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| 1997 Chevrolet Lumina Review, Henry_Chinaski
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Lumina LS
| | Model of the car: | Lumina LS | | | General comments: | Overall, this is a nice comfortable car to drive after twenty years of being a VW owner. It is a quiet, roomy car where are controls and guages are easily within reach and easy to see. I feel safe in this car and am overall quiet happy with this purchase. I'm pushing 40 and getting jolted and jostled with stiff suspension in VW's just got to me and after twenty years, this is the 2nd Chevy I've ever owned in my life. What comfort! | | | What things have gone wrong with the car: | I haven't had the car very long, and all my little complaints about some windshield moulding and door panels being a little loose were readily solved by the Chevrolet dealership. No problems with brakes or alternators yet, I recently bought the car. But what sort of was a kick in the groin is efficiency. This hefty Chevy is thirsty! I've calculated that it is only 60% as efficient as my last Volkswagen. Maybe, and just maybe, this is due to the fact that the dealership didn't fill it with gasoline to the very top such that you couldn't fit another drop of gasoline it - so that knocks my mileage calculations off a bit. Plus the car has been sitting in the lot for almost three months and I guess that gasoline that was in it wasn't the at it's best for peak combustion any more.
The second thing, not that it's fair to mention because they haven't given any problems yet, is that I will miss those HUGE DISC BRAKES on VW's and, like it or not, stopping 3300 pounds with those tiny discs on the Lumina will take it's toll on brakes. What I'd like to do is talk to these Lumina owners with the 30-odd miles per gallon efficiencies? That's a little hard to be | | | Previous car: | I've always driven VW's - Scirocco's, Jettas, Rabbits...but with comfort and great customer service from my neighbourhood Chevy dealership I am quite happy. (But where are those Lumina owners |
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