Base Spark has Power Windows - Base Sonic Doesn't?

"sellphones2493" (sellphones2493) 06/05/2015 at 09:13 • Filed to: None

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Isn’t it weird a base Chevrolet Spark ($12,270) comes equipped with power windows, yet a base Chevrolet Sonic ($14,275) doesn’t? It usually doesn’t work this way when you go up a class.

Sonic:

Spark:

Azrek > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:19

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My mind is blown...they still make roll down windows!? Inconceivable!

FromCanadaWithLove > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:19

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Simplify and add lightness.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:21

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What’s that silver dish on the right side of the Sparks door?

And manual mirrors?! What?! Next thing we know radios and AC will be options!

Rico > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:22

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Don’t you think that in 2015 not having power windows standard on economy cars is stupid? I mean seriously? I’m sure it is cheaper to use the stuff from the Spark rather than have to order a supply of manual window controls/door panels.

It’s like when a car has bluetooth but can’t stream music, that means the manufacturer likely had to pay more to get the music streaming bluetooth profile disabled.

Vimto > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:27

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The Sonic is a significantly larger, made in America design for not a great deal more dollar, so that doesn’t really surprise me.

duurtlang > Azrek 06/05/2015 at 09:45

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I’m more amazed that they still offer the Sonic and Spark. Where I live they were both discontinued in 2014. As was the rest of Chevrolet that wasn’t RWD, to be fair.

Brickman > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 06/05/2015 at 09:50

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Looks like a cup holder, which doesn’t look very secure IMO.

pip bip - choose Corrour > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:50

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so much want in my next car!

The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!) > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 09:54

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I’m not one for luxurious cars, but this has to go. Power windows and mirrors should be standard on everything. I could live without power locks, though I’d prefer them as well.

As Du Volant > Brickman 06/05/2015 at 11:24

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Water/soda bottle holder. Many newer cars have them, they just don’t normally stand out so much. They are quite secure actually, but the idea is to put something in there that has a cap.

As Du Volant > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 11:26

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Yet power locks are not actually standard. The base model Spark has a blank where the power lock switch would go. It’s even black and raised like a button but it does nothing. Pic:

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > sellphones2493 06/05/2015 at 13:02

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My niece went for a ride in my z with me and didn’t know what a hand crank was......

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Vimto 06/10/2015 at 23:39

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The Sonic was designed in Korea (by the remnants of Daewoo, now called “GM Korea”), just like the Spark. Although the Sonic is assembled in the US, it is technically the successor to the Aveo, which was designed and built in Korea.

This is the strangest of cost-cutting measures I’ve seen lately. Usually adding part numbers/suppliers and the requisite chain is far more expensive than just using a part that goes on 99+% of the cars that leave the factory.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > sellphones2493 06/11/2015 at 00:05

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When you look at built quality, I always felt Sparks were nicer than Sonics. The interior of a Spark is pretty shitty, but a Sonic has poorer-fitting panels and a generally-coarser refinement.

Just looking at these pictures, I think my gut reaction is correct. It’s as though GM is trying to make the Sonic so awful that people move up to at least a Cruze.