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The 2011 Chevrolet Cruze: The Lordstown Debut
There is more news about the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze this week: Automotive News reports that General Motors launched the Cruze at its Lordstown, Ohio plant. The Cruze is already the best-selling Chevrolet model globally this year—and it hasn’t even gone on sale here in the United States yet—which is very impressive. New television ads for the Cruze also debuted recently.
GM has high hopes for the Cruze, and Chevrolet needs it to deliver the goods here in the U.S. Why? Ford has an all-new Focus coming soon, Hyundai has an impressive-looking Elantra coming as well and Honda is readying a new Civic for 2012. In fact, Chevrolet wants dealers to have Honda Civics and Toyota Corollas on hand at dealerships so consumers can compare the three cars together—quite a confident move by GM. The Cruze needs to be more than just competitive, though, if GM is to become a strong company again.
Source: Automotive News (http://www.autonews.com) 9/8/10
The New Chevy Aveo in Paris
In more Chevrolet news, according to USA Today (usatoday.com), the new Chevrolet Aveo (which should go sale next year here in the U.S. as a 2012 model) will make its debut at the Paris Auto Show later this month. It will be longer and wider than the current car (and hopefully roomier, too: the current Aveo seems a bit too small, especially in the rear seat area). The Aveo is also expected to have a six-speed automatic transmission, as well.
Source: USA Today (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/index) 9-9-10
The 2011 Honda Odyssey
The 2011 Honda Odyssey will be going on sale soon, and Honda recently showed off the redesigned Odyssey to journalists in San Diego, CA. There are not very many minivans left on the market these days (Honda, Toyota and Chrysler are the main players now--the Kia Sedona is also still around, and Nissan has an all-new Quest coming soon), but Honda still needs to make the new Odyssey a success if it wants to stay in the minivan game.
The exterior styling is polarizing, to say the least, but the Odyssey may have enough weapons to fight the current minivan battle with Chrysler, Toyota and Kia (and Nissan soon): an upgraded, 3.5 liter, 248 hp V6 engine with better fuel economy than the 2010 Odyssey, an independent rear suspension, a 16-inch hi-definition monitor with split-screen for the second row seats, and much more.
Source: Automotive News (http://www.autonews.com) 9/9/10
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