The Chevy Impala is an awesome car!  Have you ever owned one?
I never have, it was Chevy's most expensive passenger car model through 1965 and had become the best-selling auto in the US.
Really!  I didn't know that!  Was it considered a luxury car at the time?
I'm not really sure on if it was considered luxury or not, but the Caprice was a top-line Impala Sport Sedan in 1965.
Do you know what size engine that was in the original Impala?  It must have been high performance if the car was considered a sport sedan.
Between 1994-96 it was a revised 5.7 liter V8
A V8!  That's some heavy power!  Is the Impala still a popular selling car?
Report"s rankings. When the tenth generation of the Impala was introduced for the 2014 model year, the ninth generation was rebadged as the Impala Limited and sold only to fleet customers through 2016. During that time both versions were sold in the United States and Canada. The current-generation Impala is also sold in the Middle East, China, and South Korea.
History, origin and sales.
The Impala name was first used for the full-sized 1956 General Motors Motorama show car that bore Corvette-like design
Chevy's new compact was aimed. "I think that was the quickest program we ever did at any time," he continued. "We worked night and day on that car, and it didn't take very long to run it through our shop because we had a deadline." And that is what made the Chevy II one of the fastest new-car development programs in GM history – just 18 months after the designers got the green light, the first production Chevy II rolled off the Willow Run, Michigan