Honestly, mixed feelings.
The 7th gen was my favorite car a decade or so ago, but obviously they stopped innovating on the last gen for a few years now.
Instead of axing sedans they should’ve just introduced a wagon 
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60734464/chevy-malibu-production-ending/
Didn’t even know they still made this
Guess they wanted to give the low margin sedan fleet sales to someone else.
No paywall with this link
Bizarre that they are still pursuing the EV pipedream
the 7th gen was your favorite???
Pretty sure that’s everyone’s first (and only) reaction.
This must be a real loss for Hertz & Enterprise.
Yup, I saw it at the rental stands but i thought it was a left over model or something. Very underwhelming car, as all midsize sedans are.
GM did the Malibu dirty in it’s later life. 60/70’s it was a muscle car with a big block V8.
The 64 Chevelle Malibu SS was GM’s first entry into the muscle car market.
Demand for that dried up
That is what gas shortages and long gas lines will do.
They should have just turned it into a PHEV / hybrid only vehicle. They should be copying Toyota’s strategy because clearly it’s working
Perhaps an unpopular opinion: I liked mine. My first real lease hack at $176 a month plus tax and tags. It had so many features for that price that I had never had before. Leather, heated seats, Navigation, Premium sound package, Sunroof, Premium wheels and it was one of the first cars on the market to include Android Auto. The engine was a little underpowered but serviceable. I used this car frequently for Uber driving for a stretch and I was frequently complimented. The commercials were cheesy but it was definitely true that many people were surprised that it was a Chevy. There was the time that it cracked a piston at 10k miles and the POS shifter assembly GM used at the time in everything decided to crap out towards the end of the lease but overall it was still a positive experience to own and drive.
All jokes aside here, you’re right, it’s a decent car. For a commuter car or Uber it’s perfect.
I rented a bunch of them over the years and never had any complaints. But that’s the stigma it had, oh yeah that’s a rental car. And GM never did much to market it any other way. Because GM sucks at selling cars.
The problem is that in it’s base spec it was a rental car but you could actually option them pretty nice for the money relative to the competition.
GM really hates any sort of equity in their brand names, maybe because 80% of their cars are so terrible that no one who bought one ever wants to come back to the brand, so they have to go from Nova to Cavalier to Cobalt to Cruze hoping that each new name will draw in more suckers or fool people who bought the last one and swore never again.
They could have made just one Corolla or Civic that didn’t suck and then kept using that name until people identify it with “good car” but that’s asking a lot.
So that’s why they couldn’t have called that car “Chevelle”, a name that they already owned and that people had good memories of, but had to come up with some new nonsense vaguely Nazi sounding name.
