Calendar year
1979
What the archive documents for calendar year 1979. “Introduced” and “in production” are listed separately; model years, where a market uses them, are shown apart from calendar years.
Across the archive in 1979
- Production started Lancia Delta (first generation) Lancia · 1979
- Production started Mercedes-Benz G-Class (W460) Mercedes-Benz · 1979
- Production started Suzuki Alto (first generation) Suzuki · 1979
- Production ended Vauxhall Viva Vauxhall · 1979
- Production ended Honda Civic (first generation) Honda · June 1979
- Production ended AMC Pacer AMC (American Motors Corporation) · 3 December 1979
Other models in production during 1979
Introduced earlier; their documented production covers 1979. Introduced-this-year models are listed above.