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14 March 2019 | AutoData AUTOMAKERS » CLASSIFIED HONDA The next generation of Fit is scheduled to be manufactured in Itirapina, SP, from January 2021, with the current model’s end of production in December 2020. The new generation of the HR-V model will be produced in Itirapina, SP, from 2022. GENERAL MOTORS The next generation of the Onix model, code JBJC1, and Prisma, JBSC1, based on the new GEM platform, will be produced in Brazil in 2020. Also in 2020, GM should produce a compact SUV in Brazil, code JBUC1, to replace Tracker, imported from Mexico. This model will also use the GEM platform. In March 2021, another SUV, smaller than Tracker’s substitute, will be manufactured in Argentina. It will also be based on GEM. The new generation of Montana, code S4103, will be launched in 2021. The new generations of Spin, code JBNC1, and Cobalt, JBSC1, will arrive in 2022 - all three models will also use the GEM and are expected to continue in Sao Caetano do Sul, SP. The unit in Gravatai, RS, will produce a new pickup truck, intermediate of Montana and S10, a rival for Fiat Toro, from April of 2023, also using the GEM platform. In Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, GM decided to extend the life of the current generation of models produced there: the end of Trailblazer production was extended from September 2019 to March 2023 and, therefore, the start of production of the new generation was transferred from October 2019 to April 2023, with a face-lift scheduled to April 2028. Meanwhile, the maintenance of the current S10’s life was lengthened from March 2022 to September 2022, with the new generation scheduled now for the following month and a face-lift in September 2027. The end of the current production of Cruze in Argentina was also extended from March 2021 to March 2023. Likewise the schedule of the new generation jumped from April 2021 to two years later, with restyling scheduled for April 2026. NISSAN The new generations of March and Versa, codes B02E and L02D, will be manufactured in Resende, RJ, in 2021. They will be based on the new CMF platform of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which is already used by the current Kicks and will also be shared with the future models Renault Sandero, Logan and Duster. Today, those Nissan models use the V1 platform. Disclosure/Fiat