Very first, the practical but dorky Mercedes R-class was discontinued for the U.S. in 2012. Then final month, the Toyota Venza died. Now, the Honda Crosstour will shuffle off this automotive coil at the finish of its 2015 model cycle. Funky wagon-posing-as-crossover factors, we hardly knew ye.
The Crosstour discontinuation tends to make sense, of course, provided that sales have been never ever all that strong. In its 1st complete year on sale in 2010, the Crosstour—originally called Accord Crosstour just before Honda scraped its most venerated nameplate off the back of —moved 28,851 units. But that was the high-water mark: Sales fell to 17,974 in 2011 and couldn’t prime 21,000 in 2012 despite introducing a mild refresh that year. The Crosstour also launched on the wrong foot, its maker getting revealed it by means of Facebook to scathing comments and not a tiny controversy, and its compromised practicality and tepid dynamics were the largest takeaways in our tests of the car.
In a statement attributed to John “I Don’t Give a Damn About Nissan” Mendel, the company’s U.S. executive vice president, the “crossover segment has evolved” and Honda will use the Crosstour’s capacity at the East Liberty, Ohio, plant to develop a lot more CR-Vs and Acura RDXs. (The plant will also bring on the Acura MDX in early 2017.) Mendel also says he expects the new HR-V to do heavy lifting in the crossover arena, and announced that it will move Accord hybrid production from its Marysville, Ohio, facility—which also assembles the regular Accords and the Acura TLX and ILX—to Japan.
Certainly, the Crosstour will go out with a whimper. Honda sold fewer than 12,000 examples last year and just 2046 in the initial quarter of 2015, when Toyota pushed out a lot more than 3 times as many Venzas. We’d say that we wished Honda had sold an actual Accord wagon alternatively of this thing, but it probably wouldn’t have sold any greater. Which is an even bigger shame than the Crosstour itself.
Extended-Suffering Honda Crosstour Given Sweet Release, Killed for 2016
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