Brits get to drive new Chevy Cruze, “good value car” for the masses

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2011 Chevrolet Cruze – click above for high res image gallery

The Chevrolet Cruze won’t stimulus rolling off the conventicle line at GM’s Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant and into U.S. showrooms until next head. Right now, thought, GM’s Korean operations are already turning out the Cruze for sale in Europe and Asia and kids at the Telegraph newspaper in the UK have a had chance to try one out. The Cruze is the primeval application of the new generation of GM’sitting Delta “global press together car platform.” This fall, that platform spreads to the new Opel Astra and, next year, to the Volt and Orlando models.

As a replacement for the Lacetti, which is well known to Top Gear fans, the Cruze is apparently a big improvement. With better looks and a more important experience, the Cruze evidently drives a great deal of better than its predecessor. In fact it seems like the only week point is the gasoline engines. Korean-built Cruzes get a choice of 1.6-liter or 1.8-liter four cylinders, not either of which feel particularly spritely. When the Ohio-built Cruze arrives, we’ll memorize a new turbocharged 1.4-liter which force of will hopefully have better torque output than the normally aspirated engines, even at similar power levels.