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The Chevrolet Beretta, together with its corporate and division
sibling, the Chevrolet Corsica, were designed and introduced by General
Motors' Chevrolet Motor division with only one purpose in mind—to
regain the original place where Chevrolet stands in the American
vehicle market. And after several years of research and design and a
silent first year in the market, the Chevrolet Beretta indeed created
much noise and threatened to bring Chevrolet back to the number one
spot.
The Chevrolet Beretta is a 2-door front wheel drive coupe manufactured
and sold by the Chevrolet Motor division of the General Motors
Corporation from the 1987 to the 1996 model year. It shares the same
body platform, the GM L platform, with the 4-door Chevrolet Corsica
sedan as well as with the Canadian Pontiac Tempest sedan. Both the
Beretta and the Corsica were silently introduced in 1986 as 1987
models, sold only to rental agencies as well as to government entities,
along with a few models provided for each GM vehicle dealer. It was
sold to the general public only for the 1988 model year, after demands
for the car increased due to the commendable performance of the early
production model.
When it was introduced to the general public in 1988, the
Chevy Beretta was available in three trim levels: Base, mid-level CL,
and up trim GT. Engines available for the early Berettas were a
2.0-liter I4 and a 2.8-liter V6 engine. Later, however, other trim
levels were introduced, including the GTU, Indy, GTZ and, the Z26. From
1990, the original engines were replaced or upgraded, and by then
includes a 2.2-liter I4, 2.3-liter Quad-4, and a 3.1-liter V6 engine.
For its entire ten year run, the Chevrolet Beretta was offered
only in 2-door coupe body style. News about a convertible version of
the Chevrolet Beretta reached the public in 1990, but the model was
never released to the disappointment of the public. By mid-1990s, the
Chevrolet Beretta/Corsica models are already behind their competitors
in terms of style and image, and Chevrolet decided to end their fate in
1996 in favor of the newer Chevrolet Malibu.
But sports cars rarely die, and for as long as there are high
quality and high performance Chevrolet Beretta parts available in the
market, you can be assured that your Chevrolet Beretta would go on
roaring. It is advisable though to equip it with a lot of new
performance and custom parts to further improve its performance, as its
design may no longer be able to match with newer sports cars.
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