Mountain View Chevrolet Blog

Selecting the perfect vehicle for your family is a crucial decision that involves balancing safety, comfort, and practicality. When it comes to finding a reliable family car, Chevy stands out for its blend of advanced safety features, spacious interiors, and innovative technology.

With its picturesque surroundings and vibrant community, Upland serves as the perfect hub for summer adventures. Mountain View Chevrolet is delighted to guide you through some of the most exciting summer activities near Upland for families, friends, and visitors.

Mountain View Chevrolet has been a community-oriented dealership for 13 years, but this is a first for this Southern California car dealership and definitely uncommon for any car dealer. To award students who have achieved perfect attendance, Mountain View Chevrolet has created the “Cool to Stay in School” campaign to give away a 2012 Chevrolet Cruze!

On June 12, 2013, every student from Upland High School who has achieved perfect attendance will be invited to the dealership, in Upland, California. First, several other prizes, including iPad gift cards, will be raffled off by calling the students’ names. For the grand prize of the Chevy Cruze, five names of students with perfect attendance will be drawn at random, and those students will all be given a key. One by one, they will have a chance to sit in the Cruze and turn the key. One lucky student’s key will be the one that starts the engine!

What makes that student even luckier is that Mountain View made sure that the prize model is the perfect choice for a young driver; in addition to being awarded US Ranking and Reviews’ 2012 Best Compact Car for the Money, the Chevy Cruze has achieved these accolades:

• An Insurance Institute for Highway Safety 2012 Top Safety Pick
• Motor Trend Ultimate Guide calls Cruze the best GM compact in years
• Consumer Guide reports Chevrolet’s compact sedan represents itself very well in a crowded and very competitive market segment
• Consumer Guide reports Cruze feels substantial and refined
• A finalist for Motor Trend 2011 Car of the Year
• Motor Trend calls Cruze thoughtfully designed, with European styling and driving dynamics
• Motor Trend calls Cruze the most significant global offering from GM to date
• Named a 2011 Consumer Guide Recommended Buy

In fact, the 2013 Cruze won US News and Rankings’ 2013 Best Compact Car for Families, so parents of the winner can feel at ease knowing that their student earned not just a car, but a car with peace of mind. Mountain View Chevy knows that it’s at a high school age that driver safety and responsibility begin. By interacting with the students in an academically rewarding way, new drivers soon to graduate from Upland High School will be more “tuned up” to take the wheel seriously.

Just this past December, Mountain View Chevrolet rallied to help a local boy with his battle against Common Variable Immune Deficiency, and hosted the Red Cross on-site to collect both blood and toys for those in need. This may be the first giveaway of its type at Mountain View Chevy, but it’s just one of many future opportunities the dealership will take to give back and help out!

Crash safety tests administered by all automotive ratings agencies have been effectively “raising the bar” year after year, making it harder for automakers to achieve top scores. The end result is that consumers benefit as manufacturers find more ways to improve safety in their cars. That said, the changes mean there are test score discrepancies among model years.

Minicars are new in the U.S., so the actual target market hasn’t yet been identified. What has been established for sure is that the Chevrolet Spark is the newest contender in sub-compact cars like the Fiat.

This March, Chevrolet cars proudly brought home a handful of awards for “best value” from Vincentric, including four truck categories and even the “Electric/Plug-in Hybrid Car” spot. This is the second year the Chevy Volt won that particular award, which is “2 for 2” as the Volt has only been in production for two years.