After a notable nine-month hiatus without communicating any news about the model, General Motors has just announced that the next-generation Chevy Montana will arrive in Brazil and other South American countries in 2023. The automaker stated that development of the compact-sized pickup is advancing “at an accelerated pace” and its launch date is getting closer.
GM’s top executive in South America announced the arrival of the next-generation Chevy Montana next year in Brazil and the rest of the region’s markets, without giving a more specific timeline. In addition, he also took the opportunity to reveal some details of what will be Chevrolet’s first unibody compact pickup, reaffirming that it will debut an unprecedented concept for the brand.
“New Montana will surprise the market with several innovations, starting with intelligent design,” said President GM South America, Santiago Chamorro, in a statement. “The cabin makes better use of the interior space to offer more comfort to occupants while the bed will debut technologies that provide even greater versatility,” he added.
Chamorro was recently inspecting renovations at the GM São Caetano do Sul plant tasked with building the next-generation Chevy Montana, which will completely redefine the nameplate with a larger body size and compete in a higher segment. The plant began assembling the first preproduction units of the Montana to complete the validation testing process in Brazilian territory.
In fact, the company showed off a second teaser image of the next-gen Chevy Montana showing a partial view of the vehicle’s grille with the year 2023 on it, and announced that it will host a web series to publicly share the final stages of the product’s development. The new web series will be available on General Motors South America’s LinkedIn page.
As such, GM officially confirms the report that GM Authority published earlier this month on the possible delay in the launch of the next-generation Chevy Montana, which was initially scheduled to go on sale in the middle of this year. Now, the third-generation Chevy Montana is expected to arrive in Brazil in the first quarter of 2023.
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Come on GM, The NA market needs this to combat Ford and Hyundai.
In 2018 Mark Ruess said the next Montana would substantially increase in size and spec with the possibility of bringing a US/Canada spec model. I bet they didn’t follow through on that thought, and I bet they are kicking themselves now. Classic GM, risk adverse even to good ideas.
GM went from approving almost any product in the ’00s to over correcting where we are now. This compact truck, at one point, had the potential to beat Maverick and Santa Cruz to market by an entire production year or more.
It’s cause mark reuss approved such a plan, and scary Mary said no…. The Biden administration called and it’s not an EV and will steel from EV truck sales and he got overridden. I’d love to see Mary replaced by Reuss. He has more balls and vision
It’s not electric, a slim chance that it would be “imported” for the USA market.
when are we in north american and canadian markets getting the montana compact pick up still interested in buy and supporting etc., etc.
I think GM is dumb, can’t even build what they have now, and worry about new models.
Joe, no truer words said. You hit the nail right on the head, LOL!
Hey Joe check out the thumbs down lames we got, pretty laughable!
Why would people want new models when they can’t build why they have. I ordered a new refreshed Trail Boss 1 st week of Jan. no build date yet.
Because they don’t want to sit on their hands and not move forward. Everything they do is about the future not today or yesterday. That’s how you run a business.
At what point do they get over to far over their skis then? Well they did get a get out of jail bankruptcy card from the government so heck yeah lets throw 300 billion at evs, if we fail again the us taxpayer will just bail us out.
Why the big gap between generations? Same as the Colorados.
Hey GM, not to good whit your new Chevy Montana bilt in Brazil what about in US/Canada market, this is very bad. I am not very happy about this… 🙁
It is not being offered in the NA market (NA used to mean North America, now it means Not Available) because gm is focused on BEV and losing its knowledge of ICE. Ford may (not sure) have the correct idea of splitting the two so each can focus on what they do best. (Should have brought back the Mercury nameplate for BEV but that is just a personal opinion). Hope someone at gm knows what they are doing because it doesn’t seem like a good long term strategy to ignore what will still be a large percent of the automobile market.
As usual, those in charge at GM have no clue as to what their potential customers actually want. They think they do with their “don’t you know who we think we are” attitude. But they are so far removed from the real world they are always late to market.
Gm has had there head stuck so far up there u know what, they can see what they had for breakfast for quite a long time. I understand there trying to go ev and try and beat ford and others in this MarketShare thing and plant there flag but at what cost? Seems as if there putting all there eggs in a basket which at best is 15yrs away. On one side of gm you have the likes of the wonderful new and inspiring corvette which lies at the core of Chevy dna, then on the other this huge push for evs, and everything in between just suffers sadly. Governments for the most part have handicapped all manufactures for quite a long time, sadly fiat,dodge,ram, chrysler, mercedes or whoever owns that outfit had some nice and powerful cars with style and curves that many crave(look at how many charger, challengers, sold) imagine all the wonderful cars, trucks, sports cars that could be if they werent forced to comply with all government mandates dealing with mpgs. Its like living in the hay day of technology and not being able to fully enjoy it.
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Well, maybe the Maverick, but ”Santa Claus’ -instead of the Santa Cruz.
You know they would bring it here and you know what would happen?
I will not buy it because it is not made here.
It is too expensive.
It only has 3 cylinders.
It is too basic.
It will not tow unless I get the AWD and for that price I can get a Colorado.
It sucks because it is fwd.
Hey I found out why it was so cheap as they really cut corners like Ford.
Well I would have bought one but I can’t offered one anyways working mowing yards.
Its too nice, its too plain, its too big, its too small, its not small enough, its not big enough. It only has a 3 cylinder, it only has a 4 cylinder, its only a V6, it has a turbo, it doesn’t have a turbo, I can’t get a pink velour interior, I would buy it if had a GMC badge, I won’t buy it because its a Chevrolet, the name is wrong, the name is too right, Why aren’t there rebates? Why are there rebates? I’m still mad about Pontiac, it should be Holden, why aren’t the seats made from virgin cow hides? Its a fake pickup, its a pick up, those are only for rednex ,its too low, its too high, I don’t like the seat tracks, the dealer only had 4 in stock, its made in a foreign country, its made in the US, its made in Canada, Mexico, Azerbaijan, it still has a key, it doesn’t have a key, the nav screen is too small, the nav screen is too big, I don’t like the font they use on the a/c knobs……
I would buy my 2000 compact, AWD, king cab, 6 cyl. truck again if new (and equipped with the latest safety package.) However, I’m forced to select among mid-sized trucks as no marque makes a real compact truck. So I’m waiting for “my” ZR2 to become available, possibly by the fall. Yet, I stopped to look at vehicles on a dealer’s lot and a guy pulled up and wanted to buy my compact truck on the spot. There are three other compact trucks in my neighborhood and the owners say they wouldn’t sell either. The best compact trucks can do 90% that a huge, full sized pickup can do … yet you can reach across the cab and lock the passenger door. With performance shocks and tires my compact truck handles like a sports car with a “trunk” that will swallow a 4’x6′ plywood or haul a load of dirt. And still fit nicely in a parking space. Bring back the compact truck.
Bring back the Pontiac Montana minivan EV version instead,
I have the 1997 Transport Montana and the 2005 Pontiac Montana.
Same body style with minor changes for 9 long model years!
Can haul more stuff, especially 4×8 plywood, inside than the open back pickup truck!
Great vehicles.
Also, time to bring back Pontiac with EV lineup, starting with the Firebird EV Trans Am.
Pontiac was a popular GM division in BC, Canada.
Sucking order; GM, Ford, Ram
Buy a Toyota and see what it is like to have a reliable vehicle.
2023 GR Corolla being announced tomorrow. Lets see a domestic manufacturer make a 3cyl, 1.3l 270hp car with AWD.
Wow, a $40,000 Corolla with boosted 3 cylinder……in a country where I can buy a 485hp Charger R/T Scat Pack or any other near 500hp cars for close to or about the same money…..excuse me if I don’t get a fainting spell….
Toyota Honda are no more reliable than GM or Ford when it’s all said and done. I do wish that GM would bring the Montana to the North America market. Give people a choice just Ford is doing with 3 different models. The Maverick is sold out for the model year and the Santa Cruz is sold with in 4 days.
GM needs to move faster . I am beginning to think that they are purposely holding back to create higher prices for more profits.
Still need years to reach German technology, I have Tahoe 2019 and still no smart key and normal transmission.
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