chevy cruze eco

It's been argued that General Motors' halo vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt, is more or less a bait and switch bit of technology dreamed up by folks at GM for one reason: to draw buyers into showrooms. Once there, loads of potential Volt buyers opt for the Chevy Cruze Eco instead of the pricey plug-in ...

With a featherweight foot and good hypermiling technique, you may be able to milk a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid for 1,000 miles on one tank. You might also squeeze 1,200 miles from a single fill-up on a Toyota Prius. And you may be able to get over 1,400 miles out of one tank of gas on a Ford Fusion ...

One of the Chevrolet Cruze's relatively simple fuel-saving technologies is deceleration fuel cutoff (DFCO). DCFO is not a new technology and, in plain terms, all it does is automatically stop fuel from going into the Cruze's turbocharged 1.4-liter Ecotec engine while the four-door compact is ...

With the national average gas prices inching to nearly $4 a gallon ($3.96 today), efforts to boost the fuel economy of new vehicle models are heating up. Take, for example, the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Eco. General Motors' tire development engineers worked with tire manufacturers to develop what ...

General Motors has released official fuel economy numbers for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Eco, and the automaker's original target of 40 miles per gallon (highway) has been surpassed. The Cruze Eco is officially rated at 28/42 ...

While we'd all love to see 1,000-horsepower supercars that effortlessly reach 100 miles per gallon, the pace of fuel economy improvement is far less aggressive. Automakers are scratching and clawing for every mpg they can find by doing things like ...

While its U.S. introduction is still a few months away, the Chevrolet Cruze has taken most the rest of the world by storm. Since its introduction in spring of 2009, the Cruze has racked up more than 270,000 sales in over 60 ...

General Motors has finally slapped a price tag on the ultra-efficient, all-new 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Eco. Starting at a base price of $18,895, the compact Cruze Eco is certainly not one of the cheapest vehicles in its class, ...

As Bob Lutz begins to close the latest chapter of his long automotive career, he's still managing his legacy. Like him or not, Lutz is always quick to highlight his achievements no matter how comparatively mundane they may ...

Chevrolet will use the 2010 New York Auto Show to reveal a few more details about the production Cruze sedan going on sale this fall. Specifically, the Big Apple is where Chevy will formally unveil the high-mileage Cruze Eco ...