Chevrolet Spark News
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Earlier this month, we told you that the diminutive 2013 Chevrolet Spark with manual 5-speed transmission had received official EPA ratings of 32 mpg city, 38 mpg highway and 34 mpg combined. Now Chevrolet has received the ratings for the 2013 Spark with automatic 4-speed gearbox: 28 mpg city, 37 mpg highway, and 32 mpg combined. Fitted with the same 1.2-liter inline-4 cylinder engine as the manual Spark, it offers the same 85 horsepower. That equates to gas mileage figures only 1 mpg better than the much larger 2012 Sonic Sedan with automatic 6-speed gearbox, while the manual 6-speed Sonic...
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2013 Chevrolet Spark: Small Car, Big Spec For U.S. Buyers
It may only be small, but Chevrolet is packing its 2013 Spark with plenty of equipment in an effort to target urban millennial buyers. Already sold in 100 countries worldwide, U.S. customers will be able to buy the Spark later this year. GM has tailored several of the car's specifications to the...
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2013 Chevy Spark Vs. 1973 Full-Size Car: Helpful Infographic
We luv us some cheerful infographics, as we often say. Today's specimen comes courtesy of Chevrolet, which is preparing to launch the smallest Chevy it's ever sold, the 2013 Spark minicar. The infographic compares the Chevy Spark to a full-size 1973 U.S. sedan (using data for unspecified "popularly...
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2013 Chevrolet Spark Minicar To Be Priced At Around $13,000
Amidst the unveilings and concept cars of the New York Auto Show, carmakers also make other announcements. From General Motors, we learned today that the 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar will carry a base price of $12,995 including destination. All Sparks are fitted with a 1.2-liter four-cylinder...
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Chevrolet Spark EV Tested In California, Details Unavailable
It used to be that testing prototype and development cars was done in secret, under heavy camouflage, away from photographers. Now it's a public relations ploy, it seems, complete with QR codes on the sides of distinctively marked engineering vehicles and a promotional blog entry. So if you see...
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2013 Chevrolet Spark: Details, Live Photos From L.A. Auto Show
It's the smallest car ever sold as a Chevrolet. It's already a huge hit in India (where it's fitted with a tiny 0.9-liter three-cylinder turbodiesel). And now it's coming to the U.S. At this week's Los Angeles Auto Show media days, the 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar shared the stage with a Chevrolet...
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Chevrolet announced today that it would build the electric motor for its upcoming Spark EV battery electric car in a plant in Maryland. The carmaker also released the power specification for the motor, which will offer 85 kilowatts (114 hp) of peak output and roughly two-thirds of that in sustained operation. That will be far more horsepower than in the gasoline version of the 2013 Spark, which will be fitted with a 83-horsepower, 1.2-liter four-cylinder engine. That's the smallest engine GM has sold in any model since the three-cylinder Geo Metro almost 20 years ago. "I wish I could give you...
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Where Will Chevy Spark EV Be Built? Maybe It's Michigan?
Two weeks ago, Chevrolet unveiled its 2013 Spark minicar and confirmed that it would offer a Spark EV all-electric model--a story GreenCarReports broke the night before. But within a few days, an intriguing question came up: Where does GM plan to build its first new all-electric car since the late...
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Chevy Spark EV: Four Times The Electric Range? RLY? Errr, No
We love our readers, because they often have eagle eyes far more acute than our own. Take, for instance, Neal Riley. Reading our article on the 2013 Chevrolet Spark launch, which included official confirmation of the news on the all-electric Spark EV model that we broke last night, he asked: If the...
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GM Officially Confirms 2013 Chevy Spark Minicar, Spark EV Electric Version
General Motors has just officially, finally confirmed news that this site has previously reported: The 2013 Chevrolet Spark minicar will be launched in the first half of next year An all-electric Spark EV model will be offered in selected regions of the U.S. and other markets New front-end styling...
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GM's First New Battery Electric Car: 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV To Launch In U.S.
GM [NYSE:GM] had hoped to announce its latest green vehicle tomorrow morning, at a nice, orderly, staged press event to celebrate Chevrolet's 100th birthday. But one of its hometown papers jumped the gun and broke the news: The largest domestic car company will launch a small battery electric...
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U.S.-Bound 2013 Chevy Spark To Get Design Updates
The Chevy Spark minicar, bound for the U.S. in 2012, will get minor front end changes required to meet U.S. safety standards.
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It must be the Chevrolet Spark minicar's moment in the sun. Last week, GM confirmed that the smallest Chevy ever sold will come to the U.S. as a 2013 model. Then we put two and two together to wonder if Chevy's first all-electric car might be a converted Spark. What we forgot to mention--until now--is that two weeks ago, Chevy launched the Spark in India (where it's known as the Beat) with a tiny three-cylinder turbodiesel engine displacing less than a liter. Diesels are more and more popular in India for their extremely high fuel economy, and this one is rated (on the Indian test cycle) at a...
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Will GM's First All-Electric Car Be A Chevy Spark Minicar?
Sometimes news comes out of adding up little pieces of information. Doing that with a few items from the past week, we're beginning to wonder if General Motors might launch an all-electric car in the U.S. in the next couple of years. Based on recent spy photos from renowned photographer Brenda...
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Chevy Confirms Smallest-Ever Spark Minicar For U.S. In 2012
The 2012 Chevrolet Sonic subcompact just going into production this month is the smallest car sold by Chevrolet in the U.S., but the bowtie brand isn't finished downsizing yet. Today, General Motors confirmed that the Chevrolet Spark minicar will be sold in the U.S. GM's executive director of North...
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Will Igniting Fuel With Lasers Make Spark Plugs Obsolete?
You may have other plans for Sunday than attending the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in Baltimore. But if you were to sit in, you would hear a paper by a research team in Japan and Romania that offers a fascinating new avenue for increasing engine efficiency and reducing gas consumption...
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GM China Confirms Development of All-Electric Sail Concept
General Motors has been through the wringer over the last 18 months, nowhere more so than in North America, where it declared bankruptcy and was quickly restructured with $60 billion of Federal funds. But its overseas operations haven't had an easy time of it either, including its on-again...
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2010 Detroit Auto Show: 2013 Chevrolet Spark
Yesterday's Chevrolet press conference at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show was a pretty muted affair. While Chevy unveiled one concept car--the Aveo RS--the photos and details had been released several days before, so there seemed to be little real news. The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze was also there, but it...
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Recent Controversy Over the 2011 Chevrolet Spark Fuels Argument
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2013 Chevrolet Spark: Just Too Small For U.S. Buyers, Or Not?
We've covered the 2013 Chevrolet Spark a couple of times before, but now there's a drive report of the European version, courtesy of Motor Trend. We're not entirely sure we agree with their conclusion, though. Granted, the Spark is the smallest Chevy ever. But Motor Trend winds up its road test...
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GM Global Design: All New Small Cars To Get Camaro Energy and Spirit
The Future of Design For GM Might Have a Bright Spark
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GM and Daewoo Combine to Bring Volt and Spark to Broader Audience
GM and Daewoo's combined efforts on next generation cars comes together in a group they refer to GMDAT. Their combined efforts were shown at the Seoul Auto Show. The Chevy Volt along with a production version of the upcoming Chevrolet Spark was front and center at the show as part of a launch of...
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Sparking a Revolution in GM’s Lineup: 2013 Chevrolet Spark to Shape the Future?
Giving Way to Suburbans Are New Concepts Like the Spark
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2011 Chevrolet Spark: The smallest Chevy ever
Chevy's upcoming global Spark takes the blue bowtie into mini-car territory
John Voelcker