2023 Chevrolet Montana Unveiled In Brazil With 1.2-Liter Turbo

We spied Chevrolet’s upcoming small truck for South America in March this yr and the product is lastly able to make its full and official debut. The second technology Montana shares its platform with the Chevy Onix, Onix Plus, and Tracker, which implies it rides on a unibody chassis just like the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz. The Montana is now out there for orders in Brazil with the primary deliveries deliberate for February subsequent yr.

The small pickup truck doesn’t have aspirations to be extraordinary off the street. As a substitute, Chevy focuses on the efficiency on the street and guarantees the Montana is “the SUV you want within the pickup truck you dreamed of.” Or, setting apart the advertising and marketing language, the mannequin provides the most effective inside area in Brazil’s small truck section, in addition to a totally remoted truck mattress that doesn’t permit water and mud to enter the cargo area, identical to in a daily automobile trunk. There’s an non-compulsory electrical mattress cowl, too.

As a extra lifestyle-oriented truck, the Montana doesn’t include an all-wheel-drive system – you may’t have it at the same time as an possibility versus the Fiat Toro, which is among the new truck’s rivals in Brazil. There’s additionally only a single engine out there – a 1.2-liter turbocharged three-cylinder mill shared with the Chevy Tracker. Energy is routed to the entrance wheels through both a six-speed guide gearbox or a six-speed automated. The height output is 133 horsepower (98 kilowatts), which matches the utmost energy of the Tracker.

When it comes to dimensions, the Montana is smaller than the Toro. At 185.8 inches (4.72 meters )lengthy, it’s 8.66 inches (22 cm) shorter. The cargo space can swallow as much as 30.8 cubic-feet (874 liters), whereas the Toro has a 33.08 cu-ft (937-liter) boot quantity. To a sure extent, the Montana is extra intently positioned towards the Renault Oroch, which has comparable dimensions and a barely smaller cargo space.

In Brazil, the 2023 Montana goes on sale with costs beginning at 134,490 Brazilian actual, which is round $25,800 on the present change charges. There isn’t any indication that Chevy may carry the mannequin to the US market, although.