Confirming a the latest rumor, Chevrolet has declared that the Trax crossover will retire at the end of the 2022 calendar 12 months. Having said that, the enterprise debunked a different rumor and introduced that a next-generation model will make its debut at about the exact same time.
“Chevrolet does not system to abandon the essential entry-degree tiny SUV phase,” a spokesperson told Autoblog.
We’re not astonished to listen to that the Trax (pictured) has attained the stop of its existence cycle: it wasn’t launched in the United States until eventually the 2015 design yr but it’s linked to the Opel Mokka that was introduced in Europe in 2012 and replaced by a second-technology model in June 2020. It is way too early to tell what the second-generation Trax will seem like, Chevrolet has not announced facts about the crossover however, but will not assume it to share just about anything with the recent Mokka Opel is now component of Stellantis, so its times of sharing elements with Chevrolet are above.
A lot more information and facts about the subsequent-technology Trax will emerge forward of its unveiling in late 2022. Manufacturing will get started in the initially fifty percent of 2023.
The rumor also claimed that the Buick Encore, which is intently similar to (and constructed on the exact same assembly line as) the Trax, will retire in 2022 as nicely. Buick hasn’t commented on the report, but we might be stunned if the Encore life on though the Trax gets put out to pasture. Whether or not it will also be changed is an additional tale, nevertheless. We have arrived at out to the organization, and we’ll update this story if we understand far more.