GM to build Fiesta-fighter?

[FiestaFaction-1]

MotorTrend reports on Chevy's new, Aveo replacement, the Viva.

http://www.motortrend.com/features/a...iva/index.html

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[PowerShift]

That digital display in the dash is just bizarre.

[Ataru]

Ehh....too late.

That interior is very reminiscent of the Fiesta though. The steering wheel and those "wings" on each side of the radio especially.

[golf strom]

Actually the original plan was to use the Opel Corsa (which would have been sold as the Saturn Corsa) as the Fiesta competitor in the USA.

The Opel Corsa name (and b segment car) has been around for a few decades now. The current Corsa is a very nice car and is now a couple of years old or so. It's too bad GM imploded.

It IS possible that the Corsa could end up being sold through Saturn dealers if Magna International, the company that bought Opel makes an agreement with Saturn's future owner. The Opel Astra had been sold through Saturn dealers as the Focus competitor.

[getn2focus]

Personally...I really don't see the Viva as nothing more than a re-worked Aveo.....Cheap, ugly and totally not worth it.

[Thirty-Nine]

I really like the Corsa, and I hear it's a pretty good little car. The Viva is allegedly going to be built in the U.S., which would be great. So long as it's not the Daewoo tooling simply sent to U.S. shores, my interest is stilled peaked.

[golf strom]

Unfortunately the Viva is really a Daewoo design made for GM. I wouldn't expect it to be a really entertaining drive. It'll more likely be something like the Kia Soul or Scion xD ....more about style than actual fun to drive or performance factor.

[er13]

using spanish car model titles to copy the fiesta maybe???

"it lives"

lame vehicle.

[khaoz187]

that is just a hideous looking car

[LMTech]

What the most interesting thing that I saw in the photos is that it appears that Chevy/GM think that a small 2 door hatch will sell and help bring them out of trouble. Ford ,I am sure, has heard people wanting the 2 door hatch on message boards such as this but they insist that we don't really want that. So too protect us from what we think we want they just are going too make that decision for us ?