Chevrolet Cruze @ 2008 Paris Motor show

[janes699]

What the fuck is this piece of shit. What is GM thinking. I own a cobalt. GM has lost a customer hear.

[gameworld6421]

Like its colour

[highclass167bx]

suck dick asians gm rules fuck u all hate on

[colin1Lplz]

goodbye cobalt :(

[poochy86307]

first i want one of ur peas off junk 12 cylinder cars and put them up agents r American Musial cars like the Zr1 corvette this car is 2 take care of Chevy lite work like Ferrari

[FuckUandUrMamma]

LOL americans and their shit cars

[joja10110]

The Delta II was developed in South Korea with the help of Opel techonology.

The Delta I Platform was developed by OPEL.

Not only that. Daewoo also designs the interior in which GM is horrible at creating. Obviously South Koreans know how to design interior quality that can rival the Japanese.

[Ukrainatrain]

ah, here we go again, joja the full time GM trash talker.. The cruze WAS done in the South Korean studio, with collaboration of designers and managers sent from Warren for the project. The quality of the interior has nothing to do with design, but suppliers and assembly. The cruze WILL have excellent quality, and, unfortunately for you, the Malibu, CTS, terrain, sierra, are all examples of such excellent quality developed 100% in Warren, MI.

[joja10104]

mcloft, stop spilling lies.

The car was mainly designed in South Korea. Opel and GM American just tested the car to see if the suspension was okay.

The engine t4 transmission, car design, interior, exterior were all comissioned in South Korea. Since Obviously, GM designed the colbalt and maliby so well

only a few years ago. their cars were utter crap. Now they have Daewoo to rape, they can produce good cars.

[zokiplayboy]

did anyone know the dimension of those rims???

17'',18'' or 19''????

[nytrydr91]

17''

[starstarstar42]

Well frankly it doesn't matter to me where or who designed it .

My impression is: the physical look of it is boring. For the price, there are sportier looking cars in its class. Why don't designer get it? Looks, looks, looks. If it drives like a pig, well that can be fixed. But first and foremost, its about the visceral eye appeal. Take a 30hp 3-cylinder motor and wrap it in a exotic concept car skin, and people will STILL line up to buy it. Looks looks looks! But seriously...LOOKS!

[LoneGunman2000]

it DOES mattter who designed.

You could can claim that you designed the car, while someone behind you did all the work. Who will take the credit. You, or the other person who is the straight A student.

EXACTLY, Daewoo is the straight A student that has no common sense that GM are LEACHERS that suck off the life blood of DAEWOO and Korean PEOPLE..

FUCK GM.

[starstarstar42]

Wow, somehow you took a statement about the visual appeal of a car and turned it into a anti-west diatribe. I don't think you need a vehicle, I think you need anger management therapy.

[LoneGunman2000]

maybe, but still, I say GM can go to fucking hell. They were also heavily involved in World War II. They may have even helped the NAZI's build Hitler's War Machine.

So yeah, FUCK GM

[mcloft2]

You are rigfht. GM did the same with the Buick La Crosse. This is a copy of the Opel Insignia, a car that is to 98 % developed, designed and engineered in Germany. Also the Chevy´s powertrain (Ecotec) is made by Opel. I´d wonder if one of the US dealers admit or even know...

[joaharu]

Hakem, the car was designed and engineered in South Korea. I don't know where you are getting you information from. The Delta II platform was developed by GMDAT by a contractual bid by GM to engineers its small car segments. The new six-speed transmissions by GM are designed entirely by Daewoo. that is class leading stuff by Daewoo, not GM.

[boardingnollie]

i like cars so muches. very great thing to drive in vroom vroom

[voram2568]

Maximum Test.

Just have Many damge after frist test.

[emforty2]

don't get too excited this is just a korean made DAEWOO

nothing new

[HakemEX]

It's built in Korea as a Daewoo, and ONLY a daewoo.

The rest are built in Elizabeth, South Australia, as a Holden

Lordstown, Ohio as a Chevy

Shenyang, China as the Daewoo

St. Petersburg, Russia as a Chevy

The original car is designed in Europs, and is based on the European Opel Astra's Delta II platform- which GM owns.

[mcloft2]

>>The original car is designed in Europe, and is based on the European Opel Astra's Delta II platform- which GM owns - absolutely correct!!

Also the powertrain has absoltuely nothing to do with Deawoo.

[wtrdogg20]

LOL!!, YOU ARE SO WRONG MY FRIEND!!!!...this car is the same Daweoo Laceti, just with a different front bumper and badges, the rest is THE SAME!!. Please do your homework before taking the exam.

[mcloft2]

Sorry man, I´m an engineer in the Engine development department for Opel Powertrain in Europe / Rüsselsheim Germany. We do / did the adaption of the powertrain to this car. 1.6 & 1.8 liter of the german opel family 1 engine. If you were able to ckeck for detailed engine date (bore / stroke / compression ratio ) you would have foud out yourself that the engines are similar to the ones in the Opel Astra (A16XER / A18XER). So it´s a GERMAN (some country in Europe) powertrain.

[mcloft2]

check wikipedia -- chevy cruze (History of development). -->Family 1 Ecotec engines. By the way starting from late 2009, also the Family 0 1.4 liter turbo will be available in the cruze. good engine, A 100% opel development, too. ;-) Just face the truth.... that might help.

[wtrdogg20]

LOL, so you work at OPEL...hahahaha...C'mon, LIAR!! Dude, this car is a DAEWOO LACETI, everybody knows it.....and Wikipedia is not reliable, since you can edit everyhing in it. Are you gonna tell me there is a Laceti for Korea, totally similar to this Cruze but with different engine, and for Europe the same car but with another Engine?, Dude, that is a waste of money, Chevrolet did not even do that with the Epica or Optra or Aveo. This one is not gonna be the difference.

[mcloft2]

No Idea what problem you have. Yes in fact I DO work for Opel & yes theres only ONE GLOBAL SMALL ENGINE FAMILY for the DELTA II (OPEL/Buick/Deawoo) platform no matter if you like that or not. If you would check for engine details you would see (bore /stroke 79x81,5 for 1.6 for e.g) as you might be able to check. As far as I know ther korean engines were not apllicable to the us & european emission law, further are worse in fuel economy.

[mcloft2]

And why the hell should I lie to anyone...? In fact I don´t care about GM´s decision what engines to place in that car. And yes I know ´bout E-Tec and D-TEC. also german ... older Opel Family1 engines built under license by Deawoo, not Deawoo stand-alone developments. What you might have forgot. There´s only one GM global inhouse ECU (Engine control unit, not Bosch/Delfi/Siemens) that requires similar engine hardware to reduce costs. Anyway, people´ll find out the truth themselfes... ;-)

[wtrdogg20]

Daewoo Korea is good enough and well capable to make a very good engine, diesel or gasoline, like Hyundai-Kia. They might get assistance from Europe to meet the European requirements, but it is not an full Opel engine. Does E-Tec and D-Tec ring you a bell?, well, those engine were available in all Daewoo engines before GM take control of Daewoo.

[DJTEVAdotCOM]

the guy looks cramped in the car...

[TCLe]

Not that surprising. He looks hella tall.

[HakemEX]

oh my god that guy is giant.

[gengoodvibe]

I see this competing with the ford fiesta. These two might just have a rivalry in the world like the mustang and the camaro do in the states.

[RoGuE123087]

Wow, this car looks really nice. Huge improvement over the Cobalt.

[LocutsUSN]

Australia will also build it in 2010.

As far as daewoo design goes, GMDaewoo use mostly Australian and US designers.

[shuyin200]

It needs a panoramic glass moonroof like the tC and GM needs to make the Chevy logo Silver not gold.

[ILVRACN]

Both of those suggestions would be awesome!

[akear]

So GM is using Daewoo engineering for this car. If GM believes that can't engineer a small car as well as Daewoo perhaps they deserve to go bankrupt.

Time for GM to flop again.

[bowflexor]

wow your an idiot. They own daewoo. why the fuck would they buy a company and not use it.

[LoneGunman2000]

akear does have a point.

However, it seesm that the spirit of Daewoo lives on in Chevrolet. Too bad GM is ashamed of the Daewoo name that they don't badget their cars the Daewoo logo.

[HakemEX]

They did not get this car from daewoo. GM designed it, but Daewoo happened to get it first, since it's a global car.

[TCLe]

Daewoo designed the exterior looks as far as I could tell from my research.

The interior design was by the global design team and under the hood was done by Chevrolet Europe.

So yeah, it is global car. =D

[HakemEX]

Nope, like I said, GM designed it. But Daewoo got it first. Think about how Honda designed the Acura TSX, and it's sold in Europe as the Accord, but it's sold in America as the TSX. The TSX is global, but some companies get it before others, sometimes even under a different name.

[Spinback8888]

If it's not that fast -who cares. It's called Cruze after all, I just hope it gets killer mpg.

[bowflexor]

yea its an economy car not a sports car.

[jblackapple]

judging from the engines offered and the passenger car layout, its goin to be a good car.... a very SLOW good car

[HeadTater]

Although there is no replacemnt for displacement, cars with small engines can still get going pretty quick. Granted, it won't be able to touch something like the new Camaro, but it could still have some pep to it. For example, a 2L turbocahrged 4cyl was able to make 260hp in the Cobalt SS with a top speed of 102.5mph and class leading 0-60 time of 5.5 seconds.

[Bmants]

Hope it's not just looks, but that is a great start.

[ChevyCruze]

Go Chevy!

[Picuj]

Very nice car, and this dark body color give a great look for it. i have a lacetti now, but maybe next year the cruze will replace it.

[slbiggs36]

GM are fucking assholes like the rest of the big three. They give all the other countries the good shit first and then hang us out to dry, especially in their home town of Detroit, which is a rathole. They can't even keep Van Dyke free of potholes, which is a main thoroughfare for many of their buildings. American pride is dead. And American greed will be joining it shortly! All buying American cars does is goldplate the faucets of their management. Fuck them! Honda here I come!

[07blkCobalt]

get off the bong man

[jeredt]

It will probably be $50,000.00 when it goes on sale and GM will wonder why it wasn't sucessful. GM WILL go bankrupt.

[fordmustangGT7211]

awesome!

it's ganna get 40 mpg too

[blah69]

Hope so; if they can hold on up to next year :/

[solterocr]

nice looking vehicle, so far

[60UDA]

Good deal. A six speed auto tranny sounds cool, and yeah turbo diesel is good thing as well.

[Microcip83]

looks alright, like the front and the interior also, not so much the back...

[jattpunjabi93]

the front is nice and the interior is not that bad either!

[zorro527]

Looks alot like the Honda Civic,better late

than never tho. Lets hope they can get it

to the marketplace in a timely manner

and be top notch in quality as well.

Look forward to test driving when its

becomes available.

[BallinBech]

the cobalt owns..but turbo deisel sounds good

[bajabusta]

haha, chev already HAS a 6spd auto.

[joseman409]

it looks nice though i think it looks too much like a malibu impala camary and taurus. i would love to see them put out some more innovative designs like they had with the volt concept to make their cars distinguishable though chevy killed that idea right quickly to make it look like a prius though the idea is good the pretty box it is coming in is not

[crammage]

sounds good

rebudle subaru!!!

[Maserati7200]

looks great

[jpbalkenende]

Not exactly beautyifull but certainly much much better looking than the rest of Chevy's international lineup. How much euro's is this thing supposed to cost? Oh yeah interior seems great.

[FrontalTraction]

Mini Malibu looks.

[Billy4202]

Does anyone know if the turbodiesel's coming to the US?

Either way, that sure beats the Cobalt...

[wtrdogg20]

Taking in consideration the endeless romantic relationship between North American people and the Gasoline, the most probable answer is NO, IT WILL NOT HIT THE MARKET IN UNITED STATES. USA wont have the Diesel version because you love to burn Gasoline like hell!!. If you havent considered moving from insane V8 and V6 gasoline engines in your SUVs to fuel efficient 4-cyl turbo diesel engines, how are you gonna have a Diesel small sedan?. Hopefully, some day USA will learn from Europe and Asia...

[MRRY0703]

@wtrdogg20 blah, blah, blah, blah.... stop listening to the hype.