My new ride

[subieboy]

Hey team

Been super busy at work.

My new ride is a SRiV Holden Cruze

[thorpy]

Shiny ;D

[newsuba]

cruze ???

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where are you working now ?

[subieboy]

BOC, Territory Manager

Cruze is a company car, has 45km on the dial... Fully optioned lease = Holden desperate for sales

Sits on 235/45R18 Bridgestone Re002...

1.6 turbo = not half bad work car, waay better than a Falcodore...

And OMG the stereo/satnav thing is great, will navigate using your phone contacts...

[newsuba]

That\'s big feet for a little 1.6.

Even has motorsport cred as a Chevrolet in WTCC and BTCC.

;D

You in Oz now or is that a sample photo ?

[subieboy]

 newsuba said:

That\'s big feet for a little 1.6.

Even has motorsport cred as a Chevrolet in WTCC and BTCC.

;D

Yes very big feet indeed, makes ofr nice driving. Surprisingly quite.

Been looking into the motorsport cred, but those motors are turbo 2L, so apart form the shape not much shared really IMHO

No moved back to NZ still in CHCH, sample photo as far too lazy to get my but outside and take a pic and then upload...

[rslegy]

Its still no suby tho

[newsuba]

Might be seeing more of these ersatz Holdens if Holden stops manufacturing in Australia.

[subieboy]

One of the guys at work has a new impreza sedan. Went for a drive in it today, although a nice car it is not much of a match for similar money to this.

I seriously think Subaru need to do smaller engines in cheaper cars... maybe that 1.6l turno they have in an impreza size car with some handling and styling bits... just sayin, just sayin...

[Zach]

Holden, yuk

[WRXER]

Lolz to the above, still want to get a Ford v8 ute one day....One of those cars, that I will never "need" but just always wanted to drive...Even more so with them being discontinued soon.

Agree with the subaru doing smaller engines idea, when looking around I just wasn\'t convinced at a 2l impreza hence I went with the h6 legacy. I still feel the legacy really fills the impreza space ie more legroom etc

[subieboy]

 WRXER said:

Lolz to the above, still want to get a Ford v8 ute one day....One of those cars, that I will never "need" but just always wanted to drive...Even more so with them being discontinued soon.

Agree with the subaru doing smaller engines idea, when looking around I just wasn\'t convinced at a 2l impreza hence I went with the h6 legacy. I still feel the legacy really fills the impreza space ie more legroom etc

H6 is nice!

This little thing go\'s like the clappers for such a small engine, I really would love to see Subaru do a small engine along similar lines as this car.

[subieboy]

So had the little wee beast for 4000 odd km\'s

So time for a comparison, what to compare it to, well something of similar size and price... The sticker price for the SRiV sedan is circa $36K - this is the big point to note: price and size of the car is what I am looking at for simplicity std spec to std spec. If you option the Subaru to similar money you still miss out on kit or if you option to same spec as Holden more than $36K...

So similar money you have the usual suspects Hyundai, Subaru, Kia, Toyota, etc

What to eliminate? Anything not Subaru cos carebear says FU to Toyota, meh to Kia & Hyundai Latter two are nice cars with decent kit but this si Subaru website...).

So time to compare:

Subaru is older tech & design (engine & dopey auto gearbox), Cruze is newer and just had face lift, oh and no stupid flappy paddle s***)

Cruze has more power (132Kw & 230Nm of Holden vs 110Kw & 196Nm of Subaru),

Cruze has bigger wheels & tyres 235/45r18x8 vs 16" on Subaru

More kit in the Holden (website surfing says so) i.e. heated seats, rear vision camera with park assist (+ auto off when towing), keyless start/lock/etc, s*** you can surf the internet using it (well sort of anyway)

can tow 1200Kg braked - and boy does it tow like a school boy over a porno... Subura doesn\'t list a tow rating on their website and the sales people have no idea...

Holden handles well, I hate to say this but the base Impreza handles like cr@p (like a floating fat turd mid corner if I may quote someone), even if the Subaru has AWD... The SRiV is a bit lumpy over bumps, some may say even thumpy - (nothing to compare to my GTB tho...)

Feul economy is better on the Impreza and it runs on 91 (6.8L/100), Cruze is 96 and uses 7.9L/100... Only win for Subaru here so far.

Technology is a Holden gong here sorry, more kit and better kit in the Holden... I mean a 10GB HHD and 7" colour screen with rear vision camera FFS!!!! (Sorry Subaru but time to update a multi function display does not hack it anymore..).

Heated rear vision mirrors - important if you go to cold places where things frost say lik 85% of NZ in winter...

Leather seats in the Holden, cloth in the Subaru

Holden are you listening to this bit??? - NO FOOTREST FFS all the other kit and you forget the $25 footrest... MUPPETS - can you tell that it annoys me?

So much to compare it is not funny...

The cruze is fun to drive... Impreza is not so much fun, rather boring infact...

Compared to an Impreza 2.0i X the Holden Cruze is way better, even when you go and option the Subaru you still pay less for the Holden and have a better drive with more kit and creature comforts...

Well f**k me dead thought I would never say this but the gong is Holden\'s in this bracket, especially if it was my 36Large I was laying down.... Controversial I know, but this is not a comparison to a WRX/GT/etc