>terrible choice of still running a timing belt. (1.0L Ecoboost engines)

3.0 Duramax says hold my beer (for the readers not familiar, it has a wet belt driving the oil pump and it's mounted in the back making proactive replacement prohibitively expensive).

My jaded take is that they're sticking with the wet belt on what's generally a europoor economy car engine in order to force planned obsolecense.