General Motors Quietly Drops The 1500 Vans For 2015

Well, at least Nissan is still in the market.

That is stupid to walk away form 23% market sales. I know many who have the old AWD full size vans and want another but nothing is out there and they do not want a CUV or SUV. GM is making a mistake in not supporting this porduct with a half ton van.

think they plan to upgrade them to the lt1/6speeds? ...i'm not remembering the 'city express'

The city express is a Nissan NV with a chevy grille.

And it is extremely "looks challenged", with a crappy CVT. Suggesting to 1500 Express customers that they need to step down to... THAT, is laughable at best.

I think GM will lose some sales, but perhaps the 1500 level wasn't really profitable and they don't care about losing those sales. I did read how the 1500 uses the older engines and they could save money buy closing that factory or reallocating it to make something else. This is a move that will lose sales, but save money at the same time, so from a business standpoint it probably makes sense. However, more business for Ford or Nissan.

I saw an S-10 the other day and those were really small trucks. The Colorado is way bigger, and GM has no van smaller than the 2500 Express now other than a Nissan badge job. Sort of sad there there isn't a minivan or small van like the Astro or a small truck like the S10, even if they used a unibody set up, possibly adapted from the Theta platform. Ford has really got GM beat on commercial vehicles right now, although Ford doesn't have a little truck either.

I have stated many times that GM could win big if they would bring back a true mini pickup truck as city folks would love to have one for inner city work. Plenty of needs for a mini truck.

I was going to suggest that Chevy or GMC do a commercial version of the Lambda.... but at the rate they are selling, they are probably pretty close to max capacity on that plant.