Yeah... what the hell are the electric motor windings made of if they aren’t copper?

Interesting. I thought Austin was a rather progressive town (for Texas anyway). Wonder how the Keep Austin Weird & SXSW folks will take this. Uber has to be popular among that crowd.

US 97 in Oregon goes through a national forest and is close to hills. Empty road or not, at least you have something to look at. Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, etc, are flat, roads are straight, and no landscape or trees to look at. You could lock the steering wheel, fall asleep for an hour, and still be in your lane.…

I paid 15,395 plus taxes and fees for a brand new Cruze Eco manual. Admittedly, I did negotiate, and I paid less for a new one than the certified used ones for sale in the area. It’s not a penalty box either, it has the touchscreen mylink, bluetooth, power seat, etc.

I agree with you on everything in this thread except for the oil changes. I spend $80 a year on oil changes for a Chevy Cruze with driving 15,000 miles a year. And I change the oil well before the monitor reads 0%. I’d have to keep the car for 31 years to hit $2500 in oil changes. And at my average pump-calc mpg &…

I hope you’re talking about the Leaf. That’s the only EV so far that’s being dumped at fire sale prices.

Some do also cut engine power momentarily. But that’s not what happened in the video above.

I spun on a left turn too! But I had crap tires and had yet to discover that the area of TN I was visiting uses less rocks in their asphalt which makes it much smoother/slicker. It was dry and I had the nannies on. Ended up doing a 180, facing the road I just turned left off of.

Personally, I think they are both fun in the right setting. A 4000lb stick CTS-V with 400 hp in stop and go traffic? Not fun. On open roads or light traffic commute? Way fun.

Starred just for calling him “The Great Sweater”. Jalopnik should adopt this for every story he’s in.

FCA US is doing well because of Ram and Jeep. Dodge, Chrysler, & Fiat are doing meh. Fiat globally isn’t doing much either considering FCA US was 90% of global profits.

Probably the idiot teacher who approved the yearbook for print without catching it.

This is down my train of thought. If they want to make safety sell, they need to copy Subaru.

It’s possible, but probably depends on driving style and usage. Im averaging 43mpg (pump calc) 50/50 city/highway use in a 1.4t Cruze, which is rated 42mpg highway.

I’ll stick to my harbor freight hand pump with an inlet and outlet hose. With my luck, using an electric pump would overpressurize something and explode fluid everywhere.

Yep this is at the top of my list to replace my first gen CTS-V in a few years. I like the ATS but back seat is a little too cramped to be useful.

Used CTS-V wagon or Merc E63 is the closest we can get in the States to this.

I think that was just the allroad and anything with the 4.2l v8 (insane timing issues).

Speak for yourself. I’m tall and don’t fit in most imports. Hell, I don’t even fit in the Honda Odyssey, my knees touch the dash.

I’m curious if GM can do it with the Cruze, why Ford can’t manage.