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Old 03-04-2015, 09:09 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by stoopid View Post
I wonder if it has to do with a shared platform being retired. Maybe the Cruze and Malibu both use the same platform and since the Cruze is changing it necessitated the Malibu's new gen?

Malibu's a fleet car. It's going to be a cold day it truly competes with the Accord in the eyes of the market. I think there's other technical reasons for the change, there's no wheel to reinvent here.
Malibu and Cruize do not share an architecture. Cruize is Delta, Malibu is Epsilon.

Supposedly, both are moving to next gen versions of those two architectures.
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