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I've ticked just over the one year mark with my 2015 Cruze and I'm still feeling as inept with driving it as the first day it rolled into my driveway. Thank god there's only another year left on this lease... All the reviews for this car seem to have conveniently ignored the glaring flaws of the vehicle - were they paid? Let's not forget the fact that the RS trim is an absolute joke - sport my ass.
Never mind the throttle delay, horrible turbo lag, grindy/clunky gearbox, weak engine mount jerkiness (no other manual I've driven seems to have this problem, especially), or distinct lack of power - you're left in a bind as to when you shift. You can bang out gears with relative speed by shifting before 2500RPM, but you get little acceleration. Rev it up a touch, towards 3000RPM and you'll find instead that while you were accelerating nicely for a time - you're now left to suffer the horrendous, bi-polar rev hang. Sometimes the revs drop fairly quick, other times they hang, and even sometimes I've watched them climb slightly despite having been well off the gas before depressing the clutch (purposely lifting my foot off early, and having it repeat itself). It drives me literally insane, and I've definitely learned my lesson regarding test driving a vehicle before purchasing it - I won't make this same mistake twice (and will work around the otherwise unfortunate circumstances that led to this, next time).
This guy here seems to have his Cruze tuned up nicely, and the fellow driving seemingly doesn't have any problems with rev hang - maybe he's just letting the clutch out and going? Doing that lurches my car around more than it should, and I can't stand a rough driving experience that's out of my control. Letting the clutch out where it eats up a few hundred revs has a distinctive feel to it, compared to waiting that extra moment and getting it practically spot on - but it's difficult waiting all the time, at least as long as Chevrolet seems to think a person should. Did the Cruze in the video magically have a reduced rev hang from tuning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdv-o-4YYg
Knowing what the tune fixes, and if it fixed the rev hang - I'd consider holding onto this car, or hopping up to 2nd gen and keeping that... But in the current state of affairs, not a freakin' chance. Ford has way better offerings between the Focus and Fiesta (especially ST models), without these issues. Hyundai's Veloster is quite nice, as is the new Mazda 3 and the VW Golf, although I will never trust the latter on quality. All of those cars drive better in my experience, and have considerably less problems with overall enjoyment from a driver point of view. Bad design in my eyes is the new Chevrolet SS, which sounds excellent on paper until you do some YouTube hunting and discover that it too, a true sport sedan, suffers from horrendous rev hang...
Long story short, this car has been around since 2011 - and we've got some tuning options that look rather enticing. Quite a bit more power, and certainly a fix on the throttle delay - but what about the rev hang? I contacted one who said they haven't a fix for it, but I'm wondering if tuning emissions related parts requires radio silence - lest they get fines from environmental agencies or something.
Never mind the throttle delay, horrible turbo lag, grindy/clunky gearbox, weak engine mount jerkiness (no other manual I've driven seems to have this problem, especially), or distinct lack of power - you're left in a bind as to when you shift. You can bang out gears with relative speed by shifting before 2500RPM, but you get little acceleration. Rev it up a touch, towards 3000RPM and you'll find instead that while you were accelerating nicely for a time - you're now left to suffer the horrendous, bi-polar rev hang. Sometimes the revs drop fairly quick, other times they hang, and even sometimes I've watched them climb slightly despite having been well off the gas before depressing the clutch (purposely lifting my foot off early, and having it repeat itself). It drives me literally insane, and I've definitely learned my lesson regarding test driving a vehicle before purchasing it - I won't make this same mistake twice (and will work around the otherwise unfortunate circumstances that led to this, next time).
This guy here seems to have his Cruze tuned up nicely, and the fellow driving seemingly doesn't have any problems with rev hang - maybe he's just letting the clutch out and going? Doing that lurches my car around more than it should, and I can't stand a rough driving experience that's out of my control. Letting the clutch out where it eats up a few hundred revs has a distinctive feel to it, compared to waiting that extra moment and getting it practically spot on - but it's difficult waiting all the time, at least as long as Chevrolet seems to think a person should. Did the Cruze in the video magically have a reduced rev hang from tuning?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcdv-o-4YYg
Knowing what the tune fixes, and if it fixed the rev hang - I'd consider holding onto this car, or hopping up to 2nd gen and keeping that... But in the current state of affairs, not a freakin' chance. Ford has way better offerings between the Focus and Fiesta (especially ST models), without these issues. Hyundai's Veloster is quite nice, as is the new Mazda 3 and the VW Golf, although I will never trust the latter on quality. All of those cars drive better in my experience, and have considerably less problems with overall enjoyment from a driver point of view. Bad design in my eyes is the new Chevrolet SS, which sounds excellent on paper until you do some YouTube hunting and discover that it too, a true sport sedan, suffers from horrendous rev hang...
Long story short, this car has been around since 2011 - and we've got some tuning options that look rather enticing. Quite a bit more power, and certainly a fix on the throttle delay - but what about the rev hang? I contacted one who said they haven't a fix for it, but I'm wondering if tuning emissions related parts requires radio silence - lest they get fines from environmental agencies or something.