However fast forward to 2013 and one will find the Chevrolet Cruze has been a godsend for GM after the rather average Cobalt that it replaced. Squaring the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla and Ford Focus straight in the headlights, it's been a sales success. In fact, it's hard to believe that after only going on sale in the States in 2010, that its successor is well under development. Then again, it was presented in 2008 in other markets, so it is time for a new model
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While still in an early development stage, the prototype suggests that the next Cruze will have a sharper looking design with a more aggressively styled green house and a lower front end sporting Chevy's new face.
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In a notice on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website, the Detroit brand said that 2,949 vehicles are potentially affected.
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GM Korea boss Sergio Rocha broke the news to company's South Korean union, according to a report from Reuters. Union spokesman Choi Jong-hak said that Rocha told them the new Cruze would be manufactured in five regions around the world, including Europe, the United States and China, but declined to provide further details.
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Today, the bowtie brand revealed its small car plans for the Las Vegas event at the end of the month, where it will be represented by several customized concepts of its Spark, Sonic and Cruze models.
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The reason is a software glitch on the OnStar communication system that affects the 2013 Chevrolet Cruze, Equinox and Volt, the Cadillac ATS, SRX and XTS, the Buick Verano plus the GMC Terrain.
GM spokesman Alan Adler said that the issue has been identified as the system failing to alert the OnStar call center in an accident that the vehicle’s airbags are not deployed, like a rear-end collision.
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We don't know why the driver of the grey-colored, older generation Honda Civic depicted in this dashcam footage wasn't paying attention to the road, but whatever the reason, he slightly steered off his lane and touched the corner of the Chevrolet Cruze's rear bumper that was in front of him at a relatively low speed.
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Therefore, for General Motors, the Cruze has essentially entered its fourth year in production, which means the company has already started work on its replacement.
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The bowtie brand delivered close to 1.3 million vehicles globally in the second quarter of 2012, up 2.3 percent over last year, marking the best quarter ever for Chevrolet and the seventh consecutive quarter of record-breaking sales.
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The driver of the baby blue vehicle in this video failed to slow down in a normal manner upon seeing a black Chevrolet Cruze entering the freeway. No big deal, right? Wrong.
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There are three engines and three trim levels available at launch for the estate version of the Cruze that offers 500 liters of boot space up to the window line and 1,478 liters with the rear seats folded.
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The company said on Friday that fires can ignite when fluids, mainly during improper engine oil change procedures, spill onto a plastic shield below the engine.
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With the arrival of the new Cruze Station Wagon at dealer showrooms across Europe, Chevrolet has released a tsunami of photos of the more practical and roomier version of its compact vehicle, along with a few new shots of the facelifted 2013 model year sedan and hatchback variants.
The station wagon model is 4,655 mm long, 1,797 mm wide and 1,521 mm tall with the included roof rails and boasts 500 liters of boot space up to the window line and 1,478 liters with the rear seats folded.
Other tidbits include a luggage compartment cover that retracts fully into a cassette, a tray with three storage compartments that's located between the rear seatbacks and the cassette for the luggage cover and two additional storage compartments in the wheel arches.
Consumer Reports (CR) set out to see if buyers would benefit in the long run by choosing the fuel-economy variants of the Ford Focus, Chevrolet Cruze and Honda Civic. While each of these models returns better mileage than their standard counterparts, they also cost between $500 and $800 more.
The following calculations were based on driving 12,000 miles (~19,300 kilometers) annually with an average gas price of $4 per gallon (€0.85/lt).
Starting with the Ford Focus, CR found that the $495 SFE (Super Fuel Economy) package, which adds flush hubcaps, a rear spoiler, and low rolling resistance tires, provides a 3-mpg improvement in overall and city fuel economy, to 31 and 21mpg, respectively.
It has taken Americans more than two decades to re-embrace diesel engines after a catastrophic attempt in the 1980s, but thanks to German automakers like Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW, and let's not forget, the rising cost of fuel, oil burners are on the menu again.
While das Germans have done most of the job of informing U.S. consumers about the new generation of diesels and how they differ from their sooty and finicky counterparts of the past, GM took a moment to introduce its side of the story as it prepares for the domestic launch of the Cruze Diesel, which arrives next year.
The four-cylinder turbo diesel develops a maximum output of 128-horses (130PS) and a peak torque of 300Nm (221 lb-ft) accelerating the hatchback model from 0-60mph (96km/h) in 9.4 seconds and on to a top speed of 124mph (200km/h).
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