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GM Cancels Next-Gen Hybrid Trucks and SUVs; Scrambles to fix interior


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In recent weeks, news and speculation surrounding GM’s next generation full-size trucks and SUVs has been piqued. The increased speculation has stemmed from multiple rumors and spy shots that suggest the new full-size trucks and SUVs will not be as Earth shattering as originally speculated. GMI has now been told that GM has canceled almost all of the hybrid variants of the new trucks and SUVs.

 

GMI has confirmed with several sources—both external and internal at GM—that the hybrid program surrounding the full-size trucks and SUVs has been shutdown. It is unusual for GM to cancel programs that are so close to launch, but many insiders GMI has spoken with are not terribly surprised by the move.

 

Remember that nasty looking interior from the spyshot?

 

News of GM scrapping the hybrids comes on the heels of further reports from insiders that suggest a recent interior spy shot of the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and reaction to it led to a shakeup of the entire new truck program. Details of what exactly has changed are unclear, but nonetheless, development of GM’s latest trucks and SUVs continue to evolve – despite launching in just nine to 10 months from now.

 

 

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Seriously though, this validates the majority opinion here that the visible bits of that interior were bad. I wonder how much can be changed in such a quick timeframe?

 

Another interesting tidbit, first run Silverados and Sierras are still 9 months from going into production, so easily 11 to 12 months from being on sale. The last model to launch, the Escalade, won't go into production until early 2014!

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Could it be that GM cancelled the Hybrid truck because it just realized what

Ford is up to with F150, something equally as good but much less costly?

 

That's the only reason I could think of for GM cancelling such a well advanced product..

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Could it be that GM cancelled the Hybrid truck because it just realized what

Ford is up to with F150, something equally as good but much less costly?

 

That's the only reason I could think of for GM cancelling such a well advanced product..

 

The probably knew that they weren't going to be able to hold a candle to anything else with the hybrid product. The existing hybrid trucks have been mediocre at best, and now Ram offers 25 MPG with the V6 and numbers for the Hemi expecting to trump the EcoBoost. The hybrid trucks probably didn't seen much in the way of gains for the cost premium...you know, like the rest of GM's hybrids...

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It's "All hands on deck" to fix the mainstream stuff.

After spending a fortune in resources on novelties,

letting Silverado languish is an almost unforgivable error

and i hope it costs them $6,000 a vehicle until it's done.

 

 

The probably knew that they weren't going to be able to hold a candle to anything else with the hybrid product. The existing hybrid trucks have been mediocre at best, and now Ram offers 25 MPG with the V6 and numbers for the Hemi expecting to trump the EcoBoost. The hybrid trucks probably didn't seen much in the way of gains for the cost premium...you know, like the rest of GM's hybrids...

It's part of the GM culture to set out on a course of developing "hail Mary" slam dunk vehicles

instead of broadening approach and supplying improvement across the board.

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