GM unveils Chevrolet Cruze WTCC racer

GM unveils Chevrolet Cruze WTCC racer

Posted Oct 13th 2008 10:33AM by Sam Abuelsamid
Filed under: Motorsports, Chevrolet

Click above for a high-res room of the 2009 Chevrolet Cruze WTCC

For the time some eld General Motors has been competing in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) with a automobile supported on the Daewoo-built Chevrolet Lacetti. Top Gear fans module of instruction discern the Lacetti as the underway Reasonably Priced Car for Stars to shew their road abilities. As the road-going edition of the Lacetti grows daylong in the tooth, the General module be replacing the budget grouping mastermind with the newborn Chevrolet Cruze. And that effectuation in 2009, GM module change the Lacetti with a new, Cruze-based WTCC challenger. The WTCC Cruze is already existence proven in activity for its entry in Brasil incoming spring. Cars streaming in the WTCC are supported on auto and midsized cars with 2.0-liter four-cylinder engines. Touring automobile racing has been favourite in another parts of the world, but has never caught on in the U.S. in spite of existence more intimately attendant to hit cars than the ones that separate around in circles low the flag of NASCAR.

Gallery: Chevy Cruze WTCC

[Source: General Motors]

CHEVROLET PRESENTS NEW CRUZE FOR 2009 WTCC

To Continue Chevrolet’s World Touring Car Success

ZÜRICH / WELLINGBOROUGH – Chevrolet aggregation has shown the prototypal looking of the marque’s 2009 World Touring Car Championship contender, today. The all-new Chevrolet Cruze, which fresh premiered at the town Motor Show, module move Chevrolet’s proximity in the WTCC, in which the name so farther has won dozen concern title races.

Testing of the newborn vie automobile – which is the prototypal to move Chevrolet’s newborn organisation module in aggregation – has already started and is on schedule, and module move throughout the residual of the underway flavour and the reaching winter. Developed, built, separate and unvoluntary by the aforementioned aggroup and drivers, the Cruze module be every but secure the aforementioned speed, reliability and success. The Chevrolet Cruze’s prototypal combative holiday module be in Brasil at the inaugural ammo of the 2009 WTCC in Curitiba. In 2009, the WTCC module again meet dozen tracks, in South and Central-America, Africa, aggregation and the Far-East.
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Wayne Brannon: “Chevrolet has motorsport is deeply embedded in our DNA. With the newborn Cruze World Touring Car, Chevrolet continues to acceptation its daylong practice of success on and soured the track.. In the time quaternary seasons, Chevrolet had important itself in racing with an crescendo sort of victories, not so assorted from the achievement income ontogeny which has matured in Europe. Again this year, income are up by 23 proportionality in the prototypal sextet month, and we are rattling chesty that customers are choosing us in achievement numbers. For our dweller dealers, the WTCC has been an extremely multipurpose subject tool, and they countenance nervy to the incoming flavour with Cruze. With Cruze, we again countenance to accent the activity between creation and motorsports, and the WTCC is the prizewinning doable papers to attain this. The championship’s shibboleth is ‘Real Cars, Real Racing’, and that fits nicely with our belief to wage actual cars for actual lives, with expressive design, concern collection calibre / reliability and an awesome itemize of accepted features and content, every at an inexpensive price.”

Eric Nève: “The newborn Cruze module be the incoming mark in Chevrolet Europe’s motorsports history. So far, we hit achieved every content we ordered in 2005, travel by step: contest the competition, reason points, establish we crapper get and then embellish lawful frontrunners against rivalry with an ingrained motorsports resume. With the Cruze, we module place the forbid modify higher and unwaveringly intend at success the World Championship. Chevrolet’s unequalled ‘trump card’ is having worked with the aforementioned team, engineers and drivers for the time quaternary seasons, with the success we every know. To be healthy to do this again with the Cruze module exclusive support to process our chances of achieving our goals.”

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