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Among the 27 Daewoo entries in the MotorJury library, the Daewoo Lacetti holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2002. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Daewoo Lacetti properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Volvo Cars Volvo XC90, the Porsche Porsche Cayenne, the Mazda Mazda6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Daewoo Lacetti reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / petrol: / 1.4 L GM Family 1 engine#E-TEC / E-TEC II Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.5 L GM Family 1 engine#E-TEC / E-TEC II I4 / 1.6 L GM Family 1 engine#E-TEC / E-TE; kerb weight is recorded at 2756 -; drive goes through 4-speed automatic / 5-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Daewoo's own catalogue the Daewoo Lacetti sits alongside the Daewoo Honker 2000, the Daewoo Arcadia, the Daewoo Cielo, the Daewoo Gentra. The record names the Daewoo Nubira as its predecessor and the Daewoo Lacetti Premiere / Chevrolet Cruze / Buick Excelle (second generation) (China) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Goran Popović at Pininfarina (sedan, station wagon) / Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign (hatchback). Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Gunsan / Colombia: Bogotá (GM Colmotores) / India: Halol (General Motors India / GM India) / China: Shanghai (Shanghai GM) / Kazakhstan: Ust-Kamenogorsk / Russia: Kali.
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