M450 & M300
When I came out after visiting city hall, there was a blue Spark parked right next to my car.
Judging by the simple bumpers, No fog lights, No rear spoiler, Mat black Sideview Mirror cover, and 13-inch steel wheels, it seemed to be the base LS trim.
Starting from the LT trim, the character lines became more pronounced and the bumpers adopted a more “Transformer” style design.
However, neither the LS nor LT bumpers of the M300 were ever launched in North America.
That’s because North American sales only began with the facelifted M350 model.
The “Daewoo Matiz Creative,” which began sales in 2009 when GM Korea was still called “GM Daewoo,” had its emblem changed to Chevrolet in 2011 when the brand transitioned to Chevrolet.
Then in 2013, it received a facelift into the M350 design that North American owners would be more familiar with.
The M300 was sold from 2009 with the 1.0L S-TEC II engine and the Jatco JF405E 4-speed A/T.
With the arrival of the M350 in 2013, it gained the S-TEC III engine and a Jatco CVT.
(Manual transmission models still retained the S-TEC II.)
In North America, it was initially sold in 2013 with a 1.2L S-TEC II engine and the Aisin AW 40-80LE 4-speed A/T, before switching to a Jatco CVT for the 2014 model year.
(In North America, it was sold exclusively with the S-TEC II engine until the M350 end.)