Production ceased in 1999 with no similar replacement model.
"You need me to, uh, get a replacement model?"
He posed for a magazine as a replacement model, and later asked for money from his parents to study in a modelling institute.
A replacement model, the P82, was under development in 1974 but did not reach production.
In Continental Europe, 205 production was gradually slowed down following the introduction of the joint replacement models, the 106, and 306.
However the considerable growth in dimensions deterred many 156 owners from considering the 159 as a direct replacement model.
The smaller built-in ovens are usually sold as replacement models.
Neither the United States nor Western Europe has yet developed a replacement model.
The units were recalled by Sony, with the company supplying a replacement model made in 2005.
However, no universally accepted replacement model has been proposed.