Start with what the Daewoo Tosca is: a 4-door sedan with 1.8 , built from 2006 to 2014, 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 Sung Paik at General Motors Design Center.
How it came about
The Daewoo Tosca is a mid-size car designed by Daewoo in South Korea and marketed by Chevrolet as the Chevrolet Epica and Chevrolet Tosca, while Holden marketed it as the Holden Epica. Codenamed V250, it replaces the Daewoo Magnus and its derivatives. The Chevrolet Epica was officially launched in Europe at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show. The Tosca is noteworthy in that it was available with transversely-mounted straight-six engines.
Contrary to the preceding models (V100 Leganza and V200 Magnus), which were styled by Giugiaro, the V250 was designed entirely in-house. Due to the Daewoo brand being renamed as Chevrolet for South Korea, the Daewoo Tosca ended production in early 2011 in South Korea. Production in China started in March 2007 and ended in 2014. Tosca was replaced by the Chevrolet Malibu which entered production in South Korea for the first time.
The hardware
The engine is 1.8 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a 4-speed Aisin 81-40LE automatic / 5-speed Aisin AF33 automatic / 6-speed GM 6T40 automatic / 6-speed GM 6T45 automatic / 5-speed GMDAT D24 manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2700 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Daewoo line-up the Daewoo Tosca has a clear place: it replaced the Daewoo Magnus; it handed the line to the Chevrolet Malibu; the factory was Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, South Korea. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Nissan Qashqai, the Audi R8, the Kia Sportage. Its Daewoo stablemates include the Daewoo Honker 2000 and the Daewoo Arcadia.