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Chevrolet Cruze, the brand's popular sedan, will soon leave the Brazilian market, paving the way for the Tracker SUV to consolidate its presence in the national automotive market.
The 2024 Stock Car season marked the farewell of the Chevrolet Cruze on the racetrack. Chevrolet announced the end of commercial production of the model in Brazil, consolidating the replacement of the Cruze by the Tracker in competitions, with the necessary adaptations for the new scenario. The departure of Chevrolet's popular car symbolizes a new era for the brand in the country, which is now focusing its efforts on the growing SUV market.
Chevrolet car leaves Brazil and decrees the end of sedans on the race tracks
The end of Chevrolet's popular car in the Brazilian automotive market, in 2024, coincided with the end of sedans on the tracks.
In this year's season, the model won its seventh title, won by the driver Gabriel Casa Grande, from the AMattheis Vogel team. In total, they won three of the seven championships led by the Chevrolet Cruze over the eight seasons it competed.
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Daniel Sera won three others, while Ricardo Maurício secured another trophy for the popular Chevrolet car. With that, only Opal adds the most titles in the competition: 15. Chevrolet, the biggest supporter of the category, has taken 35 titles since the beginning, in 1979. Next year, the Chevrolet car leaves Brazil and gives way to the Tracker SUV.
According to Paula Saiani, Product Marketing Director at GM South America, the public's current preference is for SUVs, which have evolved greatly in terms of design, comfort and vehicle dynamics. Currently, around 40% of passenger car sales are concentrated in this type of automobile., a percentage twice as high as five years ago.
A little bit of the history of the Chevrolet Cruze in the automotive market
With the separation of Chevrolet and its European divisions, the brand began to seek inspiration from other brands in the General Motors group, such as the Korean Daewoo, responsible for the creation of the popular Chevrolet Cruze car. Its first generation arrived here in 2011 and featured a 1.8 Ecotec engine, multimedia center and 6 airbags as standard, which were unique at the time of its launch.
The second generation of Chevrolet's popular car was launched in 2017, innovating by introducing the highly energy-efficient turbo engine, as well as advanced autonomous driving assistance features.
The Chevrolet car leaves Brazil as a pioneer in bringing advanced connectivity with native internet, a difference that reflected technology trends in the automotive sector. Almost 300 thousand units of the Chevrolet Cruze were registered in the Brazilian automotive market.
Replacement for Chevrolet's popular car – Chevrolet Cruze
The Chevrolet car leaves Brazil for the arrival of the Tracker, which will be updated next year. The 2025 line of the compact SUV will receive some engine tweaks to adapt to the eighth phase of Proconve, and will be more powerful and with more torque to increase competitiveness in the automotive market.
The 2025 Chevrolet Tracker will receive direct fuel injection for both engines, leaving aside the multipoint system and fuel preheating. And it is exactly this technology that will allow the model to become more powerful and have more torque.
Starting next year, the Chevrolet replacement Cruze has a 1.0 turbo flex engine delivering 117 horsepower with gasoline and 121 hp with ethanol and 18,3 kgfm with gasoline and 18,9 kgfm with ethanol. It will serve the AT, LT and LTZ configurations. The RS and Premier versions will have the 1.2 turbo flex delivering 139 hp with gasoline and 141 hp with ethanol and 22,4 kgfm with gasoline and 22,9 kgfm with ethanol.
I hated what they did, Chevrolet literally killed the best style of car because of this thing.