We guess the Aveo was such an awesome little shitbox, Chevrolet feels it, like a champion baseball player, deserves retirement of its name. In its place? The Chevrolet Sonic. When you buy one, do you get a cherry-limeaid slushie? [GMInsideNews]

These first images of the 2012 Chevy Aveo show an econobox inspired by the angry Aveo RS concept and designed to make people forget how crappy previous generations of Aveos have been. A photo of the surprisingly attractive interior below.

The Chevy Aveo RS show car is a fairly transparent look at the next-generation entry, slotted above the Spark and below the Cruze. It'll begin production in 2011 and go on sale in 2012, albeit with a lot less aggression.

The problem with the current Aveo is its crushing mediocrity. But after looking at the Chevy Aveo RS show car earlier today, it's clear this lightly-disguised preview of what's to come is styled much more aggressively than the last one.

While the embargo's just a few hours away, a few shots of a surprisingly attractive Chevy Aveo RS show car have leaked their way onto the internet. Click through to see them in all their surprising glory.

The new Chevy Aveo will obliterate the current car's econobox image. Today, workers at the car's Orion assembly plant previewed it, seen showing the covered teaser above. We'll tell you all about it next week at the Detroit Auto Show.

You may drive an import, but it's still from the Earth. Now Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a car for you that may have been imported from another planet — a sad, sad planet where cars look like suppositories.

Many cars have been killed because of the Carpocalypse. But we don't think the bloodbath should be over. With the help of Jalopnik readers we've identified nine on death row and one that should be read its last rights.

The 2011 Chevrolet Aveo (or Viva) has to be a more competent econobox than the one it'll replace, able to compete globally against Japanese, Korean and even American competition; Based on these first interior images, it may have a shot.