2005 Chevrolet Aveo LS from North America - Off Topic Comments

Best of luck to you in Iraq. I am sorry you have to go over there.

Another poster said: You're comparing a Volvo to a $10,000 Korean built subcompact? A little unfair, ain't it?

As for the tranny problems you are under warranty. Take it to your dealer and it will get fixed.

You're absolutely right. The shoddy workmanship overwhelmingly typical of today's Volvos tips the scales unfairly toward that Korean-built subcompact.

The Chevy Aveo is a horrible machine, Copying what Ford did with the Aspire, but instead stamping the CHEVY nameplate on a Kia Spectra. To all you Aveo enthusiats- The reason people buy GM products is because they want displacement and don't care about fuel economy. If we did, cars like the new GTO and Corvette would never have been produced. Just because the Aveo is a GM product that doesn't make it a good car. So in conclusion its better to go out and buy that crappy new Civic than drive a Kia with a chevy sign on it. But you actually bought an Aveo! HA-HA It comes with a 5.7L V8.

I am the poster of comment #16. All the stuff on that comment is true and I'm sure I know a lot more about cars than you do buddy. If you come on here and say that someone's comment is wrong, when it is right, and have nothing more intelligent than that to say in an entire comment, then do not post at all. Also I don't think unobjective comments such as yours (#17) should even be posted. Now skiddle-de-daddle and go for a ride in your "V4" cavalier.

You know something is seriously wrong when a poster won't even do basic research when someone questions his posts.

I guess denial is a many splendored thing.

I was thinking about an Aveo, but after reading these comments, I think I will stick with buying rear engine Volvo's (have one with 250k on the engine and doesn't use any oil!) and late model Corollas.

Ten thousand dollars will get you a 3-4 yr old Corolla with about 45 to 60 thousand miles if you look around.

From the comments on the Aveo, I bet you will spend less on the Corolla to get it from 60k to 160k, than going from 0 to 100k miles in the Aveo.

Buy the Corolla, and get a cardboard pine tree for $1.98 to hang from the mirror, to give you the new car smell.

You folks seriously need your head checked if you are buying a new Aveo, bonafide GM garbage streamlined through a Daewoo plant to lower costs, since the bloated US entity could never accomplish that feat.

Around 8 grand for the likelihood of serious mechanical problems in 3 years or less?? Hmmm, not too smart.

If you would like to save some money, and still get good gas mileage - then look for a used Honda or Toyota. It's a known fact that GM cars are trash, and that Honda's and Toyota's and extraordinarily reliable -- Sure, there are always flukes, such as GM actually making a couple decent vehicles (not the aveo), and Honda or Toyota actually having a recall or two.

The best thing I ever learned as a young lad is when my dad showed my how reliable a little japanese car could be -- I had a 1982 Honda Accord through high school and college, it wouldn't die even when I wanted it to, and was sick of looking at it with 200K+ miles on it, did the CV joint & starter once, that's it.

I have an old '84 civic 1500s that looks like crap, has no muffler, and has a bizarre attraction for ants -- it runs like a rally car, gets good gas mileage and just won't die ; changed the battery once, that's it in many many years.

And my most reliable of them all, my '91 Toyota Camry I've had for many years and bought used for 2200 bucks, gets 34 miles to the gallon and everything works perfectly with all original parts -- this car will never die, and I'm confident that a major mechanical problem will never occur.

There's a theme you may have notice here, hmmm, what could it be - why do you see so many Camrys on the road -- I was driving down the road in my '91 once and was in a row of acsending Camry's from 1991 all the way to 2005 -four of them -- Is this a coicidence?

Pay attention to what older model cars that are still alive and you'll know what to buy - Hey, where did all those Ford Escorts and Chevy novas go, hmmmm.

Ever heard of buying used??? Try it, it's an interesting concept when you have a car so reliable there's no need for a warranty.