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Weak demand, change of strategy, new concept – there are various reasons why car models are discontinued. We have compiled the discontinued models without successors. Now it’s over for the seat alhambra, soon to be followed by its corporate brother, the VW sharan.

With the seat alhambra, another typical representative of the family van range has been discontinued. the alhambra is no longer available for order, the production in palmela is only working off the order backlog. The VW sharan, which is also manufactured there, can still be ordered, but is expected to follow the fate of the alhambra soon.

Also disappearing from the manufacturers’ websites are the giulietta at alfa romeo, the grand C4 spacetourer at citroen and the ASX at mitsubishi. mercedes’ small car brand smart has already discontinued production of the all-electric forfour – the only production facility was the site in novo mesto, slovenia, operated by renault subsidiary revoz. The combustion engine variants of the fortwo and forfour have already been discontinued since 2020. There are no known plans for a direct successor to the electric smart forfour – its place is to be taken by the smart SUV presented as a study under the name concept #1 at the IAA in munich in early september 2021.

Smart has taken the EQ forfour out of the configurator. The renault twingo electric, which is technically closely related to the electric forfour, is still available for configuration and purchase. Smart currently only has the fortwo as a coupe and a convertible in its range. It is not yet known when the Group will discontinue these model variants – daimler has already sold the production facility for the fortwo in hambach, France, to the British off-road vehicle manufacturer ineos. The new smart generation is scheduled to be launched in early 2023, although hardly any technical details are known and no specific launch date has been set yet. in 2019, daimler and chinese carmaker geely set up a joint venture in which both companies hold a 50 percent stake. This joint venture will develop and produce smart models in china in the future.

end for mazda CX-3 in europe

Mazda is offering the CX-3 in europe in parallel with the CX-30 – both are competing for the same target group. This will be the end of the year. Mazda discontinues production of the CX-3 for the european market and removes it from the range here. But it will remain in the portfolio on other world markets.

the VW passat sedan has never been a bestseller in germany and europe. Now the camry has disappeared from the wolfsburg range but the popular variant is still available. With the toyota camry, another sedan leaves the german market. Actually, the japanese had hoped for cab clientele as customers. But it did not go along and toyota now the plug. In other european countries, however, the camry is still on sale. With the current generation change, the lexus IS will also be leaving germany and europe completely. The compact lexus CT is already no longer available. At dacia, the new jogger replaces the two models MCV and lodgy.

Ford has too many SUVs

In europe, ford has already discontinued the mid-size SUV for model year 2021. Only vehicles for the north american market will benefit from the planned facelift. But even this will soon be the last straw: as the trade magazine "automotive news" reports, the "APS" is a new development reports, the series will be completely discontinued in 2023. The car is simply superfluous, since Ford offers four five-seat SUV series with internal combustion engines in the USA (ecosport, escape, bronco and bronco sport) and the explorer, which has three rows of seats, is hardly more expensive than the edge. one year later, the largely identical nautilus will also disappear from the range of products offered by the noble manufacturer lincoln.

Mercedes-AMG discontinues models

Production of the two mercedes-AMG models GT coupe and GT roadster also ends at the end of 2021.

All models that have already left us or will soon leave us can be seen in the picture gallery.

Conclusion

Nothing is forever. As in every myth, there is also a piece of truth in this saying. It is striking how much the global automotive market has changed in recent years. Instead of filling every minimal demand with a stand-alone model, manufacturers are focusing globally on fewer and fewer platforms, with countless crossover models primarily occupying the interfaces between the learned vehicle categories. So instead of having two real vehicles in their portfolio, carmakers are trying to keep customers with just one hermaphroditic model. It’s worth it for the manufacturers, but at the expense of diversity.

Sixt likes to play hardball, preferably in advertising germany’s largest car rental company gives out. With success: "96 percent of germans know the sixt brand," said erich sixt, chairman of the board of sixt SE , with obvious pride at the presentation of "sixt big bang" on 28. February in munich.

What’s the big bang? Now, germany’s largest car rental company sixt launches its own carsharing and networks all offers on one app. chief strategy officer alexander sixt said in munich on thursday: "with sixt share, we are not simply launching another carsharing brand, but defining a new product category by merging car rental and carsharing."even in small towns, customers will be able to rent vehicles flexibly in the future for periods ranging from a few minutes to 27 days.

Instead of drivenow, BMW wanted car2go

For background, a year ago BMW parted ways with sixt on carsharing and joined forces with new partner daimler. Or to stay in brand language: instead of continuing to expand "drivenow" with sixt, BMW preferred to work with daimler on "car2go". the munich-based carmaker has now merged the company with rival daimler’s carsharing service to form share now, which has a total of 20,000 cars. Sixt, on the other hand, was sweetened its exit with around 200 million euros.

Now sixt is going it alone. yesterday’s announcement by daimler and BMW, who announced a cooperation for self-driving cars, shows just how tough the competition is – anyone who thinks that the timing of this announcement has something to do with sixt’s big bang date.

right at the start of the event, erich sixt took a powerful shot at its rivals. "dear competitors, you sneaked in to learn. It’s a great day for sixt and a bad one for you," he said, earning laughter and frenetic applause from the sixt employees, most of whom were wearing orange sneakers.

Sixt BIG BANG - Presentation of the new mobility concept

carsharing costs us practically nothing

Alexander sixt said: "as market leader with 240,000 vehicles worldwide, we have built up a strong customer base." chief executive erich sixt added: "carsharing costs us practically nothing."his company already has the software and the know-how, and "at very manageable costs, we can equip every rental car with telematics. We will equip a very large part of our fleet with it."

the potential of new mobility concepts can be seen in one figure alone: around one billion people worldwide want to reserve a car – every day, although not only at sixt.

alexander sixt said car sharing alone is only piecemeal and a niche market, while car rental has a market volume of $58 billion, and cab and private ride-sharing as much as $285 billion. Sixt offers its customers all three services on a single app. In Germany, sixt also uses it to arrange cabs, and in the USA the ride-sharing service lyft is a partner.

Sixt strategy board member presenting the new mobility concept

Car sharing launches in berlin

sixt launched carsharing in berlin on thursday. It is to be rolled out step by step, initially in germany and europe. The goal, he says, is for customers to rent a car anywhere on the street via app, decide flexibly on the rental period, and either drop it off again somewhere in the same city or even at any sixt station in germany.

Erich and alexander sixt took further side swipes at ex-partner BMW. "we don’t need to reinvent a brand, we are sixt," said the strategy chief. Sixt does not manufacture cars, but rather offers them for sale. BMW and daimler have yet to build their car-sharing software, said the company’s chief executive and major shareholder. His company is "an IT company with an affiliated car rental company" that processes a billion requests every day.

For investors, a new question now arises: how profitable will the new project be?? to anticipate: many details are still open. The concept itself is convincing, and the presentation at the eisbach studios in munich, which was even attended by federal Transport Minister andreas scheuer (CSU), was well worth the entertainment.

at the press conference, the board of management kept a low profile

At the subsequent press conference, however, the sixt board of management kept a low profile. Why was lyft chosen as a partner and not uber?? No comment! In how many and which cities will the concept be rolled out after the start in berlin?? Alexander sixt could only be elicited that there will be at least two more cities by the end of june. numbers, margins? No comment. Sixt obviously wanted to keep its ammunition dry, so that it would still be a topic of conversation in the days and weeks to come. But erich sixt at least struck a more moderate tone with regard to BMW. "we are the largest buyer of vehicles and want to remain so."rattling is part of the trade, sixt is a master of it.

It is currently difficult to make an assessment of the share, even though stock market participants acknowledged yesterday’s event with price gains. In the past, Sixt has often shown itself to be a pioneer of a development and has always presented itself innovatively.

This is also reflected in the stock market valuation, which is really impressive. Here shows the marketing competence of the sixt family. "whoever would have invested the equivalent of 5,000 euros at the IPO in 1986 would be a millionaire now," erich sixt said at the presentation. And added mischievously: "invest now 10.000 euros in our shares and look forward to retirement."a verbal big bang – only time will tell whether the new strategy is worthy of the name.