1999 GM EV1 Hybrid | EV Reviews

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Reviewed by:
susan keene

Review Date
March 19, 2002

Overall Rating
1 of 5

Value Rating
1 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Review 4 of 5 , from new hampshire

Price Paid: $17000.00 from davidson chevrolet M

Year / Model Reviewed:
1995 chevrolet lumina

Strengths:
roomy...trunk room...when it runs it is pretty good on the gas and mileage

Weaknesses:
ENGINE...BRAKES....interior-sun visors don''t stay on.

Summary:
I needed a family vehicle that would be reliable and affordable. I had several minor problems over a three year period. Then without warning...no lights...no sounds or anything to tell me the car was in trouble. It stopped working. I have my oil changed every 5,000 miles on my vehicles. I need to keep my vehicles as dependable and reliable as I can. I have three young children. Well, not only do i feel i was treated unfailrly...but the problem on my 1995 chevrolet lumina was the header cracked causing the antifreeze to leak into the engine only three years into my financing. I had gone over my 60,000 mile warrant and was looking at quite a bit of an expense that i didn''t have to fix the car. I used the car for commuting to my job all highway thats why it had high mileage. I had to get another car. I traded in the 1995 and hoped it was a fluke incident..but my 1997 chevrolet lumina did the same exact thing...only this time i was covered because i bought a 5 year 75,000 mile warranty. Both these cars had this big engine problem only three years into its age. coincidental??? I think general motors should take a long hard look at the lumina. This is not a dependable or reliable car that i can see. After three years you may as well hand over your wallet. Now my alternator went. Not a big job but still costly to a family. I always intended on buying american to help our economy...but i will never again buy another general motors product. They do not stand behind there product. The product is more of a headache than it is worth owning. There warranties are shady too. When i bought the 1997 lumina i bought a 5 year 75,000 mile warranty so the same problem that happened to me in 1995 wouldn''t repeat itself...little did i know that although my contract states my vehicle in service date is 12-15-98...the vehicle in service date to the manufacturer''s gmpp and National Mechanical service Center who put out the warranties say that the vehicle in service date was the date the dealership had it on the road. So i paid for 5 years and only got three...i guess i paid for two years of a warranty that i never had. So beware of general motors and their warranties too. I paid 1300 dollars for a 5 year warranty my in service date on my contract states 12-15-98 this is only march of 2002....but my warranty expired on 1-2-02 according to GMPP and NMSC...If you want the headaches

Similar Products Used:
1995 lumina and 1997 lumina/ previously owned vehicles were a chevy cavalier and a chevy baja