2012 Sonic LTZ: Chevrolet's super new subcompact car
The Sonic replaces the lackluster Chevrolet Aveo, which remained a bottom runner in the subcompact car segment even with a few notable improvements in its latter years.
To be succinct, the Aveo was a wimp, no matter how much I tried to defend it as a decent low-cost car with good fuel economy, great for motorists who did not care for, or could not afford, anything else.
The truth is that most drivers, even those on super-tight budgets, want more. They want attractive styling inside and out. They want cabin materials and an instrument panel that don’t automatically define the car as cheap. They want a car that provides easy connectivity with their various electronic gadgets. Most important, they want a car with highway guts that also offers world-class safety and fuel economy.
Maruti Suzuki India Chairman RC Bhargava said, “We are happy to bring contemporary CNG technology to the Indian customer. We are confident customers would value our i-GPI technology that is safe, reliable, clean, responsive and environment friendly.”
The company made passable small cars -- the Chevrolet Cavalier, Chevrolet Cobalt, Chevrolet Aveo. Those models had four wheels, engines and steering wheels
In an empty parking lot, we tossed our test car through a series of hard starts, stops, and a few doughnuts to test lateral G-forces, but our 
