[beach]

Yeah, it's not a color combo that was ever offered...BUT as you see in your driveway as does another member here, a couple were produced for whatever reason.

When was your build date? Do you have the window sticker for the car? Just curious, for info, to see if there's anything special in regards to this or it was treated as any other combo.

 

[beach]

That really is one of the very first to have come off the line then. While the rest of the GM line started the 2008 run in early to mid summer 2007, production on the Malibu started a bit later, in October I believe, of 2007 so your Dark Gray-Cocoa oddball was a bit of an early experiment in some way. Being that it was never on an officially offered list, that's all I can assume. Or maybe it was offered but only for a few days, the couple were built, and then no more.

It looks great either way. If you don't want the "whoa" of brick/black with your very classy Dark Gray, this should have always been an offering. Very upscale.

 

[beach]

I wonder if there's a way I could contact Chevy and get the skinny on the 'bu.

Someone, even just on a forum with a GM connection, should know. I really don't think the combo was ever on the books as being offered, but somehow yours and at least a couple others are out there.

Actually, I just pulled up the GM order guide for the '08 Malibu and specifically the "Distribution Updates" section where any and every little revision made in a model year is posted by date, and the only changes listed relating to color are:

Week of 2/4/2008
Color and Trim section-(40U) White, changed symbol under (34*) Cocoa/Cashmere to "A".

Week of 4/28/2008
Color and Trim section-(15U) Sandstone Metallic, added a new footnote 2 that reads "No longer available for ordering as of 4/30/2008."

http://eogld.ecomm.gm.com/NASApp/do...egionID=1&divisionID=3&vehicleID=5236&type=0#

The first one, in February, was a change after initially White only had Brick/Black available on LTZ's, for instance--and the 2008 brochures are printed as such, I think. Similar to the Dark Gray/Cocoa cars here, albeit no record for them I've seen anywhere.