2016 Chevrolet Spark Revealed: GM Lights a Fire Beneath its Tiny Hatchback - Car and Driver (blog)
But as with, well, pretty much every aspect of the supertiny Chevrolet Spark , a size-driven relativity check is in order. For 2016, the Spark is all-new, and it arrives packing 17 percent more power than before, having jumped from an 84-hp minicar to a—wait for it—98-hp minicar. Of course, this left precisely no one reeling at the 2015 New York auto show where the new Spark debuted, but like we said, everything’s relative, and compared with the old Spark, this new one is significantly improved. (The wide-eyed, last-generation Spark was the hands-down winner of the Most Skewed Headlight-to-Body-Size-Ratio award. ) Chevrolet lowered the roof 1. 6 inches to reduce some of the Spark’s gangly-ness but cleverly also lowered the front and rear seats’ hip points to maintain headroom. Like the last Spark, the majority of this new model’s design and engineering work took place at GM’s technical center in South Korea. This is a good thing, because cars of this size are far more common there than here in the U. S. As such, the Spark appears to be just as surprisingly roomy on the inside as the previous version, at least for four occupants. Source: www.caranddriver.com
