General Motors has chosen Honeywell turbochargers for the soon-to-be-released 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel. This new diesel car will be rated at 46 mpg in highway driving. As revealed at the Chicago Auto Show, the Cruze Diesel will become the manufacturer’s first clean-diesel passenger car effort since the Chevette came in a diesel option
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For years Volkswagen has had a lock hold on the U.S. diesel passenger car market but General Motors appears poised to chip away at that with its Chevrolet Cruze Diesel. At a recent media drive even in Michigan, GM’s 2.0-liter diesel was offered without apologies or excuses to compare head-to-head against VW’s venerable Jetta TDI.
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General Motors launched its “moon shot” Chevrolet Volt in December 2010, has made greater or lesser year–over-year improvements to essentially the same product, and the 2014 model will be more of the same. This was indicated when GM announced two new colors for 2014 – Ashen Gray Metallic and Brownstone Metallic – on images of
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General Motors has posted a video showing yet another potential advantage offered by the pending 2013 Chevrolet Cruze turbo diesel over the Volkswagen Jetta TDI. At least that’s the hope, because the competitive advantages appear to possibly be mixed with disadvantages as well, such as a starting price higher by $730, and city mpg lower
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Chevrolet announced the new 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel delivers an EPA-estimated 46 MPG on the highway. Chevrolet said this is better than any non-hybrid passenger car in America. The diesel version of the Cruze sedan will be available in certain cities this spring and nationwide and in Canada in early fall. Equipped with a
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Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. have signed an agreement under which both companies will jointly develop an all-new generation of advanced technology 9- and 10-speed automatic transmissions. These new transmissions will be used in cars, crossovers, SUVs and trucks. This news follows the recent launch of the ZF nine-speed transmission in the Land
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The Ford Fusion hybrid won the first annual Canadian Green Car Award. The award, selected by a panel of expert members of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), was announced Friday, April 12, at the Green Living Show, in Toronto, Canada. The Ajac said the competition aims to recognize vehicles with the potential for
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The finalists for the first annual Canadian Green Car Award were revealed today; they represent a select group of five. The winner, to be selected among this group, will be announced Friday, April 12 at the Green Living Show, in the Direct Energy Centre at Toronto’s Exhibition Place. The finalists were selected by members of
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Chevrolet will launch this summer a 2.0L turbo-diesel version of the Cruze. GM said this Cruze diesel is featuring the cleanest diesel passenger car engine General Motors has ever produced. Clean diesels generate at least 90 percent less Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and particulate emissions when compared to previous-generation diesels. The 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel
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Besides electrification, among highly publicized technological solutions to improved fuel economy are smaller displacement, turbocharged engines, but these may not be all they’re cracked up to be, says Consumer Reports. Small, battery and electric-motor-free solutions tend to be less costly to produce, and have been hyped a good bit in certain quarters, but the consumer
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