The UK has a site called howmanyleft.co.uk - the US must have something similar?
The UK has a site called howmanyleft.co.uk - the US must have something similar?
The A4 platform New Beetle is an endangered species. While the occasional enthusiast will keep one alive the daily drivers are succumbing to to expensive failures and being scrapped. At this point OG air cooled cars are almost as common. The A4 Golf and Jetta are also getting scarce.
I have a feeling economy cars will be around - as they disappear from new car listings, used ones become ever more desirable to those of us on a budget, wise enough not to buy a cheap luxury car.
I ssupect that by 2034 the last daily driven 1993 Toyota Camry will be retired by his owner.
This also depends a lot on location.
New Beetle
The last of the GM melty plastic-mobiles. The last of the cheddar melt pontiacs, raclette oldsmobiles, the luminas, all the plastic bodied cars will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.
Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe.
I suspect there’s a lot of cars that will be absent from the road in 10 years. But I’ll tell you one that won’t be - the Honda Element. It’s become the modern equivalent of the original VW van. I live in a nice neighborhood and my Element is parked by the side of my house because my garage is filled with Alfa Romeos.…
Hopefully the Chevy Cruze, they are such an epic pile of shit and anyone who owns one now is poor and cant afford repairs.
Considering how insane the demand was at first, it never ceases to amaze me how few PT Cruisers I see on the road. Ditto for Neons.
With that in mind, I think the Dodge Hornet will go the way of the dodo soon enough. I don’t think Dodge quality has gotten much better in recent years and with the quality of drivers of…
You must live in Upper Whitestan or appalachia. God bless the latin folk. They can keep a beater going long after everyone else gave up. This morning I saw a Chevy Prizm with plenty of loving flair, quietly and smokelessly gliding along. Yeah we all know they’re Toyotas and will run until the apocalypse, but still not…
The Mitsubishi Eclipse cross. It was actually a good looking little cuv to me, but this was a tragic case where this should have just been a next generation Outlander sport. I see more 3/4 G Eclipses than I do this car. I think the last time I saw it in the wild was when it came out and then I saw one last year…
Kind of fragile, but not quite a beloved enough enthusiast vehicle to suffer any irritation? I expect to see the odd Giulia running around for decades (especially Quadrifoglios), but I’d almost be shocked to see a Stelvio on the road past the end of the year.
Those are all essentially highly mass produced, many part sharing, throw away appliances. No one has any personal connection to them, nor will anyone care of their demise.
Volkswagen New Beetle. Remember when these were everywhere? They only stopped production 5 years ago after making some 350,000 of them, now I only see 1-2 a month. The catch is that it’s the same 1-2 I see over and over again (probably owned by true loyalists.) In 10 years the few that are left now will have succumbed…
I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw a Grand Am of any trim level. They used to be ubiquitous.
Not around here. Cheap cars are bought by cheap people and cheap people don’t spend money maintaining their cars. That and rust will have these disappearing by the end of a decade.
You really answered your own question with that photo. The Cybertruck is a flavor of the month oddity for wealthy. It will disappear once the newness wears off and the “trendy chasers” move on to something else.
The Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. It is only bought by people who are not into cars who will see it as disposable once it’s past its usable lifetime. I’d be surprised if anyone would actively seek out the preservation of one. I can’t say anyone would miss it.