Jan 14, 2016 03:02 PM
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Carrying a monstrous burden of responsibility for Chevrolet, the Cruze is a world car with a potentially enormous market to exploit in the Far East, where this sort of cheap four-door saloon has bags of appeal. the most significant volumes likely to be making the short hop from South Korea to car-hungry China.
The Cruze shares its basic front-wheel drive GM chassis design with the Vauxhall Astra, a fine handling and riding C-segment car. The fine detailing that makes an Astra so accomplished is sorely lacking and the Cruze feels as cheap as it is when you get moving. It doesn’t ride that well, transmitting smaller and larger changes in the road surface through the cabin. The car feels fairly stable, but handling and grip are well below average these days, The engine choices aren’t great, either. Weak 1.6 and 1.8-litre petrols with just 113 or 130bhp on offer make for a tiring time at the wheel and gearbox, while the torquier diesels are too expensive fora car of this calibre.
