I’m not sure whether to be flattered or insulted: the Chevy Spark

OK, it’s no Maserati. In fact, it’s a Daewoo. GM owns Daewoo as a company that is called, unimaginiatively, GM Daewoo. It’s best known product in the US is the Chevy Aveo, which is sold as the Daewoo Kalos overseas.

The Spark is a badge-engineered version of the Daewoo Matiz, and is styled after the Chevy Beat concept. It’s been expected for a couple of years now, but it will only be sold in the US starting in 2011. Of course, GM could really sell models like this in the current economic Chernobyl, so I’m not really clear why they haven’t rushed this thing into high gear to push them onto US saleslots ASAP. I guess GM knows better.

Yeah right.

But anyhow, even though the Aveo is possibly the most awful car ever conceived outside of the Soviet sphere of influence, they sell a lot of them. So the even smaller and more efficient (theoretically) Spark should appeal to a lot of folks. If you have a genetic condition that prevents you from discerning between pleasing and unpleasing design elements, and you are in the market for a cheap car, this might be the one …

[Source: Autoblog]