Ever undergo the Law of Automotive Similarity? You know, whatever you drive, you’ll wager it in enthusiastic numbers? Well, we’ve been dynamical a 2008 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ litter around for a pair of weeks now, and we’ve not seen rattling whatever another examples of whatever Chevy Malibu from past support years.

• Just One Look

Sleek and beautiful in the Dark Gray that Chevrolet has chosen as the car’s mode colouration to support fortify its upscale aspirations, this automobile looks aforementioned the fitter, hipper junior brother when parked beside a unstylish ’07 Malibu (still to be oversubscribed to advertizement fleets as the 2008 Malibu Classic). And its direct organisation makes whatever of the Asian rivalry seem complete quirky.

• Drive Time

These and another humble dimensions become straightforward from GM’s Epsilon chassis that the 2008 Malibu shares with the Saturn Aura. So it’s no assail that our top-level M

alibu LTZ carries the aforementioned 252-horsepower 3.6-liter double-overhead-cam V6 with uncertain regulator timing that we’ve seen in the Aura. Unencumbered by the low-revving pushrods and constraining two-valve heads of terminal year’s 3.5-liter GM V6, the LTZ sprints to 60 indication in an brisk 6.6 seconds, closing the quarter-mile in 15.1 seconds at 92.9 mph.

Despite the prizewinning efforts of the transmission, the EPA-certified render frugalness of 17 mpg municipality and 26 route relic a pair of points unsure of the class-leading 2008 Honda Accord V6. We averaged 22.5 mpg over nearly 2,600 miles of compounded driving, including a long-haul activate from metropolis to Los Angeles. Our Malibu weighed in at 3,643 pounds — within digit or threesome bowling balls of an Accord V6.

• Dollars and Sense

The toll of the Malibu has absent up, but the coverall organisation and calibre notion has absent up more. Including instruction charges, our effort LTZ stickers at $27,245: $26,995 for the humble LTZ nonnegative $250 for a side 110-volt noesis outlet.

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