Up front I give the car a 3.5 out of 5. It's styling was not overly inspired, but certainly not ugly. We purchased the Impala after having bought 2001 Chevrolet Trailblazer that was a real lemon. Don't buy one! The dealership, after having to do several warranty repairs to the Trailblazer, made us a very good deal on the Impala. It was a 2003 LS2 with the 3.8 V6. Overall, we had very few issues with the car. It had one GM recall for a defective catalytic converter that the dealership addressed very quickly. There was only one other mechanical issue that occurred after over 100,000 miles, we had to replace the water pump. Other than that no real problems. The gas mileage was around the low 20s, which is not too bad. It had an excellent stereo, which I liked and was overall a durable vehicle for us.

We love our Impala. We originally picked it out because it was one of the only cars that my husband, who is big and tall, could fit in, but after having drove it for a while, we fell in love with (almost) everything about it.