In recent years, GMC entire product portfolio is based on existing Chevrolet models, with some vehicles differing more than others do from their bow-tie siblings, but now, parent company General Motors is contemplating to add at least one new car to GMC’s range that would not share its underpinnings with another Chevy.
The news comes from GM global product chief Mark Reuss who, when asked by Automotive News during the Detroit Motor Show unveiling of the new Canyon pickup truck whether we’d see a non-Chevy-based GMC, he replied “Oh, yes, you will.”
Reuss would not disclose further details about the type of vehicle or the timing, but he said that GMC’s excellent market performance is a very good reason to invest in the company. “The health of GMC is astonishingly good from a consideration standpoint,” Reuss said.
The only recent GMC concept that differed from other GM products was the Scion-xB-like Granite study (pictured above and below) for a small (just 161.3-inch or 4,097 mm long, roughly the same as a Ford Fiesta hatch) crossover model with opposite opening doors, though, the Detroit company has said at the time that it won’t enter production.
Furthermore, GM global design chief Ed Welburn told Automotive News last week that all concepts under development at the GMC studio are trucks, so it’s unlikely that the brand is considering a crossover.
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