Chevrolet Malibu discontinuing, GM shifting focus to electric vehicles

For decades the Chevrolet Malibu has been the quintessential family sedan and automobile of simplicity, but very soon they’ll be nothing more than a memory. 

General Motors has announced its Chevrolet division will cease production of the Malibu, which made its debut off the assembly line in 1964. According to fellow Hearst publication Car and Driver, production will stop in November of this year. Focus will turn to electric vehicles. 

But this isn’t the first time the Malibu is getting the axe. Production of the Malibu came to a close after 1978 and it was resurrected until 1997. Car and Driver also reports more than $390 million has been invested by General Motors into the Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kansas and that’s where electric vehicle models such as the Ultium-based Bolt EV and Cadillac XT4. 

Take a walk down memory lane and look at the Malibu over the years: