I got another one of these (yes a 2012 2LT) yesterday... it was honestly the best thing available to me, and it had active XM too. In regards to it being quiet... yes at lower revs it is astonishingly quiet; when pushed past 4,000 RPM however you'd think the engine is larger than 1.4L. Maybe the one I had was just getting old (lol) -- this one had a bit over 27k miles on it. Still handles very nicely, even if the steering is a touch light. The seats are not as comfortable as I remembered; in fact they're quite hard.

I'm kind of disappointed since this used to be one of my favorite cars in the fleet, but after a 6-month slew of FCARs and larger, it just felt small and not exactly comfortable. Although the heated seats would be nice in the winter, the turbo-happy engine would not be ideal. I'll still argue that the Cruze is one of the better ICARs in the fleet, but I'd like to give the Elantra of all cars another shot (although that blue screen drove me nuts at night).


-J.