Check out Chevrolet Canada's Cruze Microsite and read the fine print, to wit:
3) 2015 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel equipped with standard six-speed manual transmission. Fuel consumption ratings based on GM testing in accordance with approved Government of Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary.
A manual transmission Cruze Diesel? For Canada?
For the United States? It's about time. Yippee!!!
Must be a typo - or one of thos bizaro Canadian test market things. Does anyone remember when McDonald's test marketed chicken in Canada? They called it Chicken and Chips in 1981. Then there was the pizza they tested in Canada too about 1992.
My cruze diesel says 4.2L/100km on the sticker. Which they say is 67mpg imp but when I take 46 (the american mpg) and use a conversion calculator I get like 55 I think....something doesn't add up.
In that same link they gave the CDT's efficiency and I converted it to US MPG - 46.1. Since this page is a blurb for the upcoming 2015 models either Canada has changed their testing methodology to match the EPA's or these numbers were converted from US advertising materials, which show 42 for the ECO MT and 46 for the CDT.
RollinON18s, what are you actually getting? I ask because 5.2 L/100KM is 45.2 MPG US. The 2LT in the US is rated 38 MPG (6.2 L/100KM).
The US EPA changed their testing methodology in 2007 because the driving environment and creature features of cars had changed since the original tests were developed in 1974. Prior to 2007 the US had hugely inflated numbers for fuel economy.
I recently went to the Watkins trip and it was almost 400km from my apartment to the glen and because it was over 60 degrees the whole trip with my stock 18 inch rubber. When I pulled in the walmart my DIC was reading was 43.6 with an average speed of around 70mph. I have seen better than that on shorter trips and warmer weather. I use shell v power exclusively
For comparison, during the Watkins Glen trip in my CTD, the DIC registered a peak sustained reading of 4.2L/100km metric and 56.3 mpg US and Fuelly gave me 49.7 for the whole 900 km trip, including three less than fuel efficient laps around the track.
When Chevy comes out with a Cruze Diesel equipped with a manual transmission in the US I will be the first one in line. That's the only thing holding me back from getting a diesel Cruze at the moment.
When Chevy comes out with a Cruze Diesel equipped with a manual transmission in the US I will be the first one in line. That's the only thing holding me back from getting a diesel Cruze at the moment.
I wouldn't have cared if they offered a manual in the 2014 CTD. I still would have bought the automatic. I mean...a great diesel car with a bullet proof automatic getting at least 45-50 mpg? Why would you want a manual?
I wouldn't have cared if they offered a manual in the 2014 CTD. I should have bought the manual I mean...a great diesel car with a manual getting at least 45-50 mpg? Why would you want an auto?
Some people, like myself, love to shift. I commute 37 miles each way every day and you couldn't pay me to drive an automatic. People like what they like, and there isn't anything wrong with automatics.
I have come to use the auto-stick a little. It makes some sense on hilly county roads where you go 40-55 mph most of the time and want to pick "4" and "5" yourself.
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My understanding is the 2015 start of production is September, so probably late September to early October before you would get it. The 2014 order cut off is in July, but I wouldn't wait that long to order a 2014, as the order could miss the window.
I'm gonna be pissed if they do, there's two major things I really miss. Manual transmission and automatic climate control, both not available on the 14.
It's strange in Europe and other places in the world we already have different tail lights but they are not on the 2015 American cruze , who do gm hold out on you guys so much ?