Central and Eastern Europe
In Poland, the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych (FSO) plant in Warsaw began the production of the Lanos in 1998. Since January 2005, after the takeover of Daewoo by General Motors, the Lanos produced in Poland started to be sold under the brand name of FSO. It was produced until 2008, but only with the pre-facelift external design.
From 2002, ZAZ equipped some of the kits with a domestic MeMZ-307 engine and sold this version under the Daewoo Sens name; this practice continued with the start of full-scale production of the T150 model. In December 2004, ZAZ adopted the Lanos chassis for full-scale production and installed new welding and painting lines.[8] From March 2009, the updated version was called ZAZ Lanos (internal model T150).[9] The engines were still supplied by GM Daewoo, although a Chinese-developed engine from Chery Automobile has been fitted and there were plans to build the 1.6 L engine at the MeMZ plant.[10]
In 2005, General Motors contracted with ZAZ to provide Ukrainian-assembled Lanos models for the Ukrainian and Russian markets, to be imported duty-free, thanks to an international agreement, and sold through the GM dealer network. Sales of the Chevrolet Lanos sedan commenced in Russia in November 2005.[11] The Chevrolet brand was utilized to compete effectively with the Renault Logan. From July 2009, it was marketed in Russia as ZAZ Chance.[12]
In 2006, a panel van variant of the ZAZ Lanos was introduced. The vans were equipped with a 50 L LPG balloon on their roof.[13]
At SIA-2007 in Kyiv ZAZ unveiled a facelifted Lanos with a Chinese engine. The concept was called ZAZ Lanos M and was planned to enter production in 2009 after finalizing the interior redesign. Eventually, all plans of refreshing the Lanos were cancelled.
In 2010 ZAZ showed an electric vehicle based on the ZAZ Lanos Pick-up called ZAZ Lanos Electro. It had a 15 kW motor and 8 batteries with approximately 100km of range. The concept was designed in collaboration with the NASU Institute of Electrodynamics in Kyiv. ZAZ planned to offer the model for custom assembly rather than serial production.
In 2013 the Lanos left the Russian market. On 29 November 2017 the assembly of passenger cars at ZAZ stopped. The panel van stayed in production until 2020.
Egypt
In late 1998, the Daewoo Motor Egypt factory in Cairo started the assembly of the Daewoo Lanos in both four-door and five-door shells with the 1.5 SOHC engine.[14] The hatchback version was called "Juliet".[15] The four-door was available in two versions:
The five-door version of the Lanos (AKA Juliet) came with full options as the SX trim but with manual transmission.
Near the end of 2000 the Lanos was introduced with a different rear-end design and a facelifted front (different front bumper and grill). It was called "Lanos II" in this particular market. An SE version came with all the options plus the manual transmission. The automatic transmission version was stopped shortly after the introduction of the "Lanos II".
Between mid-2000 and 2001 the factory produced an even more frugal four-door version of the Lanos II with no options at all but a cassette. Those were sold by the Egyptian ministry of defense to army officers with a decently low price compared to the car's value at that time.
The facelifting also included the five-door Juliet to have the same changes as the four-door version on the front but on the rear it only had a different tail-light design and bumper rather than a wholly different rear-end design like the sedan. The production of the Juliet stopped in 2005.
