I just wish my Cruze would stop leaking fucking coolant. I think it's the turbo hose. Other than the coolant leaks it hasn't been a horrid car honestly. I'm at least smart enough to check my levels if I smell coolant or see it which I suspect an average consumer isn't and in the end that leads to a lot of head gaskets. There was obviously the turbo oil lines coking up as well.
I really should throw HPT on it and get someone to do some tuning to it, but honestly I just leave it be because other than the coolant it's been minimal drama.
I would say fairly that this has been an EXTREMELY mixed bag from a historical perspective. They saw a huge amount of success doing this with the Seville (it was an X-body Nova, but had huge amounts of tweaking to make it a Cadillac including a lot of what I would argue was leading edge technology) while the Cimmaron was an utter disaster as was the 8-6-4.
When they invented what would become the Eldorados they first made the Olds Toronado to work the bugs out first since they weren't sure about its efficacy. I really wonder if they should go that route and save the reputation of the Cadillac brand.
