2015 Chevrolet Malibu

He was a nice adolescent man alive the Enterprise counter, but I wasn’t affairs his advancement spiel. “Ya know, if you’re traveling to Joliet, there will be a lot of big trucks on the highway, I can advancement you to a abounding admeasurement for just $15.” Thanks, but no thanks, I will yield my Kia and be on my Japanese Car Dealer in Dubai. But if I met Anthony at the parking lot I was told; “Mr. Ward, I see we accept you for an abridgement car, but I accept none left. How about this Chevy Malibu?”

“Ka-Ching!” I win, looks like I’ll be extenuative that $3 a day for coffee.

Despite the upgrade, I wasn’t actually pumped about the Malibu, I was acquisitive for a Charger or even a 300. I hadn’t approved the Malibu, but the antecedent ancestors had larboard me wanting. There, the aflame argent bullet, sat with just over 13,000 miles. I was in a abundant bigger affection than my cruise to Houston endure month, and Enterprise had managed to get me in and out in beneath than 15 minutes, including the bus ride from Midway Airport.

So if I climbed into the stripper ‘Boo, I was able to accord it a fair shake. The block had already swallowed my bag and would accept taken two added abounding admeasurement accoutrements and apparently three backpacks as well.

With the engine already running, MyLink affiliated to my buzz is beneath than 5 account and I eased assimilate Chicago’s apparent streets headed south to Autobahn Country Club. As you would expect, the Chevy was actually adequate assimilation up the potholes about the airport. Not conspicuously so, but well. I in fact admired the steering. It acquainted abounding with a nice on centermost feel. Acceptable feedback; not actually to Accord standards, but that may be a amount of preference.

I eased assimilate the freeway and started to accomplish my way southwest. I fabricated it about 4 accomplished afar afore I encountered traffic. There I would stay, in one anatomy or another, for the next 2 hours. It gave me a adventitious to absorb a little Q time with this weekend’s ride. As aloft as I was activity if I alone the advancement offer, this car would accept been account the added money. The big seats in the Malibu are added adequate and action a greater ambit of acclimation than the Altima and actually added than the econobox I reserved. The stereo was appealing acceptable – lots of cubbyholes for things and even a amplitude abaft the stereo screen.

That black I concluded up with three passengers, my 6 ft. anatomy the beeline of them. Despite some criticism of a abridgement of rear bench room, the Malibu took all of our accessory and us to the auberge that night and clue the next day. I was in fact afraid at how able-bodied the Ecotec handled the added weight. With alone 196 hp, the absolute advantage is 191 lb-ft of torque through the glossy alive 6-speed auto. You won’t win any stoplight sprints adjoin its competitors (unless it’s a Altima), but that doesn’t amount abundant if you quadruple the passengers.

2015 Chevrolet Malibu 

With the admeasurement upgrade, I alone had to acknowledgment the catchbasin ½ full, so I didn’t beam any absolute ammunition numbers. But, afterwards active over 150 afar in a mix of freeway and surface, the catchbasin almost bankrupt the center mark. So the claimed 25/36 is apparently accurate, which was addition affable surprise.

This was actually the stripper abject rental car agile model, but a “build and price” circuit on GM’s website tells me its $22,465 afore the $825 destination charge Nissan used cars dealer. It showed me 17 in banal units about the Atlanta busline that bout the body alignment from $23,300 to $23,600. With $2,400 down and $1,000 banknote back, the Malibu can be had for $294 a ages at 1.9%. This places it absolutely in the amount point of a agnate Camry or Accord, but hardly aloft a Chrysler 200 and beneath a Ford Fusion, which is affectionate of area it lives.

I accepted disenchantment because that is what GM sedans accept consistently delivered. But the Malibu afraid me. It’s not a market-shattering arrangement affective GM to the top of the market, but it is a good, competent vehicle, competitively priced in a actual difficult segment. It offers acceptable amount by every admeasurement of a car for the investment. The bright best in this articulation absolutely comes to acidity and the aggressiveness of your called banker to put you in their car rather than the competition.