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Report: General Motors delays Cruze launch by three months

General Motors is desperate to avoid the recall stigma that plagued the first year of North American production of the original Ford Focus a decade ago. That car was recalled five times in the first year to fix early production glitches. The new Chevrolet Cruze had been scheduled to launch production at the company's Lordstown, Ohio factory in April of next year, but that has now been pushed back to July. Although earlier launches of the Cruze in China and Europe have not had any serious problems, as the first major new product since GM ... Read more →

REPORT: GM aims for 44 mpg from 2011 Chevy Cruze XFE Jeremy Korzeniewski

When General Motors first announced the 2011 Chevy Cruze for the United States market, the automaker bandied about a fuel mileage estimate of over 40 miles per gallon on the highway. That's a ...

GM investing $230M in Flint area facilities to support Chevrolet Cruze, Volt Sam Abuelsamid

General Motors announced today that it will spend $230 million on four facilities in the Flint, Michigan area that will support the production of the new Chevy Cruze compact and the Volt ...

REPORT: Chevy Volt to be in extremely short supply at launch Jeremy Korzeniewski

According to a report on Automotive News (sub. req'd), those wishing to get an early crack at the 2011 Chevy Volt had better get in line now as General Motors only plans to build between 200 and ...

Brits get to drive new Chevy Cruze, "good value car" for the masses Sam Abuelsamid

The Chevrolet Cruze won't start rolling off the assembly line at GM's Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant and into U.S. showrooms until next spring. Right now, though, GM's Korean operations are ...

GM CEO: the Chevy Cruze "will surprise most customers" 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

To compete with Ford Focus, other compact vehicles and for the higher-mpg car market in America in gereral, GM will be bringing out the Chevrolet Cruze next year. Over on the GM Fastlane blog, CEO Fritz Henderson has addressed GM's small-car strategy. For a company long associated with SUVs and ...

New Flint plant cancelled, Volt/Cruze engines to be built at existing location 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

After canceling the construction contracts for a new Flint, MI engine plant a month ago, General Motors has now officially canceled the whole plant. The plant was due to build new 1.4L four cylinder engines for the Chevy Cruze and Volt starting in 2010. Based on current and expected future ...

Chevy's Volt mules have moved to Cruze mode; Lutz drives one 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Last spring, when General Motors starting track testing its first E-Flex powertrain "mule" prototypes, the cars were based on previous-generation Chevrolet Malibu body shells, the Mali-Volts. The engineering team has now moved on to the next generation of its development cars. The latest batch of ...

Chevy Cruze now on sale in Korea as Daewoo Lacetti 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We still don't know for sure what GM's production plans are for the Chevy Cruze here in the U.S. The company hasn't made an official statement on the subject since announcing that it would be built in Lordstown, OH in early 2010. Recent stories have indicated that U.S.-production of the Cruze might ...

Tech analysis of GM's new 1.4L four cylinder engine 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM's 2011 1.4L four cylinder turbo In Flint, MI on Thursday, General Motors started to reveal some details of the 1.4L four cylinder that will serve duty in two of GM's most important new cars come 2010. This engine may be new to the U.S. market but it isn't an entirely new engine. It's actually ...

Paris Preview: 2010 Chevrolet Cruze live reveal 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Here in Detroit this afternoon, Chevrolet general manager Ed Peper and design VP Ed Welburn took the wraps off the new Chevrolet Cruze that will debut at the Paris Auto Show next month. As many people suspected, the Cruze is larger than the current Cobalt and actually fits into the lineup between ...

Spy Shots: 2010 Chevy Cruze spotted in the wild 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A couple of weeks ago, GM released the first official photos of the new Chevy Cruze compact and we've been seeing camouflaged examples for months. Now, one of our readers has spotted an almost completely uncovered Cruze in a parking lot in Rochester, NY. The Cruze will make its auto show debut next ...

GM gets tax breaks from Flint for new Volt engine plant 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As we stated a few months ago, automakers always get tax credits from cities in an effort to get them to build new plants or retool existing plants. As we know, the upcoming Chevy Volt is likely to be assembled in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant where the Buick Lucerne and Cadillac DTS are ...

GM officially announces Chevy Cruze will be built in Ohio 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At a press conference in Lordstown, OH this afternoon, GM CEO Rick Wagoner officially announced that the Chevrolet Cruze would be built at the plant alongside the existing Cobalt. Wagoner alluded to this in June during the company's annual meeting. GM will invest $350 million in the Lordstown plant ...

Paris Preview: Chevy Cruze official pics released 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Cruze Chevrolet has just released official photos of the first car to be based on the company's next generation Delta platform, also known officially as the Global Compact Car platform. The Chevy Cruze will get its official debut at the Paris Motor ...

GM hopes to make more money on smaller cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The General, along with the rest of the American automakers, has a long established history of making the most profits from the largest vehicles. Small cars from the Detroit 3 have therefore fallen way behind the imports when it comes to desirability. GM Global Design Chief Ed Welburn went so far as ...

Chevy Cruze will get turbo 1.4 liter and 40 mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Chevrolet has seen a double-digit sales increase of its Cobalt compact car this year since gas prices began their unstoppable upward trajectory. Fortunately for us in the states, the newfound importance of small cars means that we will likely see the new 1.4 liter turbocharged global-mill in the ...

Paris preview: 2010 Chevy Cruze to debut 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Chevrolet's next new compact car will make its debut in October at the Paris Motor Show with a new name. The Chevy Cruze is the Chevrolet brand version of GM's global compact car platform known as Delta. The Cruze will be built in a number of locations around the world including Lordstown, Ohio ...


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