Chevrolet is losing me
I grew up in a Chevrolet dealership. My father was a mechanic for Summer’s Chevrolet in Red Bank during my early, formative years. I was raised in Red Bank and spent a lot of time at that dealership. Summer’s later became Adcox-Kirby Chevrolet and moved to Brainard when I was about twelve so I was sort of raised with an affinity for Chevrolet’s.
Maybe telling you that will help you understand my sadness. I just took a glance at the Chevrolet website and was greatly disappointed at the offerings in cars that they have. There was absolutely no car I could really get excited about. Yeah, they have the new body style on the new C6 Corvette, which Car & Driver gave great reviews on, but the Corvette is fifty years old. Oh, and they have the new SSR which is kind of cool, but that’s not really a car. Is it?
It’s really been this way for a while now. Yeah, Chevy has some great SUVs and I still prefer a Chevy truck to the offerings from Ford, Dodge, Toyota and Nissan but every since the Camaro got dropped from their line I’ve just lost all interest in Chevrolet cars. I had great hopes with them bringing back the Malibu name but it just doesn’t get it for me. It’s just a cheap mid-sized fleet car not even pretending to offer any performance. And when other car manufacturers are releasing cool station wagons this year Chevrolet gives us a ho-hum 5-door Malibu Maxx.
Possibly the only savior for the whole line is the Impala SS. Still it’s only a V6 but it’s a supercharged V6. I’m waiting for some reviews on this car. Until then, I’m adopting Chrysler as my car of choice.
Cars | Larry D. Burton | 21 August 2004 |
