17 Facts About Daewoo Lacetti

Daewoo Lacetti is a compact car manufactured and marketed globally by GM Korea since 2002.

The first-generation Lacetti was available as a four-door sedan and five-door station wagon, styled by Pininfarina—and five-door hatchback styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro.

At the Geneva Motor Show in March 2004, Daewoo Lacetti revealed the station wagon body variant penned by Pininfarina with the hatchback's updated interior and a facelifted derivative of the sedan's frontal styling.

The hatchback name was Daewoo Lacetti5, offering a specific design for the front, rear and dashboard.

Wagon version, called simply the Daewoo Lacetti Wagon, was introduced in late 2007—though it was already sold in many other countries.

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Daewoo Lacetti was available in Canada named as the Chevrolet Optra in two models, a four-door hatchback, and an Optra wagon, all in LS or LT trim levels.

Successor to the Daewoo Lacetti-based Buick Excelle is based on the global GM Delta II platform, like the Opel Astra and Chevrolet Cruze and their derivatives.

The Daewoo Lacetti-based first generation sedan continued to be produced for the Chinese market until 2016.

However, in late 2003, it was announced that Daewoo Lacetti would be rebranded Chevrolet in some European markets.

When Daewoo was rebranded Chevrolet across Europe by the end of 2004, the Chevrolet Nubira was renamed Chevrolet Lacetti in some markets for the 2005 model year, which expanded the Lacetti line-up to include both the sedan and station wagon versions in addition to the five-door hatchback version, in line with Korea.

In 2004, The Daewoo Lacetti was launched in India and sold as the Optra and the sportsback version was sold as Optra S-RV, which the company planned to produce with a 2.

In Mexico, the Daewoo Lacetti came to the market in 2006 as Optra to replace the Chevrolet Cavalier, and it was sold only as a sedan.

In South Africa, the Daewoo Lacetti came to the market in 2004 as Chevrolet Optra, and it was sold only as a sedan.

In Uzbekistan, the Daewoo Lacetti has been produced by GM Uzbekistan since 2008, in a plant located in Asaka, and marketed as the Chevrolet Daewoo Lacetti.

In 2013, the partner company Uz-Daewoo Lacetti Avto began producing the facelifted sedan version as the new Daewoo Lacetti Gentra.

Chinese successor of the Daewoo Lacetti-based Buick Excelle, see Buick Excelle XT and Buick Excelle GT, which are twins of Opel Astra hatchback and sedan respectively.

Chevrolet Daewoo Lacetti was chosen as the new "reasonably-priced car" for Top Gears "Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car" segment for series 8 in 2006, replacing the Suzuki Liana, which had ceased production.