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This may come as a surprise, but General Motors intends to drop the 1500 light-duty versions of the Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana for 2015. GM's product manager for full-size vans declared for an online publication that the 1500-series "would become a very low-volume-production product."
If you can live with the nauseating styling, the 1500 light-duty versions of the Chevy Express and GMC Savana are pretty versatile vehicles if you need to haul lots of junk from A to B or travel places with your entire family, including the golden labrador and the cat. However, customers started to overlook the 1500s either for bigger versions or far more compact vans.
GM sales spokesman Jim Cain declared for PickupTrucks.com that full-size van customers started to prefer 2500, 3500 and 4500 versions by an overwhelming margin in recent years. Just 23 percent of Chevy Express vans sold in recent years are light-duty versions, while the GMC Savana 1500 accounts for just 7 percent of total sales.
Anyway you interpret those figures, it's easy to tell that it would've been a bad investment to push the aforementioned models into the 2015 model year. By phasing out the aforementioned full-size vans, the automaker's plant from Wentzville, Missouri, will be able to focus its efforts on assembling the next generation Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks.
"Customers are either getting a lot bigger or a lot smaller," declared GM fleet and commercial spokesman Robert Wheeler. "For GM, the 1500 was the only option out there. That was our smallest van, if you will." As a reminder, General Motors' smallest van nowadays is the 2015 Chevrolet City Express, a rebadged version of the Nissan NV200. The cheapest variant commands a $22,950 starting price, including the $995 destination charge.
If you can live with the nauseating styling, the 1500 light-duty versions of the Chevy Express and GMC Savana are pretty versatile vehicles if you need to haul lots of junk from A to B or travel places with your entire family, including the golden labrador and the cat. However, customers started to overlook the 1500s either for bigger versions or far more compact vans.
GM sales spokesman Jim Cain declared for PickupTrucks.com that full-size van customers started to prefer 2500, 3500 and 4500 versions by an overwhelming margin in recent years. Just 23 percent of Chevy Express vans sold in recent years are light-duty versions, while the GMC Savana 1500 accounts for just 7 percent of total sales.
Anyway you interpret those figures, it's easy to tell that it would've been a bad investment to push the aforementioned models into the 2015 model year. By phasing out the aforementioned full-size vans, the automaker's plant from Wentzville, Missouri, will be able to focus its efforts on assembling the next generation Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks.
"Customers are either getting a lot bigger or a lot smaller," declared GM fleet and commercial spokesman Robert Wheeler. "For GM, the 1500 was the only option out there. That was our smallest van, if you will." As a reminder, General Motors' smallest van nowadays is the 2015 Chevrolet City Express, a rebadged version of the Nissan NV200. The cheapest variant commands a $22,950 starting price, including the $995 destination charge.
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