Editing General Motors U platform (section)

===Second generation===
[[File:Pontiac-Trans-Sport.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Pontiac Trans Sport Montana]]
[[File:Opel Sintra front 20071011.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Opel Sintra]]
[[File:Vauxhall Sintra CD Front.jpg|200px|thumb|right|1996-1997 Vauxhall Sintra]]
In 1996 (for the 1997 model year), the second U-body (platform) minivans arrived,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wardsautoworld.com/ar/auto_big_test_brand/index.html |title=Big test for 'brand management. |access-date=2009-09-18 |archive-date=2011-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728081235/http://wardsautoworld.com/ar/auto_big_test_brand/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> also known as the [[General Motors GMT platform#MPVs|'''GMT200''']]. The new minivans were of [[unibody]] steel construction and the styling was intentionally conventional to such an extent that contemporary reviewers remarked that without looking closely at the badging and grille treatments, these minivans could be mistaken for their primary competitors, the [[Dodge Caravan]] and [[Plymouth Voyager]], which at the time commanded a 50% share of the minivan market.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trucktrend.com/roadtests/chevrolet/112_9702_1997_chevy_venture_dodge_caravan/index.html |title=1997 Chevy Venture - 1997 Dodge Caravan - Motor Trend Magazine |website=www.trucktrend.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008073727/http://www.trucktrend.com/roadtests/chevrolet/112_9702_1997_chevy_venture_dodge_caravan/index.html |archive-date=2008-10-08}}</ref>
Production of this generation was performed at GM's [[Doraville, Georgia]] facility, and later at [[GM Shanghai]].

====1996–1999 (Europe)====
*[[Opel Sintra|Opel/Vauxhall Sintra]]

====1997–2005====
The vehicles in this generation included:
* [[Chevrolet Venture]]
* [[Oldsmobile Silhouette]]
* [[Pontiac Trans Sport]]
* [[Pontiac Montana]] (Montana was a trim level of the Trans Sport prior to 1999)

====2000–2005 (China)====
* [[Buick GL8]]

====International====
* The Opel Sintra (badged as the [[Vauxhall Motors|Vauxhall]] Sintra in the [[United Kingdom]]) was an export built in the US alongside other vans for the European market. The Sintra used [[Opel]] engines instead of the [[GM 60-Degree V6 engine#LA1|LA1 3400 V6]] engine that the US vans used.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wardsautoworld.com/ar/auto_opel_sintra_offers/ |title=Opel Sintra offers something others don't |access-date=2009-09-18 |archive-date=2011-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728081251/http://wardsautoworld.com/ar/auto_opel_sintra_offers/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* The [[Buick GL8]] is sold by [[Buick]] only in [[China]], but was exported to the Philippines as a Chevrolet Venture.
* The Pontiac Trans Sport of this generation was also sold in [[Europe]], badged as a Chevrolet Trans Sport.

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