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Lead Pipe

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They can fire back with the fail-boat Volt and Cruze/Sonic which are Daewoo's.

I actually like the look of this car. Chrysler is building decent products lately.

It seems the idiots who bought the Volt love them. The Cruze is not a Daewoo and has no link at all to a Daewoo other than being badged as one. It's a global platform engineered by GM and sold across the world much like the focus. Though the Sonic may have some underpinnings from the old Aveo it has been re engineered by GM and is now built stateside.

That being said they didn't decide to name the Cruze a Chevelle. Mopar guys get their panties in a bunch when start poking fun at their heritage.
 

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It seems the idiots who bought the Volt love them. The Cruze is not a Daewoo and has no link at all to a Daewoo other than being badged as one. It's a global platform engineered by GM and sold across the world much like the focus. Though the Sonic may have some underpinnings from the old Aveo it has been re engineered by GM and is now built stateside.

That being said they didn't decide to name the Cruze a Chevelle. Mopar guys get their panties in a bunch when start poking fun at their heritage.

Wasn't the Cruze developed in Asia under Daewoo and rebadged here in the US?
 

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Let's ruin the dreams of old mopar fans by bringing all the nameplates back as sedans or suv sized cars! Next will be a revival of the barracuda as an estate wagon, leave the good cars dead, no one has been able to live up to the hype of a revived car from that era
 

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Dodge might have teased us with a few images and some initial powertrain details on the 2013 Dart, but Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has provided even more in an interview with Reuters.

According to Marchionne, the Dart is one piece of a larger puzzle for Chrysler in 2013, and the all-new Dart - based off a widened and stretched Alfa Romeo Giulietta - will hit 40 mpg thanks to a host of new engines and transmissions.

As previously reported, the turbocharged 1.4-liter MultiAir fitted to the Fiat 500 Abarth will grace the top of the Dart range, but Dodge also plans to fit modified versions of the 2.0 and 2.4-liter World Gas Engine, comically rebranded as the Tigershark.

When the Dart debuts, a Fiat-sourced six-speed dual-clutch transmission will feed the front wheels, but later in 2013 Dodge will reportedly offer a nine-speed automatic gearbox supplied by the ZF Group and manufactured in South Carolina. ZF officials claim fuel economy will be boosted between 10 to 16 percent over the dual-clutch 'box, and that should put it handily in the 40 mpg range.

And that last bit is important, as Fiat will receive its final five percent of Chrysler stock from the feds when it produces a vehicle with a 40-mpg rating.
 
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