The Chevrolet Spark may no longer be available in SA but the vibrant second hand market has a number of these compact cars available, but should you buy one?
Sparkling personality
Chevrolet officially left South Africa in 2017 when parent company GM wrapped up a number of global operations. This left many GM branded car owners wondering if they would still be able to service their cars.
Isuzu Motors bought out the Struandale plant and offered to keep servicing all Chevrolet models under warranty and kept a significant amount of the needed parts in stock.
According to the 2015 Kinsey report the Chevrolet Spark faired the worst out of 10 compact cars in terms of the parts bin costs taking a whopping 64% of the purchase price of the car in replacement car parts.
Relatively speaking, day-to-day maintenance items are not that expensive but when it comes to replacement body panels, doors and headlights you will be digging deep into your cheque book.
The other more obvious problem now is that the vehicle is no longer sold in SA, most of the warranties have expired and parts will begin running out locally as Isuzu begins scaling down parts holding for the Spark.
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