Chevrolet Cruze is a compact car that is produced by General Motors since 2008.
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29 Facts About Holden Cruze
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Holden Cruze was released in 2008 for the South Korean market as the Daewoo Lacetti Premiere until the phasing out of the Daewoo brand in 2011, when it was renamed to Chevrolet Holden Cruze.
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Production Holden Cruze had standard front-wheel drive, with all-wheel drive optional.
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The first renderings of the Holden Cruze were revealed by GM at a press conference on July 15,2008, with the first official images released on August 21,2008.
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Five-door Holden Cruze hatchback was unveiled as a concept car at the 2010 Paris Motor Show on October 1,2010.
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Holden's localized hatchback version of the Cruze built at the Elizabeth, South Australia factory from late 2011 joined the Cruze sedan manufactured there since March 2011.
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The Holden Cruze received a "marginal" rating in the small overlap test.
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Holden Cruze was given a mild facelift for 2013, unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show.
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Chevrolet Holden Cruze was launched in the Egyptian market during mid-2009.
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South Korean-market versions of the Holden Cruze entered production there in 2008 as the "Daewoo Lacetti Premiere".
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Chevrolet Holden Cruze was launched in the Chinese market on April 18,2009 as a sedan manufactured at GM India's Halol factory.
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On March 18,2010, Holden issued a recall for 9,098 petrol-engined 2010 model year Cruzes in Australia and a further 485 in New Zealand over a faulty fuel hose.
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On February 28,2011, Holden unveiled the Australian assembled Cruze sedan in facelifted "Series II" guise, otherwise known as the JH series.
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The Cobalt's badge engineered twin, the Pontiac G5, has not been replaced by a Holden Cruze-based equivalent, due to the Pontiac brand being phased out during 2010.
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Second-generation Holden Cruze began sales in North America in early 2016, delayed a year by engineering changes.
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The Holden Cruze has a new external design with a new split grille front and a fastback-like sloping roofline from the Chinese version of the fastback.
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Mules of the Chinese version of the Holden Cruze were spied in the United States with a different front fascia.
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Production of the D2LC-K Holden Cruze ended in South Korea in July 2018, and in the US and Mexico in March 2019.
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Unlike its Chevrolet predecessors for the US market—Cavalier, Prizm, and Cobalt—or its Daewoo predecessors for the South Korean market—Espero, Nexia, Nubira, and Lacetti—the Holden Cruze has been discontinued without any announcement or plans for a replacement.
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The second-generation Holden Cruze "was not [considered] a particularly standout product in an extremely competitive segment" against similar offerings from well-established and highly-attractive rivals from Japan, and South Korea such as the Honda Civic, the Toyota Corolla, and the Hyundai Elantra.
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Chevrolet Holden Cruze first entered the World Touring Car Championship in 2009 with a 2.
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Holden Cruze entered the British Touring Car Championship for 2010 and 2011.
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Holden Cruze won the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship in 2011, being run by NIKA Racing under the banner of 'Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden' with Rickard Rydell driving.
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Holden Cruze returned to the BTCC in 2013 in the hands of Joe Girling and Tech-Speed Motorsport, who loaned the car from Finesse Motorsport.
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The increase in performance of the Next Generation Touring Car entries meant the older Super 2000 specification cars like the Holden Cruze were now too uncompetitive to compete for wins but were provided with their own category.
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Andy Neate entered the 2013 season with a new NGTC-specification Holden Cruze, built by his own team, IP Tech Race Engineering and used an engine built by RML.
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Second generation of the Chevrolet Holden Cruze made its debut at Stock Car Brasil in 2016 with tubular chassis and in 2020 the fiber fairing gives way to the original bodywork of the cars with the necessary changes for the adaptation.
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