Chevy Trax, Buick Encore to be discontinued after 2022

The economical small motor vehicle has grow to be even additional endangered in the U.S., with the Chevrolet Trax and Buick Encore as the most recent to reportedly close manufacturing. GM’s smallest and most economical crossover SUVs will be discontinued at the stop of the design yr, many resources reported this 7 days. 

GM was characteristically coy about the reports. 

“Chevy will carry on to give 5 unique SUVs in the U.S. and Canada likely ahead,” spokesperson Kellie Van Maele said in an electronic mail. “Beyond that, we simply cannot verify future products ideas at this time.”

Assuming the whole-measurement Tahoe and Suburban are not incorporated in that difference, Chevy at this time sells the Trax, Trailblazer, Equinox, Blazer, and Traverse, with electric powered versions of the Equinox and Blazer prepared for 2023. 

Regardless of GM’s formal get, the Trax and Encore were being on lifestyle guidance. GM experienced been divesting in each designs by restricting trims and element offerings in new several years. Last year, the best Leading trim degree was canceled on the 2021 Chevrolet Trax, leaving only the LS and LT trims.  The Top quality Seating Package deal was discontinued this yr, according to GM Authority. Equally, the 2022 Buick Encore had been stripped down to only the Most well-liked trim. Neither car or truck was geared up with regular automatic unexpected emergency braking most key automakers together with GM agreed to equip at the very least 95% of new automobiles sold with the crash-lessening and daily life-saving characteristic by September of this year.

GM was one of the initially automakers to supply a subcompact crossover. With the Encore released in 2013, and the Trax in 2015, equally versions had grown previous and been supplanted by more recent, larger sized a lot more competitive versions. Resurrecting an old nameplate, GM released the Chevy Trailblazer in 2021, and Buick failed to disguise its intent with the Encore GX that launched in the exact 12 months. The new versions had been objectively top-quality in most metrics and subjectively better. And the setting up prices were not that significantly off. 

Staying early to industry was nonetheless paying dividends for GM, who offered 42,590 Trax in 2021 and 20,072 Encore in the U.S. past 12 months. The much larger versions really should take up that volume without substantially of a cost boost, but also very likely with out supplier incentives. 

The 2022 Chevy Trax LS with front-wheel drive fees $21,400 a likewise geared up 2022 Trailblazer expenditures $21,800, excluding place. Buick inverts the pricing scheme, basically incentivizing the obtain of the GX: the 2022 Buick Encore Favored commences at $24,600 the 2022 Encore GX Chosen prices $24,400. 

With the finish of the Chevy Spark following 2022, that marks the conclude of being ready to invest in a new Chevy for much less than $20,000.