So GM of all people is giving us a diesel, 6-speed manual hatchback

happy to see a diesel manual in the Cruze. I can never afford one, but I'm glad they are being built. Manuals for everyone!

Detroit news says a base LT trim hatch with manual will retail for $22,190, so maybe a sub $25K diesel hatch is on it's way Chevy to offer Diesel Version of Cruze Hatchback

Showed this to my wife and if there is a little more interior space than a focus she is very interested in one of these for her car, especially now with another child. A stick Mazda 5 was top choice before but they seem harder to find... Plus new car warranty and all.

mazdeuce wrote: Did someone say low production numbers? Now I'm interested. Make a higher performance version with good seats and I'll start to get itchy.

GM Europe did something close to this with diesel Astra of two generations ago. From this article, it sounds like a Yenko style collaboration.

Astra 888

rslifkin wrote:

kb58 wrote: Since we're talking about operating expenses, don't diesels require more frequent (and larger volume) oil changes?

Larger volume: sometimes. A lot of the newer, smaller diesels don't have massive sumps anymore and gassers have tended to gain oil capacity in recent years. Frequency: nope, most of the newer cars recommend similar change intervals for both. IIRC, the VW TDIs recommend 10k mile changes.

The Astra 1.6CTDi uses 5L of oil and has 18k mile intervals. That's the engine it will be, so it should be similar.

In other news, Chevrolet performance parts has big front brake kits, lowering springs, and axle back exhausts with tunes (for the gas models) on the way. Saw them in person at the hatch launch this week.

I went online to see what I might build at Chevy's site, and one of the trim levels looks like this apparently;

So if you cheap out like I might, you don't get a back bumper cover. Eh, seems fair. Also the front cover won't come in the same color as the rest of the car. Or something.

The site is also weird, showing trim levels that aren't available in the body style I picked, but GM's site has always been kind of weird.

pres589 wrote: I went online to see what I might build at Chevy's site, and one of the trim levels looks like this apparently; So if you cheap out like I might, you don't get a back bumper cover. Eh, seems fair. Also the front cover won't come in the same color as the rest of the car. Or something. The site is also weird, showing trim levels that aren't available in the body style I picked, but GM's site has always been kind of weird.

Weird. As far as I know there's no such thing as a hatch LS manual, as LT is the base. Looks like you glitched it somehow, though I'm amazed you got it to configure you a car with no bumper cover