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Old 05-10-2011, 11:57 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by robchalmers View Post
As much as I love the cruze for outdoing the volt at its own game (IMVHO) I'm surprised the US cruze needs all those factory installed ecomods to get near the TDi (and not our best one at that) more worryingly is the city/hwy values for the Jetta, is it carrying a trunk full of bricks?!!!

I wish there was a world emissions standard based on Euro5 regs. you'd get the 1.6 gas/M5 cruze base we have that pretty much matches your ECO!
What really needs to happen is a mythbusters style program that shows the truth about emissions production between US and World market cars. I'm tired of hearing the same song and dance.
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