driving this car now for 2 months..110 miles per day commuting in heavy traffic..avg fuel economy has beeen 36-39mpg..AWESOME...i test drove this car just before a civic..the civic was cheaper and i still bought this...it was quiter and felt bigger and safer..have not regreted the decision for a second....try back to back test drives with other cars in this class...
I like the cruze but i would like to mix the on they have from the 1st models shown in EU and the ones being built here. There are clips here from 9 months ago that show the interier of a EU model with awesome blue interior, the dash, painted door's inside etc all a real pretty blue. Now if i could get that with the black outside and all the trim (ive not seen a video yet that shows the rear spoiler) i would buy this car if the power is good.
How can you compare a Chevy Cruze to a German automobile? The Cruze will probably cost somewhere around $17-18K base, I'm guessing, while a 3 series BMW is somewhere in the $30K and up range? People who would be seriously considering this car won't be looking at German cars, because they can't afford them. BTW, a high price tag doesn't necessarily buy you high quality. Pick up a copy of Consumer Reports annual auto issue and you'll see that German cars are not immune to problems either.
@242HP if this is your justification. Then by a kia or hyundai. excellent quality record for the past 10 years. winning many car awards lately. stay away from GM until they man up and start putting out quality products. and yes, the entry level german SUV is from VW and will set you back about 30K and an entry level sedan VW will set you back about 20K, but you can feel the difference when you drive it. it's worth the difference since you'll drive it for at least 5 years!
@242HP Quality and reliability are two different things. Consumer reports is a bunch of crap statistics that have little to no connection with real situation.
@derbigpr500 Quality and reliablility are two different things? A car will not be reliable if it is not quality made. You're entitled to your opinion about Consumer Reports magazine, but their "crap statistics" are based on actual road tests of automobiles that they do in their own testing facility, as well as compiled data that they receive from actual owners of cars on problems they've experienced with them.
@242HP Good luck buying a bmw 3 series for 30k dollars...in europe it starts at 35k euros. More money will buy you higher quality. And as for consumer reports...i bet you're referring to "reliablity issues" with european cars in USA. EU cars are much more sophisticated and require better maintenance, which they dont get in US. Also , fuel in USA has TERRIBLE quality compared to that in europe. And also, US goverment wants you to think foreign cars are bad, so you'd buy american cars instead.
@derbigpr500 I said that the BMW 3 series is going to cost $30K AND UP, and that was a rough estimate. I haven't priced them on the BMW website or at the dealerships. They're still in a different price range than even the most expensive Chevy Cruze that you can buy, so I stand by my original statement that people in the market for a Cruze will most likely not be considering a BMW 3 series as well.
@tewkewl That is exactly how GM got itself into bankrutpcy, being cheap. I hope they have learned a lesson from bankrutcy and start competing in a way they have always been capable of. I am cautiously optimisitic about them.
@lerch25 i have to agree with you about 'being cheap'. A lot of the car's i have owned from GM over the years were so well built (mechanically not esthetically) that i rarely had any extra costs due to breakdowns other than normal maintenance (oil tires etc) They cant make money on cars that don't break down often causing you to have to buy new parts and pay for service or maintenance. Until they start making crap, they are not going to make money. Cars need to last under 10years lol im j/k
It doesnt look bad. At least they changed that ugly steering wheel they had before in almost all models. Definitely, not the kind of interior design typical in a Chevy, this one looks way better. GM has never had skills to design a good interior, actually no American car maker has it. They started to get good interiors after Ford and GM began to hang around with the Asians. If the chinese cars have "fancy" things in their dashboards, Chevrolet can do it in this one, too.
I had a 92 taurus. Worst Car ever. Worse than my trooper, Accord, and honda Civic.
The transmission broke in the middle of highway. 2,300 dollars. The air conditioning broke. than the engine just broke. COmplete piece of Shit car that I will never buy a FORD again. Because I personally know that they can not use their own engineers to build a good car.
They have to Butt-fuck Mazda to get any source of modern technology for their "FORD"
moderen day (2007 and up) ford products are pretty decent.
But any gas powered car earlier than that with a Ford badge was absolute garbage
My mom made the mistake of bying a 2001 Mercury Sable. That car was a nightmare. It was an absolute piece of shit. It made a total of 9 trips to the dealership for factory defects and repairs.
The 3.0l engine got a laughable 19mpg hwy and started smoking a year after we bought it. We ended up giving the piece of shit away to my brother in law.
@originaldriver the ford marquis (my family owns one year 2000) is a fucking champ. It stills holds up, and we are actually considering keeping it instead of buying a new. Nowadays every fcuking car needs too much revisions and details fixed
@Toni7859 i take it that your taurus wasnt equipped with the flex-fuel option then. It seems that most of the problems with that car stemmed from flex or the EGR differential pressure sensor and tube assembly.
Don't know about Chevy & Daewoo, but Ford controls Mazda? They had 33%, this does not include the control. they just shared technologies, or better said, 4cyl engines blueprints came from Mazda to Ford, 6cyl from Ford to Mazda. 5cyl from Volvo to Ford. Though each one of them was building their engines, not just swapping them. Built on same plattform does not mean being absolutely the same. Mazda better designer? Maybe now . the old 3 was ugly as hell, the new one not much better. The 6 is nice.
Mazda in 1979 was owned by Ford. 50% of the stock was in control by the Ford Motor company. this was an attempt to stifle and compete against the japanese imports like Honda and Toyota. many Ford cars of past were actually rebadged Mazdas.
Partially true, but not completely. The Ford Europe was always building it's own models, same as Ford USA, few models were shared between USA/EU. Though what you say is right about many models, especially in Australia, where most were rebadged Mazda. What you say is true, but applies to some markets and not to all. The Ford 4cyl engines after 2004 are Mazda though (Duratec Series) where they stopped the Zetec series (at least in EU).
Ah about the shares. Ford made an automatic transmission in 1969 where Mazda started to deliver rebadged trucks in 1971. In 1979 Ford bought 25%, NOT 50% from Mazda. Though the effective control you all talk about happens in 1996 where Ford increased the shares to 33.4%. It never had 50%. I know here is youtube, but let's write things as they are ;)
The prostitute that was Mazda and Daewoo will question why all of their hard work will be rewarded to Foreign stock holder in Ford and GM. I mean Ford and GM couldn't engineer any of its cars and the aquisition of Mazda and Daewoo will bring them Billions of dollars of wealth.
That is why Mazda bought back control over their company. They do not want to be controlled by Ford again. Daewoo hopefully will do the samething regarding GM. Though I doubt Koreans will do that.
I usually don't reply to idiots but I'll do so this time, I'm not a fan of GM for they made very damning mistakes but the only decision they did right is reallocating their design centers the same way Toyota did with their big vehicles being designed in the US. Compact-Korea, mid-size - Europe, Performance or sport cars - Australia, and SUVs or CUVs in the US. You keep posting the same comment every where so I know I wasted my time replying to you.
Mazda got back to their senses, making their cars with their well know quality, nothing controlled by Ford, and that is very good, but in the other hand, Daewoo will never be the company they used to be back in '90s, when they got assistance from Germany and Italy. The owners decided to fight between them for the biggest piece of the cake, ending in financial problem for Daewoo and getting owned now by GM. Now, GM is alive thanks to Daewoo. They just get credit for the effort of someone else.
General Motors will not make the best cars by 2012. they are using mostly Korea for their engineering development off of a purchase for Daewoo's billion dollar infrastructure for mere pennies. If the korean government stops helping out General Motors, which they are bankrupt now, then Daewoo can go a faithful Chaebol that will have the best interest of Daewoo at heart. This means that an independent Daewoo can start to develop cars for the future.
All upcoming 2010 GM cars pleasant interiors, For example check GM Buick website. It is tough to believe but by 2012 New GM will have the best cars around the world.
Audi TDI without Q7 and A6 and VW (TDI) without VW sciccro and Passart CC win ALL OF EURO. Not mercesdes benz (C-Class , S-class ,CL-Class,CLS-class,ML-class,SLK-class, E-class 2010, E-class coupe 2010.
And Honda stole all their exterior and interior designs from the Germans. Even engine components like VVT. FIAT pioneered it's automotive use in the sixties and Gm did it next. The Japs have never truly pioneered anything outside of computers and home appliances.
that is a big ass lie!!! Most people who tried to use it failed miserably. There are thousands of things the japs invented. And other that they actually got to work. VVT and VTEC are the same thing on paper but one is different than the other because of how its used. VVT dates back to ancient locomotives. So i could easily accuse GM and FIAT of copying that. Point is. Cut the stereotypical nonsense.
The principal yes but unless your retarded (and i doubt you are) than you would know that locomotives are far different than engines and as such require much more work. The japs didn't have to try and reverse engineer VVT they had the stuff pretty much handed to them like almost every other aspect of motor vehicles. Creating things better is nowhere near as difficult as improving upon things. Not saying the Japs don't have talent but the American and German companies were generally the creators.
Electronical aspect of things jap pretty much pioneered. As well as rock solid machinery. American car companys are realyl picking up the game this year but i still think its a far cry from the cup. They need better marketing. Chevy just sounds like... Ugh. They need to be alot more modernized
I disagree, aesthetically the interior looks fine. The video quality isn't that great, so I don't see what you're seeing. All I know is that its interior, like most GM and Ford (anyways), products have significantly closed the gap that existed between them and quality imports like Honda and VW.
Well, GM is no more a copycat, than the Japs or Koreans whom copy the European lines and techniques. This one is actually a decent car, for the right price.
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driving this car now for 2 months..110 miles per day commuting in heavy traffic..avg fuel economy has beeen 36-39mpg..AWESOME...i test drove this car just before a civic..the civic was cheaper and i still bought this...it was quiter and felt bigger and safer..have not regreted the decision for a second....try back to back test drives with other cars in this class...
vinjoe1 11 months ago
ive test driven one a 2011. the interior is definitely not cheap. and the turbocharged one had a decent amount of power.
kellyhelfrich3 1 year ago
I like the cruze but i would like to mix the on they have from the 1st models shown in EU and the ones being built here. There are clips here from 9 months ago that show the interier of a EU model with awesome blue interior, the dash, painted door's inside etc all a real pretty blue. Now if i could get that with the black outside and all the trim (ive not seen a video yet that shows the rear spoiler) i would buy this car if the power is good.
Bonanzaplaylists 1 year ago
wtf actually it's the GM's design and they put it on allmost all models.
and stolen steering-wheel desing from opel.
not bad copared to the price.
ydragony1 2 years ago
Does this look like cheap to you
goko2553 2 years ago
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gm products smack of CHEAP. stay away. German cars are the way to go. they cost a little extra, but the cars do not feel or look cheap.
tewkewl 2 years ago
How can you compare a Chevy Cruze to a German automobile? The Cruze will probably cost somewhere around $17-18K base, I'm guessing, while a 3 series BMW is somewhere in the $30K and up range? People who would be seriously considering this car won't be looking at German cars, because they can't afford them. BTW, a high price tag doesn't necessarily buy you high quality. Pick up a copy of Consumer Reports annual auto issue and you'll see that German cars are not immune to problems either.
242HP 2 years ago 10
Maybe he is referring to Volkswagons.
Allante715 2 years ago
@242HP if this is your justification. Then by a kia or hyundai. excellent quality record for the past 10 years. winning many car awards lately. stay away from GM until they man up and start putting out quality products. and yes, the entry level german SUV is from VW and will set you back about 30K and an entry level sedan VW will set you back about 20K, but you can feel the difference when you drive it. it's worth the difference since you'll drive it for at least 5 years!
tewkewl 1 year ago
@tewkewl You've been living in a rock for the past few years haven't you?
DeftonesFan867 1 year ago
@242HP Quality and reliability are two different things. Consumer reports is a bunch of crap statistics that have little to no connection with real situation.
derbigpr500 11 months ago
@derbigpr500 Quality and reliablility are two different things? A car will not be reliable if it is not quality made. You're entitled to your opinion about Consumer Reports magazine, but their "crap statistics" are based on actual road tests of automobiles that they do in their own testing facility, as well as compiled data that they receive from actual owners of cars on problems they've experienced with them.
242HP 11 months ago
@242HP Good luck buying a bmw 3 series for 30k dollars...in europe it starts at 35k euros. More money will buy you higher quality. And as for consumer reports...i bet you're referring to "reliablity issues" with european cars in USA. EU cars are much more sophisticated and require better maintenance, which they dont get in US. Also , fuel in USA has TERRIBLE quality compared to that in europe. And also, US goverment wants you to think foreign cars are bad, so you'd buy american cars instead.
derbigpr500 11 months ago
@derbigpr500 I said that the BMW 3 series is going to cost $30K AND UP, and that was a rough estimate. I haven't priced them on the BMW website or at the dealerships. They're still in a different price range than even the most expensive Chevy Cruze that you can buy, so I stand by my original statement that people in the market for a Cruze will most likely not be considering a BMW 3 series as well.
242HP 11 months ago
@242HP
I have a Chevy cruze and i can confirm your statement. If i had more money, i would have gone German.
Byreka 9 months ago
it is a german car you fuckwit
josh4tha69er 2 years ago
you idiot. I guess you've never tried to use the cupholder in a 5 series beemer. That's cheap.
thedippa 2 years ago
@tewkewl That is exactly how GM got itself into bankrutpcy, being cheap. I hope they have learned a lesson from bankrutcy and start competing in a way they have always been capable of. I am cautiously optimisitic about them.
lerch25 1 year ago
@lerch25 i have to agree with you about 'being cheap'. A lot of the car's i have owned from GM over the years were so well built (mechanically not esthetically) that i rarely had any extra costs due to breakdowns other than normal maintenance (oil tires etc) They cant make money on cars that don't break down often causing you to have to buy new parts and pay for service or maintenance. Until they start making crap, they are not going to make money. Cars need to last under 10years lol im j/k
Bonanzaplaylists 1 year ago
Not compete with the
krystal2188 2 years ago
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It doesnt look bad. At least they changed that ugly steering wheel they had before in almost all models. Definitely, not the kind of interior design typical in a Chevy, this one looks way better. GM has never had skills to design a good interior, actually no American car maker has it. They started to get good interiors after Ford and GM began to hang around with the Asians. If the chinese cars have "fancy" things in their dashboards, Chevrolet can do it in this one, too.
wtrdogg20 2 years ago
I had a 92 taurus. Worst Car ever. Worse than my trooper, Accord, and honda Civic.
The transmission broke in the middle of highway. 2,300 dollars. The air conditioning broke. than the engine just broke. COmplete piece of Shit car that I will never buy a FORD again. Because I personally know that they can not use their own engineers to build a good car.
They have to Butt-fuck Mazda to get any source of modern technology for their "FORD"
keithg1 2 years ago 3
moderen day (2007 and up) ford products are pretty decent.
But any gas powered car earlier than that with a Ford badge was absolute garbage
My mom made the mistake of bying a 2001 Mercury Sable. That car was a nightmare. It was an absolute piece of shit. It made a total of 9 trips to the dealership for factory defects and repairs.
The 3.0l engine got a laughable 19mpg hwy and started smoking a year after we bought it. We ended up giving the piece of shit away to my brother in law.
originaldriver 2 years ago 6
@originaldriver the ford marquis (my family owns one year 2000) is a fucking champ. It stills holds up, and we are actually considering keeping it instead of buying a new. Nowadays every fcuking car needs too much revisions and details fixed
cocomecuatua 11 months ago
@cocomecuatua Glad that you lucked out. We (as well as a lot of other unhappy people) werent so lucky.
originaldriver 11 months ago
@originaldriver - how strange. I had a 1999 Taurus with the 3.0L and it had 328K miles and ran fine. Cars are strange sometimes.
Toni7859 8 months ago
@Toni7859 i take it that your taurus wasnt equipped with the flex-fuel option then. It seems that most of the problems with that car stemmed from flex or the EGR differential pressure sensor and tube assembly.
Im glad to be rid of it.
originaldriver 8 months ago
@originaldriver - oh no, it didnt have the flex fuel feature then....
Toni7859 8 months ago
RT:
You're saying that the MAZDA 6 Platform and duratec engines are techonology created by Mazda, that is used in 90% of the fords today?
Fords are basically rebadged Mazdas, with Mazda 6 chassis build and Engine technology.
I am not saying that mazda should not help Ford. But people have to be wiser to the nature of what the Ford car really is.
Just a few years ago, Ford could barely engineer the POS jalopy that was the Taurus. Now they suddenly compete against the Accord. Bullshit.
keithg1 2 years ago 3
Don't know about Chevy & Daewoo, but Ford controls Mazda? They had 33%, this does not include the control. they just shared technologies, or better said, 4cyl engines blueprints came from Mazda to Ford, 6cyl from Ford to Mazda. 5cyl from Volvo to Ford. Though each one of them was building their engines, not just swapping them. Built on same plattform does not mean being absolutely the same. Mazda better designer? Maybe now . the old 3 was ugly as hell, the new one not much better. The 6 is nice.
RRT3am 2 years ago
Mazda in 1979 was owned by Ford. 50% of the stock was in control by the Ford Motor company. this was an attempt to stifle and compete against the japanese imports like Honda and Toyota. many Ford cars of past were actually rebadged Mazdas.
Nanana123123123123 2 years ago
Partially true, but not completely. The Ford Europe was always building it's own models, same as Ford USA, few models were shared between USA/EU. Though what you say is right about many models, especially in Australia, where most were rebadged Mazda. What you say is true, but applies to some markets and not to all. The Ford 4cyl engines after 2004 are Mazda though (Duratec Series) where they stopped the Zetec series (at least in EU).
RRT3am 2 years ago
Ah about the shares. Ford made an automatic transmission in 1969 where Mazda started to deliver rebadged trucks in 1971. In 1979 Ford bought 25%, NOT 50% from Mazda. Though the effective control you all talk about happens in 1996 where Ford increased the shares to 33.4%. It never had 50%. I know here is youtube, but let's write things as they are ;)
RRT3am 2 years ago
A cruze 1.6 petrol is about 17.000 euros. a Corvette 160,000 euros.
JPacheco91 2 years ago
In my country a Chevy cruze with a 1.6 petrol engine with 110hp is a very cheap car.
JPacheco91 2 years ago
With Fuel economy 1.6 VVT 5MT.
18-21 lite /100 km in city.
8.5-9.1 lite /100 km on highway.
1.6 VVT 6AT.
17.8-23 lite /100 km in city.
8.8-9.6 lite / 100 km on highway.
voram2568 2 years ago
The prostitute that was Mazda and Daewoo will question why all of their hard work will be rewarded to Foreign stock holder in Ford and GM. I mean Ford and GM couldn't engineer any of its cars and the aquisition of Mazda and Daewoo will bring them Billions of dollars of wealth.
That is why Mazda bought back control over their company. They do not want to be controlled by Ford again. Daewoo hopefully will do the samething regarding GM. Though I doubt Koreans will do that.
fANGWEISHOO 2 years ago 2
I usually don't reply to idiots but I'll do so this time, I'm not a fan of GM for they made very damning mistakes but the only decision they did right is reallocating their design centers the same way Toyota did with their big vehicles being designed in the US. Compact-Korea, mid-size - Europe, Performance or sport cars - Australia, and SUVs or CUVs in the US. You keep posting the same comment every where so I know I wasted my time replying to you.
ebleyes 2 years ago
Mazda got back to their senses, making their cars with their well know quality, nothing controlled by Ford, and that is very good, but in the other hand, Daewoo will never be the company they used to be back in '90s, when they got assistance from Germany and Italy. The owners decided to fight between them for the biggest piece of the cake, ending in financial problem for Daewoo and getting owned now by GM. Now, GM is alive thanks to Daewoo. They just get credit for the effort of someone else.
wtrdogg20 2 years ago
Yeah, seeing Chrysler now being slaves to Fiat. Ford and GM had to buy out more productive automobile units.
The problem is that if the slave is more knowledgable and capable than the owner, how the hell can that deal work out in the end?
Mazda was a better car designer than Ford. yet Ford was the one controlling Mazda. Without Mazda, Ford would be Chrysler.
GM was in serious trouble in the 90's and Daewoo somehow fell into their laps. GM could not enginner its own automobiles.
fANGWEISHOO 2 years ago 2
rahul1248:
General Motors will not make the best cars by 2012. they are using mostly Korea for their engineering development off of a purchase for Daewoo's billion dollar infrastructure for mere pennies. If the korean government stops helping out General Motors, which they are bankrupt now, then Daewoo can go a faithful Chaebol that will have the best interest of Daewoo at heart. This means that an independent Daewoo can start to develop cars for the future.
joaharu 2 years ago 2
The Optra is also avail in NA, Think it's a Daewoo clone. Welcome to Globalization.
Giardintek 2 years ago
All upcoming 2010 GM cars pleasant interiors, For example check GM Buick website. It is tough to believe but by 2012 New GM will have the best cars around the world.
Design Engineer.
rahul1248 2 years ago
mercedes has the best cars in the world and i think it will remain so..
tibchy144 2 years ago
Audi TDI without Q7 and A6 and VW (TDI) without VW sciccro and Passart CC win ALL OF EURO. Not mercesdes benz (C-Class , S-class ,CL-Class,CLS-class,ML-class,SLK-class, E-class 2010, E-class coupe 2010.
voram2568 2 years ago
high quality/price ratio...
nextlifeguitarist 2 years ago
best car ever!!!
papkosuks 2 years ago
The interior looks a lot like the Opel Insignia.
Lynxtpm 2 years ago
Cruze have already Bad when their model
lower cost. Opel is DEAD AUTOMOBLE COMPANY.
GM HAVE DONE SERIUOS THING>
voram2568 2 years ago
hmm, GM may actually be trying, but im certain that this interior reminds me of that time i sat in all the cars at that honda showroom.
C0LL1N 2 years ago
And Honda stole all their exterior and interior designs from the Germans. Even engine components like VVT. FIAT pioneered it's automotive use in the sixties and Gm did it next. The Japs have never truly pioneered anything outside of computers and home appliances.
8BALT 2 years ago
that is a big ass lie!!! Most people who tried to use it failed miserably. There are thousands of things the japs invented. And other that they actually got to work. VVT and VTEC are the same thing on paper but one is different than the other because of how its used. VVT dates back to ancient locomotives. So i could easily accuse GM and FIAT of copying that. Point is. Cut the stereotypical nonsense.
EpiDemic117 2 years ago
The principal yes but unless your retarded (and i doubt you are) than you would know that locomotives are far different than engines and as such require much more work. The japs didn't have to try and reverse engineer VVT they had the stuff pretty much handed to them like almost every other aspect of motor vehicles. Creating things better is nowhere near as difficult as improving upon things. Not saying the Japs don't have talent but the American and German companies were generally the creators.
8BALT 2 years ago
Electronical aspect of things jap pretty much pioneered. As well as rock solid machinery. American car companys are realyl picking up the game this year but i still think its a far cry from the cup. They need better marketing. Chevy just sounds like... Ugh. They need to be alot more modernized
EpiDemic117 2 years ago
I disagree, aesthetically the interior looks fine. The video quality isn't that great, so I don't see what you're seeing. All I know is that its interior, like most GM and Ford (anyways), products have significantly closed the gap that existed between them and quality imports like Honda and VW.
vkeightyfive 2 years ago
PENTA Consloe HONDA Accord
voram2568 2 years ago
HA HA COPYCAT FOR ASIAN AUTOMOBLIE INTERIOR STYLE
WHAT KIND Global project use for peaceful?
WORST quality of the year.
voram2568 2 years ago
Well, GM is no more a copycat, than the Japs or Koreans whom copy the European lines and techniques. This one is actually a decent car, for the right price.
Giardintek 2 years ago 2
the problem u guys didn't see the korean and indian version of GM, they look like korean cars Example Optra and Spark :(
mahmoud1882 2 years ago
Optra is itratian.
voram2568 2 years ago
THEY LEARN TO COPYCAT FROM Korea.
AND HARD REPAIR.
voram2568 2 years ago 2
Do you mean eating cats and dogs and bathing in a river?
YYZ5000 2 years ago
holy plastics and panel gaps, batman.
ironchopsticks 3 years ago
It's an entry-level compact. What do you expect?
vkeightyfive 2 years ago 2
I dunno, maybe a quality interior like the civic jetta?
ironchopsticks 2 years ago
a civic jetta? You mean the Honda Civic and VW Jetta, I hope.
sonicmaiden 2 years ago
The Jetta's interior looks like a car from 1995...and the Civic's interior...just wow I'm not even going to comment on that.
ILVRACN 2 years ago