- Chevy discontinued the Malibu back in November of 2024.
- Yet 206 new examples still sold in the US this year.
- The nameplate has also quietly surged up the used-car charts.
It’s been almost two years since Chevrolet killed off the ninth and last generation of the Malibu back in November of 2024, and yet people are still buying new leftover examples straight off dealership lots. For anyone who has no interest in owning an American-made SUV or pickup truck, the Malibu stands as one of the last sedans of its kind, which might partially explain why a handful of buyers are still hunting them down.
Delivery figures released by General Motors show that through the first half of this year, it sold 206 Malibu units in the US, and 69 of those went out the door in the second quarter. Those numbers are down sharply from the 8,704 sold in the first half of 2025 and the 3,335 sold in Q2 2025, but they confirm there is still some stock lingering in the company’s inventory waiting for a home.
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A look at Chevrolet’s online inventory tool turns up around two dozen 2025 Malibu models still parked at dealerships, and many of them appear to be sitting at Champion Chevrolet in Johnson City, Tennessee.
As we reported earlier this year, the Chevrolet Malibu is also proving popular on the used market. As of January, it had shot up from 29th place on the list of most popular used cars in America to an impressive 8th, likely because rental fleets offloaded thousands of them shortly after the sedan was discontinued. Demand did not die with the nameplate, it just moved secondhand.
GM And Cadillac Falter
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GM as a whole has had a rough go of it this year. Through the first six months, it sold 1,341,325 vehicles in the US, down 6.8 percent from the 1,439,951 it sold over the same period last year. Second-quarter sales slipped as well, falling 4.2 percent from 746,588 to 714,896 vehicles, so the pressure was not confined to any single stretch of the calendar.
Things were particularly bad for Cadillac. In the second quarter, Cadillac sales plummeted 19.2 percent, falling from 44,347 to 35,825 vehicles. This was primarily due to the axing of the XT4 in January last year, with its sales falling from 4,010 to just 83. Sales declines were also reported for the Escalade (-5.9 percent), Lyriq (-16.1 percent), XT5 (-9.6 percent), and XT6 (-81.7 percent).
