{"id":542270,"date":"2010-04-23T18:52:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=19152"},"modified":"2010-04-23T18:52:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:52:38","slug":"2011-chevrolet-cruze-u-s-spec-%e2%80%93-first-drive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542270","title":{"rendered":"2011 Chevrolet Cruze U.S. Spec \u2013 First Drive Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19151\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/2011-chevrolet-cruze-u-s-spec-first-drive-review\/chevycruzedrive08-jpg-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19151\" title=\"ChevyCruzeDrive08.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/2011-Chevrolet-Cruze-55-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Chevy\u2019s new compact is class-competitive, unlike the outgoing Cobalt. But don\u2019t expect huge driving thrills.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the compact-car segment, the Japanese rule the field. With the honorable exception of the first-generation Ford Focus, American compacts have been beat by the <a href=\"http:\/\/buyersguide.caranddriver.com\/honda\/civic\/2010\/honda-civic-sedan\">Honda Civic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/09q4\/2010_mazda_3_s_5-door_grand_touring-long-term_road_test_update\">Mazda 3<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/buyersguide.caranddriver.com\/toyota\/corolla\/2010\/toyota-corolla\">Toyota Corolla<\/a> in both sales and public perception.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-19152\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for this is that, as outgoing General Motors vice-chairman Bob Lutz says, \u201cIn the past, compact cars were seen [by domestic automakers] as a commodity that people drove because they couldn\u2019t afford anything better.\u201d Lutz says that the Chevy Cruze is \u201cthe first time we have taken this segment seriously,\u201d which is a pretty damning indictment of how GM in the past produced substandard products at a price that didn\u2019t do anyone any favors, least of all itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Keep Reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/reviews\/car\/10q2\/2011_chevrolet_cruze_u.s._spec-first_drive_review\">2011 Chevrolet Cruze U.S. Spec &#8211; First Drive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevy\u2019s new compact is class-competitive, unlike the outgoing Cobalt. But don\u2019t expect huge driving thrills. In the compact-car segment, the Japanese rule the field. With the honorable exception of the first-generation Ford Focus, American compacts have been beat by the Honda Civic, Mazda 3, and Toyota Corolla in both sales and public perception. Part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}