GM Starts Exporting Chevrolet Tracker Made In China
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On Saturday, December 12th, General Motors’ joint venture SAIC-GM began to export the new Chevrolet Tracker to an international market. On that day, the first 290 units of the next-generation subcompact crossover left the Huishan Railway Station in the city of Shenyang for Uzbekistan – one of the ten largest Chevrolet markets in the world.
This is the first time that the Chinese-built Chevrolet Tracker has left the country’s borders. Since its local launch back in June 2019, every unit of the new Tracker manufactured at the SAIC-GM Norsom plant was destined for the domestic market, where the fourth-generation crossover officially went on sale as the Chevrolet Trax’s replacement.
SAIC-GM announced that the start of Chevrolet Tracker exports to Uzbekistan represents an important step in strengthening its business, which the joint venture will further expand through a new strategy to export vehicles to Central Asia. This subregion, made up of the emerging countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, has so far been supplied mainly by GM Korea.
As in the rest of the markets were this brand’s entry-level subcompact crossover is marketed, the all-new Chevrolet Tracker will arrive in Uzbekistan to replace the Chevy Trax, which is sold in that country with the Tracker nameplate, with units coming from South Korea. Its local launch in that country is scheduled for the first weeks in January.
The automaker highlighted that the new Chevrolet Tracker exported abroad is equipped with GM’s global SmartPropulsion technology, in this case composed of latest-generation three-cylinder engines and two transmissions that are also manufactured in China. These enable a combination of segment-leading performance, fuel economy, emissions and reliability in the subcompact utility vehicle.
As such, the new Chevrolet Tracker continues its international expansion and strengthens its role as the brand’s most widespread small crossover by being sold in at least four subregions of the world. In addition to the Norsom plant in China, the fourth-generation Tracker is also manufactured at the GM São Caetano do Sul plant in Brazil, which supplies most markets, mainly Latin America.
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One has to imagine it will be just a matter of time before General Motors begins building other small CUV like the Chevrolet Trailblazer in China and will limit the demands of GM of South Korea.
Wheres the Envision Avinir at in production. I’m waiting for this new version.
I think the world, especially the USA, has had enough of China. GM can move their HQ to China for all I care. They are an American embarrassment.
Dan
Don’t worry about it. 10 years from now we’ll be complaining that everything is made in India.
I believe only the USA got tired, because they no longer have world hegemony. China is currently the most important country for many industries to remain active and profitable.
Which is only good for China.
Enough of China? The world can’t get enough of China’s money! With like 5 times the population of the US, who would resist such an opportunity? Some true American capitalists all of you are….
How’s is this bad? Hmmm I don’t know maybe it’s bad for the US jobs market, engineers, designers, suppliers, assembly.
Gm has all this here in the US and choose to out source and export back to the US and sell to us it’s freaking sad.
Gm has a plenty of room at US assembly plants.
Check your Vin number if it starts with a 1,4,5 those vehicles are at least assembled in the USA and helping the working class in America.
If anyone is tired of helping and buying chinese made crap please do this.
Captiva,trax,trailblazer, encore, envision all foreign made and exported here
Daniel D
Engineers & Designers – U.S. colleges and universities don’t graduate enough of them.
assembly workers- Fk em they didn’t give a $#!t about how many businesses were affected by their strike last year
They sure won’t strike in China will they?
You never know. The efforts Polish labor union Solidarity had a lot to do with the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe.
Sadly. it is poor “so called engineering” that kills auto sales. Like cracking dashes on 3 year old $60,000. Silverado’s. Can’t blame the union member on unsafe working conditions. Or cheap offshore labor either. All of those from the USA who have made the ultimate sacrifice fighting Commu nists sure weren’t doing it so the USA would sell out to the Commies.
“Engineers & Designers – U.S. colleges and universities don’t graduate enough of them.”
False. I know multiple early and mid-career mechanical/automotive engineers who have had to search for jobs. Global companies don’t want to pay US wages and that’s their excuse.
Why pay a US engineer $80-120k when you can get somebody half as competent in China or India for 1/4 the price? You hire two, and you’re still ahead. Or even Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. 2/3 the competency at 1/2 the price.
What a disgrace! I can’t believe GM has a plant in China. I recognize that the elite in China want US cars. Let them buy imported! This is a slap in the face to America
I hope the Uzbeks tune into Scotty so they will know what will happen to their cute
SUV’s with their cvtt , turbo gdi powered
carbon producing machines at 60 k miles.
Thanks I’ll never buy a Tracker.
I wonder if it will have the quality of GM Mexico. And how many recalls will it have. Is it going to be a throw away car, not worth fixing after 100 km. Russell