GM halts most Chevy Cruze sales

General Motors has halted the sale of most of the Chevrolet Cruzes now on dealers' lots. The Cruze is GM's best selling U.S. car model.

Spokesman Alan Adler confirmed that GM has ordered a halt to sales of models with the 1.4-liter turbo engine, the most popular version of the compact car. Adler did not give the reason for the halt, and said there hasn't been a recall issued on cars already sold.

The news comes as GM deals with a damaging recall of 1.6 million small cars worldwide to deal with an ignition switch flaw that has been linked to at least 12 deaths.

My wife bought a Cruze.

It’s not a bad car IMO, much better fit/finish than what GM was known for in the past.

We test drove numerous cars (Cruze, Malibu, Escape, Edge, Fusion, Elantra, Sonata, Camery, Corolla, Jetta, Passat, and some Subaru thing) over several months, and the Cruze had more bang for the buck, and had OnStar.

Transition period for who? The driver with the lights or the driver who is blinded by the lights?

These bright lights I am talking about have been around for several years and I have not become accustomed to them. they still blind me.

I am going to be the one who hits and kills someone.

AFreeBird is correct. The problem is that the cars' engines and electrical systems simply shut off, and air bags disable, without regard to where you are and how fast you are driving.

The bigger problem for GM is that they've known about this problem since at least 2001. It's been implicated in the deaths of at least 300 people in accidents where the front airbags did not deploy in smaller GM cars. On March 12, 2014, GM disclosed documents showing it knew about the defect, but thought they had fixed it. GM kept using the switch.

On June 19, 2005, the New York Times reported that Chevrolet dealers were telling Cobalt owners to shed items from heavy key rings so they wouldn’t bump the ignition into the off position. GM kept using the switch.

A Georgia attorney named Lance Cooper sued GM in a case involving the death of two nurses in a Cobalt, and received more than 30,000 pages of GM documents in discovery.

The documents showed that as early as 2004, GM engineers had discussed that simply bumping the keys with your knee could shut off the ignition. GM kept using the switch.

GM settled the Cobalt case for an undisclosed amount in 2013.

Over the years, GM has recalled the Saturn Ion, the Cobalt, the Pontiac G5, and a couple of other models because of problems with . . . the same ignition switch.

MAN UP, MY ASS!! THE FACT,MY FRIEND,is: I have lived in Alaska for almost sixty years. Most of my driving has been in the dark. I agree that 1950's headlights are insufficient, but modern headlights are so far superior that you don't have to blind everyone on the road just so you can see. We don't have to "adapt" to the point of blinding the other drivers on the road. That is just self-centered arrogance. Slow down if you can't see. As far as the law goes, the limit is 55w on low and 65w on high. No more than two lights on low beam and no more than four on high beam. Fog lights are supposed to hit the ground at fifteen feet. they are to locate the edges of the road and the center line in dense fog. They are not for blinding drivers. Today's headlight technology is so improved that 65w HID's would dim the sun. These laws have been the standard in Alaska since Statehood (55 years ago). They need to be modified to measure lumens, not watts.

As I stated before,I don't care what lights you use on high beam out on the lonely roads, but I do care when they blind me when I meet you. that kind of arrogance will blind some novice driver and result in a head-on collision.Contrary to being a safety measure, it is an avoidable hazard.

I remember when I was a youngster, we thought it was "cool" to run aircraft landing lights. I remember more than one instance where a Trooper pulled a driver over, got out his nightstick, walked to the front of the offending vehicle, broke both landing lights out and got back in his Cruiser, without a word and drove away. We need more Troopers like that.

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