Daewoo
This is the catalogue record of the Daewoo Lanos, one of 27 models Daewoo has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1997. 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 Lanos properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. 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 Subaru Subaru Forester, the Toyota Toyota Prius, the Škoda Auto Škoda Octavia — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Daewoo Lanos reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine: / 1299 cc MeMZ-301/307 Straight-four engine / I4 / 1349 cc GM Family 1 engine#E-TEC / E-TEC I4 / 1386 cc MeMZ-317 I4 / 1399 cc GM Family 1 engine; kerb weight is recorded at 990-1177 kg; drive goes through 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 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 Lanos sits alongside the Daewoo Honker 2000, the Daewoo Arcadia, the Daewoo Cielo, the Daewoo Gentra. The record names the Daewoo Cielo / ZAZ Tavria (for ZAZ models) as its predecessor and the Daewoo Kalos as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Giorgetto Giugiaro at italdesign. Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Bupyeong District / Bupyeong / Egypt: 6th of October City (General Motors Egypt / GM Egypt: 2007–2020) / Egypt: Cairo (Speranza Chery / Daewoo Motors Egypt, 1998–2012).
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