Start with what the Daewoo Lanos is: a 3 and 5-door hatchback / 4-door sedan (car) / sedan / 2-door convertible (car) / convertible (concept) / 2-door panel van (since 2006) / 2 and 4-door pickup truck (concept) with 1299 , built from 1997 to 2020, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Giorgetto Giugiaro at italdesign.
How it came about
The Daewoo Lanos is a compact hatchback / sedan car produced by the South Korean manufacturer Daewoo from 1997 to 2002, and thereafter produced under license agreements in various countries worldwide. It has also been marketed as the Daewoo Sens, ZAZ Sens and ZAZ Lanos in Ukraine, Doninvest Assol and ZAZ Chance in Russia, FSO Lanos in Poland, or Chevrolet Lanos in Ukraine, Russia, and Egypt. It was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro and initially featured three body styles: three-door and five-door hatchbacks and a four-door sedan.
The Lanos was designated the T100 model code at launch; the T150 code applies to the updated models introduced in 1999. In 2006, a panel van version, produced in Ukraine by ZAZ, was also introduced. The Daewoo Lanos was designed to replace the Daewoo Nexia in the Daewoo line-up and was itself replaced by the Daewoo Kalos. Production of the Daewoo Lanos ended in 2017.
The hardware
The engine is 1299 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 990-1177 kg. Drive goes through a 5-speed Getrag F20 transmission / Daewoo D16 manual / 4-speed General Motors / GM GM 4T40 transmission / 4T40E automatic / 4-speed ZF Friedrichshafen / ZF ZF 4HP16 transmission / 4. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2520 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Daewoo line-up the Daewoo Lanos has a clear place: it replaced the Daewoo Cielo / ZAZ Tavria (for ZAZ models); it handed the line to the Daewoo Kalos; the factory was Bupyeong District. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Subaru Forester, the Toyota Prius, the Škoda Auto Škoda Octavia. Its Daewoo stablemates include the Daewoo Honker 2000 and the Daewoo Arcadia.