New Suv In Thailand: Chevrolet Savage

[importford]

Need some more info on the new SUV from Chevrolet, the Savage.

Price, engine, options?

compare to Toyota Fortuner and Honda CR-V???

[chanchao]

Don't know of any 'Chevrolet' named Savage, but ThaiRung are 'doing their thing' with the Chevrolet pick-up:

http://www.bloghipp.com/2007/03/20/chevrol...er-by-thairung/

Chances are it'll be just as crap as the job they do on the Isuzu.

[danone]

its not the savage, its the chevi captiva.

has more dashboard controls and will be cheaper than crv - but dont forget about resale value.

once you leave the garage with your brand new chevi you already lost 50 percent.

just sold my 5 years old crv and still got 50 percent of the price back in 2002.

overall though the captiva is worth a look - check it out at the current motor show.

car is available in 3 months.

Edited April 2, 2007 by danone

[importford]

You are right, sorry for the mistake:

It is the Chevrolet Captiva SUV

[chanchao]

> has more dashboard controls and will be cheaper than crv

> - but dont forget about resale value.

Shouldn't that be phrased as "you can forget about resale value" ?

> once you leave the garage with your brand new chevi you already lost 50 percent.

And rightly so, they're rebadged Daewoos. Their dealer staff actually LIE about them being American built. Of course if they would sell their cars for considerably cheaper than Hondas, Toyotas then I could be fooled into thinking they're a serious business.. BUt chances are it'll be priced similar to a CRV.. so ... sorry but no cigar I'd say.

And don't forget GM's history in Thailand... The misfortunate souls ending up buying their Opel cars...

Bring your bargepole.

Edited April 3, 2007 by chanchao

[ozymandious]

Some quick info on the Chevy Captiva

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/03/geneva-...tiva-crossover/

On looks alone not bad. But need to slam the doors and kick the tires first.

Have to see what the price point in LOS will be.

[raybkk]

1.3 million starting price. Nice ride!

[danone]

> once you leave the garage with your brand new chevi you already lost 50 percent.

And rightly so, they're rebadged Daewoos. Their dealer staff actually LIE about them being American built. Of course if they would sell their cars for considerably cheaper than Hondas, Toyotas then I could be fooled into thinking they're a serious business.. BUt chances are it'll be priced similar to a CRV.. so ... sorry but no cigar I'd say.

in australia those daewoo captiva are branded as holdens ...

[John 1]

If only they would put a diesel in it, would sell like hot cakes.

[Clipped]

saw it on tv the other day, nicelooks...definatley a consideration

anyone else see that stretched chevy by thai rueng?

[nikster]

1.3 million starting price. Nice ride!

jeez - if it's priced _that_ close to the new CR-V - fuhgettaboutit.

I read some initial test that had pretty mixed results - some good things some bad. But at that price, get an excellent CR-V for 100k more and be done with it. no contest.

or a pimped up fortuner - different class of car though.

[chanchao]

> > 1.3 million starting price. Nice ride!

> jeez - if it's priced _that_ close to the new CR-V - fuhgettaboutit.

Heh, I KNEW it!!!

At least with their pick-up model it's technically part for part the same as the Isuzu, so no shortage on places to have it serviced.. For their rebadged Daewoos though... Idonthinkso!

[gjones]

The Chevrolet Captiva: it got to be c r a p - it's a Daewoo - go for the Toyota the Honda is for the girls

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2006/01/chevr...v-official.html

[bkk_mike]

1.3 million starting price. Nice ride!

That's odd - I thought it was 1.15m starting point for the front-wheel drive version (and 1.45m for the 4WD).

Don't know if that's the 5 or 7 seater version though. Also, I thought one of the engines available was diesel. Although I don't know if it will be available immediately.

It has two points there that has me thinking about it - diesel and 7 seats - that are the reason we were looking at a Fortuner recently rather than the CRV.

Edited April 8, 2007 by bkk_mike

[MaiChai]

Thought it looked too Japanese/Korean to be an American Chevy? Warning about Korean based vechicals: getting spare parts is a challenge, not to mention the price!