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2017 Chevrolet Spark Activ Joins the Crossover Trend â€" News â€" Car and Driver

With buyers shunning small cars/" target="_blank">cars, we cant blame Chevrolet for trying to turn its tiniest offering, the Spark city car, into a pseudo-crossover.This new trim level, called the Spark Activ, takes the cheap and cheerful Spark and adds the requisite bits of SUV-like trim for a supposedly more "adventurous" appearanceâ€"at least to the highly suggestible.More specifically, the automotive/" target="_blank">2017 Spark Activ has a 0.4-inch-higher ride height, a different grille shape with larger fog lights, black plastic over the wheel wells and on the bumpers, silver rocker-panel moldings, faux skid plates front and rear, and roof rails.
Joseph Capparella

2017 Chevrolet Tahoe 4WD Test â€" Review â€" Car and Driver

Big looks good when youre Bill Gates eyeing his double-decker yacht sitting in the bay, but maybe not so much when youre handed a blind-date dinner bill that could be confused for a phone number.Chevrolets time-honored Tahoe falls on both the good and the bad sides of bigness.On one hand, its a comfortably appointed people hauler that features a full array of safety tech and entertainment treats.
Eric Stafford

Ari a Concept: A Mid-Engined Corvette Not Built by Chevrolet â€" News â€" Car and Driver

Have you ever asked yourself, "Gee, what would Fast Eddy drive?" Probably not, unless youre a Corvette fanatic and/or fan of General Motors late designer Ed Taylor, known by many as "Fast Eddy." But the folks at the Aria Group, a 21-year-old design firm and fabrication company that builds concept cars/" target="_blank">cars for major automakers and helps Singer restore its gorgeous 911s in Irvine, California, are fans of the man.As an homage to Mr. Taylor (who, not at all incidentally, is the father of Aria co-founder Charles Taylor), Aria decided to design and build the car it thinks Fast Eddy would drive t odayâ€"the "elusive mid-engine Corvette."A real Chevrolet-built mid-engined Corvette wont be elusive for long, but that didnt stop Aria from building its dream car, which we have to say is absolutely gorgeous.Nor did Chevrolet seek to stop Aria, either.
Steve Siler