LAST AUTO NEWS – 2011 CHEVY SPARK — GM ENTERS THE TEENY CAR RACE
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Chevrolet will access the auto smackdown at last, arduous the Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris and accessible Ford Fiesta with something a bit added ambrosial than the bargain Aveo..
“Set for a apple admission at the 2009 Geneva Auto Show,” according to Edmunds Inside Line, the 2011 Chevy Spark “is accepted to accomplish its way to the U.S. afterwards its European admission aboriginal next year. It’s a tiny car by American standards, some 18-inches beneath than a Honda Fit.”
Outside, the car is a basic accompanying to the Chevy Beat abstraction that has been authoritative the ambit of the auto ambit for a year. Autoblog reports, “In a bid to try and accumulate the original’s 3-door look, the rear handles are hidden up in the window blackout trim. This is bigger accomplished actuality than it is, say, on the Jeep Compass, but it’s still acutely a 5-door.” Inside the car, “You’ll acquisition a simplified yield on the Chevy brand’s accepted cockpit design, dressed up with body-colored aperture trim panels and seats that affection adverse bond and a color-accented bolt pattern. The Instrument array is army anon to the council column. GM calls it motorcycle-inspired.”
We alarm it bargain to accomplish for both right- and left-hand drive markets.
Kicking Tires reports, “At 143 inches long, the four-door Spark is beneath than a two-door Toyota Yaris. The aggregation says it will affection accepted assurance appearance like adherence ascendancy and ancillary blind airbags.”
Motor Trend says the car will affection “either a 1.0-liter or 1.2-liter gasoline four-banger” if it debuts in Europe next year, but rumors say a 1.4-liter engine will be begin “under its tiny hood” if it comes to America one year later.
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