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Chevrolet Cruze: Extreme Cruise

Our personal acquaintance with Chevrolet Cruze fell on that very frosty week, when the temperature in Moscow fell to the long-being forgotten -28 degrees Celsius. Well, an excellent check for professional-benefit for a car that claims to become a new leader in the list of favorites of harsh Russian drivers.
The Chevrolet brand is nice with its powerful Camaro and the cult Corvette, in Russia, he assumed a niche of budget cars that are not distinguished by a noticeable design and bright character, but acceptable quality and affordable. As Henry Ford found out, it was the machine for mass buyers more profitable than the exclusive cars inaccessible to most. Chevrolet popularity recipe in Russia: good Korean Daewoo cars with the Golden Cross of American Prestige.
The new Cruze is a completely different story. He is designed to change the established attitude towards Chevrolet in Russia.
 
First of all, Cruze is not mimicing under the Euro American Korean, but a new car developed on the GM Delta II global platform. RELATE WITH CHATCHBEK OPEL ASTRA of the new generation, separated with a circle platform, undoubtedly plus. An international team of specialists worked on the machine. Currently, the sedan beloved by compatriots is available on the market, and later the hatchback and wagon are planned.
Cruze will not call faceless. The face, the oven, confident, with the harsh rich headlights and the extracted eyebrows we like such cars. At the same time, the corporate person is observed and recognizable. Pierced silhouette with a short trunk crowned smooth solid lines of the low roof line, the belt line is pronounced, chrome emphasizes the face. Really good!
The salon is also customer-oriented: smoothly flowing down the central console, decorated with matte silver plastic and crowned with a small monitor, follows an urgent trend and resembles a mobile phone. Under the chevrolet logo, an adequate steering wheel, resembling European cars, and not buses, with the right tides, usual beeps (and not by the Klason keys on the needles) and conveniently located the control keys of the radio tape recorder under the thumbs. The devices are hidden in three elbowed ovals under different slopes and are highlighted in blue. From chips, a highlighted Chevrolet inscription on metal thresholds, adding a little premium gloss in the inner decoration. Capacities for things - with a rubberized rug at the bottom. Of the pleasant options - a mirror with autocession, a light sensor and cruise control.
Disappointing sad tissue upholstery, as well as impractical fabric insertion on the torpedo. The keys of the center console look at an adult, but they are not so tight and noticeably, as we would like, and the rubberized knots do not give the necessary effort, twisted and skip. The same problem with the buttons on the key to press the first time is not always obtained. In the rear seats, it is comfortable, but not enough space above your head. It sacrifice the beautiful roof line. These little things spoil the impression of the fashionable interior of the new Chevrolet.
In severe frosts, from which the poor cruise even beep is hoarse, the outer opening button of the trunk is tightly frozen, and the salon is not provided. Therefore, in order to get into the trunk, you need to pull the key from the ignition lock of the good, there is a discovery key on it. The frozen nozzles of the washer did not stop even in long traffic jams. There is the only salvation on the warm parking of a large shopping center and wander around the shopping of three hours.
Cars, alas, more precisely relate to frosts: we, as more ordered, we can smear your hand on the machine to the asphalt and cheerfully run to the subway while the on-board computer reports an extremely low temperature and shows the inhibited pictures on monitors. Cruz did not fail and every morning cheerfully started. The motor to the operating temperature warmed up the whole eternity, but in the cabin quickly became warm and comfortable. Heated seats, which Cruze, by the way, the three-stage, necessary thing in our climate.
The driver's seat does not differ in pronounced lateral support, but trying to compensate for this lack of a huge range of longitudinal and vertical adjustments, so that the ideal landing is selected immediately. The lever of the gearbox, praise GM, does not resemble a long half, who have to stir the porridge from Lacetti, and yet it does not differ short.
On the test, we had a version with a 1.8-liter 141-strong engine from Astra, but the motor potential justifies only in terms of flow: even considering frost, 13 liters per 100 km is too! You can wake the engine only by 3,500 rpm, before that, it reacts to the accelerator, it disappointly sluggishly, only overestimates. The second available Motor 1.6 liters from Lacetti, with a capacity of 109 hp
The steering wheel is nice to twist one finger in the parking lot, but in the turns at speed it lacks a clear feedback, so you have to give and adjust the trajectory. With sharp rebuildings there is a risk of destabilizing the car to acute reactions must be used to it. But on a straight line, the machine is gorgeous moderately soft, comfortable, obedient and relatively quiet, allows not to notice the imperfections of the roadbed. So you can drive a few hours without the slightest fatigue.
Chevrolet Cruze is an excellent car for every day. GM sheep managed to make a European car with a cozy and fashionable interior and a bright attractive appearance. The car does not boast of sports ambitions New Astra, built on the same platform, in this plan much more fun.
Almost all markets Cruze comes to a shift Lacetti, and in Russia both models will be sold in parallel. Cost Cruze begins from 540,000 rubles. For this money, a sedan is offered with a 1.6-liter 109-strong engine and mechanical transmission, ABS, 4 airbags, audio system, front electric windows, adjusting the steering column in height. Among important advantages - a full-size spare wheel. The air conditioner and heated front seats will have to pay 30,000 and 6,000 rubles, respectively. Thus, the minimum price of cruise reaches 576,000 rubles. For comparison, the Vsevolozhsk Ford Focus, which is intended to defeat Cruze, costs from 584,400 rubles (529,400 for the current promotion): a sedan with a 1.6-liter 100-strong engine, adjustable by departure and height of the steering wheel, electric and heating side mirrors, two Airbags, ABS and air conditioning.
The most affordable Cruze equipment with a machine gun costs from 616,500 rubles. The cost of cars with a 1.8-liter engine starts from 611,500 rubles. The maximum price may go out for 800,000 rubles per car with a 1.8-liter engine, automatic, leather, etc.
Svetlana Aleeva
 
 

 

A source: Carclub.ru.