Acura TLX
Acura plans to forgo offering a true luxury sedan for the first time since its inception, come 2026. The Acura TLX calls the 2025 model year its last, marking the end of the three-box sedan at Acura.
Though the brand’s sedan lineup was already beginning to dwindle with the discontinuation of the RLX (the successor to the RL, which succeeded the Legend before it), the departure of the TLX marks a more definitive ending for Acura sedans. The TLX was preceded by the TL and Vigor, the former of which was once one of Acura’s bestselling models. The Integra four-door liftback remains in the lineup, but otherwise, Acura’s showroom is now packed full of SUVs.
Audi A4
The A4 has been a mainstay of the Audi lineup since the 1990s, but the nameplate is disappearing—or at least taking a hiatus—as the new A5 takes its place in the German automaker’s lineup. Audi previously offered the A4 as a four-door sedan and the A5 as a two-door coupe and convertible or a four-door liftback.
The automaker is streamlining things, and the A5 is now strictly available as a four-door liftback. Unfortunately, this also spells the end of the road for the A4 Allroad station wagon.
Audi’s initial reasoning for dropping the A4 nameplate was due to plans to revise its vehicle naming scheme, reserving even-numbered alphanumerics for electric models and odd numbers for gas-powered models. But the company has since reneged on this strategy, leaving us confused as to whether we should expect an A4 e-tron in the near future or whether the nameplate could be used for a new-generation gas model. Either way, there is no A4 for 2026, so we’re considering it dead for the time being.
Audi Q8 e-tron
Before it took on the Q8 e-tron nomenclature, Audi’s battery-electric SUV simply went by the e-tron. Though its name changed, the basics of this Audi EV remained largely the same. Now, after more than half a decade on the market, the Q8 e-tron bids adieu. Audi is shuttering the Belgium factory that builds the Q8 e-tron in both wagon and liftback (or Sportback in Audi parlance) body styles, and it seemingly has no immediate plans to replace the model.
BMW X4
Cadillac XT4
These models represent a broader industry shift away from traditional sedans and toward SUVs and crossovers, a trend that shows no signs of slowing as automakers continue to reshape their lineups for 2026 and beyond.
