With the impending closure of GM’s Norsom assembly plant in China, the Chevy Tracker will no longer be manufactured in the Asian country.
General Motors’ SAIC-GM joint venture in China will stop making the Chevy Tracker in the country this month as part of the automaker’s restructuring of operations in the world’s largest automotive market. The Tracker is ending its local production run, with the last units of the model rolling off the assembly lines at the SAIC-GM Norsom plant just ahead of the facility’s full shutdown.
The current fourth-generation Chevy Tracker made its global debut in China in early 2019 as Chevrolet’s subcompact crossover for emerging markets around the world, marking the brand’s first vehicle based on the automaker’s Global Emerging Markets (GEM) platform that soon spread to mainstream entry-level products internationally. In fact, SAIC-GM was in charge of the Tracker’s design and development process.
Notably, the Norsom factory was SAIC-GM’s only manufacturing facility in all of China that built the Chevy Tracker for sale in the local market and for export to some Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan. As such, the closure of the facility also marks the end of production of the crossover in the country after completing a six-year manufacturing period and a few hundred thousand units assembled at that industrial complex.
Almost from the very start of its production run at the Chinese plant, the Chevy Tracker faced multiple challenges that limited its level of popularity among customers and affected its local production volume. In addition to the global COVID-19 pandemic that affected sales and production operations, the Tracker never achieved outstanding sales performance due to the low popularity of three-cylinder engines and the massive emergence of EVs in the Chinese market.
The Chevy Tracker is ending production in China and will soon be officially discontinued in the country, where Chevrolet’s vehicle portfolio is increasingly short and aging. However, the fourth-generation Tracker is still manufactured in two plants in South America – including the GM Sao Caetano do Sul plant in Brazil and the GM Alvear plant in Argentina – to supply the main Latin American markets.
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You know, and please I’m not trying to get anyone mad at me but the best manufacturing facility for the Tracker probably was the Chinese plant. I wouldn’t purchase one but the Chinese vehicles are getting better and better. They really learned a lot of manufacturing tidbits from the likes of gm, VW, Tesla, etc.
Boy, did that come around and bite us in the butt.
never buy chinese products. gm is a traitor on this.
Think about it. At the end of the second world war in 1945 China was the third world nation.
In less than one generation they’ve become a superpower. With a population of over 1.4 billion people.
thanks to the good ol’ USA.
I have always been a General Motors customer and former General Motors salaried technician. I recently had to pass on my 2500HD crew cab to my son who needed it for business purposes. I replaced it with a 1500 4WD crew cab LT with the 2.7 L 4cyl Turbomax engine. I like the truck so far. I paid more for it than I did the GMC 2500HD Crew Cab 4wd a few years back. What is frustrating, is none of the electronic services, are included in the $50,000 price of the truck. Everything requires a subscription. Extremely frustrating to have to pay subscriptions to the electronic options included in this truck: Onstar, GPS Road Maps, Internet Data Connectivity, and so on. I suppose if you’re involved in a serious collision Onstar will not report accident if you haven’t paid a subscription. In summary, it makes me feel like the new truck I’m driving is as basic a truck as I have ever owned. I just don’t believe an automotive company should load up a vehicle with creature comforts, that one has to pay additional subscription prices for, when they already paid outrageous purchase price for the vehicle. This business decision does not make a customer feel like continuing their loyalty to purchase another GM brand in the future. What nickel and dime subscriptions will they squeeze out of the customer next? Heat, Air Conditioning. Power Steering, 4 wheel drive, will only be activated by purchasing subscriptions? Options installed should be part of the purchase. Otherwise, they can save the customer money by giving us the option to delete them.
$50,000.00 base truck, & probably not built near as well as your 2500HD truck. These electronics are also like the technology in phones & desk top computers=they age out. I think it was our 2013 Camaro SS that the Onstar capability aged out due to some upgrading of newer over the air systems & the 2013 was the older generation. I also recall reading that one of the European manufacturers had floated the idea of using subscription for their heated seats, but got dropped.