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Old 04-20-2013, 11:51 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PressEnter[] View Post
If the diesel Cruze is anything like the TDI's, it will not be hard to beat the EPA rating, even without careful driving. So far for me it looks like 40/50+
And its not hard to beat the EPA rating with the gasoline engine either.
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The diesel has NO advantage in this department. This seems to be a really popular argument with TDI fans for some reason. They seem to think that gasoline engine can't beat their EPA numbers but diesels can. Thats simply not true. You can very easily do so with both.

They way GM packaged the diesel Cruze for the US market is a colossal failure. They should have offered the same 1.7L engine they sell in the rest of the world with both a manual and automatic and built it on the Cruze eco platform which is substantially different from all other cruze models. That would have been an honest 40/50mpg car. Instead they brought over this bloated over priced barge. Nobody buys a $26000 cruze. In a couple of years after these cars languished on dealer lots with cash on the hood for months and months, GM is going to point at the diesel cruze and say "SEE? Americans don't want diesels and thats the end of that".
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