Last week, for a brief, fleeting moment, we thought the Nissan Altima had been killed, ending its 34-year reign of terror. Turns out that report wasn’t true, and Nissan will be keeping the Altima alive for at least the 2027 model year. Still, it doesn’t seem like the Altima will stick around for much longer, and that got us thinking about our other automotive enemies.
We asked you which automotive enemy you think should be vanquished next, and we got lots of great answers — almost 130 of them, to be specific. Some of the examples were obvious — what, you thought people weren’t going to say the Cybertruck? — while others were unexpected. Here are the favorites of the bunch, though it’s worth going back through the comments to read them all, especially because some people talked more about general industry trends instead of actual car models. Without further ado, these are the automotive enemies that the Jalopnik audience thinks we need to turn our energy toward vanquishing next:
Dodge Charger/Challenger
Charger / Challenger, see your doctor about your ED, much better treatments are available than buying a Dodge.
Charger. They lower the IQ of the area just driving past, like some sort of maga miasma.
Submitted by: JBodyBuilder, Winter Cat
Anything with an Inline-3
Cybertruck is too easy.
So I’m going to say anything with a turbocharged inline-3. As Ford showed, these engines tend to be absolute crapheaps of wretched quality and self-destruction. And we all know the ONLY reason automakers use these is to game the CAFE numbers. Drive it in the normal world, and this overworked, overboosted, moaning, straining, bleating, Magic Fingers wannabe engine gets worse mileage than a turbo-4, and the turbo-4 will have a more flexible power range, be smoother, and not work as hard. So, let the inline-3 go and die all alone and it won’t be missed.
Except the GR Corolla. There’s always one exception.
The next to be vanquished needs to be the turbocharged 3-cylinder crossover.
We need to force the manufacturers to give us reliable 4-cylinder engine options again!
Submitted by: Xavier96, MustangIIMatt
Fast Pickups
The Raptor and the TRX. People that willing to display their insecurities, bad financial sense and general immaturity that loudly need to be pulled aside for a healthy talking to.
Submitted by: BuddyS
Body-on-Frame SUVs
Since Cybertruck will most likely be discontinued over lack of sales anyway and someone else already said Challenger/Charger, I’d like to use my wish for Escalade/Navigator and similar vehicles. Must be replaced by vans/minivans.
Truck-based SUVs that are monstrosities with wheels. If you need a car that big, get a minivan.
Any 3-row SUV.
Too heavy/large for hardcore offroading.
Too cramped/awkward for efficient use of the 3rd row.
Buy a beater Jeep to get lost and a used minivan to get to Disney. The total cost would probably be less than a POS Wagoneer.
Submitted by: fabey, Gerrit DeBoer, man bearpig
