Would you consider buying a Chevy Spark?

**MetroMPG** · 06-02-2010, 02:13 PM

Just curious if anyone here has been following the development of the car that will supposedly slot beneath the Aveo as GM's new entry level car, the Spark:

It's smaller than the current Aveo. Probably won't be any less expensive though (since the next Aveo will go up in price).

Would you have considered this car?

EDIT... Found a vid:

[youtube:2q5biyyb]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCiaL8u6Fgw[/youtube:2q5biyyb]

Hey - just noticed the Spark has the same "motorcycle inspired" instrument cluster as the next gen Aveo and Aveo RS show car, plus the "hidden" rear door handle in the C pillar.

**thehunterooo** · 12-27-2010, 05:18 PM

ha, the versa is a street beast per the versa fourm, good plan for the aveo and spark! when is it coming out?

**AveoSS** · 12-28-2010, 02:11 AM

Chevy says august of 2011. I can't wait to get one!

**thehunterooo** · 01-14-2011, 09:04 PM

I dont think the aveo is underpowered one bit when people block me in the left lane on the highway and do not move out of my way

**Captain Manic** · 01-16-2011, 01:04 AM

Ok, I guess I wasn't really clear...my fault. I agree with you that the Aveo isn't underpowered. The one I have likes to cruise at around 80 mph on the highway, and it doesn't have to work very hard to do 90! What I was getting at was that I was originally leery of the idea of owning an Aveo based on my experience with other cars its size. I had an Aspire back in '94, and traded in a '93 Subaru Justy on it...and have you ever driven a Geo Metro? I think it was lucky to do 75 going downhill with a good tail wind!

Nonetheless, I decided to try out this '06 hatchback a few months ago. I was stunned at how different the Aveo was, not only in how it looked and felt, and how easy it is to get in and out of, but the performance was far better than I had hoped for in a car this size!

So let me say one thing, and let it go at that...of all of the cars that I have owned in my almost 52 years, my favorite one is a red '06 Aveo hatchback that I'm lucky enough to be driving right now!

Keep writing, you all post such fascinating stuff.

**thehunterooo** · 01-16-2011, 02:41 AM

not your fault haha, I just hate the term underpowered

**serega12** · 07-29-2012, 12:45 AM

time to revive an old thread... so now that a local dealer got about a dozen of these (according to the guy on the phone) time to go test drive one of these and then a 1.4T sonic 6mt back to back...im undecided between going with an econobox again or jumping back into rwd world (miss my rx8 and way earlier 300zx tt)... anyways, will let you know how it goes.

**NYChevoo** · 07-31-2012, 05:36 AM

Both my wife and I went to the dealership last Friday for oil changes and tire rotations and they had a Spark there. I thought it was a pretty cool looking car but since she just bought a new Sonic and I had just gotten the new Cruze another new car was out of the question. I'd buy it if I could. I thought it was nice but not worth the price.