GM and Ford to deep-six 4 cars

All those years of racing the Taurus in NASCAR sent sales plummeting apparently

General Motors and Ford Motor Co. plan to discontinue four slow-selling car models, including the former NASCAR Ford Taurus sedan, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

GM will stop production of the subcompact Chevrolet Sonic by as early as this year, and is planning to discontinue the Chevrolet Impala in the next few years, the Journal said. It also reported that Ford will stop making the Fiesta small car for the U.S. market by as early as next year, and discontinue the Taurus, once the top-selling car in America.