The M300 Spark had its own Hollywood moment — it played Skids in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, custom-painted Vertigo Green down to the brake calipers.
Median 81 hp across 268 similar cars
Lead trim: 1.0 S-TEC II (68 PS) · up to 84 hp
Chevrolet Spark2009–2015
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FactThe M300 Spark had its own Hollywood moment — it played Skids in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, custom-painted Vertigo Green down to the brake calipers.
The redesigned Matiz, codenamed M300, was launched in 2009 and is based on the 2007 Chevrolet Beat concept car. It was sold globally as the Chevrolet Spark, kept the Beat name in India and some Latin American markets, and was marketed as the Daewoo Matiz Creative in South Korea before the Daewoo marque was eliminated there in 2011. GM presented a pre-production Chevrolet Beat carrying the Spark nameplate at the 2009 North American International Auto Show, and the production Chevrolet Spark was unveiled at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show, reaching Europe in the first quarter of 2010, with US sales beginning in early 2012 for the 2013 model year. It was built on the Gamma II platform and is related to the Opel Agila B and Suzuki Splash.
Collectors Spotted in the Chevrolet Spark Lineage
No member has published a public street spot of the Chevrolet Spark yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 S-TEC II (68 PS) | 2009–2015 | 1.0 L Inline-4 | 67 hp | 69 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.2 (81 PS) | 2009–2015 | 1.2 L Inline-4 | 80 hp | 82 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 1.2 (North America, 84 hp) | 2013–2015 | 1.2 L Inline-4 | 84 hp | 83 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
An estimate, for the 1.0 S-TEC II (68 PS) trim: fuel on its EPA figure and a dated national price, upkeep on a per-mile average for the kind of car it is.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
This Spark generation lived a double life worldwide: the same M400 car wore five different badges, Chevrolet, Holden Spark, Opel Karl, Vauxhall Viva, and even VinFast Fadil under license in Vietnam.
Domino's turned a Spark into a rolling pizza oven for its DXP delivery car — the left rear door became a warming compartment, unlockable only from the key fob or the driver's door.
The M300 Spark had its own Hollywood moment — it played Skids in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, custom-painted Vertigo Green down to the brake calipers.
In 2008, this Spark's 800cc engine got retuned just enough to slip under 120 g/km of CO2 — dodging the UK's road tax band and London's congestion charge in one move.
The original Matiz's body was a Fiat design that Fiat itself turned down — Daewoo picked up the rejected Italdesign concept and built a bestseller out of it.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
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