{"id":480456,"date":"2010-03-27T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/spy-shots-2012-chevrolet-malibu-prepares-to-shake-up-mid-size-s\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T17:41:00","slug":"spy-shots-2012-chevrolet-malibu-prepares-to-shake-up-mid-size-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/480456","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: 2012 Chevrolet Malibu prepares to shake up mid-size segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/spyphotos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spy Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sedans\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sedan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/chevrolet\/\" rel=\"tag\">Chevrolet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_chevrolet_malibu-spied\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/chevymalibuspy.jpg\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/12\/coloring-in-between-the-lines-reader-shades-in-2012-chevy-malib\/\">patent drawings of the Chevrolet Malibu<\/a>, and now spy shooters have captured the real thing cruising the hinterlands like a Yeti. Additional styling elements will be added to the bodywork, giving the current car&#8217;s graceful bulk a few more angles and a bit more finesse. <\/p>\n<p>The prototype&#8217;s better-looking than the patent sketches indicate, which is no surprise, but we&#8217;re still looking forward to how those front and rear lights will evolve. At least in back, it looks like they won&#8217;t be true dual units, as envisioned on a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/img159.imageshack.us\/img159\/6492\/maliburenderingsmallred.jpg\">sketch-based renderings<\/a>, but will have single lenses outboard and another set on the trunk.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, which is where we think the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/malibu\">Malibu<\/a> can really step up its game, &#8220;vastly improved&#8221; materials are said to be on the way. A significantly better ride will come courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/25\/quick-spin-2010-buick-lacrosse-cxs-gets-hiper-w-video\/\">HiPer strut system<\/a> on the car&#8217;s new Epsilon II platform.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_chevrolet_malibu-spied\/gallery\">Car &amp; Driver<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/spy-shots-2012-chevrolet-malibu-prepares-to-shake-up-mid-size-s\/\">Spy Shots: 2012 Chevrolet Malibu prepares to shake up mid-size segment<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:41:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/news\/car\/10q1\/2012_chevrolet_malibu-spied\/gallery>Read<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/spy-shots-2012-chevrolet-malibu-prepares-to-shake-up-mid-size-s\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/forward\/19416705\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/27\/spy-shots-2012-chevrolet-malibu-prepares-to-shake-up-mid-size-s\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedan, Chevrolet We&#8217;ve seen patent drawings of the Chevrolet Malibu, and now spy shooters have captured the real thing cruising the hinterlands like a Yeti. Additional styling elements will be added to the bodywork, giving the current car&#8217;s graceful bulk a few more angles and a bit more finesse. The prototype&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}