“These days, the C-segment is as fiercely competitive as a sleep-deprived John McEnroe during a game of high-stakes Tiddlywinks — just without the incessant cursing. There’s a large pie, and everyone wants a piece. The Chevrolet Cruze sedan has been hanging tough with a number of big-name rivals near the top of this segment’s list [...]
Stylish Hatch adds to Chevrolet Cruze Range
03. Oct, 2012
“General Motors South Africa (GMSA) has announced the addition of a stylish hatchback body style to the popular Chevrolet Cruze range in the fiercely competitive compact car segment. Two models, both featuring the comprehensive Chevrolet LS trim level, with the option of either a 1,6 litre or 1,8 litre four-cylinder petrol engines compliment a revised [...]
Road test: Chevrolet Cruze 2.0D LT
27. Jan, 2011
“I was genuinely happy when Chevrolet launched the Cruze simply because I was tired of seeing Corollas everywhere. While I won’t blatantly bad mouth SA’s best-selling car for more decades than I can remember, there are few cars as unimaginative and non-descript as a Corolla. The Cruze, just with its looks, changed the scenery dramatically, [...]
Road Test: Chevrolet Cruze 2.0D LT
17. Jan, 2011
“The Chevrolet Cruze is based on the Global Delta Platform, GM’s platform for compact front-wheel drive sedans and hatchbacks – and last year’s Paris Auto Show revealed the Cruze hatch and gave hints as to where this might still be going. The addition of a 2,0-litre turbo-diesel powered variant to the Cruze range adds a [...]
Chevrolet’s Cruze soon to be available in hatchback
03. Sep, 2010
Chevrolet’s Cruze global car will expand even further with five-door hatchback on the cards for production in the near-future. A show version of the Cruze hatch is set to be one of four Chevrolet premieres at the Paris Motor Show later this month. With General Motors heavily revising subsidiary line-ups and global appeal, Chevrolet has [...]
Driving impressions of the Chevrolet Cruze 2,0D LT
02. Sep, 2010
“Having spent 10 months at the wheel of CAR’s long-term Chevrolet Cruze 1,8 LT, I have come to like it quite a lot… apart from its woeful engine and gearbox combo, that is. Does the torquey 2,0-litre turbodiesel Cruze make up for the shortcomings of its pedestrian self-shifting brother? Once in a while one just [...]
The Chevrolet Cruze goes diesel
26. Jul, 2010
General Motors South Africa has announced the addition of a 2,0 litre turbo diesel powered variant to the popular Chevrolet Cruze range.“Significantly the Cruze 2.0D LT delivers these numbers together with exceptional fuel economy. In tests conducted by GM development engineers, fuel consumption was as low as 5,7 l/100 km for the combined cycle. Low [...]
Cars in Action long term test Car
22. Jul, 2010
The Chevrolet Cruze 1.8 LS – “Capable cruzer continues to impress, wish our roads would too” “Of late, our Chevy Cruze has been somewhat incapacitated due to a wheel alignment issue (not Chevrolets fault, but rather the lousy state of our roads), but it has otherwise been serving us well. With two main drivers, one [...]














