I finally got to see a well-kept Daewoo up close!

[Sam Blockhan]

This 2000 example has just 59,199 miles on it! The people at the dealership know how rare it is, thankfully. There's someone in Arizona expressing interest, proving that there are people other than me who regularly check for Daewoos for sale in the US!

Also at the dealer was a 2002 Lincoln Blackwood, one of 3,356 built! I have yet to see one parked in the open, where I can get proper phots. The last one that I saw was on the freeway 5-7 years ago.

[aremmes]

@Sam-Blockhan I haven't seen one of those in 15 years, and that last one was ready for the crusher even back then.

[Qaaaaa]

@Sam-Blockhan said in I finally got to see a well-kept Daewoo up close!:

there are people other than me who regularly check for Daewoos for sale in the US!

But why?

[Sam Blockhan]

@Qaaaaa Since I've heard they were no better than their contemporaries, I think because of the history and that you can drive something that almost nobody else has for little money. A friend of mine who has experience with Daewoos says that Daewoo parts are easy to find.

[fintail]

@Sam-Blockhan And a Leganza no less, one of the less common models.I wonder how many exist in even close to that condition. I wonder what the scarcest model is, Nubira wagon perhaps.

Leganza reminds me of when I was in my first real job after graduation, around Y2K. A guy not much older than me in the office had one, and it was already looking a little rough by 2004 or so. Seems like around 2010 maybe, these started vanishing fast.

I also remember the MB dealer in that town (Bellingham) also had the Daewoo franchise, seeing the big MB star sign with Daewoo below it always amused me.

[Sam Blockhan]

@fintail The scarcest model is the 1999 Nubira hatchback, which was only available in autumn 1998. They only sold 523 Nubiras in 1998, so if you estimate that 1/3 of sales were hatchbacks, then ~175 were sold. I have a collection of pictures of them, nine total. Seven were salvage auctions, one was in Florida around 2010 (spotted by a Flickr user), and the last one was the one I saw at the airport in Spokane in 2018; I didn't have a phone then, so no pictures . I found it on October 2013 Street View:

[ash78]

@Sam-Blockhan

/couldn’t resist

[Mr.Ontop]

@Sam-Blockhan Speaking as a former Daewoo owner...they were thoroughly....adequate. Just as a side note, if you really miss Daewoos, go find a Chevy Aveo... those were just badge swapped Daewoos. In fact, they had the same engine as my old Lanos.

[Urambo Tauro]

@Sam-Blockhan Too bad it's not a Lanos

[Jarrett]

@Sam-Blockhan My wife had a Daewoo Lacetti Chevy Optra. It was a pile.

[ash78]

Interesting -- I'm pretty sure I see a Leganza every month or so. Enough so that I don't chalk them up in the "super rare" category. Same with the Nubira.

So I guess that speaks to their longevity, I suppose. But I never see them in good condition. So I guess that speaks to their clientele, I suppose

[ibRAD]

@Sam-Blockhan said in I finally got to see a well-kept Daewoo up close!:

Daewoo parts are easy to find.

All you have to do is retrace your route!

[AuthiCooper1300]

@Sam-Blockhan

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a1878641/road-not-taken-jaguar-kensington-concept-turns-25/

[fintail]

@Sam-Blockhan Interesting, that one doesn't ring a bell, rare indeed. Reminds me of a Suzuki Reno or similar. No surprise it ended up in Spokane, oddball unloved cars seem to be a thing here.

I think I told the story before, I remember around 2002-03 or so, a friend was in a fender bender, and received a rental car during the repair. The car was a Lanos hatchback, I think an 00-01 which had something like 60 miles on it - unsold inventory dumped into fleets. Even better, it was purple. The car was nicknamed "the Skittle".

[Sam Blockhan]

@fintail The hatchback continued on in other countries until the Gen 1 Nubira was discontinued; the Lacetti was it's replacement, so that makes the Suzuki Reno the Nubira hatchback's USA successor.

[awesomeaustinv]

@Sam-Blockhan I saw a ton of those Daewoos when I was in Jordan, I had no idea they ever sold them in the states. That looks like the kind of car that shouldn’t even be here, like a mundane forbidden fruit.

[pip bip]

@Sam-Blockhan burn the Daewoo

[Sam Blockhan]

@pip-bip

[pip bip]

@Sam-Blockhan much better