Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 2000 Daewoo Lanos Hatchback
This series is all about automotive history, and Daewoo's ill-fated attempt to sell cars in North America under its own branding offers us some fascinating historical lessons. We took a look at a discarded example of the Daewoo Leganza luxury sedan in Wyoming recently, and now it's the turn of a Daewoo Lanos econobox that got thrown away in Northern California.
GM sold the Daewoo LeMans with Pontiac badges in the United States from the 1988 through 1993 model years, so it must have appeared that Americans were ready to buy more Daewoo models.
There were three in total, sold here from 1999 through 2002: the subcompact Lanos, the compact Nubira and the midsize Leganza.
It has become very difficult to find any of these three in car graveyards recently, because most were crushed a decade or so back. I was excited to spot this one in a yard just east of Sacramento, and even more so when a quartet of military jets screamed overhead on full afterburner.
