17 people bought new Dodge Journeys in 2025, and those weren’t the only dead cars sold by Stellantis

I get it. Cars are incredibly expensive right now, but I promise there were better options than buying one of Stellantis’ old leftovers in 2025. Unfortunately, thousands of customers felt they weren’t worth the self-care and bought cars from Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Fiat, and Alfa Romeo dealerships that had shut down years earlier. It happens every damn year, and it’s always so damn sad to see. I hate living in a world where the most viable form of transportation for seventeen Americans was a brand new Dodge Journey – a car that went out of production in 2020.

Unless there was some sort of screaming deal to be had, there’s really no reason why anyone would come to a dealer in The Big 2-5 and pay real money for a Fiat 500L, Dodge Journey or Jeep Renegade. I assume that’s what happened in all these cases. People necessary cheap cars, but they still wanted new ones, so they could agree on a bargain price with the dealer. That said, if anyone paid full price for these cars, may God have mercy on their souls.

All told, Stellantis will have sold eleven different dead models by 2025. A few of them are a bit confusing, so we’ll focus on the nine that are definitely dead:

• Chrysler 300 – 574 sold (discontinued in 2023)
• Dodge Caravan – 9 sold (discontinued in 2020)
• Dodge Dart – 6 sold (discontinued in 2016)
• Dodge Challenger – 1,800 sold (discontinued in 2023)
• Dodge Journey – 17 sold (discontinued in 2020)
• Fiat 500L – 2 sold (discontinued in 2020)
• Fiat 500X – 176 sold (discontinued in 2024)
• Jeep Renegade – 721 sold (discontinued in 2023)
• Ram ProMaster City – 20 sold (discontinued in 2022)

There are a few cars that are a bit trickier to say whether they count as dead sales or not: the Jeep Cherokee and the internal combustion Dodge Charger. Stellantis moved 527 and 2,141 of these vehicles, respectively, in 2025, but it’s virtually impossible to know how many of those were previous generations of the two vehicles or the newly launched vehicles, both of which hit dealerships in the last few months of 2025.

When we first told you about the sixth-generation Cherokee in August 2025, we told you it would be on sale “by the end of the year,” and when I drove the gas-powered Charger Scat Pack in November 2025, I said it would be on sale “very soon,” so that means the majority of sales Stellantis reported for these two cars are more likely than not for the old versions. This theory is further proven when we look at Stellantis’ third quarter sales report. Unless new Chargers or Cherokees have somehow snuck through, it’s safe to assume these are all dead cars. The company said 437 Cherokees and 1,868 Chargers found homes in the first nine months of the year, meaning only 273 Chargers and 90 Cherokees were sold in the fourth quarter. Of course, some of these could be the new model, so we’ll just hedge our bets and create our own categories for these cars.

Still, the fact that Stellantis only sold between 3,325 and 5,993 dead vehicles in 2025 is actually a huge improvement for the company. In 2024, Stellantis sold an almost unimaginable 78,000 dead cars, representing about 6% of total sales for the year. The vast majority were Chargers and Challengers, which alone accounted for 61,504 sales. It will be fun to see what the closing year 2026 has in store. I hope there are still a few Vipers for sale new, and for God’s sake don’t buy a new six year old Dodge Journey. I beg you.