2014 Chevrolet Impala

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PRICE : For 2014 Chevrolet Impala $26,860

The 2014 Chevrolet Impala ranks 1 out of 10 Affordable Large Cars. This ranking is based on our analysis of published reviews as well as examine drives of the Chevrolet Impala, every bit good every bit reliability as well as security data.

Critics handle that a high-quality interior, aggressive styling as well as a wealth of available features create the redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Impala an undeniably modern as well as comfortable large car. Because it has the best combination of positive reviews, toll as well as long-term ownership costs inwards its class, nosotros named the 2014 Chevrolet Impala the Best Large Car for the Money. It's also our 2014 Best Large Car for Families.

The 2014 Chevrolet Impala comes touchstone amongst a four-cylinder engine. Most reviewers have got tested models that have got the optional V6, which they say offers adept mightiness from a stop, every bit good every bit capable acceleration for highway passing as well as merging. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 six-speed automatic transmission is touchstone on all models, as well as although 1 examine driver is disappointed that paddle shifters aren’t available, most reviewers handle that it shifts rapidly as well as smoothly. The EPA reports that the base of operations Impala gets 21/31 mpg city/highway, which is a competitive gauge for a four-cylinder large car.

However, the Impala offers its best fuel economic scheme estimates of 25/35 mpg when equipped amongst its optional eAssist powertrain, which combines a four-cylinder engine amongst a modest electrical motor. While no reviewer considers the Impala a sport sedan, examine drivers handle that the Chevy Impala offers balanced treatment as well as accurate steering, especially for its size. Strong brakes as well as a firm, but comfortable ride also impress critics who’ve driven the 2014 Impala.

While the 2013 model disappointed reviewers amongst a basic interior that was awash inwards difficult plastics, examine drivers study that the redesigned 2014 Impala has an eye-catching interior that’s built amongst premium materials. The Impala also shines amongst comfortable forepart seats, every bit good every bit plenty of back-seat rider infinite as well as 1 of the largest trunks inwards the class. Some critics study that the Impala’s optional infotainment organization doesn’t react every bit rapidly to user inputs every bit they would like.

However, most reviewers handle that the Impala’s tech features are user-friendly, amongst large touch-screen icons as well as traditional knobs that command many sound as well as climate settings. The 2014 Chevrolet Impala comes touchstone amongst a six-speaker stereo amongst satellite as well as hard disk Radio, Bluetooth telephone connectivity as well as sound streaming as well as a USB port. Available features include a sunroof, dual-zone automatic climate control, Chevrolet’s MyLink infotainment system, an 11-speaker Bose stereo system, keyless access amongst push-button start, adaptive cruise control, heated as well as ventilated forepart seats as well as a heated steering wheel. Available security features include a backup camera, raise parking sensors, frontward collision warning as well as blind spot monitoring as well as lane divergence warning systems.

EXTERIOR

With the exception of beingness a full-size sedan, the Chevy bowtie, as well as the “Impala” badges, the 2014 Impala looks cypher similar its 2012 counterpart. From the side profile, the forepart clip has a Camaro-like shape to it, yet it doesn’t necessarily resemble the Camaro. It to a greater extent than or less simply has the sweeping forepart profile of the Camaro. The roofline of the 2014 Impala swoops upward from the low-sloped windshield as well as every bit it heads toward the torso it swoops downward, making for a real modern look.

The headlights are 100% create novel – cheers for that Chevy. Gone are the teardrop-shaped headlights as well as replacing them are sleeker rectangular wraparound HID headlights that give this sedan a to a greater extent than refined finish. Also outgoing is the honeycomb or chicken wire grille, whichever yous desire to telephone vociferation upwards it, as well as inwards comes a horizontal bar grille, giving the Impala a to a greater extent than classy look.

Also replaced are the outdated triangle-shaped taillights. Sleeker as well as to a greater extent than refined taillights, which are a tapered-rectangle design, accept the house of the onetime taillights. Also on the dorsum terminate are twin exhaust pipes that mold into a bumper, finishing off this sedan’s sleek appearance.

There are chrome accents to a greater extent than or less the forepart grilles as well as side windows, along amongst a chrome insert on the trunk. Combine this chrome amongst the touchstone 18-inch chrome wheels as well as of a abrupt this in 1 lawsuit average sedan has a luxurious look.

INTERIOR

The Impala's cabin transformation is simply every bit striking every bit its novel exterior look. The dash as well as console blueprint finally looks modern as well as sophisticated, although some of the plastic elements inwards the pump console await decidedly down-market as well as are flimsy to the touch.

A longer wheelbase opens upwards to a greater extent than legroom all around, giving 6-foot (or taller) forepart as well as raise passengers plenty of room to stretch out inwards wide, comfortable seats covered inwards cloth, a cloth/suede combination, a vinyl/suede combination or leather. The vinyl/suede combo (optional on the LT) is our favorite, every bit it looks quite upscale cheers to contrasting piping on the edges of the seats. Unlike in conclusion year, there's no forepart bench topographic point option, hence seating capacity tops out at five. There is, however, a 60/40-split-folding raise seatback touchstone that helps expand the trunk's already generous 18.8-cubic-foot hold. Expect less capacity inwards the eAssist model, which has a battery pack mounted nether the cargo floor.

The Impala also leaps into the 21st century amongst the 8-inch MyLink touchscreen interface for audio, navigation as well as telephone functions. MyLink comes touchstone inwards LT as well as LTZ models (with navigation optional). Though it tin live a picayune like shooting fish in a barrel to reply at times, MyLink does render a straightforward command interface that you'll adjust to easily if yous already have got a smartphone. One other nipper annoyance is the rearview photographic boob tube camera display: It's improve that non having a photographic boob tube camera at all, but the resolution isn't real adept for an epitome projected on an 8-inch screen.

The pump stack also offers redundant sound as well as climate command dials if yous don't desire to bother amongst the touchscreen. One especially squeamish characteristic is that the Impala's forepart rider is able to couple a telephone or programme the nav organization acre the auto is on the displace if the occupant sensor detects that somebody is inwards that seat.

SPECIFICATION

► Year: 2014
► Make: Chevrolet
► Model: Impala
► Price: $26,860
► Type: 5-passenger, front-wheel-drive 4-door sedan
► Engine: V6
► Transmission: six-speed automatic transmission
► Horsepower @ RPM: 303
► MPG: eighteen city/28 hwy
► Wheel base: 111.7 in.
► 18, 19, xx inch. wheels
► Curb weight: TBD
► Displacement:3.6 L

FEATURES

► New Features :

► Redesigned for 2014
► Moves firmly into large auto category
► Next-generation Chevrolet MyLink technology
► Improved security equipments

In polite circles, the Impala would live called beefy. The Feds telephone vociferation upwards it a full-size sedan. In truth, it's non a lot bigger than an Azera, a Passat, or an Avalon--but it packs a lot of room nether its roofline, shaming the inefficient layout of the Ford Taurus, for one.

The Impala's overall length of 201.3 inches draws downward to 111.7 inches betwixt the wheels--compared to 106.3 inchess of wheelbase on, say, a three-row Kia Sorento crossover. It's 73 inches wide, too. Compared to the in conclusion Impala--now the fleet-only Limited--the 2014 version has most 3.5 inches to a greater extent than front-seat leg room as well as 2.2 inches to a greater extent than inwards the dorsum seat.

Open the wide, tall doors, as well as the Impala V-6's nicely shaped seats aren't besides deep a knee-bend away. At to the lowest degree 5 dissimilar seats are specified across the lineup, but that's by as well as large because of optional topographic point heating as well as ventilation--only the base of operations versions are cloth. Leather-clad versions on the LTZ have got a middle degree of hides roofing them, improve than the cloth/vinyl seats inwards await as well as simply slightly, inwards feel, since lumbar adjustment comes amongst them standard. Head as well as leg room are to a greater extent than than plenty for fifty-fifty 99th-percentile types; the Impala's 1 of the rare novel cars where yous tin mightiness the driver topographic point besides depression as well as besides high.

The raise seats aren't quite every bit unopen to premium, but leg room is exclusively an inch or 2 brusque of limousine status. The cushion lays almost flat, it's a fleck brusque for the car's size--and fifty-fifty so, headroom isn't extraordinary. I made unopen contact amongst the headliner, as well as at vi feet tall, I'm non the worst-case scenario for backseat use. Two adults volition have got plenty infinite for a pre-teen between, though, as well as the seats tin live fitted amongst bite-sized caput rests shaped similar old-school auto bumpers. Score 1 for visibility.

Even amongst 5 passengers, filling the Impala's cargo bins volition accept some work. The trunk's 18.8 cubic feet, 2d exclusively to the Taurus' 20-cubic-foot whopper. It's a picayune shallow, but the torso flooring is apartment as well as extends deeply beneath the raise glass. The doors all have got long bins amongst bottle holders; the pump console tin swallow a shoebox, a smartphone inwards either a rubberized tray or a bin hidden nether a lid, as well as 2 drinks. If you're inwards an LT or an LTZ, there's a hidden sleeping accommodation behind the MyLink LCD touchscreen, too--tap a clitoris as well as the cover rises hence yous tin stow goodies, hence lock it out inwards a valet agency amongst a code yous tin come inwards as well as change.

Chevy has tuned the Impala's interior for quieter rolling ambience. Four-cylinder models volition sport active dissonance cancellation, similar Chevy's Equinox, as well as the plusher versions larn thicker drinking glass as well as to a greater extent than sound deadening. The impression of dissonance command is a adept one.

It's inwards the expanse of fit as well as complete where the Impala tin larn a improve sense of direction when it comes inwards for the inevitable mid-cycle refresh. The busy twin-cowl cockpit is covered, studded, paneled, as well as draped inwards hence many dissimilar materials as well as textures, it's almost a parlor game to discover as well as cite them all. The seat-heater environment is a glitzy, flecked dark plastic; the door caps are soft to the touching but openly grained. Consistent, non insistent--that's is all that's keeping the Impala from fully connecting amongst the elusive lineament genome.

DESIGN

The 2014 Impala introduces a novel aesthetic for Chevrolet's flagship sedan, but 1 that honors the cues that helped distinguish the classic nameplate for decades.

"Our blueprint squad was challenged to create a novel classic, but that didn't hateful relying on nostalgia," said John Cafaro, manager of North America rider auto exterior design. "This is real much a contemporary car, amongst blueprint elements, craftsmanship as well as attending to particular that complement its advanced engineering as well as performance."

The Impala's long, depression proportion has a wind-swept profile that suggests motion, acre the make of 18-, 19- as well as 20-inch wheels is tailored to the body to render that "just right" stance. At the front, low-profile projector-beam headlamps - or HID headlamps as well as LED daytime running lamps on LTZ - sweep to a greater extent than or less the corners as well as frame a broad grille, acre a mightiness dome hood conveys performance. The LTZ's LED daytime running lamps render a contemporary visual statement, along amongst bully visibility.

Sculpted coves inwards the body sides add together to the Impala's blueprint drama, amongst a sweeping signature cue inwards the raise fenders that acknowledges classic Impala designs. The "greenhouse" expanse is long, enhancing the sleek await of the auto acre maintaining fantabulous visibility. The deck lid appears brusque to complement the overall proportion, but opens to bring out a torso amongst 18.8 cubic-feet (532 liters) of cargo space. Diagonal dual-signature taillamps as well as - on LTZ - chrome-outlined exhaust outlets consummate the rear-end appearance.

Exterior colors include Black, Blue Ray, Blue Topaz Metallic, Champagne Silver Metallic, Crystal Red Tintcoat, Cyber Gray, Silver Ice Metallic, Silver Topaz Metallic, Summit White, Tin Roof Rusted as well as White Diamond Tricoat.

The 2014 Impala builds on Chevrolet's signature dual-cockpit interior amongst greater attending to particular as well as upscale features - seen inwards everything from the wraparound menstruum of the bold musical instrument panel into the door panels as well as the available ambient lighting, to the soft experience of the materials as well as the premium appearance of the seats' stitching. The musical instrument panel integrates a dynamic musical instrument cluster amongst a touchstone 4.2-inch color display amongst reconfigurable features for the driver information center. An eight-inch touching cover amongst concealed storage behind it is matched amongst the available Chevy MyLink organization on LT as well as LTZ models

LS models characteristic stuff seats, acre LT comes touchstone amongst cloth/vinyl seats. Sueded microfiber-trimmed seats are available on LT as well as LTZ models, which characteristic touchstone perforated leather seating.

Interior color choices include Brownstone, Dark Titanium, Jet Black as well as Mojave.

TECHNOLOGY

Impala is ingenuity topographic point to piece of employment for the security of yous as well as your passengers, featuring newly available security technologies that assist give the driver non exclusively "eyes inwards the dorsum of their head" to assist inwards raise vision, but also assist warning the driver to their sides as well as blind spots every bit well. Using radar sensors, Forward Collision Alert identifies vehicles ahead as well as alerts the driver to whatsoever potential crash run a jeopardy acre Rear Cross-Traffic Alert alerts the driver to crossing traffic from behind acre the vehicle is inwards reverse.

Similar radar sensors go along an optic on blind spots to the side of the vehicle amongst the Side Blind Zone Alert, which illuminates modest LED-lit symbols inwards the corresponding exterior mirror when some other vehicle is detected. Impala fifty-fifty keeps an optic on your driving amongst the available Lane Departure Warning. It gives yous an audible warning acre driving if yous unintentionally drift out of your lane without using a plough signal.

COMFORT & QUALITY

In polite circles, the Impala would live called beefy. The Feds telephone vociferation upwards it a full-size sedan. In truth, it's non a lot bigger than an Azera, a Passat, or an Avalon--but it packs a lot of room nether its roofline, shaming the inefficient layout of the Ford Taurus, for one.

The Impala's overall length of 201.3 inches draws downward to 111.7 inches betwixt the wheels--compared to 106.3 inchess of wheelbase on, say, a three-row Kia Sorento crossover. It's 73 inches wide, too. Compared to the in conclusion Impala--now the fleet-only Limited--the 2014 version has most 3.5 inches to a greater extent than front-seat leg room as well as 2.2 inches to a greater extent than inwards the dorsum seat.

Open the wide, tall doors, as well as the Impala V-6's nicely shaped seats aren't besides deep a knee-bend away. At to the lowest degree 5 dissimilar seats are specified across the lineup, but that's by as well as large because of optional topographic point heating as well as ventilation--only the base of operations versions are cloth. Leather-clad versions on the LTZ have got a middle degree of hides roofing them, improve than the cloth/vinyl seats inwards await as well as simply slightly, inwards feel, since lumbar adjustment comes amongst them standard. Head as well as leg room are to a greater extent than than plenty for fifty-fifty 99th-percentile types; the Impala's 1 of the rare novel cars where yous tin mightiness the driver topographic point besides depression as well as besides high.

The raise seats aren't quite every bit unopen to premium, but leg room is exclusively an inch or 2 brusque of limousine status. The cushion lays almost flat, it's a fleck brusque for the car's size--and fifty-fifty so, headroom isn't extraordinary. I made unopen contact amongst the headliner, as well as at vi feet tall, I'm non the worst-case scenario for backseat use. Two adults volition have got plenty infinite for a pre-teen between, though, as well as the seats tin live fitted amongst bite-sized caput rests shaped similar old-school auto bumpers. Score 1 for visibility.

Even amongst 5 passengers, filling the Impala's cargo bins volition accept some work. The trunk's 18.8 cubic feet, 2d exclusively to the Taurus' 20-cubic-foot whopper. It's a picayune shallow, but the torso flooring is apartment as well as extends deeply beneath the raise glass. The doors all have got long bins amongst bottle holders; the pump console tin swallow a shoebox, a smartphone inwards either a rubberized tray or a bin hidden nether a lid, as well as 2 drinks. If you're inwards an LT or an LTZ, there's a hidden sleeping accommodation behind the MyLink LCD touchscreen, too--tap a clitoris as well as the cover rises hence yous tin stow goodies, hence lock it out inwards a valet agency amongst a code yous tin come inwards as well as change.

Chevy has tuned the Impala's interior for quieter rolling ambience. Four-cylinder models volition sport active dissonance cancellation, similar Chevy's Equinox, as well as the plusher versions larn thicker drinking glass as well as to a greater extent than sound deadening. The impression of dissonance command is a adept one.

It's inwards the expanse of fit as well as complete where the Impala tin larn a improve sense of direction when it comes inwards for the inevitable mid-cycle refresh. The busy twin-cowl cockpit is covered, studded, paneled, as well as draped inwards hence many dissimilar materials as well as textures, it's almost a parlor game to discover as well as cite them all. The seat-heater environment is a glitzy, flecked dark plastic; the door caps are soft to the touching but openly grained. Consistent, non insistent--that's is all that's keeping the Impala from fully connecting amongst the elusive lineament genome.

ENGINE

Of the 3 Impala powertrains available, we've had the most experience amongst the top-of-the-line 305-horsepower 3.6-liter V6. Its 264 lb-ft torque issue won't bowl yous over, but it felt strong during our 200 miles at the wheel, abetted yesteryear the 6-speed automatic transmission. The 2.5-liter 4-cylinder offers 196 horsepower as well as 186 lb-ft of torque. Arguably the most interesting engine pick is the 182-horsepower 2.4-liter Ecotec 4-cylinder that gets the produce goodness of eAssist. With a picayune assist from its electrical friend, the 2.4-liter engine volition enable the Impala to deliver 35-mpg highway fuel economy.

► 2.5-liter inline-4
196 horsepower @ 6,300 rpm
186 lb-ft of torque @ 4,400 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 21/31 mpg

► 2.4-liter inline-4 amongst eAssist mild hybrid
182 horsepower @ 6,200 rpm
172 lb-ft of torque @ 4.900 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 25/35 mpg

► 3.6-liter V6
305 horsepower @ 6,800 rpm
264 lb-ft of torque @ 5,300 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 19/29 mpg

PERFORMANCE

► In simply 6.8 seconds :

At the pump of Impala lies the acclaimed 3.6L V6 engine boasting 305 horsepower as well as 0-60 mph inwards simply 6.8 seconds. Direct Injection injects fuel closer to the combustion sleeping accommodation for an efficient, powerful “burn.” At partial or total throttle, you’ll experience the powerful response. Variable Valve Timing consistently boosts mightiness yesteryear providing near-peak torque over a wider rpm range. The available engine’s refined mightiness as well as finely tuned precision contribute to the confident as well as strong ride Impala is known for, acre preserving impressive efficiencies such every bit an EPA-estimated 29 MPG highway.

► Agile ride as well as treatment :

The rigid body construction as well as grounded opinion allowed engineers to melody ride as well as treatment exactly for an impressive “connected to the road” experience. The premium electrical rack-and-pinion steering organization delivers crisp, responsive treatment as well as fantabulous on-center feel. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tight steering radius combined amongst an available variable-effort feature, which increases the even out of mightiness assistance during low-speed maneuvers, offers the driver impressive command over metropolis streets as well as precipitous turns. In the terminate it creates a smooth, effortless ride

► Connected to the route :

The grounded opinion exudes an air of confidence, acre its refined exterior blueprint as well as profile larn out a lasting impression whether inwards motion or standing still. But this longer wheelbase as well as sculpted, rigid body construction are at the pump of a to a greater extent than commanding driving experience. The 2014 Impala is the auto for the assured driver create to bask each turn, every colina as well as whatever the route may bring.

DRIVETRAIN

For a large theatre unit of measurement sedan, the 2014 Impala is effortless to drive. Strong acceleration gives the Impala V6 the fortitude required to negotiate metropolis traffic, merge onto freeways amongst the menstruum of traffic, as well as climb mount grades all acre returning improve than xx mpg, on average.

The novel Impala's electrical steering offers pleasing heft regardless of vehicle speed, as well as crisp response when bending the Impala into a curvature or acre turning into a parking space. Given that it's the same organization every bit constitute inwards the Camaro, recalibrated for the full-size Chevy sedan, maybe this comes every bit no surprise. Suspension tuning provides a deft blend of ride smoothness as well as treatment prowess, as well as acre the Impala is non a sport sedan, it tin embrace dry soil at a rapid footstep on twisty roads.

Chevrolet installs its novel Duralife brake rotors on the 2014 Impala, a patented slice of engineering scientific discipline designed to double the life of the rotors to 80,000 miles acre simultaneously eliminating rust as well as reducing brake shudder every bit the auto ages. We constitute the Impala's brake pedal responsive, displaying natural progression through the make of motion, which helps to fine melody the amount of pressure level fed to the brakes.

Chevrolet could improve the novel Impala amongst regard to the 6-speed automatic transmission. We constitute that it stumbled on occasion, especially when driving inwards the mountains. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 manual shift clitoris is provided at the top of the gear selector, but it is unsatisfying to use, despite the fact that it matches engine revs when downshifting.

Impala LTZ models equipped amongst the optional 20-inch aluminum wheels certain await terrific, but in that location is a penalization to live paid inwards price of ride lineament as well as interior noise. So equipped, to a greater extent than of the route texture is delivered to the cabin, sometimes rudely, every bit inwards the instance of traveling over a pothole. The 20-inch tires also create to a greater extent than route noise.

SAFETY

Safety was a top priority when designing the all-new Impala. And afterward undergoing stringent testing yesteryear the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the 2014 Impala received a 5-Star Overall Vehicle Score for Safety, NHTSA’s highest possible rating.
In add-on to the 5-Star NHTSA Overall Vehicle Score, Impala offers some of the most innovative as well as ingenious advances inwards security engineering from touchstone StabiliTrak to available Crash Imminent Braking.

The Advanced Safety Package, available on LT as well as touchstone on LTZ, features additional available technologies such every bit Forward Collision Alert, which scans for vehicles ahead as well as alerts the driver to potential crash risks. Also available on LTZ: opt for additional security features including Full-Speed-Range Adaptive Cruise Control as well as enhanced Forward Collision Alert amongst Crash Imminent Braking, which utilizes radar inwards the forepart grille to sense traffic ahead. Adaptive Cruise Control adjusts or maintains vehicle speed accordingly when laid to “maintain follow distance”. The enhanced Forward Collision Alert amongst Crash Imminent Braking tin automatically apply the brakes to assist avoid a front-end collision or trim down affect speed.

FUEL ECONOMY

Gas mileage won't live the commencement argue the Impala ends upwards on anyone's shopping list, as well as the V-6 versions are laid to earn EPA ratings a few miles per gallon lower than some other large four-doors.

The EPA has published the Impala's gas-mileage ratings, amongst the base of operations vehicle coming inwards at 25 mpg (21 mpg city, 31 mpg highway) as well as the to a greater extent than powerful V-6 at 21 mpg combined (18 mpg city, 28 mpg highway).

The combined 21-mpg rating for the V-6 falls below the Toyota Avalon's 25 mpg, the V-6 Taurus' 23 mpg combined, as well as the 23-mpg figure posted yesteryear the Hyundai Azera as well as the Dodge Charger amongst its novel eight-speed automatic. In our first-drive examine loop laid yesteryear Chevy, the V-6 Impala's indicated economic scheme checked inwards at 20.3 mpg, tallied afterward lots of canyon runs as well as a few stretches of 75-mph interstate.

Four-cylinder versions brighten the picture. We logged 25.1 mpg--right on the nose--for the base of operations 2.5-liter four-cylinder Impala, albeit over a brusque 20-minute drive roofing most 12 miles.

At the top of the fuel-economy listing is the Impala Eco, fitted amongst GM's mild-hybrid eAssist system. The add-on of special aero add-ons--dams, spats, as well as active grille shutters that polish the olfactory organ for improve efficiency--lets the Impala Eco equal the 29-mpg combined figure of the Buick Lacrosse that uses the same system. That's improve than the 26 mpg of the turbocharged EcoBoost Ford Taurus--but good off the 40-mpg score laid yesteryear the Toyota Avalon Hybrid.

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