Vehicle
Chevrolet Onix
Brazil's best-selling car for most of a decade, and the highest-volume Chevrolet in South America — a car almost invisible in Western sources despite that. Flex-fuel is the fact that changes its diagnosis: it runs on any mix of petrol and ethanol, so long-term fuel-trim adapts across a range that would read as a fault on a petrol-only car, and a cold-start complaint is often an ethanol starting-aid question rather than an ignition one. The 1.0 turbo three-cylinder is the current volume engine.
Generations
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First generation 2012–2019
Naturally aspirated flex-fuel throughout on GM's Gamma II; the saloon is the Prisma and shares everything.
- Body styles
- Hatchback · Sedan
- Platform
- GM Gamma II
- Engines
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- 1.0 SPE/4 flex — petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.4 SPE/4 flex — petrol · ethanol-capable
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 6-speed manual · 6-speed 6T40 automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
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Second generation 2019–present
GEM platform and a turbocharged 1.0 three-cylinder; still flex-fuel, so the wide trim adaptation carries over.
- Body styles
- Hatchback · Sedan
- Platform
- GM GEM
- Engines
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- 1.0 flex — petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.0 turbo flex — 325T · petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.2 turbo flex — petrol · ethanol-capable
- 1.2 — petrol
- 1.3 turbo — petrol
- Transmissions
- 5-speed manual · 6-speed manual · 6-speed automatic
- Drivetrain
- Front-wheel drive
Service information
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