Production chronology1999–open
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
rdw ↗1 year
← Daewoo
Daewoo / Model record
DaewooMatiz
Production1999 – present
Recorded originSouth Korea
ClassA-segment
Background
The Chevrolet Spark is a city car manufactured by General Motors's subsidiary GM Korea from 1998 to 2022. The vehicle was developed by Daewoo and introduced in 1998 as the Daewoo Matiz. In 2002, General Motors purchased Daewoo Motors, which was marketing the vehicle with several GM marques and nameplates.
Text adapted from “Chevrolet Spark” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations1998–2004
First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.
Netherlands RDW ↗7 years
Swiss TAS/TARGA approval observations2000–2002
Swiss type-approval years; approval dates are not production chronology.
Swiss ASTRA TAS/TARGA ↗3 years