Move production of a Chevy back to the US! More news like that please! That said, this car looks a long way from anything I’d drive. Especially if it’s called the “Viva”. I can’t even say that without feeling like compulsively doing “jazz hands”.

looks decent
still dont like the segment of cars, regardless of make or model

Looks like GM copied former Russian Niva and just slightly changed name.

It looks like a GM product, where the Aveo doesn’t. I think this is a good thing, it brings more unity to the model line. No one can expect much from the sub-compact segment anyway, but it has some nice touches to help it, like steering wheel controls. I don’t think it’s as nice as the Fiesta but I also think it will undercut it in price by a few thousand dollars.

Yeah, Borat, you might want to research the name “Vauxhall Viva”, because that was the name of GM’s English-made small car until 1979, when it was replaced with the Astra.

So no more Aveo. Chalk up another name to add to Gm’s MIA list of vehicles that were either so crappy or so forgettable that it was just better to bury all memory of it than continue. Viva La Revolution!

Viva, like the paper towels?

Speaking of things that absorb, they should call it the Kotex and just maybe it will stop the bleeding.

shaver, good point! Can GM sell cars with paper towel’s name in US? It is different industry and nobody will confuse paper towel with a car, but who knows? May be you will need one when you buy another?

Johnny, appropriate. Once Hummer will go Borat’s first wife transformation in China, it may will need Kotex to go along.

better name than the Ford Aspire, for what it’s worth…a car that aspires to be a real car someday…

I never considered an Aveo because they were made in Korea. But a US built car I would consider. Glad to hear GM is moving jobs TO the states.

Thank god they changed “no” to “vi”

The name is clearly a stab at “Fiesta”. VIva generally received as a celebratory term but does mean “live” or “life” My Spanish is rusty.

Right now the body is so heavily disguised I can’t tell it this is some re-badged Daihatsu, a Deawoo, or something new. All the same I’d wait for the Chevy beat or whatever.

Viva used to be a pretty good paper towel.

Tom it still is.

Unless Viva paper towels sue GM for name infringement, like the the makers of the Beretta gun did back in the late 80s / early 90s to fight the Chevrolet Beretta.

Just curious, wouldn’t the quality of the vehicle have a little more to do with the quality of the parts and of the engineering of the vehicle as opposed to its place of manufacture? I like the idea of them building the car in the US, but South Korea DOES build some good products (Hyundai) and the US does build some cars on par with the Aveo (like the Cobalt and the Caliber).

Because of this news story, Chrysler has just decided to rebadge the Fiat 500 as the Dodge Hola for the US market.

What’s there to Viva about? Maybe somewhere in GM, someone is thinking his/her job is secured because s/he has suggested such “brilliant” name.

The latest itteration of the Aveo is not low quality. I’d call it nice, if not a bit stale like an 80’s compact.

Great if it was built in the U.S., but as long as they create a reliable, quality product and profits come here…

Wow – so the Viva is a good at cleaning up messes and soaking up? well, from what I had heard about the Korean version viva, you’d hope it would be good at cleaning up if you were to constantly defecate your pants with the shocking drive and build quality of that car…. Good thing they are taking it to the US…

First they change the Cobalt to the Cruze, not the Aveo becomes the Viva?
What kind of morons does GM have in marketing?
For God sakes, just keep the Cobalt name and if you must change the name Aveo, just call it the Metro.

from what one can tell with all that camo on it, it could be a rebadged opel corsa…

Hopefully it doesn’t have the massively ugly Chevy Malibu face on it like the current Aveo has. Hideous…