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The sedan has been quite a strong contender in the taxi segment in Brazil, both with the naturally-aspirated engine available only with manual transmission and the turbo which has the option for either manual or automatic. Truth be told, to much of my surprise I see a reasonable amount of the turbo with manual transmission being used as taxi in Porto Alegre, which sounds even more surprising as cars up to 1.0L displacement are now not allowed to have a CNG conversion when operating as taxi.
On a sidenote, the Onix production in Mexico was ended, in order to increase the output of the Equinox which is now export-only, yet Mexico and some other Latin American countries are now supplied with the Chinese-made Onix. The naturally-aspirated engine option for the Chinese Onix, available only as a sedan, is a 4-cyl 1.3L instead of the 3-cyl 1.2L fitted to some export-only Brazilian versions. Well, considering its closest direct competitor in Brazil nowadays has either a 3-cyl 1.0L engine recently introduced, or a 4-cyl 1.3L which has been carried over since 2018, GM could consider bringing the 1.3L engine to the Brazilian Onix too.
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