Manual Transmission Problems of Chevrolet Cruze

Purchased 4/25/2012. After driving a little, noticed lack of power, easily stalls, something rolling around in the trunk lid, console piece gaped out, passenger side tail lamp inside trunk bent, engine shutters (after 500 miles it started) when turned on and off. The lack of power and engine stalling are the major safety concerns. When in a stopped position, the car will stall when the clutch is operated correctly. While making a right hand turn from a stop sign, onto route 30, at a blind intersection, the car would not move, once I let the clutch out and was in 1st gear, the car just did not move, I had the gas pushed to the floor and I was only moving inches forward. I was scared, I had my child in the car with me, a tractor trailer could have come up on me 50+ mph hit me or swerved to miss me and hit someone else. The car finally moved after about 45 sec. I then got up to speed in 6th gear. The car then again lost power, I had to down shift from 6th gear to 4th gear to get speed built back up. I got home, about 2 miles, was upset and scared, called apple Chevrolet, the car sat until I drove it to the dealership 35 mins from my home the next morning. I told them that it does not happen every day so the chances of it happening again are slim. This would be the 3rd visit to the service dept for the lack of power complaint. I drove with the tech anyway knowing that it was not going to be duplicated. I told the service rep that I wanted a turbo boost gauge put on it because it does not seem to be boosting all the time. When I was called that my car was done and nothing was duplicated, I was told that it was boosting in range. When I picked my car up the next day, there was nothing on my bill that stated that the turbo was even checked. I was told that they cannot put every piece of equipment that they use on each car on every bill. Etc. . .

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I am very disappointed with my new 2011 chevy Cruze eco (1. 4l 6 speed manual transmission) the car looses power especially when try to accelerate up hills, total loss of power and lack of response. This keeps happening out on the freeway. I have my foot pressed all the way down on accelerator, but no response from the car. Car has slowed down to 30 mph going up the hills on freeway putting me in an unsafe position. It happens on level services too, try to get the car going when at a stop light is hard too, I give the car gas and get very slow response, when it does respond the car is very jerky going thru the gears, afraid this may cause an accident for failure to move out and with the traffic. It happens with all the gears ! I have problems too with the car over- accelerating going now hills. All the above continue to happen despite following the owners manual for operating the vehicle. I feel strongly that this is a unsafe vehicle. I bought the car with a 4 cyl turbo with hopes I would have a little extra power, I haven't seen it yet.

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I bought a brand new 2011 chevy Cruze LS. After about two weeks of driving the vehicle I notice that when driving it in manual and coming to a stop the car would violently shift into first gear. I took the car back to the dealership and they contacted gm. They also test drove every chevy Cruze LS model and non-turbo engine Cruze they had in stock and found the same problem. They contacted gm again and gm informed them that they were aware of the problem with the LS an non-turbo engine models and that they do not have a solution of fix to the problem. I then contacted gm and asked them about their 30 day guarantee on their vehicles. They then informed me that they do have that policy but unfortunately would not honor it because of my case. When I asked them what they planned to do about the problem they informed me that they will continue to sell the vehicle and recall them later when they are able to find a solution of fix to the problem. The car now has 1000 miles on it and I am afraid to drive the car with my family in it for fear that something will happen while I am driving. I think it is ridiculous that gm is aware of the problem and will not recall that affected models. I also find it very disheartening that gm does not honor their customers like they are always advertising they do.