GMC Granite Compact Crossover Cruises MPV Concept

The Exclusive elegant GMC Granite is a compact MPV concept, developed by General Motors. It was introduced at the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, it was a huge hit with both the media and public in attendance.  Tom Stephens of GMC had confirmed the future of the Exclusive elegant GMC Granite as a production vehicle. The Granite is GMC’s take on the already revealed Chevy Orlando concept, a new crossover-based utility vehicle, or CUV. “Granite was conceived as a new type of vehicle from GMC – one that could stretch people’s ideas of what a GMC can be,” said Lisa Hutchinson, product marketing director for GMC. The new GMC crossover cruises into the 2010 Detroit Auto Show in the form of the Exclusive elegant GMC Granite concept, which GM bills as an “urban-industrial“-style wagon for young professionals–in the hazy marketing-speak of its official press release. The Granite’s turbocharged 1.4-liter four-cylinder, which makes 138 hp in other applications. GM says, in fact, that if the Granite goes into production, it would be the brand‘s smallest vehicle ever. It’s a high-luxe version of the large GMC family wagon.