The baby hatchback is being set for major overseas sales, as well as a global role on the design and engineering front.
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The company has also axed its Astra VXR on the back of GM-Holdens decision to can the four-cylinder pocket-rocket and concentrate on the Cruze. HSV had previously looked at introducing both the Insignia and Corsa VXR models from Europe.
However, Phil Harding says a hot performance pair will now not happen because they would be too [...]
“I can see a time when Cruze will be eating Epica’s lunch,” newly-installed GM Holden Boss Alan Batey says. “Cruze has really surprised us at how well it has been selling early in its market life and with the localisation of the car next year I can only see that getting better.”
Off the record, Holden [...]
The cutesy little all-wheel drive was overpriced and dynamically challenged, and never turned its Barina-on-stilts girly appeal into anything more than a footnote in the Holden history books.
But a very different Cruze is about to write a whole new chapter in the history of the red lion brand and this one must succeed.
The new Cruze [...]
