After showing the first real-world photos of the all-new Wuling Journey last week, SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) has now just revealed official interior design images of the first dedicated pickup from General Motors’ highly popular Chinese brand. This is the first time the joint venture has shown the cab of the new Journey and some additional details about this particular China-exclusive truck, also known as the Wuling Zhengtu.
Like the rest of the brand’s classic family of commercial vehicles, the first images of the all-new Wuling Journey’s cabin show a fairly simple interior design focused mainly on practicality and ease of use. SGMW’s idea is to offer robust vehicles that can handle the workload and the passage of time at a low price, so the quality of materials and overall finish take a back seat.
Aesthetically, the Wuling Journey pickup’s cabin remains true to the “mechanical aesthetics” design concept that the brand applies to both the exterior and interior of its entry-level vehicles wearing the original red logo. In this sense, the dash of the new Journey has a simple layout of straight lines with vertical air vents and a minimalist look in a dark gray color scheme.
In conjunction with the chrome air conditioning vent bezels, the most prominent part of the new Wuling Journey’s dashboard is the central stack arrangement. It includes an eight-inch infotainment system touchscreen above an array of physical heating and ventilation controls.
In addition, SGMW has also shown some interesting details of the Journey pickup’s cargo box. In particular, it includes a highly modular system where the side panels of the box can be lowered just like the tailgate, forming a three-sided flatbed which improves the convenience and practicality of the box – covered with a special polymer that promises greater resistance.
The all-new Wuling Journey’s pre-order period has just started this Tuesday, February 2nd in the Chinese market, where it’s scheduled to go on sale in the first half of March. Wuling hopes to launch a new truck category and further expand its broad sales leadership in China, stating that the Journey is the first youth-focused pickup to meet the needs of young entrepreneurs in that country.
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Why can’t GM build a similar truck for the “young entrepreneur” in the US of A? I’d buy one and I’m 64!
It’s called a 2wd Silverado 1500 WT single cab
A quick search on autotrader gives you a plethora of Silverado’s under 20k if you drop the crew cab and 4wd and have a much plusher interior, 3x the power, 3x the towing, more cargo and a 10x more refined driving experience than this duplo box on wheels. Also, if you want to test one, even the base v6 is really responsive and has a lot of get up and go when your truck is slashed to just under 4000lbs.
Complete failure to meet US or EU regulations and expectations, including:
-No passenger, side impact or curtain airbags
-No collision avoidance system, required by NHTSA agreement
-No backup camera, required by law
-No stability control (only ABS), again required by law
-No way it will meet NHTSA crashworthiness regulations, and don’t even think about IIHS small offset overlap
-Lack of rear bumper means it won’t pass bumper damage laws
-Won’t meet anti-theft laws with lack of immobilizer
-Won’t meet US/California emissions
-70-odd HP motor designed for truck speed limits of no more than 60 MPH. Good luck driving it on a freeway.
-Note the exposed internal sheet metal on the door (something not see in the US since the 80’s): interior is going to be noisy.
Basically, if you can use this in the US, buy a GEM car.
Good. It’s all liberal bull crap anyway.
First you better wait to see if it still works 6 months from now. But they may put more quality into products for themselves compared to the quality put into products made for export to the U.S.
Racist but true. Quality would be WORSE if they were unionized.
Curious? How is this racist?
Wow, I wonder what this truck will cost to a Chinese customer? If this thing could pass the U.S. safety standards and could be imported the domestic truck sales landscape will be effected. Go figure, on the other hand who would need a practical, well engineered pick-up gm truck in the U.S.? It’s not electric.
Safety and eco laws are the reason cars in America are so overpriced. And unions.
Yea, because we would hate to pay more so that more people can live. And who needs to breathe? So GM is better, you do realize that the real costs are in the form of hospitalizations, lawyers, loss of life, etc? Seldom do I say this, but your comment is really kind of dumb.
the real reason american cars costs so much is way more complex. it goes from wreckless laws that allow large firms to sue companys for every dent and scratch from the factory (requiring millions of reserve cash for inevitable payouts) to wealth redistribution to elites like fauci who make almost a million dollars yet never work a cent, yet buy caddy’s to wall street hedge fund boys like biden who rig the system and then buy suburbans (that used to be called people haulers, now all they haul is the rich) and vettes. I work for a company, and am based out of the midwest and earn a good pay! good for everyone around me, and i am blessed! yet my pay is not comparable to newhires who work at my compaines corporate (based in LA) where the cost of living is WAY higher. I have a huge house and used cars, while everyone in LA for the company rents studio apartments and buys new cars every 3-5 years. there is a huge imbalance here, its intentional and has no 1 root issue, but a plethora of issues and there is not 1 single solution to fix it, but will take many fixes
As bad as the outside is, the inside doesn’t look bad at all.
Perfect truck for a petite woman. Or a “man” batting with 2 inches.
Why would you put a sport bar on a truck with fold down sides? Would be pretty cool if you could get fold down sides on a pickup here.
Les recomiendo, que compren un a camioneta usada, GM, en buenas condiciones, y saldrá favorecido. Saludos