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 suggests it rides on a unibody chassis just like the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz. The Montana is now accessible 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 an alternative, 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 language, the mannequin presents one of the best inside area in Brazil’s small truck phase, in addition to a totally remoted truck mattress that doesn’t enable water and dirt to enter the cargo area, identical to in a daily car trunk. There’s an elective electrical mattress cowl, too.

As a extra lifestyle-oriented truck, the Montana doesn’t include an all-wheel-drive system – you’ll be able to’t have it at the same time as an possibility versus the Fiat Toro, which is without doubt one of the new truck’s opponents in Brazil. There’s additionally only a single engine accessible – 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 computerized. The height output is 133 horsepower (98 kilowatts), which matches the utmost energy of the Tracker.

By way of 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 carefully positioned in opposition to 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 trade charges. There isn’t any indication that Chevy may deliver the mannequin to the US market, although.