blackwing twin turbo V8, never to be offered in another car again. Production number clock in at around 1500, making it about as rare as the F40.
An immense and mostly forgotten tragedy that the HEMI hybrid was killed off so early and the concept never revisited
RIKA GET OUT OF MY HEAD
The Wagoneer WS with a 5.7 L Hemi V8 is listed as a mild hybrid
The gm 5.3l hybrid was terrible. No big loss on Chryslers hand
I’m still waiting on more ELR and Volt ownership stories. I love the idea of the Volt architecture.
If the SSR didn’t have a carpeted bed it would be the perfect weekend car for Home Depot runs, car shows and autocross.
@@jewishcrusader3939Correct, the Ram 1500's also come with the same eTorque mild hybrid system. It works ok until the alternator/belt drive motor goes bad which happens around 100k.
I'm going to be that guy, the Buick Reatta was not the first car with a touchscreen. The 1986 Buick Riviera was
It was actually the 84 riviera that had a limited number of touch screens
Someone had to do it 😂😂😂
Awesome video. As a Saab enthusiast the end hurt but was expected.
Saab was revived by China and currently continues as an EV.
@@channe3049 Except they are already dead again. NEVS already went bankrupt again
i've been sad since the Renault 5 monte carlo special edition disappeared from the screen 😢
We want it back!
@@anusername8350same
the Toyota Will Vi was only made and sold in Japan from 2000-2001. 3 years production span is quite common actually.
3:27 THATS THE CLOSEST THING TO A UTE BESIDE THE EL CAMINO, as an American I want a Ute
Because it is a Ute ist a VE commodore Ute
You should have bought the SSR with the 6 liter v8.😂
@@ml9867 Or get a old Ranchero which existed before the El Camino
The Lincoln Blackwood essentially had a huge trunk that was perfect for what its customers would use it for. It could hold 4 full size golf bags and 4 large suitcases. Its problem was that people don't buy trucks bases on what they need, they buy trucks based on how cool they make you look. And even though people were never going to use the bed to haul anything, it was painfully uncool to look like you were never going to haul anything.
No it's because why would you not just buy a navigator instead
It is rare for these low view count recommended channels to not be AI slop. Keep up the good work
9:43 technically, that was only the GMT400 based 1st generation; 2001 saw the Escalade move to the GMT800 platform where its success as a luxury SUV took off like a rocket.
Yeah I was wondering why it's on there ..?
@@EMdemocuz of the tisms making it feel like the right thing to do duh
The 2012 Lancia Flavia (Rebadged Chrysler 200 Cabrio), it lasted between June 2012 and October 2013.
Did you just wake up one day and decided to drop bangers? Once again such a good watch
with a few mistakes sure. be carful about what you hear.
There’s one car which is even rarer than the 9-4X. 2011 Saab 9-5 Sportcombi was produced for less than 6 months, only 37 cars were made. Nowadays it costs around 100k
Isuzu Axiom
2002-2004
Was even in a movie (Spy Kids 1)
Plus they touted the 2004 model as being the first production vehicle with a direct injection engine that sold for under $100,000.
On a similar note, the Isuzu Vehicross, only 1999-2001 in the U.S., sort of predecessor to the crossover but also pretty odd looking. They even got Joe Isuzu back to advertise for it!
That must be some marketing nonsense where they twist statement cause Mitsubishi had gasoline direct injection engines in the 1996 Galant, the 1997 Carisma and the 1999 Pajero Jr, and they were definitely nowhere near 100K. Maybe first in America, although I thought the Galant was sold there, the other two probably weren't they were pretty small, maybe first in a SUV?
But there were cars before it that had direct injection and were cheap. Mitsubishi had their GDI engines and Renault had the iDE. Also, BMW was preparing to roll out the N series of engines which had direct injection.
@@t3h51d3w1nd3r Its possible that the marketing was specifically for NA market. I can't find much info on Mitsubishi GDI in the US.
2:08 Tf is this song? 💀💀
Doesn’t matter. Just dull, soulless dance music.
Fart music
I can't believe I've seen the SAAB 9-4X in person.
A Pontiac G8 Pickup was in the works for the US market. The great return of the American ute, cruelly taken from us.
Well, it was already being made and sold and had been for 3 years here in Australia but by the time it got announced for you guys Pontiac was already on the chopping block, it’s a shame it probably would have been quite popular. Same for the Monaro or the GTO for you guys it was already over halfway through its production cycle by the time you guys even got it.
I'm devastated to learn that we were that close to getting the ute version of the Holden Commodore in the US.
@@Gengargamer2_ Going to be honest, no it wouldn't, it would be like the SSR a niche enthusiast vehicle that in the year 2008-10 would sell like shit on a hot day
@@nickrustyson8124 Well, look at the ssr. It's ugly, pretty small, and not a very useful bed since it is so skinny, plus its price wasn't very competitive. The VE ute might not have been that successful. It's hard to tell, but there is every chance it would have well enough for it to continue to be sold in the states, and considering the population difference and it still staying in production with the units sold over here, it may have stuck around for a while longer and even into the VF model.
The G8, a rebadged Holden, was rebadged again into the Chevy SS from 2013 to 2017. So while the Pontiac badged Holden was discontinued, the platform itself was revived in America only 4 years after 2009.
9:22 Good to see the Saab 9-4X mentioned however, I was surprised to not see the Saab 9-5 Sportcombi mentioned which was produced along side the 9-5 saloon as an estate version with only around 70 produced
The G8 is the one that hurts the most. Even though it was just a rebadged holden, it was a great vehicle and importing the ute variant would have helped a lot.
GM should've kept Pontiac as their performance brand and discontinued Buick instead. At least in the U.S. They could've continued the brand in China, where it is quite popular.
The entire video I was waiting for Saab. And was not disappointed
6:00 Actually, KIA officially announced to stop producing Mohave just a few weeks ago due to changing their manufacturing line from mohave to tasman, which is a new pick up only saling for AUSTRALIA .
It means no more mohave and frame body SUV doesn't exist in kia :(
It's still a surprise they managed to keep it in production for so long (too bad they ditched petrol engines around 2019).
And with body on frame pick-up there's still hope that they might design suv based on it (to compete with Fortuner, MU-X, Everest and Terra).
@@Kierdziol Well since Mohave was the only option for someone who needs body on frame SUV except ssangyong(nowdays, it's named KGM) which was almost bankrupted few years ago.
And It would be hard to expect next generation of frame body SUV cause Hyundai and kia group is now mainly focusing on NEV platforms not traditional ICE cars :(
@@gtr9794 If their truck suceeds (which would be hard to do with such competitive market), designing suv based on it shouldn't be that much resources consuming.
SsangYong, while going near bankrupcy several times still managed to make at least one body on frame suv (and pick-up derived from it).
However with their new owners they're also heading in direction towards ev.
A cool little bit about the Pontiac G8, when pontiac went down, us aussies got a version of the commodore called the "SS V Special Edition" which was essenitally a pontiac g8 but without the pontiac badges- quite the terrible look.
Except the G8 was based on the International, hence why the International package was produced. When they were building them I was so frustrated that we were building such a low spec car for export. I was told by management at the time that they are doing this is GM HO doesn't (Didn't) want it to compete with the new Cadillac and the SS & SS-V would have. When they visited we didn't even attempt to show them the Calais. The profit margin on the Cadillac was huge compared to virtually breaking even on the G8. From memory it was 23% compared to 5% but it was a long long time ago.
Don’t forget about the Saturn Sky. Only lasted one model year.
The fact that this channel has come a long way from a simple Mac startup sounds video from a decade ago is pretty amazing in and of itself. The production quality of this video (except for the change in audio quality due to the removal of copyrighted music by RUclips's terrible AI) is outstanding and out of nowhere. I can't wait to see where this channel goes from here.
Very interesting. But you forgot one of the most famous short run cars. The 1958-1960 Edsel. Built by the Ford Motor Company. This division of Ford was only 3 model years.
Missed opportunity to mention that the Cadillac ELR was produced for 4 years but only sold for 2 model years, 2014 and 2016. That's right, 2014 AND 2016, not through. It was only sold for two *nonconsecutive* model years, the latter of which came with a massive 25%+ price cut and far more features.
The Chrysler TC wasn't actually "shipped" over to italy. Chrysler chartered and modified a Boeing 747 freighter for that purpose.
The Subaru Tribeca lasted until ~2014. It only got a redesign (including a new engine) and ditched the B9 name in 2008.
Came here to say this
We had a Merc Vaneo - it was a fantastically useful car with a slide out boot floor - ideal for moving tennis wheelchairs around and was an excellent motorway car too. The auto gearbox started grumbling and we traded it in. Many were converted into WAV - wheelchair accessible vehicles - in the UK and I see them on the road sometimes. Thanks for the reminder.
HOLD UP THIS CHANNEL IS STILL NEW?????!!!!!
Umm..2015
It do be like that sometimes
@@maclenixthey only uploaded one video 9 years ago and came back making completely unrelated videos. So it is new. In terms of its current content
@@JayTheComputerGuy thanks for the insight
@@maclenix 2015 is 9 years ago???????
Also maybe included in this list is the Honda Logo, which was only available in the uk between 2000-2001 and was replaced by the fit/jazz.
Another very short lived car you may not have heard of is the Lonsdale YD41/45. Essentially a rebadged Mitsubishi Sigma, it was offered in the UK only from 1982-83, and no examples are known to survive today.
Really good video as well, the style just works and your presentation skills are top notch. Nice.
I love how brutally honest amd completely dead panned the narrator is on what the original Lexus ES was....."Camry with some leather in it."
My dad actually has a Cadillac elr and it's super cool, ofc he bought it after it depreciated heavily which makes it a lot more bang for your buck.
The Vaneo also had the problem that they marketed it under Mercedes-Benz Nutzfahrzeuge (commercial vehicles), meaning that you wouldn't usually stumble upon it in a Mercedes-Benz passenger car showroom. And if you were looking for a Sprinter or Vito the chances of stumbling upon a Vaneo and thinking 'I need that!!' are very slim.
Maybe if they did a cargo version it would have made more sense.
China market: Wuling Baojun RM-5. Launched Sept. 2019. Dead by mid-to-late 2020. In fact, SAIC affiliated brands had a lot of car models with extremely short shelf life.
The Baojun brand is coming to an end tbh
This car was rebadged in India as the Premier Rio, which also had a tiny lifespan.
I owned the bonus Escalade for a few years. Honestly, it was a bang up car. Yanked it out of a widowers yard for almost no money at all, drove it for 4 years and put 200k miles on it, and sold it for a profit.
Had a barn door opener, split window too. Full leather interior, even had a DVD player, not that I ever used it. 5.3 LS in it. Good little truck.
I have a Pontiac G8 GT. It's funny to me that the Commodore SS is so common in Australia but it's incredibly rare over here in Canada.
Isuzu vehiclecross was produced from 1999 - 2001 in the united states with 4,153 units. In japan 1997 - 2001 had 1,805 units.
In total 5,958 isuzu vehicross were made.
To be fair, the Pontiac GTO actually was produced from 2001-06 but that's as the Monaro
WTF happened to the audio@ 5:24?
The car was so shitty it contaminated the video itself
@@VorteX-ox2fm This happenid when there's a copyrighted song.
The Hyundai Entourage Minivan was only in production for 2 years the reason they sacked it was they did not want to do the re-badge thing and also because of slow sales.
Damn that 5.7L Hemi v8 could be the ultimate replacement ev charger
Great video! Just letting you know there's an audio quality issue after the Ford segment, it sounds a bit muffled from then on. xx
I thought it was a problem with my wifi but now it's just weird. I mean this whole channel last uploaded 9 years ago and now uploaded a new video. Also there is just so many lags in the video overall...
There was probably some copyrighted music, this is what YOuTube's music removal sounds like.
Sounds really funny tbh. I wish the entire video was like this, sounds like a 90s infomercial
the Smart Roadster is actually surprisingly "common sight" in Japan
The last video you made was so good, I know this one’s gonna be a banger
There are (at least) 5 Vaneo in my area here in Germany. 2 are campers and 3 are fitted with a wheelchair ramp. And it's probably a neat choice for those purposes.
The Lexus HS was made from 2010-2012
We owned a 2010
I loved both car videos. The attitude and info was the secret to how good they were. Subscribed
The piece on the Renault Wind (at 2:10) is one of the funniest ever on RUclips! A golden raspberry to you! Great new channel.
I also want to know the sploinky diarrhea song on that too 😂
Great video! Love your presenting style.
Others I would nominate if you ever do a Volume 2:
-1978-'80 Oldsmobile Cutlass and Buick Century fastback sedans (the four-doors only lasted through '79)
-1988-'89 Renault/Eagle Medallion (an Americanized Renault 21 that Chrysler killed off as soon as it fulfilled its contractual obligations)
-1999-'01 Mitsubishi Proudia and Dignity (large front-drive luxury sedans that housed Mitsu's only production V8, the 8A8)
The G8 style commodore known as the 'VE' here in Australia actually sold quite well and was made here from 2006-2012
This is one of my favorite RUclips videos. I love learning about things like this
IIRC the Fisker Ocean didnt even made a year before Fisker was bankrupt yet again
Props to your deadpan delivery! Great content.
The Talbot Tagora was on sale for about 18 months between 1981-1983 Found at the bottom of the chest when PSA Group bought Talbot off failing Chrysler in 1980 only to find out it was competing with PSA's very own Pug 505 after it went on sale... Then how about the Yugo Sana ? Possibly the shortest run of RHD imported cars ever into the UK.. and the only car ever officially sanctioned to death by the United Nations... Staying with RHD oddity, Delorean built a tiny handful of production to launch RHD versions of the DMC 12 just before the Thatcher government pulled the funding of the Northern Ireland plant In Australia Leyland where just about to launch the Force 7 sports coupe only for parent British Leyland to pull their plughole of dome on them... resulting in the 60 .... yes 60 production cars being scrapped !! Thankfully a hand full where saved by collectors.. Great channel
nice vid. the tribeca was more like a 'pre-facelift' than a separate generation but hey, suburu made it a whole separate generation... most likely due to wanting to separate itself from the backlash, even intentionally removing the 'B9' designation.
Don't forget Fiero which only lasted 4. They pulled the plug on it in 87 for the 88 model which is when Pontiac figured out the issue with em catching fire and fixed it for the 88 lineup.
I remember Ron White owning a Lincoln blackwood and basically he's the only person I could ever imagine actually buying a Lincoln blackwood new
Honorable mention:
Mazdaspeed6/Mazda 6 MPS
2005-2007 out of the US and only 2006 & 2007 in the US
Roughly 15,000 made total worldwide and about 8000-9000 of those sold in the US
Great video! I liked that you even included rebadges, I think it gives a nice perspective on how some cars do really well in some markets but terribly in others, but personally I wouldn’t consider them to be failures, only if they fail everywhere haha but I think they deserve to be included as honorable mentions hahah
The astra for example is very popular in Europe and Brazil and particularly in Brazil it was sold for decades. There’s still a ton of them around 😂
Script writing here is top notch. Well done!
You forgot one very special car! The east-german Trabant 1.1 had a production run from may 1990 to April 1991 because it was too expensive, the factories were being closed, and because the berlin wall had fallen. It only produced 39,474 units in that time, and (almost) nobody bought them!
To go into the more uncommon brands, there was also the infamous Facel Vega 6
Facel Vega was a luxury brand in France founded in 1954
The Facel Vega 6 was sold only during one month, starting in September 1964 until Facel Vega went bankrupt in October 1964, at only 44 units
One of my favorite cars ever made was the Pontiac Can Am. Not many people know much about the car, nor even know of its existence. The Pontiac Can Am was on sale in January 1977 (1977 model year) for less than a month before it was taken off the production line. According to Pontiac, they sold anywhere between 1,000 to 1,400 before cancelling it due to production and quality control issues. It had similar appearance and performance to the 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, and 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix.
Yeah but that is basically a special edition version of the LeMans
Legend has it one of the main reasons it was killed off is because the part of the tooling for molding the three-piece rear spoiler got damaged and GM refused to spend the money to replace it.
as a guy living in germany, i can say that we do see quite a few vaneos left here. Sometimes when i go to poland, i see even more of them. My family also owned such a car for almost 10 years, and it was a very practical 7 seater van. After 2016 however the car got more and more issues, which us (as mechatronics) were more and more struggling to repair aswell as funding the parts required. The engines were the exact same ones as in the first generation A-Class, making them pretty painful to repair. Our vaneo was a 1.7l CDi and then totally gave up in 2018 with cracked pistons and no compression. Edit: The main problems of these vehicles are rust, suspension, and injectors. Because most of them have been roughly used and not treated well
The Cadillac ELR wasn't ahead of its time. It was a very poorly rebadged Chevy Volt, a hybrid economy car wearing a Cadillac skin, proving they never learned their lesson from the Cimarron.
Amazed that you missed the Impala. Only car to get all new sheet metal: 1958 - 1959 - 1960 - 1961 - 1962 - 1963 - 1964 - 1965. Only high production car to have ever done that,
I own a 2009 Saturn Aura, one of Saturn's last models. It's essentially a restyled Chevy Malibu, and it certainly is one of the cars of all time. I didn't know it was possible to make suspension that is BOTH vague AND harsh on a vehicle that isn't a dump truck, but here we are.
I'm a car buyer for a salvage yard. In my year of doing the job so far I've bought 2 Buick Reattas and 1 Lincoln Blackwood. I was super excited about them and told all my coworkers how special they were, but in the end we sold no more parts off them than the standard cars and trucks that come through, and they're all crushed now. Was unaware of the Astra's rarity, going to add those to my list of neat cars.
That's a shame, the Buick Reatta is my all time favorite car, ever made. They just don't have the demand they should, it seems that they're being sold for scrap at a higher rate than to be driven. Though of course they're extremely few and far between where I live (Rhode Island), never even seen one in person. From what I've gathered online their highest concentrations are around the midwest, Florida, and California or something along the lines of that. What state is your yard in?
@ebbamb Kansas. The 2 I bought here and 1 in my hometown growing up are the only 3 I've ever seen as well. 1 was white with red interior, rusted and the interior was trashed, had been sitting in a back lot of a former dealer for 20 years. Other was red with the later non-touchscreen tan interior and decent shape still, but was sold to us after the transmission went out around 230k miles
I own a Renault Wind, extremely good car, I recommand
Well, with you and me, at least 1/7500 of the owners saw that video. 🥳
I worked with a young new mom that had a saab 94x and they LOVED it
2:20 No way someone remembers renault twingo roadster 💀
Here is an idea, the longest running production car.
Rules.
1. Can’t include facelifts or other generations, just has to be the same unchanged car sold though out.
2. Only changes that are allowed are changes to fit with changes in vehicle regulations by law.
I think 2nd generation Delica would be 1st or 2nd.
VW Beetle would be the top on this list
Or the mini cooper. The only changes it really had were changes to fit newer laws. It was from 1962-2000 I think. Correct me if I’m wrong
@@BasicType Close, 1959-2000, though the Beatle comes second from I around 1938-2002, the longest running production car is the Morgan +4 (1950-2020 and still almost unchanged with the new "plus four" model.)
Lada Niva?
Needs more Mercedes-Benz X-Class (2017-2020), otherwise a solid list
I loved your video on the lost cars. I think you’ve got great potential for this channel !
Your channel is off to a great start, I love it so far
The style of presentation is really cool and fun to follow. Keep up the good work!
Initially i thought Vaneo was trying to beat Renault Kangoo sales since they kinda looked the same
I worked on a Chevy SSR at my job a month or so ago. Replacing all original tires(from the factory), 28K miles on the clock(45KM for the international crowd), and man. It was a rare opportunity to drive such a ungodly vehicle that is so rare. I actually liked it. Guy who got it drove it all the way from Iowa to Kansas, on wires... I died inside a little because he did that, risking a blowout and damaging a rare vehicle.
I used to work for the Chrysler Newark, De plant when they built the Durango/Aspen.
Saturn also had a production plant in New Castle (Boxwood) Del. that also closed down in the recession.
There was a lot of unemployed former autoworkers in Delaware in the late 2000’s
I saw a Taurus X the other day and I didn't even remember that they had existed.
It's funny, between my family and direct relatives we had two Taurus Xs. Both were maroon, one with tan two tone.
great video very well thought out. I just found your channel and find myself looking for more from your work. Great job sir.
The Subaru Tribeca lived on until 2014. They just dropped the "B9" from the name when it had a facelift in 2007, so actually it was in production for 10 years.
I have seen two distinct Cadillac ELRs in my life!! In Canada, which saw 84 sales in total!!! (I took a picture of both, different plates). That's probably the rarest car I've seen in my life (even counting car shows), and I saw 2!!!
My car. 2019 Elantra GT Nline 2019-20 United States and Canada version of the i30 Nline. Two years only.
The original Toyota Solara, (re-born 2 door camry) ran just 1999. The lights and bumper were slightly redesigned for 2000. The whole body was redesigned for 2001-2008.
What's funny about Lincoln is that they tried TWICE to sell Lincoln-ified F150s and failed. Ford realized that people eyeing luxury trucks don't want a luxury badge and would rather pretend to be working class. Now we have F150s that are more expensive and sell better than most Lincolns
Now granted, the Mark LT did actually sell well, especially in Mexico
It was 66 years ago, but the entire Edsel line last ed only 3 years and some models didn’t last that long.
honestly that Saab 9-4x looks pretty damn good aside from the tail lights :o
I want an SSR.
3:24 the g8 is one of the best and most underrated cars of the last 20 years. Fight me on it , I feel in love with my g8 after 5 minutes behind the wheel . It's a shame
This channel only has 3 videos but still rocks