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Holden Cruze v Ford Focus – Diesel Comparison Review
http://www.caradvice.com.au/33872/ho...el-comparison/ Quote:
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Hows that - a Korean car wins against the Euro.
GM have done magic with the Cruze, needless to say which one would last longer?
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Yes one of my friends wants one, but i reminded her that its still a Daewoo...
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Holden have a lot to overcome given the bad reputation of the earlier Cruz car they launched a few years ago. That said the Koreans can build good cars when they want to. The road test reports suggest the Focus is a better ride/handling car.
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It will be interesting to see what it will cost when they begin building the cruze down here. And then compare it to the Focus when they are being built here...
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I see that the tv ads have commenced too and not before time.
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This Comment was me
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At the end of the day all I can say about these two is, You get what you pay for.
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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Out of curiosity I checked out the Holden website, 16 inch alloys for the Cruze CD is a $1,760 option, that would push the diesel CD's price up to $25,750 for the manual and $27,750 for the automatic.
This trims down the $4,300 price gap between the Cruze CD diesel and Focus TDCi to $2,540. |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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And consider that you get that fancy pants DSG auto in the focus for that price and the gap closes just a little more.
I would imagine the auto in the cruze would be a run of the mill jobbie?
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Something Tj just mentioned makes me think about the marketing of the Focus Diesel that's current. One, no mention that the Engine is a Turbo Diesel just mentions it's a Diesel. Two, no mention of the brilliant current-technology DSG that I know of.
Oversight or what?
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