Chevy Cruze's 42mpg highway passes up the Ford Fiesta's 40mpg..

They did, they spelled it VOLT.

 

All this media coverage on GM's new cars is a joke. GM=Obama, and Rybold, you are only contributing to the problem by passing along the disinformation.

Must we be reminded that GM needed a bailout -- OUR taxpayer money -- to make this happen? Why should I be impressed?

Not everyone will buy a car just because it gets 42mpg. If monkeys made a 100 mpg car, would you still buy it?

 

Based upon the specs:

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
0	City	Hwy	Model
1	26	35	Corolla manual
2	26	34	Corolla auto
3	24	36	Chevy Cruze auto (current)
4	28	42	Chevy Cruze manual

It looks like Chevy may be going after the Corolla market . . . three decades late? The market will decide.

Bob Wilson

 

Some of you Americans have a short memoria
Bush: GM, Chrysler to receive $17.4b federal loans

 

Airbalancer, if you destroy the 'facts' of their paranoia, they only turn on you.

 

Really? Someone talks about the Cruse getting 42mpg, and you have to start talking about Obama and Monkeys. Nice

 

It's not a short memorey, it's a agenda!!!

 

While there is a lot of anger against GM because of past miscues and the bail-out, there remain a lot of Americans who want to hear about GM's cars. I remember a lot of media attention when the Studebaker Lark came out. Not many years before they disappeared...

And since we do own a significant part of GM, as a shareholder I'm concerned about their successes and failures. Would I buy a Cruze or a VOLT? Sorry the garage will be full when I bring home Mom's 63 Pontiac Bonneville.

 

Manual transmission is not going to be a game changer in the US as it will be competing in 1% of new car sales market.

 

I am seeing a claim of manual transmissions having 8.6% market share in 2009, and expected to rise another point over the next 5 years. But no more after that.

I do like having automobiles in the household (except Prius) that many auto thieves are no longer able to drive away.

 

Actually I was calling the crooks at GM the monkeys, not Obama. Obamas merely a puppet.

In the meantime I'll hang around the Modifications and Maintenance forums for the time, where the fun, interesting, and USEFUL crowd is, until the people here with their noses held high and ears covered stop going goo goo ga ga over anything that gets a whiff of high mileage.

 

Where did you read that? Manuals are dying out fast and furious in North America. I had two maximas, both five speeds. The 2009+ Maxima--and this is one of the original "four door sports sedans" doesn't even have manual as an option. For me that was when it finally sunk in, the numbers do not lie manuals are dinosaurs. They will never come back, instead just die out as they are increasingly available only in serious sports cars. It seems now you get them in M3s, Ferraris, and the bottom of the barrel bare trim econoboxes, without much in the middle.

 

Stick shifts veer into niche

Agreed on this.

 

To join no power steering, no electric windows and no a/c.

Even here in Europe where manuals are more popular because of the high cost of fuel, there is a slow shift towards automatics.

 

But are manuals really more efficient

They may be in a lab or hands of a hypermiler but I think most people would miss the sweet spot and get worst mileage then an auto / cvt

You probably see the car with a fart can on it once it hits the use car market