2017 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel First Drive quoting Car and Driver

Under our Real MPG cycle, our stock diesel Colorado Z71 4×4 achieved an impressive 21.5/31.9/25.2 Real MPG city/highway/combined. Its been a busy four months since the MT Garages 2016 Chevrolet Colorado Z71 Duramax diesel had its low-hanging air dam removed. Their testing shows that without the air dam, our Colorado Duramax 4×4 achieved 23.6/30.6/26.3 Real MPG city/highway/combined. "Its a significant benefit to fuel economy," Burke said over the phone. Its designed to boost highway fuel economy, but it does so at the expense of off-road performance.


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Striving to please divergent tastes, Chevrolet parks the Cruze diesel next to its Volt plug-in hybrid, Bolt EV, and Malibu hybrid in showrooms. The EPA estimates annual fuel costs for the Cruze diesel at $1050 versus $1050 to $1150 for the turbocharged 1.4-liter gas engine. Plus, your wallet will throb every time 40 mpg appears in the Cruze diesels mileage gauge. And given that diesel fuel typically costs about 10 percent more than regular gasoline, spending $2950 to $4395 more for the diesel engine makes no economic sense. Highway range is the only clear diesel win: 640 or so miles between fill-ups versus the gas engines 500-plus miles.


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