The Trax as well as Encore subcompact crossovers have allowed hits for Chevrolet and also Buick, respectively, and also GMC might be looking to participate the activity, as per the Automotive News. GMC U.S. Vice President Duncan Aldred is supposedly pressing difficult to jump into this quickly growing section that’s seen lots of new access lately from Honda, Mazda, Jeep, and also several others.
This brand-new automobile would slot in below the GMC Surface as the vehicle and SUV brand’s smallest automobile. A previous idea car called the GMC Granite (envisioned) previewed such a model back in 2010, yet manufacturing plans for that specific car were later ditched. While this potential brand-new GMC child SUV can take designing motivation from the boxy Granite, it’s most likely that it would certainly share the very same bases as the previously mentioned Trax and Encore, which themselves are based upon the Chevrolet Sonic.
Aldred informed that it’s a no-brainer for GMC to enter this course. “That section has expanded so quick, I maintain telling everybody ‘Exactly how can General Motors’ truck brand name not remain in the fastest-growing segment in the industry, an SUV sector?'” he said in an interview. Both the Buick Repetition and also Chevrolet Trax have sold well in 2015, with the Buick racking up 61,051 sales as well as the Chevrolet selling 57,707 duplicates through November.
