Chevy's dinky-dink Aveo is so damn dinky, its hard to keep our dinked noggins focused on it for very long.
But this Daewoo-built runt is due for a next generation, and Chevy put that generation on display at April's universally ignored Shanghai Auto Show in China.
Like the first Aveo this one is also designed by Daewoo and will continue to be built by that Korean firm. However, the Aveo is also goind to be screwed together in China by "Shanghai General Motors" which is a joint venture between plain-old GM and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation. It will eventually be for sale in more than 120 countries around the world, giving Chevy brand its broadest scope yet. And it looks like the United States is still on the Aveo's hit list.
Now a true four-door sedan, the new Aveo carries forward most of the front-drive components used in the current version of the car. In China, it will come with a 1.4 or 1.6 liter DOHC mated to either a five-speed manual or four-speed Automatic transaxle.
The big question is, when it arrives in US showrooms late this year, will the car we're getting being built in China or Korea? Gm already uses Chinese-assembled V6's in the Equinox SUV, so it not much of a leap for them to start importing a while car from China. And a Chinese-made Aveo could be cheap, cheap, cheap.
its on page 40 for the people that go out and buy it.
