http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2008/09...uncovered.html

 

I like the interior.

 

its like a sweet version of the malibu almost

 

i love the new look for the e-brake

 

The steering wheel looks pretty cheap to me and the huge Chevy bowtie on the grill has to go...

 

gonan agree with you, the steering wheel looks tacky, and even if that huge bowtie was painted black it still wouldnt go.

but yeah the car looks like they combine the cobalt and malibu, and ended u with that.

i dont like it, make the cobalts interior nicer, and scrap the cruze.

 

Are those the production rotors?? Imo, I think its a nice car. I didn't like it at fist in the spy shots but its grown on me big time.

 

I like the gynormous gold bowties, much better than the blue ones from the late 90s and early 00s on the Cavalier. The interior is awesome too, I love Chevy's much more aggressive new designs.

 

Would assume so as this is the real deal production car .

 

Wow!!! I seriously have no gripes with the car at all. Interior looks great, exterior is awesome. I would like to see the gauge cluster more, the steering wheel looks fine, and not cheap at all(controls look nice too). Way to go GM!

 

Looks like a bitty Malibu on the outside and a Camry inside. Definately not bad. I can't wait to see how people will modify these..

 

I want to see a coupe damn it!

 

agreed!

 

if it gets a fast engine its got my vote

 

steering wheel looks fing retarded and the headlight look like the camerys

 

It looks a little better in the darker color than some of the earlier shots. If anything the areas I like least are the rear end and tail lights and how the upper grille cuts up into the hood. Size wise it doesn't look proportionate and they're doing the same thing on the Saab 9-4x which also doesn't flow very well on the front end. In the full size pics the front rotors do appear to be cross-drilled but due to inherent cracking problems and the extra cost with no/minimal improvements in actual braking I'd bet they're just for the photo shoot. The interior looks like its finished nicely but I'll have to see it in person. GM has a habit of making the upper level cars like the LT pictured here look nice but textures aren't that great in person. What will be most telling is how nice the base models look. It would be great if they treated their models like the last Oldsmobile models that were all essentially the same, good looking designs with the "trim" level differentiated by option packages (or in other words don't have the top model have significantly different trim, bumpers, etc. over the base model car but differentiate them by options such leather interior, GPS navigation, etc.).

What I've been most curious about that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere appears to be answered. I was wondering if they'd stick with the rear twist-beam axle or not. I ran one of the pics through Photoshop to bring up the details and it appears they killed it in favor of an independent rear setup. As great as they've got the suspension tuning in the current SS I know a lot of people and the auto press still hit the car for the current setup. Since Saab is moving the 9-3 to a larger version of the Delta II/Global Compact Car platform along with the Haldex XWD system it wouldn't have made much sense to stick to a twist-beam setup, but that decision to move the Saab to Delta wasn't made until well after the Cruze was in development. Maybe they intend to try to move the Astra more upmarket in Europe like they did with the new Insignia. Hard to tell. For whatever reasons, if it is indeed a fully independent setup and GMPD can tune a twist-beam setup as well as they've done, it gives me high hopes the new car has an even greater potential.

 

im sorry but that interior looks as cheap as a cavalier

 

No it doesn't.

 

to me it does look at the dash and the seat inserts now look at the cavy's seats and door trim http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6...92largegf7.jpg

 

hahahaha are you kidding????

 

id like to see a 3 door with a 6 speed and an lnf in it personally but who knows. and they did finally put in navigation which is a plus

 

nope check out my post above and compare

 

The ugly ass grey seats in your Cobalt look identical to the ugly ass grey ones in my Cavalier. I see no such ugliness in the Cruze. The seats are two tone and some suede type insert! How does that look anything like a Cavy?

CC08, falsely badging your car as an SS has clearly made you delusional.

 

yeah i can maybe see that

 

I plan to get rather nice seat covers cause I can't afford or know anyone who would like to swap black seats or ss seats. BTW They are not identical. They do not have the same patterns, or material. Just the color. I have a right to my own opinion.