Top Cars | 2012 Chevy Cruze ECO | While
we like the idea of the 42-mpg Eco and we love its fuel economy, we're
pretty sure its biggest competition lies with the rest of the Cruze
lineup. There is a growing range of fuel efficient, 40-mpg cars selling
at the same price-point, from the Honda Insight hybrid to the
aforementioned Focus and Elantra. While the Eco compares well with all
of them heck, it does boast the highest highway mileage number of any
vehicle powered exclusively by a conventional internal combustion
engine the mileage improvements to the other Cruze trims make the Eco
less compelling on its own.
The automatic Cruze LT and
LTZ models for 2012 saw a bump in fuel economy, and now come close to
the automatic Eco at 26/38, giving up just a single mile per gallon on
the highway. Also worth noting is that LT Cruzes are now being offered
with a standard manual transmission (meaning the automatic is now $995
extra). This is the very same gearbox as in the base model, without the
overdrive gearing of the Eco. In this application it gives the Cruze a
fuel economy rating of 26/38 equivalent to the automatic and, again,
only a mile per gallon behind the Eco automatic.
2012 Chevy Cruze ECO
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2012 Chevy Cruze ECO
Title : 2012 Chevy Cruze ECO
Description : Top Cars | 2012 Chevy Cruze ECO | While we like the idea of the 42-mpg Eco and we love its fuel economy, we're pretty sure its b...