DETROIT — GMC has began constructing the SUV model of the Hummer EV and the third-generation Canyon midsize pickup.
Production of the 2024 Hummer EV SUV started Monday at General Motors’ Factory Zero plant in Detroit, officers mentioned. The 2023 Canyon entered manufacturing final week at Wentzville Assembly in Missouri. Deliveries of each autos will start within the subsequent two months.
Three of 4 Canyon trims are in manufacturing — Denali, AT4 and Elevation — and the AT4X will comply with, Duncan Aldred, vice chairman of worldwide Buick and GMC, advised reporters Monday. The redesigned pickup is taller and wider throughout all trim ranges.
Aldred mentioned GMC has acquired 90,000 reservations for the Hummer SUV and pickup mixed, and it has quickly stopped taking extra reservations so it will possibly work on fulfilling present demand by 2023 and 2024.
Sales of the Edition 1 Hummer pickup, priced at greater than $110,000, started in December 2021. Less-expensive trims initially have been anticipated to turn out to be obtainable final fall, however a GMC spokesman mentioned they’ll start to roll out this 12 months. GM bought 855 Hummer pickups by the top of 2022.
“Production volume last year was always intended to be very, very low,” Aldred mentioned of the Hummer pickup, including that output will ramp up within the second half of this 12 months.
Source: www.autonews.com
