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Originally Posted by niky
The Cruze Diesel is one-and-a-half size classes larger than the Chevette, much safer and a whole lot faster, yet gets around 25% better economy, with an automatic.
I'd call that progress.
The metric you're using is completely wrong. If you look at the mpg per carrying capacity, the Cruze's advantage isn't a mere 25%...
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Not exactly, what is wrong is that a version of the Cruze is not offered in the chevette weight and area class with the improvements you mention.
Imagine how much more progress that would represent; 60mpg+ would be childs play using a simple 5 speed stick on a narrow lightweight diesel cruze.