Chevrolet Rezzo / Vivant

Production period:	2000 to 2011
Class :	motor car
Body versions :	station wagon
Engines:	Gasoline: 1.6-2.0 liters(66-108 kW)
Length:	4350 mm
Width:	1755 mm
Height:	1580-1630 mm
Wheelbase :	2600 mm
Curb weight :	1347-1433 kg

The Chevrolet Rezzo (internal type designation U100) is produced from 2000 to 2011 a compact car of the Korean automaker GM Daewoo .

History

In 1997 Daewoo presented at the Seoul Motor Show for the first time a concept vehicle bearing the name Daewoo Tacuma Concept. Two years later in 1999, two more concept vehicles, Daewoo Tacuma Sport and Daewoo Tacuma Style. The pilot series was produced from July 1999. In January 2000, the production car in South Korea went on sale.The formal exhibition premiere took place the following month at the Geneva Motor Show . In Europe it is available until the fall of 2000, was built on the basis of the Daewoo Rezzo .

The Rezzo was designed by Pininfarina , Italdesign and the Daewoo Motors Design Studio  based on the Daewoo Nubira.In Europe, the vehicle was available with four gasoline engines: a 1.6-liter engine, a 1.8-liter engine and a 2.0-liter engine in two power levels (maximum power of the strongest variant: 89 kW). In Asia  it was also available with a 2.0-liter engine with a maximum power of 108 kW.

It has a five-speed manual transmission, from the CDX version was optionally a four-speed automatic transmission and a used. A conversion to LPG was also possible.Chevrolet offered for the Rezzo ex works (conversion at the importer) with a LPG system. The gas tank is installed instead of the spare wheel in the spare wheel well with a capacity of 53 liters LPG (Liquified Propane Gas).  The range of the vehicle thus extended by up to about km 450thIn 2000, Daewoo, in cooperation with the Korea Research Institute of Energy,  a fuel cell vehicle called the Daewoo Rezzo DFCV-1. It has a 10 kW fuel cell stack. 

The Rezzo was available in three variants:The basic version SE includes standard driver and passenger airbags as well as side airbags, power steering and electronic immobilizer .The variant SX also contains fog lights and interval rear window wiper.The highest equipment variant CDX is additionally equipped with rain sensor and alarm system, it was also an electric glass lift / sunroof available.It has only been revised once since the market launch in late 2004 and otherwise remained technically up to date.

The name Chevrolet Vivant was from 2003 in the South African market,  where it previously was marketed as Daewoo Tacuma and also used in South American markets.Originally launched as Daewoo Rezzo and Daewoo Tacuma , it was renamed Chevrolet Rezzo and Chevrolet Tacuma at the end of 2004, when General Motors took over the distribution of European Daewoo vehicles . The model was discontinued in Europe at the end of 2008 and replaced in late 2010 by Chevrolet Orlando .

In South Korea, the vehicle was built in 2000 at the Daewoo plant Kunsan and initially  expected an annual production of 100 000.In Uzbekistan, the Chevrolet Tacuma was produced between 2007 and  2008  at GM Uzbekistan . The Daewoo model, however, disappeared in the autumn of 2008 by the market as the Romanian manufacturer Daewoo Automobile SA of the Tacuma from 2002  built by Ford.Between January 2008  and 2011, the vehicle was built in Vietnam at the Vietnam Daewoo Motor Co. ( GM Daewoo Vidamco ) under the name Chevrolet Vivant.