Chevy brings back the diesel car...

[Z71 Kris]

It’s been a long time since General Motors tried to sell a diesel-powered car to American customers, and the automaker surely hopes you’ve forgotten that it ever did.
Its slow and smoky V8’s of the 1980’s helped end an era for the fuel in the United States, where it’s only recently been making a comeback among passenger car buyers looking for fuel efficient vehicles.
But GM never stopped making them in Europe, and other parts of the world, and now it’s tapped into all of those years of expertise to bring the Chevrolet Cruze Diesel to the home market.
Introduced today at the Chicago Auto Show, the Cruze Diesel is powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that pumps 148 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque through a six-speed automatic transmission that Chevy says should be good for 42 mpg on the highway when it goes on sale later this year for $ 25,695, including delivery and two years of maintenance.
Those numbers put it in the same league as the market-leading Volkswagen Jetta Diesel that it will compete directly against. Perhaps more important, however, is the fact that Chevy also sells the gasoline-powered Cruze Eco, which is also rated at 42 mpg highway, albeit with a manual transmission and less stump-pulling torque, for just $20,490.


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interdasting...looks like it might compete well against the VW...the TDI starts at 22.9k...

 

[CJ Hungus]

Nice! Everyone better get in line behind Zem.

 

[Texas Jim]

Very good...

 

[buRRp]

 

[Zembonez]

What a stupid fWONking move. I hope they all catch fire.

 

[The_Chupacabra]

I would buy one!

 

[onac255]

The only reason someone should get this over a normal Cruze is performance.

It is about a $5,000 difference...I don't know (it is the accountant in me I guess) but $5k buys a lot of regular fuel (which the petrol Cruze can run on).

The Cruze eco already gets similar mileage than the diesel will get. In real world driving they might be within 6-7 mpg average per tank of each other. Add in the difference in price between Diesel fuel and Regular fuel. Does not make much sense.

What I do hope is that chevy keeps this drive train and uses it in bigger vehicles and achieves the same kind of mileage.

Like VW did with the passat. That is a huge fucking car that get's incredible mileage for its size.

Even with premium fuel (which is what I would run most of the year here in El Paso) prices, it is hard to justify a Cruze with a diesel.

 

[CJ Hungus]

The only reason someone should get this over a normal Cruze is performance.

It is about a $5,000 difference...I don't know (it is the accountant in me I guess) but $5k buys a lot of regular fuel (which the petrol Cruze can run on).

The Cruze eco already gets similar mileage than the diesel will get. In real world driving they might be within 6-7 mpg average per tank of each other. Add in the difference in price between Diesel fuel and Regular fuel. Does not make much sense.

What I do hope is that chevy keeps this drive train and uses it in bigger vehicles and achieves the same kind of mileage.

Like VW did with the passat. That is a huge fWONking car that get's incredible mileage for its size.

Even with premium fuel (which is what I would run most of the year here in El Paso) prices, it is hard to justify a Cruze with a diesel.

With that much torque, I bet the thing is pretty fun to drive though.

 

[Darkanion]

Ivan had to use LOGIC and screw-up GM's plan!

 

[dietz4ibanez]

We really can't speculate much here until some real world testing by consumers/owners. I would bet that the the Diesel Cruze would be more economic in comparison to the Cruze Eco by 5-8 mpg on average.

If the Chevy DC has any bit of improved technology over the VW, Cruze's fuel mileage on highway could easily achieve 45-50+

I've had gas trucks and diesels. Diesels prove themselves to be worthwhile if not more economic when it comes to performance, life expectancy and repairs.