Chevrolet Cruze launched in India | Chevy Cruze Photos

Chevrolet Cruze launched in India | Chevy Cruze Photos, Picture, Images | Priced at Rs 10.99 to 12.45 LakhsChevrolet India launched its much awaited luxury sedan "Cruze" which revealed in Paris Motor how last year at a very competitive price of Rs 10.99 lakh to Rs 12.45 lakh. Chevrolet Cruze is very masculine, large and handsome. Chevrolet Cruze will compete mainly with highly successful Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla Altis.
Chevrolet Cruze is launched in 2 variants LT and LTZ, with a 2.0-litre 150bhp diesel engine and LTZ variant has PEPS (Passive Entry Passive Start) feature based on the new 300 series range platform. 
Cruze comes with a 5-speed manual transmission and ABS and GM offers a three year/1,00,000km warranty.
Chevrolet Cruze Price:
Chevrolet Cruze LT - Rs 10.99 lakh and
Chevrolet Cruze LTZ - Rs 12.45 lakh
Chevrolet Cruze Exteriors:

Chevrolet Cruze – Pictorial in developing market

Chevrolet has said that it unveil the new optra magnum in the upcoming paris motor show early October. Chevrolet’s c-segment which is known as optra and optra magnum is called by different name in different countries. Lacetti in Australia and NewZealand, Optra in Canada, India, Thailand, Malayasia,singapore and Indonesia, excelle in china and Forenza in America. It is also called as Nubira in some countries. Chevrolet Cruze will be the global name for an all-new sedan from the next generation of General Motors’ compact car family. Actually the cruze badge is not an all new one, Cruze was last applied to GM’s first Japan built compact SUV in association with Suzuki. The growing clamor for small cars might have tempted the GM to christen it latest C-segment car as Cruze.
1) Chevrolet Cruze: Cruze will be the first vehicle to build on GM’s new Global Compact Vehicle Architecture or Delta 2 platform. Delta 2 is said to be designed with developing market in mind and is considered to be the lower-cost alternative to the current Delta platform. The Cruze was engineered at GM’s German development center and was designed in Korea by GM Daewoo. Cruze will be assembled in plants around the world. Chevrolet introduced the optra in 2003. Even after four years of launch the car is yet to make a mark in India. Optra struggled against the competetion and in 2007 GM introduced the new optra magnum with 2.0L diesel engine which sells in decent numbers. Coming back to the new Cruze, the car will usher in a new styling language for Chevrolet. Cruze will carry Chevrolet’s new design language, including the two separate front grills and golden bow-tie logo.

2) Chevrolet Cruze: Along with the new design, GM bets on new ultra fuel efficient engines for the success of Cruze. Cruze will be fitted with a GM’s new direct-injection, turbocharged four-cylinder engine. The turbocharged 1.4 liter Ecotec engine which might power the Indian cruze will return a fuel efficient figure 20kmpl. The 1.4 liter Ecotec turbo will come in various stages of tune ranging from 120 PS to 140 PS. GM hopes to take on the might Toyota prius with the Cruze which means the car will match the fuel efficiency of a hybrid car. According to GM, cruze would return 20km for a litre.

3) Chevrolet Cruze: Similar to other Chevrolet models, Cruze will also come with loads of space. The Cruze has an overall length of 4.6 meters and will offer ample room for five passengers and cargo space. Enough cost cutting measure has also gone into the Cruze to make the car price competetive. Cruze would feature a torsion-beam rear suspension.

4)Chevrolet Cruze: The Cruze including the right-hand-drive form for UK will go on sale across Europe in the spring of 2009 and with other markets (including India) following soon afterward. For the european market GM plans to sell the cruze along with the Lacetti sedan for about 18 months before the older car is phased out. Chevrolet may follow the same strategy in India and position the Cruze against the Volkswagen Jetta and Honda civic.

Chevrolet Cruze History of development

Underpinned by the front-wheel drive GM Delta II platform, GM said the Cruze was "developed by a global design and engineering team". Most of the design work was conducted by GM Daewoo, with Opel responsible for most of the engineering. This development program spanned over 27 months at a cost of US$4 billion. A total of 221 prototypes were tested in Australia, Canada, China, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
According to GM, the Cruze's body structure is 65 percent high-strength steel. MacPherson struts are utilized in the front suspension with a solid torsion beam axle for the rear, avoiding the costly multi-link independent rear suspension used by some more expensive rivals.


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Hydraulically-assisted rack and pinion steering gives for a 10.9-meter (36 ft) turning circle. Braking-wise, ventilated front, and solid rear disc brakes are employed, both using piston steel calipers. To counteract noise, vibration, and harshness, engineers have designed the Cruze with an isolated four-point engine mount and implemented sound damping material in areas including the front-of-dashboard panel, luggage compartment, decklid internals, doors, carpet and headlining. Further noise suppression through the use of a triple-layer sealing system in the doors has also been employed.




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2011 Chevrolet Cruze Powertrains

Powertrains fitted to the Cruze are the 1.6 litre Family 1 four-cylinder, a 1.8 litre version of the same and a 2.0 litre VM Motori RA 420 SOHC turbocharged common rail diesel.


All three engines are coupled to a five-speed manual or optional six-speed automatic transmission featuring Active Select. From 2010, a new turbocharged 1.4 litre Family 0 engine with gasoline direct-injection will be introduced.

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