LAST AUTO NEWS – PREVIEW: 2010 GMC TERRAIN
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At this week’s New York Auto Show, GMC will admission a new midsize SUV that reportedly manages 30 mpg in artery driving. Some media sources say, however, that the 2010 GMC Terrain is little added than a thinly-rebadged Chevrolet Equinox, and a assurance of what’s amiss with General Motors.
Edmunds Inside Line reports, “With crossovers continuing to be the ablaze atom in GM sales, today the automaker took the wraps off the five-passenger 2010 GMC Terrain crossover that will be displayed at the 2009 New York Auto Show. GMC told Inside Line that the Terrain, a affinity to the 2010 Chevrolet Equinox, will be priced beneath $25,000.”
The Terrain is a lot of arresting for its adventurous styling. Kicking Tires notes, “It seems GM has afflicted every section of area metal on the Terrain to accomplish it angle out. And angle out it does. A lot of noticeably, the boxlike fender flares advertise to the apple that this is a truck-buyer’s SUV.”
Not anybody loves the look. Motor Trend likens it to a abundantly abominable design, wondering, “Could it be the 2010 Aztek?”
But mechanically, the Terrain is about identical to the Equinox. Autoblog reports, “Both cars allotment the aforementioned platform, the aforementioned engine choices and even the aforementioned abeyance calibrations.”
That affinity lies at the affection of the criticism already arising about the Terrain. Kicking Tires explains, “For years car admirers accept lamented a convenance alleged ‘rebadging.’ A ample automaker like GM would yield a car from one brand, change a few accessory data and advertise it with a altered name beneath addition brand. Thus, replacing the cast or emblem.” The Terrain may artlessly be a case of rebadging, which has larboard GM with too abounding models for auction today, they write.
Edmunds Inside Line sees an altercation for rebadging the Equinox into the Terrain. “Chevrolet on Wednesday appear that sales of its crossovers, like the Equinox, added 19 percent against February 2009 sales. Overall GM sales were down 45 percent in March against a year ago,” Edmunds notes. The Terrain, then, may be “a analytical crossover for the GM cast as the automaker struggles to survive.”
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