Chevy’s new Cruze is the pretender to the diesel crown zealously guarded by Skoda. Can it put up a real fight?
First things first: The Cruze is not an American car, no matter what anyone at GM tells you. It has been designed in Korea and will be sold all over the world. The company's revival will owe a lot to this car, not least in India.
It has to battle the best Skoda has to offer which includes both the Octavia and the Laura. The Cruze is priced neatly between the two Czech cars with the lower end LT variant priced almost identically to the Octavia while the higher spec LTZ is just Rs 75,000 shy of the Laura. It's in august company, then. We've pitted the Cruze LTZ against the Laura 1.9 Ambiente here and come away pleasantly surprised.
First things first: The Cruze is not an American car, no matter what anyone at GM tells you. It has been designed in Korea and will be sold all over the world. The company's revival will owe a lot to this car, not least in India.
It has to battle the best Skoda has to offer which includes both the Octavia and the Laura. The Cruze is priced neatly between the two Czech cars with the lower end LT variant priced almost identically to the Octavia while the higher spec LTZ is just Rs 75,000 shy of the Laura. It's in august company, then. We've pitted the Cruze LTZ against the Laura 1.9 Ambiente here and come away pleasantly surprised.