In honor of the "What car has the longest relatively unchanged production?" thread, What car has the shortest production run? I nominate the Volvo 1800ES produced 1972-1973 with a total of 8,077 produced.
In honor of the "What car has the longest relatively unchanged production?" thread, What car has the shortest production run? I nominate the Volvo 1800ES produced 1972-1973 with a total of 8,077 produced.
Fisker Karma is my first thought here. Looks like 2011-2012 with < 3k produced.
Do you want to limit this to a major manufacturer? How about model lines vs. special trim?
I feel that artifically limited production runs like the GNX or 22B would be cheating.
GM designed an all new Cadillac engine called the Blackwing and only ended up making about 1500 of them before cancelling production.
VolvoHeretic said:In honor of the "What car has the longest relatively unchanged production?" thread, What car has the shortest production run? I nominate the Volvo 1800ES produced 1972-1973 with a total of 8,077 produced.
Nah for Volvo at least the p1900 has it beat easily on 68 made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_P1900
The title doesn't specify so I guess anything goes. 
In reply to MotorsportsGordon :
Lol. I guess I should have asked which car company has the most shortest run cars ever?
VolvoHeretic said:In reply to MotorsportsGordon :
I guess I should have asked which car company has the most shortest run cars ever?
Company with the most short-run cars is probably Ferrari. Lots of expensive, special run cars. 36 250 GTOs, 30 FXXes, etc. https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/ferrari-road-car-models-and-production-numbers.196388/
As for model with shortest run, IIRC Lamborghini made ONE LM001.
For an actual production car, made for the masses, the original Nissan Silvia has to be close with 550 made.
Rarest one I've seen, 1 of 9.
In reply to johndej :
Only issue there is it's just a customized F-550, I wouldn't call that a production vehicle. Still a cool truck though
Pete. (l33t FS) said:GM designed an all new Cadillac engine called the Blackwing and only ended up making about 1500 of them before cancelling production.
That whole thing seemed nuts. Would love to know what the inside story was.
Jaguar XKSS is narrowly a production car.
16 made before a factory fire.
The Cizeta-Moroder V16T made 12 or so cars
Kia Borrego was only in production for a year and some change. For a mass-market SUV this thing was a big black spot on Kia's books. Remember these things?
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/does-the-kia-telluride-owe-its-success-to-another-failed-suv/
Only around 50 Vectors were produced, I believe.
503 Dodge Daytonas were made for a production run of 1 year.
Two produced in 1998
Nissan R390 GT1
Porsche 959
Fewest produced or shortest (in time) production run?
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
Theres no rules. Either one is interesting.
For more recent and common "normal" cars that aren't hand built, Mazda2 was only about 60k from 2011-2014 in North America. Very small amount of manuals, and manual Touring trim (has OE cruise control), are very uncommon.
2004-2006 Pontiac GTO was really short for a mainstream manufacturer.
1987-88 Ford Thunderbird was a super short MAJOR refresh (all new sheet metal less the hood).
There were 6000 of these made
1266 of these
ProDarwin said:
There were 6000 of these made
Dang, that totally sucks to hear that.
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