Whereas the Holden Captiva left the brand new automobile scene in 2018, the nameplate has soldiered on abroad, and is now coming into its third era.
Whereas the unique Captiva was developed by GM Korea, and offered by quite a lot of manufacturers, together with Daewoo, Chevrolet, Opel, and Holden, subsequent generations had been engineered by SAIC-GM-Wuling, a three way partnership between the Basic and MG’s mum or dad firm, which makes and markets automobiles underneath the Baojun and Wuling marques.
The second-generation Chevrolet Captiva is offered primarily in Latin America, the Center East, and south-east Asia, and is a rebadged model of the Baojun 530. As an fascinating apart, the 530 can also be offered because the MG Hector in India.
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Wuling Starlight S
For the third iteration of the Captiva, which was introduced per week or so in the past by GM Brazil, the corporate is affixing bow tie badges to the Wuling Starlight S.
Chevrolet Brazil has been fairly quiet relating to the brand new Captiva EV’s specs and general design, solely releasing a video and some images of the automobile coming off a cargo ship.
In comparison with the Starlight S, the brand new Captiva EV has a novel entrance bumper with a pretend grille linking collectively the driving mild eyebrows, in addition to a bigger decrease air consumption encompass. On the rear, the Chevrolet’s solely factors of distinction appear to be its badges.
Contained in the cabin there’s a 8.8-inch instrumentation show, in addition to a 15.6-inch touchscreen infotainment unit within the centre of the dashboard.
The Wuling Starlight S has a 150kW electrical motor driving the entrance wheels, and is fed by a 60kWh lithium iron phosphate battery. Driving vary, as estimated by the beneficiant CLTC normal, is alleged to be 510km.
In China the Starlight S can also be supplied as a 1.5-litre plug-in hybrid with both 9.5kWh or 20.5kWh battery packs, which permit for between 60 and 130km of emissions-free driving.
Measuring 4745mm lengthy, 1890mm broad, 1685mm tall, and using on a 2800mm wheelbase, the Captiva EV is round 100mm longer, 40mm wider, and 35mm decrease than the Captiva that also graces Australian roads.
Whereas the Holden Captiva was out there in each five- and seven-seat variants, the Captiva EV seats a most of 5 folks.
The Captiva EV is inbuilt China, and has to this point been confirmed for Latin America. The extra reasonably priced petrol-powered second-generation Captiva will proceed to be alongside its electrical cousin.
Not like many different manufacturers, which have revived previous names, or created sub-brands and distinctive naming schemes for his or her EVs, Chevrolet applies the identical names for each its inner combustion (ICE) and electrical automobiles, even when the ICE and EV fashions are utterly distinct when it comes to styling and underpinnings.
It has to this point employed this parallel naming construction to the Blazer, Equinox, Silverado, and, now, the Captiva too.
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