“Our no-excuses car” is the revealing phrase Holden big boss Mark Reuss uses to describe the compact Cruze sedan.
It’s all about viability. In the current market small cars are rising in popularity and big ones - ahem, that’s you, Commodore - are falling.
So Cruze is a good second string, and one that potentially kept Holden sweet with General Motors when it had to determine, come the Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which brands would stay and which would go.
