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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 ...

It's coming to the U.S. in 2013, so that means it's time to start figuring out what to expect of the diesel Chevrolet Cruze. To find out, Detroit News reporter Scott Burgess set out on a journey with a simple goal: To see if the oil-burning Chevy Cruze diesel could make its way through eight ...

The Australian hypermiling duo of John and Helen Taylor have accomplished their goal of breaking the existing record for fuel economy achieved in a gasoline-fed production vehicle during a drive that touched some slice (defined here as at least 30 miles) of all 48 contiguous states. Arriving in ...

In late July, rumors of a U.S.-bound diesel Chevrolet Cruze were officially confirmed to be true by General Motors. We'll have to wait until sometime in 2013 to see the oil-burning Cruze, but GM insiders seem more than willing ...

Is the Chevy Volt just a big bait and switch? According to CNN Money (yep, that's the same site that recently called the Chevrolet Volt's technology obsolete), the Volt is more or less a brilliant marketing ploy dreamed up by some clever folks over at General Motors. CNN Money says the Volt is ...

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 ...

For the first time in half a decade, a Chevrolet topped the compact vehicle list in sales in the U.S. The Chevy Cruze, with recorded sales of 22,711 units in May, beat the compact competition. Alan Batey, U.S. vice-president of Chevrolet sales and service, says that:

The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is no slouch in the fuel economy department. In fact, the six-speed manual transmission-equipped Cruze Eco scored an official EPA rating of 28 miles per gallon city and 42 mpg highway. Those numbers put the Cruze Eco near the top of the fuel economy heap in its ...

Back in 2007, models equipped with four-cylinder engines represented just 23 percent of Chevrolet's retail sales in the U.S. Back then, both V6- and V8-powered Chevy models outsold the four banger, but now we're well into 2011, and the tide has turned. So far this year, Chevy models equipped with ...

Last fall, the Chevrolet Cruze sedan hit the North American market, and while Chevy's compact is offered with a diesel engine option in some of the 60-plus countries that it's sold in worldwide, the U.S. version makes due, at ...