Chevrolet Cruze front and rear views exposed!
The world got a preview of the upcoming Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan during GM’s press conference earlier this week as both front and rear three quarter views of the new Cruze done up in a flashy red paint were flashed on the presentation screen.
The new Chevrolet Cruze is a C-segment sedan and it will be a world car, replacing both current C-segment cars that are in GM’s line-up - the low-cost “emerging market” Daewoo-based Chevrolet Optra and the more expensively-built Chevrolet Cobalt for the American market. This means we can expect this to eventually replace the Optra Magnum facelift that was unveiled here earlier this year.
GM will fit a series of turbocharged 1.4 liter engines into the Cobalt, which GM says will allow it to hit a fuel economy target of 45mpg, or 5.2 liters per 100km, which truth be told is rather ambitious, small engine or not. The 1.4 liter Ecotec turbo will come in various stages of tune from 120 PS (equivalent to a 1.6 liter normally aspirated engine) to 150 PS (equivalent to a 2.0 liter normally aspirated engine), with plenty of torque.
July 18, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
wow, totally different from the old one!
will this replace the Optra?
July 18, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
yaya, replace the Optra with this……
July 18, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
nice..1.4 turbocharged but maybe it’ll be priced somewhere near the civic?
July 18, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
Until when we can get a Cobalt or few years later a Camaro here?
July 18, 2008 @ 5:31 pm
wah…why look so similar to the new Accord?
July 18, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
accord reap off… looks nice though but still boo…
July 18, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
chevrolet ,pah…gm willl be successful if they had assembled the saab or opel in thailand instead
July 18, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
let see what the 1.4L engine can help us save our fuel consumption then
July 18, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
Nice design, look much more better than current optra
July 19, 2008 @ 7:35 am
Wondering if it’d also replace the Astra in the European market.
Thats some large economies of scale.
Small turbo engines are definately more efficient
July 19, 2008 @ 10:58 am
reaplce the astra? no way
July 19, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
nice car, but malaysian market ppl stil prefer toyota ma, honda ma, wat happen wt hicom rebaging car proposal…? chevy cruze @ hicom cruze then cn claim malaysian made.