Chevrolet’s Chilean division has released the first images of a crossover new to the brand. It’s about the Groove, a car that, like many General Motors products, is not as new as it seems.
Rewind to November 2018, the month Chevrolet presented a new Captiva at the Bogota Motor Show in Colombia. That new Captiva has nothing to do with the Opel Antara-related SUV that was sold in the Netherlands until 2014. No, the new Captiva wasn’t actually a Chevrolet at all. The car was nothing more than a refreshed 530 from Baojun, a Chinese brand with which General Motors has a joint venture. Apparently Baojun’s products are popular with General Motors. The Chevrolet Captiva will get a brand new little brother in the form of the Groove, which is also just an existing crossover from Baojun.
Baojun 510
Where the Captiva is a Baojun 530, the crossover visible in these images presented via the Chilean branch of Chevrolet is clearly a Baojun 510. The 510 gets the well-known Chevrolet bow tie pressed on its snout and is suddenly a Groove, but that’s the only optical difference between the Chevy and the Baojun. This means that the Chevrolet Groove is also a 4.22 meter long crossover with a wheelbase of 2.55 meters. This makes it about the same size as the previous generation Opel Mokka (X). The engine list will feature a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine that delivers 110 hp, a machine that is always linked to a manual transmission. There is a small difference with the Chinese donor of the car to see. The Baojun 510 is also available with a machine.
Does the Groove model name sound familiar to you? That is then not based on air. Chevrolet already showed a funny concept car with that name in 2007. Certain design elements of the Groove Concept later found their way to the Orlando, also sold in the Netherlands.