In this modern age of globalization, vehicles produced by American brands may source parts from Korea, build engines in Mexico, and manufacture vehicles in China. While many people takes this into consideration when purchasing a new vehicle, Mexican consumers don’t seem to mind all that much, as a majority of new vehicles sold by GM Mexico are built in China.
In fact, the six best sellers – which includes the Chevy Aveo, Chevy Captiva, Chevy S10 Max, Chevy Tornado Van, Chevy Onix, and Chevy Groove – were all manufactured in China, and represented a vast majority of GM Mexico sales over the course of H1 2023. Meanwhile, the two vehicles built in the United States or Mexico – the Chevy Silverado/Cheyenne and GMC Sierra – claimed a minority of GM Mexico sales.
| Model | Manufacturing Country | H1 2023 Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Chevrolet Aveo | China | 21,657 |
| Chevrolet Captiva | China | 8,591 |
| Chevrolet S10 Max | China | 8,583 |
| Chevrolet Tornado Van | China | 7,940 |
| Chevrolet Onix | China | 7,576 |
| Chevrolet Groove | China | 6,575 |
| Chevrolet Trax | Korea | 6,513 |
| Chevrolet Silverado/Cheyenne | Mexico/USA/Canada | 5,009 |
| GMC Sierra | Mexico/USA | 1,807 |
| Chevrolet Cavalier | China | 1,502 |
Indeed, it appears as though Mexican car customers may actually have a preference for vehicles built in China.
2024 Chevy Aveo
As can be seen in the graph above, the Chevy Aveo stands as the most popular vehicle sold by GM Mexico by a wide margin. To this end, General Motors recently launched the next-gen 2024 Aveo in April 2023. Available in either a five-door hatchback or four-door sedan, the all-new Aveo will continue to serve as GM Mexico’s best-selling product.
“The new 2024 Chevrolet Aveo responds to the needs of our customers, with great value within the offer of subcompact vehicles,” GM Mexico Marketing Manager Wilberto del Ángel said in a statement. “The 2024 Aveo will allow us to keep current customers in this segment and most importantly, win over more Mexicans. That is why we call it the best Aveo that has ever existed.”
2023 Chevy S10 Max
As a whole, General Motors has been busy updating its Mexican offerings over the course of the past several years, with several mid-cycle refreshes and vehicle launches that include:
- 2024 Chevy Captiva
- 2023 Chevy S10 Max Pickup
- 2022 Chevy Tornado Van
- 2022 Chevy Groove
- 2022 Chevy Cavalier
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Comments
One word, “price”. For all people wail about China, or well any country, for the vast majority it boils down to the cheapest price. And China has been delivering on that. Walmart was built on China. Amazon has picked up that mantle. Although direct Alibaba may kill Amazon eventually because “price”. Take airline tickets, everyone complains about seat sizes being too small, and yet the vast majority pick a ticket based on price. Net effect, seats get smaller.
Temu also sells a ton of cheap crap from China. Once again, the shipping probably costs more than the item.
They have a preference for vehicles they can afford. “They have a preference for vehicles built in China.” What a stupid statement!
Why China??
This program is flawed. That comment was never made before
So Chevy still makes cheap cars for sale in other countries. I guess that makes sense because there are no poor people in the US. Corporate logic at its best.
We want our vehicles MADE IN THE USA!! You wonder why there are so many strikes being threatened. Build our vehicles here in the USA, give us a decent price and reduce the corporate pay checks and get us back on track to be the best vehicles made and keeping our money here rather than other countries. It worked for many years and can again! Tomg
It’s not so much the corporate paychecks. It is adding needless complexity and what a former work associate called “gidgie-gadgets” to the cars that Uncle Sam is NOT mandating, but that the car companies seem to think we want or need in every car right down to the most basic you can buy.
Go over to Ford Authority; they have lots of articles about Ford’s endless stream of patents for things no one in the entire world has asked for.
I like AC, and electric windows, and back window defrosters, not to mention a decent radio. But, all of this other nonsense just gets in the way and causes issues.
My brother had two consecutive Chevy Canyons with electronic issues, one of them made it less than 100 miles before barfing its guts and dying. The second one made it 6,700 miles before putting on a light show that would do Vegas proud. Both service departments said the same thing: “they put so much needless complexity into these things that no one can fix them, even the engineers who design it!”.
A strike will prevent this happening in America.
I hope so!
GEM is only built in China so it’s logical that these cars would be exported to developing countries. GEM cars are cheaper so would be popular in Mexico when Chevrolet is a bargin brand.
Aveo looks like an old Astra mated with GEM platform. I wonder if quality has dropped in Mexico with these Chinese take outs?
Mary Barra and others like Gerald Johnson should be locked up, not making exorbitant salaries.
GM was saved from bankruptcy and extinction by American taxpayers. These are some of the same people who’s jobs are being offshored.
Maybe Mary needs almost 30 million in compensation to be able to sleep at night.
They’re selling them GM junk that’s okay enjoy the United States now it’s gonna be gone very soon handwriting is on the wall
I worked for gm from 1995 thru 2006 and they just ran their product and reputation into thr ground, their products are all foreign sourced crap because they don’t want to pay a fair wage to U.S. workers, just a bunch of phony crooks running a failing bus iness propped up by the American taxpayer. SAD but true, I will not buy any of this GM foreign China made crap!