2012 CHEVROLET IMPALA PictureThe Chevrolet Impala has loitered in driveways-and in excess of a handful of rental lots-in its existing iteration given that the 2006 product 12 months, choosing up characteristics like E85 capability and handful of new shades along the way in which. A heretical SS design came and went, also, marking the initial instance of a Chevy tiny block V-8 powering an Impala’s front wheels. 6 model decades later, somebody at Chevrolet need to have determined a refresh was so as, and so the Impala gets each a strong new engine and lightly altered styling for 2012.
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For 2012, Chevrolet has streamlined the Impala’s motor lineup from two ho-hum V-6s to a single, more-modern V-6. To replace the Impala’s two ancient pushrod powerplants-a three.5-liter earning 211 hp in addition to a “range-topping” three.9-liter pinching out a mere 230-Chevy dipped in to the corporate elements bin and plucked out GM’s 3.6-liter direct-injected 6, here doing 302 hp and 252 lb-ft of torque. The 3.6-liter is often uncovered powering every thing from the Malibu to your Cadillac CTS, and on this application pushes out just 1 hp and 71 lb-ft fewer than did the Impala SS’s five.3-liter V-8, which was discontinued for 2010. Chevrolet also saw suit to upgrade the Impala’s transmission, yanking out the old-school four-speed slushbox and dropping in a very six-speed automated. The brand new engine and transmission should net the Impala enhanced fuel-economy numbers, but we’ll ought to wait for its official EPA rating for the exact total. The big sedan at present achieves 19 mpg city and 29 highway together with the smaller sized 3.5-liter V-6, which isn’t horrible for the ton-and-a-half cruiser. Inside relatively heavier Buick LaCrosse, the 3.6/six-speed combo produces much less energy than it'll right here but only returns 17 mpg town and 27 highway.
