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Old 11-12-2010, 08:48 PM   #137 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bennelson View Post
When I went for the ride in the Volt,

The tech said that the Volt was built on a certain platform (I don't remember which) he said that was the same platform as another couple of cars. The only one on the list that I remember him saying was the Cruze.

Physically, the Cruze and Volt look very similar.

Again, I do think that comparing the Volt to any standard gas car is apples to oranges, but if you are going to do that, the Cruze is the right car to compare it to.
It's the Cruze, which is the GM Delta platform. It's also the platform for the Opel Astra :

GM Delta platform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Delta was General Motors' compact front-wheel drive automobile and crossover SUV platform, a successor to the GM T platform; it also replaced GM J platform and the Z platform used by the Saturn S-Series. The platform debuted in the 2003 Saturn Ion. Vehicles of this platform generally carry the symbol "A" in the fourth digit of their VINs. The architecture was developed by Opel in Germany.
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