Cruze production interior pics and more exterior
09-27-2008, 05:12 PM
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Cruze production interior pics and more exterior
09-27-2008, 05:26 PM
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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.
09-27-2008, 05:34 PM
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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.
09-27-2008, 06:10 PM
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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!
09-28-2008, 12:13 AM
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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.
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.
10-01-2008, 11:44 PM
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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
10-01-2008, 11:51 PM
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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
CC08, falsely badging your car as an SS has clearly made you delusional.
10-01-2008, 11:55 PM
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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.
CC08, falsely badging your car as an SS has clearly made you delusional.