OFFICIAL: 2011 Chevrolet Aveo RS Unveiled – High Res Gallery

Chevrolet will display at the Detroit Auto Show the Aveo RS concept, designed to prepare the public for the next generation of the popular subcompact with the same name, which will hit the market next year.

Chevrolet wants a good display at the Auto Show in Detroit and a positive reaction from the audience, so they drew an ace out of the sleeve, a move few expected. During the next week’s event, the GM subsidiary will unveil  a new concept, which anticipates the next generation of the Aveo subcompact.

Simply named Aveo RS, Chevrolet stand’s star comes with a new design line, which predicts the direction in which the American brand is heading. The concept adopts the look of an European hot-hatch and primarily seeks the attention of young people who love sports accessories, accessories found in abundance in the exterior.

Finished in the Boracay blue color, the new Aveo RS borrows design elements from Chevrolet but comes with a number of trends: oversized double grill, more robust optical blocks, inspired by motorcycles and integrated fog projectors in the bumper’s air-inlet. The Americans also took trick often used by the European automakers: hiding the door handles behind pillar C.

In the back, Aveo is individualized by the trunk-mounted spoiler, the centrally located chrome exhaust pipes, and prominent rear lamp with colored aluminum casing. Le piece de la resistance of the package is the aluminum 19 inch set of wheels, with five spokes, which hide the brake calipers painted the same blue color.

The body shade continues inside too, where the concept adopts leather with prominent stitching, threshold insertions and a blue instrument display, whose design is also inspired from the moto world. Under the hood of the concept which will be presented in Detroit, Chevrolet installed a 1.4-liter Ecotec engine and 138 horsepower, mated to a six-speed manual gearbox.

Expected to drop in the showrooms in 2011, the new Chevrolet Aveo RS will enter production towards the end of this year. The version designed for the U.S. will be assembled at the GM plant in Orion, Michigan.