New teaser clip suggests imminent arrival of single cab LDV bakkie

Screengrab showing what is believed to be LDV’s first single cab bakkie for South Africa. Picture: LDV South Africa Facebook page With its line-up until now being just double cab bakkies, as well as the D90 SUV, LDV has hinted at the inclusion of a single cab with a new teaser campaign over the weekend. Posted on both its Facebook and Instagram pages, the 10-second clip shows the silhouette of what appears to be the single cab with the taglines “serious value” and “coming soon”.

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A new addition to the LDV range is almost here.” While no further details were provided, the silhouette images suggest the single cab will be modelled on the T60, as the flagship Terron 9 is exclusively offered as a double cab. In fact, some digging confirms the single cab as only being available in certain markets, namely the Middle East, where it is sold under the Maxus and Chevrolet nameplates, in Mexico as the Chevrolet S10 Max and in select African and Central American nations as a Maxus instead of LDV. Locally, the T60 range comes in different models: the normal T60, the T60 Pro (confusingly called the T70 in China as an updated version of the T60), and theT60 Maxthat debuted in 2021 as a rebadged version of the Maxus T90 in the People’s Republic.

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Even more confusingly, both the T60 and T70 offer single cab versions, the former forming the base for the S10 Max as a result of LDV parent company, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC Motors)’s long-standing partnership with General Motors (GM)-owned Chevrolet. For South Africa, the single cab could, therefore, be based on either, as the T60 and T70 have no dimensional differences. The exact same as the comparable South African-spec T60 Pro/T70, the single cab has the same 215mm of ground clearance and a payload of 1 000kg.

The claimed tow rating of 3 000kg is also identical. In both of the mentioned markets, the single cab is exclusively powered by the same single turbo 2.0-litre diesel engine as the South African-spec T60 Pro with outputs of 120kW/375Nm.

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