Start with what the Daewoo Magnus is: a 4-door sedan with 2.0 L Family II engine#L34, built from 2000 to 2006, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign.
The story
The Daewoo Magnus is a mid-sized sedan developed and manufactured by Daewoo for model years 2000–2006 under a single generation, and marketed globally by GM Daewoo and other General Motors divisions, as well as GMDAT stake holder Suzuki. Developed under its internal Daewoo designation V200, the Magnus was marketed prominently in the United States as the Suzuki Verona. The V200 is a successor to the Daewoo Leganza (model V100), used a larger chassis of its platform. Launched in 23 November, it was sold alongside the Leganza in Korea until the end of V100's production in 2002, when it also superseded it in export markets. The V200 itself was given an extensive facelift for 2006, which resulted in the model known as V250, or Daewoo Tosca in Korea.
The V250 completely superseded all versions of the V200 during 2006. The Evanda comes equipped with the Daewoo-developed XK6 inline-6 engine (DOHC 24V, 155 hp (116 kW) at 5800 rpm, 177 lb⋅ft (240 N⋅m) of torque at 4000 rpm – Canadian specification) or a Holden-built 2.0 L D-TEC inline-4 (DOHC 16V) carried over from the Leganza. Italdesign of Italy was responsible for the styling and design of both the Leganza and Magnus. However, the upcoming V250 was styled in Korea by GM Daewoo. Chery Automobile may have used the platform of this car on Chery Eastar, Chery A5 and Chery Tiggo 3.
What is underneath
The engine is 2.0 L Family II engine#L34; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1470 kg. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 106.3 in. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
In the Daewoo line-up the Daewoo Magnus has a clear place: it replaced the Daewoo Leganza / Chevrolet Alero (Europe) / Honda Legend#Daewoo Arcadia / Daewoo Arcadia; it handed the line to the Chevrolet Epica (Europe) / Daewoo Tosca / Suzuki Kizashi (for Suzuki Verona); the factory was Bupyeong District. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Hyundai Santa Fe, the BMW X5, the Toyota Yaris. Nearby in the Daewoo catalogue sit the Daewoo Honker 2000 and the Daewoo Arcadia.