The Chevrolet Beat, America’s New Mini-Car?
This mean-lookin’ machine may wind up in your rear-view mirror someday, as GM is thinking hard about bringing this 40mpg car to America. Don’t you just love the way some cars take on an actual head-on personality. Engineers must love to do this sort of thing.
It’s called the Beat, and it’s a car that would normally be sold in other markets, such as Asia and Latin America. But with the high price of gas, and GM’s plunging losses ($38.7 billion in 2007), the company that brought you the Hummer may just have to re-invent itself. And, no, it isn’t a hybrid.
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How big is a mini-car? The Beat would come in at about 138 inches, 11.5 feet in length. You may have seen this concept model at the April 2007 Auto Show in New York. Daimler AG’s Smart car is smaller at 106-inches, and boasts a 36 mpg range.
No plans yet for actual construction of the Beat, except that engineers are finishing the final configuration, and GM hasn’t said where the car would be manufactured.
Photo Credit: Bloomberg.com
Source: Bloomberg.com
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If this and the Aveo (http://www.buyingadvice.com/chevrolet-aveo-2008-review.html) are the best they can come up with, then Chevy is doomed.
i like the style of the car but i have to 50 mpg on a car would sound a whole lot better than 40. if i do buy this car i mite rate it 9/10.
They should offer 3 models:
1) gas
2) cng/lpg
3) gas/hybrid