Used 2017 Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A) Consumer Reviews
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The Perfect College Car
JG, Staten Island, NY, 06/22/2017
Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
14 of 14 people found this review helpful
I had a great experience with my 2014 Cruze so I did not hesitate to lease the 2017 once my current lease expired. The new and improved Cruze is just that in every conceivable way. Handling, safety, appearance, technology, visibility, fuel efficiency and rear seat room have all been improved. It is the perfect vehicle to take me back and forth from school. Don't let the start/stop technology get you nervous. If I didn't look for it, I wouldn't even know that the engine was turning off as I stopped at a red light. It's a seamless transition as the engine instantly starts the moment that begin to take my foot off the brake. There is no lag and no hesitation. The kinetic blue with the RS package looks great and the Apple Car Play works perfectly with my phone. It was between this and a Civic and this car looked better, offered more and the dealership closed the deal with a great offer.
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The hidden gem of the automotive industry
Richard T, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 01/27/2018
Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
12 of 13 people found this review helpful
I rented this car for two days and it was amazing! At 50mpg the cruise control indicated 60mpg and at 70mph it was 42mpg. The claimed 47mpg highway entirely believable if a bit conservative. The range with a full tank (13 gallons) was an indicated 538 miles. These are incredible numbers for a vehicle that is not a diesel and is of this size. The seats were very comfortable. I drove non-stop from Fort Lauderdale to Jacksonville without a single ache or pain. The cabin was very quiet. I carried on several conversations while on the move and not once did exterior noise interfere. Which gets me to the Bluetooth connectivity. The pairing to my LG Aristo was effortless and connections to it once I started the car were instant. The backup camera was clear with the display being large enough to be effective. The steering assist lines on the display curve as you turn the steering wheel and while I never really got accustomed to them enough to trust what they were telling me, they seemed to be accurate enough. The stereo had easy-to-use controls and had very good sound. The 1.4L turbocharged engine was smooth, quiet and eager to please. Flooring the pedal brought decent acceleration that surprised me every time I did it. The 6 speed automatic shifted crisply and smoothly and never hunted for gears. The brakes were firm, linear, and positive. I love them if only because they are discs front and rear, a feature thankfully becoming the norm, even on small, economy cars. What didn't I like? To be fair, the following will be mere quibbles and nothing in the list would prevent me from buying one or renting one again. My biggest problem with this car was the parking brake. Located as a pedal on the floor, that was at first a nice touch. I like pedal-operated parking brakes because they keep my hands free to grab my belongings in a hurry. But this one was a bit unpleasant. It was mounted fairly high, had very little travel and was stiff. My wife has a 2011 Camry and by comparison that pedal,-operated parking brake is effortless. It was also difficult to tell if it was disengaged fully, forcing me to check the dashboard to see if the indicator light was extinguished. I suspect most owners will opt to not use it and just use the transmission to keep the car from rolling away (a practice I do not subscribe to). The next item on my list is the stop-start feature. This was a welcome feature in and of itself. The engine shut down and restarted so quickly and smoothly that it took several miles before I realized that it was happening! The tachometer does display when it is active by dipping below zero to an area labelled as "AUTO STOP". The moment the car comes to a stop the engine shuts down. Release the foot brake and the engine comes to life before your foot gets back on the gas and off you go. Nice. But my problem is that if you take your foot off the brake to creep forward a bit, the feature is disabled entirely and the engine restarts and remains on. Putting the car in Park also causes the engine to restart. If the air con was of and it is turned on, the engine restarts. The engine doesn't remain off for long and restarts (even with your foot still on the brake) after a few minutes. This is understandable because the battery is being depleted with the accessories still running. The windows are all one-shot on the downward travel, but must be held in the up direction. My wife's Camry has one-shot on all windows in both directions. I am yet to understand why other manufacturers don't see this as viable. Who wants to sit there holding window buttons when there are things in the world to be done?!? That manumatic shift feature. I had to Google it to figure out how it worked. And as far as I am concerned it should be deleted entirely. A total waste of engineering, if you ask me. You have to move the shifter down into L range and then press the "+" or "-" button on top of the selector to get higher or lower gears, respectively. It would be better to have a gate to the left or right of the selector and allow the shifter itself to be toggled...preferably like Mazda correctly has it: pull back for upshifts, push forward for downshifts. The steering was nicely weighted and felt direct, but was a little too sensitive at centre. That made keeping straight in a lane, particularly with crosswinds, a bit tricky. The stereo. Why are the volume up and down controls hidden on the underside of the right hand spoke of the steering wheel?!? And there are two other buttons under the left spoke that I am yet to figure out. What I hate: The reverse lights come on when you exit the car...a stupid and dangerous feature that all GM cars unfortunately currently feature. It gives the impression that the car is backing up and cause a panic situation which may lead to an accident. STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS, GM! Otherwise, this is an amazing little car that deserves consideration.
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A full step backwards from last generation
Hunter12, Sarasota, FL, 06/23/2017
Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
11 of 13 people found this review helpful
I was given a '17 Cruze LT to use for 5 days while my car was in for service and I was less than impressed. My mom had a '13 Cruze LS that I drove a few thousand miles when she was leasing it, it was in many ways a far better small car. The new Cruze uses a start/stop mode to save fuel, it was terrible. The engine "shudders" when it stops and starts. Very poor execution of this "feature". The transmission also always feels like it's trying to find a gear for max fuel economy and when you need to accelerate the car feels "lazy". The seats were also poor, very flat versus the last gen which were not too bad. Overall it seems obvious the entire car was developed on a tight budget and it really felt and looked "cheaper" that the last Cruze. Weak effort GM.
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Not the Worst
Nikki, York, PA, 11/30/2021
Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Let me preface this by saying I wanted one of these cars ever since they released the new body style for gen 2, and I finally got my very own 2017 Chevy Cruze LT with the RS package in July 2020. I bought it with 30k miles on it and in the past year and a half I've put 20k miles on it, so I feel pretty comfortable making a review now. The pros: Probably the biggest pro and the thing that overshadows all the negatives in my book is that this car has never left me sit (yet). I've heard some scary things about the reliability of the Cruze, especially the 1.4L turbo, but in my case, it's never let me down. This car is really good on gas-- I've hit over 40mpg on long road trips and usually make it about 340miles on a full tank for my day-to-day driving. For a small car, it's pretty roomy. I don't have any children or anything, but I've taken my Cruze on hiking trips, camping trips, road trips, etc., and it can comfortably fit myself, about 1-2 other people, and our belongings. I was really surprised by how much trunk space there is, again, for such a small car. The brakes and steering are very responsive and I feel like it handles really well. The cons: These are general annoyances and things that I've mostly learned to live with, but things I would've liked to know before buying. The technology is pretty buggy. Sometimes my phone won't connect to Apple CarPlay even though it's plugged in and I need to unplug my phone multiple times to get it to work, sometimes certain features don't show up on the display, and once or twice the display has gone completely dark and I've lost power to the whole stereo system for about a minute. The turn signal noise doesn't always work, which I've learned is also tied into the stereo system. I loved the interior when I bought it (and I still mostly do) except there are a lot of shiny chrome accents that always catch the sun at the perfect angle to beam a ray of light directly into your eyes. While this car can go pretty fast, I feel like it's still pretty sluggish to start-- you really have to give it the beans to get her to go from a dead stop. Speaking of a dead stop, let's talk about the start-stop feature. When I was researching this car before I bought it I came across a lot of people complaining about the start-stop feature, and I thought, "No biggie, I can deal with that and it'll save me gas." But as I'm sure plenty of other reviews have mentioned, there is no way to disable this feature, and there are a couple of implications of that. In traffic, if you're at a point where you're just crawling up a little bit, there's a certain point where you're moving slow enough/putting just enough pressure on the brake pedal for the car to say "Yes, I'm going to turn off," and then you will jolt to a stop. When you release the brake slightly because you don't want to be at a dead stop and the car decides to start back up, you jolt forward. It also seems to shut off at the most random times. Sitting at a stop sign or a red light behind a row of cars? The Chevy Cruze is not likely going to shut off. Sitting at a stop sign where you need to have some pep in your step to make a left turn onto a busy road? You bet the Chevy Cruze will turn off then. I've also had this problem when shifting from drive to reverse. The start-stop feature doesn't work in reverse, so sometimes if you come to a stop and the car decides to shut off even partially, then you shift it into reverse, there's a noisy "thunk" and jolt into reverse. Maybe I'm just too dumb for this feature, but it really impedes normal driving and driving habits in my opinion. Most features work as intended, the power windows, seats, and sunroof work, I love the heated mirrors for cold days and the heated seats are a lifesaver (I even use them in the summer for my back pain), but as it's getting colder I'm at the point where I remote start my car every morning to get it to defrost (which is also an awesome feature that I genuinely love) however it doesn't do any good if I don't pre-set everything the day prior. Once the car warms up and defrosts, I need to keep moving for it to maintain its temperature. The needle typically sits at the middle of the gauge unless I'm stopped and it's less than 25 degrees (F) outside, which isn't uncommon for PA winters at 6 in the morning, then the temp will actually go down and the heat gradually gets colder and colder until I start moving again and get it up to temperature. And that pretty much wraps it up, at least the biggies. If you got this far, thanks for reading this novel. All in all, I don't think I would recommend this car because it annoys the heck out of me, but it gets me where I need to go and I guess that's what really counts, and if you can overlook these general annoyances, it's a decent little car.
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Red Hot Cruzer!
Scotty B, Saint Petersburg, FL, 01/25/2018
Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A)
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Bought my Cruze LT used at a Honda dealer with 11,800 miles on it. The price is what drew me in as it was under $13000 before the dreaded haggle process. I love the car, it's whisper quiet, has good pick up for a small 4 cylinder engine and I average 38 miles a gallon driving highway and city. The car came with heated seats, and the upgraded auto start keyless features. I am very impressed with the 7" information center as it links my phone apps to the screen. Maps, music, phone contacts and text are all hands free and work like a champ. The cars new sharper lines mimic the new civic and it really makes the car stand out. Many Cruze owners with older models stop and ask me about my experience in the new style. I formerly had a Kia Soul, loved it and it was very reliable, but the Cruze is my new favorite. Trunk space and passenger room is exceptional as well. Highly recommend checking it out.
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