Rumormill: 2015 Chevrolet Cruze To Introduce New Platform
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With the announcement of GM’s Lordstown, Ohio investment yesterday came reports that the next generation, 2015 Chevrolet Cruze will introduce the world to an all-new, super flexible compact platform designed to underpin several future cars and crossover vehicles besides the Cruze.
The platform program, reportedly called “D2XX”, would go along with the company’s plans decrease the number of platforms it utilizes, while making future ones versatile enough to pick up the slack. Chances are it will not only replace the Delta II platform, but perhaps the Theta crossover platform (Chevrolet Equinox) as well.
If true, we will be praying to the car gods every night that GM will finally, finally introduce a compact with all-wheel-drive. Not just for the snow belt and northern pacific states, but to attract more Millennial enthusiasts in the same way the Subaru WRX/STI and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution have done for years now.
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This is good for next generation Cruze, Astra etc and also for compact SUVs for Opel and Chevy – Antara and Captiva. I think that 4X4 will be only used for those SUV and maybe OPC versions of Astra…
Woohoo…
Sounds like they are doing what VW is doing with the Golf Platform. Multi purpose one size fits all
And Ford, with its Global C platform, as well.
By the time the new cruze will be out ill be looking for a new car to buy! the rumors soo far sound nice redesigned everything! Just hope Chevy does not mess this up!
So then this sounds like the terrain will be on this new platform and Acadia will stay on lambda?
Maybe it’ll come with engine and body options.
Hopefully it’ll have more body options (coupe, hatch, sedan etc.).
Wagon and Coupe
What I like: It sounds like they are trimming the number of platforms. Maybe the new Equinox will be on this platform as well.
What I dislike. This would be the 4th compact platform in the past 10 years.
It sounds like it will be Chevrolet’s version of the Alpha. They should definitely utilize the platform as much as they can, with a crossover or two, many body styles, and badge-engineering (not so obvious, though).
I’d also like it to be RWD, but that’s just a wish.
With this there should be an updated grille (Impala looking) and a hatch should come to compete with the Focus Hatchback. A coupe would be easy but I doubt the General will see the market for it. A diesel is for sure and for god sake, can we please have an SS already?! It wouldn’t be hard at all. Just dig through the parts bin and they could make a Cruze SS that could smash the Focus ST
When will we see the Cruze hatchback in the USA???????????? Hopefully, soon!
its not going to be rwd, i wish to but there’s no way they can make it work with the fuell!