The Chevrolet Captiva is a 5-door SUV from Chevrolet, built from 2006, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
Where it came from
The Chevrolet Captiva is a compact crossover SUV marketed by General Motors. The first generation was developed by GM Korea, based on the GM Theta platform and derived from the S3X concept car revealed in 2004. Released in 2006, it was sold internationally as the Chevrolet Captiva, in Australia and New Zealand as the Holden Captiva and in South Korea as the Daewoo Winstorm prior to the adoption of its international name in 2011, when the Daewoo brand was discontinued.
The vehicle shares much its underpinnings with the similarly-styled Opel/Vauxhall Antara / second-generation Saturn Vue, with the Captiva offering optional third-row seating. In 2018, Chevrolet ended production of the first-generation Captiva and began replacing it worldwide with the Equinox. The second-generation Captiva, which is a rebadged Baojun 530 produced in China by SAIC-GM-Wuling, was introduced in Colombia in November 2018 and Thailand in March 2019. The second-generation model is also offered in many Latin American markets, including Mexico since 2021.
Under the skin
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5-speed automatic / 5-speed manual / 6-speed automatic / 6-speed manual. The wheelbase is 2707 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Holden Commodore (VZ)#Adventra / Holden Adventra (Australia) / Holden Frontera (Australia) / Chevrolet Forester (India) / Chevrolet Trooper; its successor was the Holden Acadia (Holden Captiva 7) / Chevrolet Equinox (worldwide); assembly was at Bupyeong-gu, Incheon. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Qashqai, the Audi R8, the Volkswagen Tiguan — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Chevrolet catalogue sit the Chevrolet Adra and the Chevrolet C-10.
What it costs now
The money question first: $14,000–$28,000 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,970–$6,779 a year. Insurance sits around $1,260–$1,940 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.