GM Developing Future Chevy Crossover Coupe: Exclusive
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General Motors is actively developing a future Chevy crossover coupe, GM Authority has learned from sources familiar with the matter. The new vehicle, whose name is currently unknown but will likely end up wearing the Trax moniker, will usher The General into the “crossover coupe” space from which it has been notably absent since its inception.
Development of the vehicle in question is being led by the GM Korea subsidiary, and the model will be small in size – slotting between the size of the current Chevy Trailblazer crossover sold in the U.S., Canada and South Korea, and Chevy Tracker crossover sold in Mexico, South America and China. Both models live on differently-sized ends of the mainstream subcompact crossover segment.
2021 and newer Chevy Trailblazer
Sources tell us that the front end of the crossover coupe will be similar to that of the Tracker, but with hints of the current Chevy Blazer, a model that has influenced the styling of current Chevrolet utilities. In addition, the slope of the A-pillar and the general shape of the two front windows (on the front doors) on the new model will be very similar to those of the Tracker, which replaced the first-generation Trax in various international markets.
Chevy Tracker
But starting roughly around the B-pillar, the future Chevy crossover coupe will feature a rapidly-sloping roofline. Sources indicate that the execution will be similar to that of the current-generation Audi Q5 Sportback. The rear doors will feature large primary rear windows followed by a small vanity window following the rear door and extending to the C-pillar.
Chevy Tracker
From an architectural standpoint, the new model will ride on a variant of the GM VSS-F platform currently used by the aforementioned Trailblazer and its corporate platform mate, Buick Encore GX. That stands in contrast to the GEM platform (aka Global Emerging Markets architecture) that underpins the current Tracker. In fact, GEM could be considered a variant of VSS-F, but one that’s less complex and less costly.
Powering the new model will be a small-displacement, turbocharged gasoline engine. Front-wheel-drive is expected to be standard, while all-wheel-drive will be optional.
Chevy Tracker
As we noted earlier, a crossover coupe – technically a misnomer that today represents a four-door crossover with a rapidly-sloping roofline – is not present in today’s GM lineup. For one reason or another, the Detroit-based automaker has actively elected not to compete in this space following its creation by German luxury marques.
Audi Q5 Sportback
Today, BMW offers the X4 and X6, Mercedes-Benz offers the GLC-Class Coupe and GLE-Class Coupe, while Audi offers the Q5 Sportback. All of these models are variants of traditionally-styled crossover models, including the X3, X5, GLC-Class, GLE-Class, and Q5, respectively.
BMW X4
While the exact positioning of the upcoming Chevy crossover coupe is unclear, it will certainly be distinguished from that of the Chevy Trailblazer and Tracker subcompacts via unique design, thereby expanding the Bow Tie brand’s crossover lineup with a more personalized and distinctive appearance.
Development of the new model is well underway, with production slated to begin in early 2023. The future Chevy is expected to be available in the U.S. and Canada, along with select international markets. As GM Authority reported earlier this month, production of the new vehicle will take place at the GM Changwon plant in South Korea after the last Chevy Spark rolls off the line at the facility later this year.
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Editor’s note: this article has been updated to reflect that the future Chevy crossover coupe will likely end up being called Chevy Trax.
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… would say … hope not another BMW X6 … then saw the pics.. and that it is …
on 2005 worked for Company Kittel the side frame window of the X6 inside a engineering office
made all correct, the angle in green of tooling exit, but came the bs manager architect and thought it was wrong
gave my work for another guy… seeing this, took the CAD and only made my yacht called Seassoul, it is in internet
the work having nothing to do with the stupid work job, made me fun of doing surfaces, lost the job after, no regrets
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Koreans design ugly looking cars!
Shockandawe- we called him as a “Anti korea”.
You didn’t like the first Cruze? );
Give it a shot but in my area they are not all that popular.
Like sedans people tend to opt for the taller vehicle with more cargo room.
But to do this is worth a chance as it would be mostly an existing vehicle.
Too small for us.
So…they look to what BMW, Mercedes, and Audi have done and say hey they had success with these luxury models, so let’s make one but use our small subcompact cheap econocar as a basis. What could go wrong?
BobBiggity,
Just wait … .
The Cadillac version can’t be far behind.
The Lyriq is most of the way to “coupe”. Can they brand it the S.port U.tility C.oupe?
Just what Chevy needs, another Korean turd. Maybe this one will have a two cylinder engine!
Can’t have Koreans that were building vehicles for the American market become unemployed. This market is already covered with the Trax, Trailblazer, Encore, Encore GX for GM. What are the combined annual sales of the “Crossover Coupes” listed above? A months worth of sales of the new Bronco? A Colorado based K5 Blazer would radically outsell and be far more profitable that this thing. Bump the full size van out of Wentzville to make room.
Who is making these decisions at GM? I am rapidly losing faith in this leadership.
“Who is making these decisions at GM? I am rapidly losing faith in this leadership.”
What took so long?
As a reference consumer reports rates the Korean built chevy trailblazer as the most trouble free car sold
Consumer Reports rates 180 vehicles in its April 2022 automotive issue for reliability.
Only one vehicle received a perfect score, and almost unheard of; in its first year of production yet., the Chevy Trailblazer
Make it a PHEV. That really would be filling the gap.
Great name for it!
Oops.
My bad.
I thought you wrote “PHEW,” as in “P. U.”
How about naming the Cadillac version the Cimoron, as an homage to one of the many genius ideas from the former “Standard of the World.”
Sorry to be so negative, but I am so old I remember when General Motors made real American cars in America, and Cadillac was an aspirational vehicle.
Unfortunately, by the time I could afford one, things were starting to go down hill.
My ‘64 was nice. My ‘68 was, too. From ‘69 on, they got less impressive, and I flirted with Corvettes for a while. My ‘77 Coupe deVille led me into to my ‘78 Eldorado. I should have quit there, but I am a slow learner.
I bought into the HT-4100 hype, and , I am ashamed to admit, also, its successors, including the Northstar.
How could they be bad? They were CADILLACS.
Oh, yeah. They were bad.
So, yes, I am bitter. Resentful. Sad.
A typical grouchy old fart.
You’ve elegantly encapsulated the very essence of the downfall of America.
For what our Globalist Corporate Overlords working in conjunction with corrupt “government” have done to this country to line their own pockets, the rest of us have good reason to be grouchy.
Cadillac has a chance to “reinvent” itself and again be an aspirational brand, but it is a profitable and valuable (in terms of brand) segment of the market, so it is a very competitive part of the market. The new electric Caddys must be managed by real car people, not the finance people, who drove GM/Caddy into a down-market brand, living off of a faint shadow of brand.
We’ll see. The most significant competetive advantage GM has now and for the foreseeable future is autonomous driving. If they blow the introduction and downstream execution of AV, GM is toast, consigned to making econoboxes….
A nice replacement to the aging Chevy Trax. We’ve heard about this car for months. It’s expected to relieve production capacity of Bupyeong to more Encore GX and Trailblazer.
Not quite on topic, but I wish the CT5 was a hatch like Audi has.
All my life from early teens to late 70’s coupe meant a 2Dr sedan, I guess modern day engineers have never read the definition.
Or maybe there is a new body style that exists now that did not exist back them. You know, there is this thing called progress and evolution.
It’s not the engineers. It’s the marketeers (as in Musketeers, or, Mousketeers, -even more correct ; ) )
A two-door coupe and a two-door sedan are different I thought with the latter having a fixed B-Pillar and the former being “pillar-less”. The coupe design was supposed to mimic the look of a convertible but with a fixed roof; thus the term two-door hardtop coupe. Of course all these terms are somewhat fluid now to suit the whims are marketers.
Crossover Coupe is the very definition of oxymoron. Not to mention bastardization.
The marketers and politicos (pretty much one in the same now) can’t shovel enough BS because the sheeple can’t stop swallowing it.
I got excited when I saw this. Immediately thought a not ugly next gen blazer, 2.7t, rwd based awd. Then I’m reading about the trax and tracker being a base idea.
GM just does not get it. They don’t understand the market. More phoned in boring crap.
No worries, Ford will get it right.
I think they do understand the market. People want boring phoned in crap. Just look around.
The people that wanted boring crap really just wanted reliable Toyotas, even if they are boring. Now even Toyota makes more exciting cars them almost all GMs (only their rwd stuff is nice).
If GM is going to build a Coupe SUV why build an inexpensive one. I think it would much more sense to build it on a Cadillac Platform and make it a performance variant to compete with BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Porsche. Building a Coupe SUV on a small FWD platform with a 4 Cylinder engine makes no sense. Even and EV would make more sense.
It’s just another small SUV. People buy those all the time, so no reason they shouldn’t build one.
Keep in mind that coupe doesn’t mean 2 door. It just means the roof slopes.
A coupe or coupé is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.
Sure, and SUVs have a frame and RWD or 4×4.
They’ve decided to change the meaning. I was just pointing out that “2 door” probably isn’t what they meant by coupe.
And most likely they will again misjudge the market and make it ill equipped to go head to head with any competition. Forget this BS and just give us a real small off-roadable 4X4.
There’s no such thing as a 4-door coupe!
I agree with you, I was a Saturn tech in the early 2000s, they had an S series 4dr coupe.
Let me fix that for you…
“There no such thing as a 4-door coupe”.. for those stuck in the past.
Also, the earth is flat and the only way to make a car is to have a huge land barge. I know, I lived through the era.
Huge land barge era is now with mammoth SUVs and monster pickup trucks displacing rational sedans, station wagons – and coupes – as America’s preferred mode of personal transportation. In fact, we’ve reached new heights with 6,000 pound curb weights being way more common today than in the 1970s.
It’s very much like the ’70s only everyone’s higher. Pun intended.
And what was true then is true now. There is no such thing as a 4-door coupe.
Surprising and disappointing they are developing a new ICE vehicle, and that this isn’t planned to be an EV on the Ultium platform.
If all they built were EVs, they’d hardly sell any cars at all.
They obviously don’t plan on going out of business.
If it comes with a manual trans I might consider buying one. Otherwise, no.
Too small for the US! Few BMW X4 models are sold here and Honda Crosstour, a segment larger, nonetheless was a flop!
Ford was rumored to be planning a 4 door coupe to replace Fusion but project never manifested with Evos getting the green light.
GM needs ICE vehicles but they must be cheap to build to fit with The Company’s EV strategy. Likely this coupe would share Encore GX & Trailblazer floorpan, nuts and bolts. The same would be more difficult with Nox and Blazer.
GEM was based on the old Gamma platform but simplified. This was printed every where a few years back. Now it’s being compared to the VFF family which doesn’t make much sense. GEM, if Federalized, wouldn’t be any worse a platform than what we is used by Hyandai for small cars.
Coupe = 2 Doors
Sedan = 4 Doors
That’s how it works on my auto registration card from the state.
2 door coupe
4 door sedan
Sandy F,
Watch out!
Gladys is gonna get you.
She seems even more crabby than than I.
And somebody please warn BC.
ROTF,LMAO.
What makes it a coupe if it has “rear doors”?
Another POS korean car. Meanwhile Ford is releasing raptor versions of the bronco and ranger.
So they also can sit on Dirt Mountain or have $40k dealer mark-ups?.
The coupe is a base level vehicle form the sounds of it…
This is a start. Now just take it, angle the rear window a little more upward, extend the rear of it just a little more, give it a trunk-like look and things will be great!
Oh wait, I think I just described a sedan that just sits a couple inches higher. What a novel idea.
Coupes have always had only two doors, and the hell with what Mercedes-Benz has been doing with their attempts to call some of their four-door sporty sedans ‘Coupes’. They are wrong, and it is very sad to see GM Authority buy into this confusing and incorrect attempt to blur the definition of what a ‘coupe’ is.
Coupe de Ville – 2 doors. Sedan de Ville – 4 doors.
If GM really wants this market of cars they don’t are heading into EV designs I hope they are more upscale advanced look of this design then it’s all good futuristic is the word for GM now