Hearing rumors GM and Navistar teaming up ?

jus2shy wrote:
I doubt they'll use the engine on the 4/5/6 trucks, they'll probably use the Duramax as I remember seeing it on those class 4/5/6 trucks. Heck, Ford is using their 6.7 on the 4/5/6 trucks in the near future as well. I think GM is just trying to find a company to supply a chassis really quick so they can get into the medium duty market as the economy is really heating up right now. Makes sense, since they probably never invested a single cent into developing a medium duty chassis since 2009. They're covering one set of customers with the Isuzu chassis and another set of customers with the Navistar chassis. Still though, I wonder if the market segment is just too crowded right now.

DETROIT -- General Motors is returning to the medium-duty commercial truck business in the U.S. next year after a seven-year hiatus, a move that GM believes will lead to more sales of pickups, vans and other trucks to fleet buyers.

GM will sell trucks from Isuzu Motors as rebadged Chevrolets, the companies announcedtoday. They include six so-called low-cab forward models: Chevrolet 3500, 3500HD, 4500, 4500HD, 5500 and 5500 HD.

Ed Peper, GM's vice president of fleet and commercial sales, said dealers who do significant fleet business have been asking for years for GM to return to the medium-duty market. Peper said medium-duty customers typically need other trucks for their fleets, from midsize and light-duty pickups to vans and crossovers.

Chevy will sell regular-cab and crew-cab versions of the new trucks, which will offer a GM-sourced 6.0-liter, V-8 gasoline engine or Isuzu's 3.0-liter and 5.2-liter turbodiesel engines, depend