Of relevance to India was the Cruze saloon. It gets two engines a 1.8 litre, 140bhp petrol and a 2.0 litre, 150bhp diesel. Both automatic and manual transmission options will be offered. Expect it to cost around Rs 12-13 lakhs and hereby launched by this end of year 2009. Along with the Aveo hatchback and Cruze saloon, Chevrolet also displayed its entire range of LPG variants including the Nubira ( Optra), Matiz(Spark) and the Aveo. These green cars could just be in the pipeline for India.
General Motors India’s Chevrolet Spark and Aveo U-VA have won the top awards for quality in the India Automotive Initial Quality study announced by J D Power Asia- pacific 2008. The spark and the Aveo U-VA were ranked the highest in their respective segments. The Spark was ranked first and won the top award in the competitive Compact Car Segment, with a score of 148PP100. This is the second year in a row that it has bagged the award.


