Chevrolet took the wraps off the brand new Montana in South America at the moment, the place it arrives as a snug small truck providing a extra crossover-like expertise to potential prospects. That cuts each methods, although, as a result of the automobile comes with only one engine choice (a 1.2-liter three-cylinder) and no AWD choice.

Chevrolet says it was targeted on delivering a great acceleration-to-fuel economic system ratio with the 2023 Montana, which is why it selected the 1.2-liter Turbo Flex engine as its solely choice. The three-cylinder makes 133 hp (99 kW/135 PS) and 155 lb-ft (210 Nm) of torque.

The engine works significantly properly at low revs, in line with the automaker, making it ideally suited for this software. It hasn’t but revealed how briskly it may well get to 62 mph (100 km/h) however has revealed that it returns 31.2 MPG on the freeway and 26.1 MPG within the metropolis (7.5/9.0 L/100 km). Not like its competitors, although, no AWD system is obtainable as but, although consumers can select from both a handbook or an computerized six-speed transmission.

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The brand new Montana is greater than something a life-style truck, and the corporate claims it’s the “SUV you want, the pickup you dreamed of.” Measuring in at roughly 15 toes lengthy and 6 toes vast (4.5×1.8 meters), it gives best-in-class house for second-row passengers.

It additionally will get six airbags, blind spot alert, swanky LED headlights, digital air con, parking sensors, a backup digital camera, push-button begin, wi-fi smartphone charging, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, OnStar, and built-in WiFi, making it a somewhat luxurious little truck.

The mattress can maintain 874 liters (31 cubic toes) of stuff and the truck can haul almost half its personal weight, however Chevy says that it wasn’t primarily targeted on maxing out specs.

The brand new Montana options mattress separators, making it extra sensible to hold the whole lot from groceries to furnishings, to piles of dust. Chevrolet additionally made positive to offer best-in-class safety towards mud and water within the cabin, for a extra snug expertise, even once you’re utilizing the Montana as a pickup truck.

As the most recent member of Chevy’s so-called “world automobile household,” the brand new unibody Montana shares its underpinnings with the Onix, the Onix Plus, and the Tracker. Chevrolet says that it’s now taking orders for the 2023 Montana in Brazil with a base worth of 134,490 Brazilian actual ($25,895 USD at present trade charges).