The best-selling sedan in the history of General Motors do Brasil, the Classic approaches the 2015 model year with new styling details that reinforce its strong points, such as high resale value and low maintenance costs.
Europeans may be more familiar as it’s similar to the 1993-2000 Opel Corsa, but we Americans never received such a car on our shores. Still, to Brazilians, the Classic is the the most affordable model in the 1.0L segment equipped with air conditioning as standard.
Chevrolet launched the Advantage series in March to bundle certain convenience and appearance items. For 2015, the series adds two new colors for the Classic: Silver Swichblade metallic and Summit White.
The Classic Advantage also adds power steering, power windows and locks, and key with remote control and anti-theft alarm. Also included are 14-inch aluminum wheels, and CD player with USB input and Bluetooth. Parking sensors and GPS are available for the Classic as well.
Mark Muñoz, vice president of GM Brazil (not the UFC fighter), states that the model remains attractive for its many attributes: “Besides the excellent ergonomics, the spacious interior, and trunk with 13.8 cubic feet of capacity, [Chevrolet now has] incorporated dual airbags and ABS brakes as standard.”
The interior features an instrument panel with tachometer and information display with time, date, and temperature. AÂ warning system lets you know when the lights are left on.
The Classic’s flexible fuel 1.0L develops 78 horsepower when fueled with ethanol. When running on gasoline, it can go about 560 miles on a single tank.
Comments
I love when older platforms & cars live on way past the industry norm.
I want an old W body reskinned with a modern body.
Truth be told, the last Impala got get mpg and was a solid offering.
Excellent comment! Just think if they did that with the old C and H bodies of the 1990’s or the C( D) and B bodies of the early to mid 1980’s and put in updated transmissions, an updated 3800 V6, and updated V8’s and new styling and technical and safety items. There would be some buyers I am sure.
I think what you described there, fella , is A WHOLE NEW CAR! LOL! Just think if they just updated
those aged platforms with lighter, better-engineered ones and took the old bodies with poor
panel gaps and non-competitive quality and just updated them? Ha ha…geez…
Old Impalas were famous for rental car fleets. They weren’t competitive with either their smaller
Camry-type sedans nor larger Avalon-class sedans. It mystifies me when old-timers recollect that these
were good cars. Some big reasons besides overladen union contracts and inefficient production facilities
that ran GM into bankruptcy was plainly just that the quality and performance of their vehicles were
behind their competitors – plain n’ simple.
GM has made huge strides in all of the above categories and we should applaud them while pointing
out where the old bureaucracies have NOT changed, such as in the ignition switch debacle we are
seeing being played out as we speak. Out with the old and in with the new I say…. Volt and SparkEV,
added to a continual lightening of platforms leading to aluminum and new lightweight steels are
major moves forward. Longing for old junky models of the past to be “updated” is strange
and non-logical thinking for sure.
Well, I’m a little young to be an old timer 😉
They continued old Impala sales for fleet, that got me thinking on the topic.
The last generation Impala sold very well, so it was a competitive model. At the end, that Impala was a pretty solid vehicle that was cosmetically out of touch.
There is room for fleet only vehicles but these offerings must look up to date in terms of styling. There is a financial benefit here, too, given that tooling has already been paid for.
Hat tip to Diego for the funny title: “Minimalist 2015 Chevrolet Classic Gains Bare Brazilian Basics”. Does that mean the
new model is going to wear a thong?!
LOL! 🙂