In July we heard a rumor General Motors and Navistar would partner up in order to develop and produce commercial trucks. That intel turned out to be good, with GM and Navistar today announcing a long-term agreement to build medium-duty, conventional cab Class 4/5 commercial vehicles.
The partnership, GM says, will marry Navistar’s “expertise in rolling chassis configurations and manufacturing capabilities,” with GM commercial components and engines. This will allow GM to more easily re-enter the commercial vehicle market, and will lower development and production costs for Navistar.
“Bringing medium-duty conventional cab trucks back into the portfolio strengthens Chevrolet’s commitment to providing commercial customers with more choices and one-stop shopping for a versatile lineup of trucks, vans and crossovers,” said GM’s U.S. vice president for Fleet and Commercial sales, Ed Peper.
“By working with an industry-leading partner like GM, we’ll be able to enhance our medium-duty product portfolio and leverage our scale and expertise in manufacturing medium-duty trucks,” added Navistar truck and parts president Bill Kozek.
Production for the Navistar/GM vehicles will begin in 2018 at Navistar’s Springfield, OH assembly plant. Additional product information will be released at a later date, GM says.
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So they’re gonna have conventional cab trucks through International and cab overs with Isuzu. Damn, they’re going full force back into the medium duty market.
This is the kiss of death for GM and medium duty trucks. Their medium duty trucks were just that “medium” when they made them in house. Now to partner with Navistar does not look good. They could not get the Caterpillar on highway trucks to have any sort of quality how are they going to do that with GM. You wonder why the CAT trucks do not sell? Navistar is not the company they once were and the products are sub par.
What do you mean the Cat had no quality? Like engine itself?
This article had me wondering about the engines for these trucks. So I searched and found an article on Forbes that said the engines will be supplied by Isuzu.
Interesting. We used to do a walk around on the GMC Medium Duty trucks and show prospective owners the advantages we had over Navistar(many). Wow has GM lowered their standards!
Maxtom you are almost totally correct, the Isuzu engines will be in the medium duty square front tilt Isuzu trucks , But the GM/Navistar med duty truck will use Chevy gas and diesel engines . Two different Medium duty trucks .
I hope that GM will use bigger inline 6 Isuzu engines for 6/7 trucks, and 6.6 duramax for 4/5 trucks. These are bulletproof engines.
chevyownerallways and all reader. Yes, chevyownerallways, you’re correct about the gas and diesel engines for these trucks. So I searched some more and found this article from the Detroit News dated June 15, 2015 which is in line with chevyownerallways. To sum up the article they will use GM 6 liter gas and 3.0 and 5.2 liter turbo diesel engines and transmission from Isuzu.
Here’s a link: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2015/06/15/gm-isuzu-trucks/71250428/
It seems like you guys are pretty knowledgeable,where can I find information as to what Chevy will be doing in the future(near I hope)with their PASSENGER vans.
Maxtom, GM is going to have TWO different Medium Trucks, the article you read in Detroit news , they are speaking of the Isuzu only and yes the only gas engine from GM will be the 6.0. The new announcement is the Navistar and GM ( Chevy ) agreement.It is going to be all new built in USA medium trucks and they will use GM gas engines and the new next generation 6.6 diesel motors.