New Chev = COBALT SS

[Pantera]

(Apr. 1st) -
Last night, on the Speed channel, I saw a new Chev intoduced by the head of Chev that they called a "COBALT SS". He seemed proud of it and it was a nice looking car from what I could see through my sleep deprived brain. This was about 2 am and I had just woke up. Hope I was right about it.

Looks like a great car for the ricer crowd. Definately not a Camaro or Nova. Smaller looking to me. St least they are doing something new.

[Mr. T]

Replacing the Cavalier, the new Chevrolet COBALT SS. Available in three coupe and three sedan models.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/mistermister1/chevroletcobaltsssupfront2.jpg

[jimbo]

It has a supercharger on it too.To bad its a 4 cyl.

[Jeff H]

It wouldn't look too bad if you took that bookshelf off the trunk. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

[55chevy]

boy they put SS on anything these days.............. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif
I remember a time when SS actually meant something on a Chevy.....

[budnate]

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boy they put SS on anything these days.............. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif
I remember a time when SS actually meant something on a Chevy.....

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got that right Ed... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[Chevy454]

My guess is the Cobalt was built to compete with the Neon SRT4, which is enjoying some success in that segment of the market...this car isn't even a blip on the Mustang's radar...

[Jeff H]

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boy they put SS on anything these days.............. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif
I remember a time when SS actually meant something on a Chevy.....

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Don't forget that the early Impala SS cars had 6 cyl engines so there wasn't a lot of performance in those. But it is a joke with all the Chevy vehicles that they slap the SS on nowadays.

[Keith Tedford]

As an upgrade to the Cavalier, most people that I have talked to seem to be impressed. For the money it seems like a nice enough car and 200 hp should make for a fun vehicle. I imagine a supercharged Cobalt is going to be pretty close in price to a base V8 Mustang which seems to be a real winner.

[70 copo]

Anyone notice that Vonage Wireless also uses the same theme song that Chevy is using in the Cobalt "Ball" commercials?

YOUHOO, YOUHU, HU, HU, (Repeat) You get the idea.....

The big differance is that the Vonage soundtrack was used after Chevy used it for the Cobalt rollout- and the Vonage commercial states "people do stupid things" during the playing of the soundtrack, and shows people doing very stupid things to illustrate the point.

Now I think of the Chevy Cobalt when I see the Vonage commercial.

Funny but sad that Chevy did not check out who also had rights to the soundtrack prior to using it.

Another Blunder - can it get worse?? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

Phil

[Racefan]

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....Another Blunder - can it get worse?? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif



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One word for you.....Corvair. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Yes, it CAN get worse!

[mmcporter]

You'd think that Chevy would at least get an AWD car out to compete with the WRX and Evolution vehicles. If you are going to play in the Rice arena, don't show up to a gunfight with a knife!

[Norm reynolds]

Was reading on a GM site There is a major problem with the 05 Cobalt and the 05 Mailbu Gm is having problems with the electronic steering There is no tie rods steering box or rack It has steering by wire Talk to two guys that just had GM do a buy back because of the lemon law because of the bad steering I was also told by a guy at a Pontiac dealer that GM is killing the GTO sales were really bad they still have three 04 GTOs
GM is not bring back the camaro or any other rear drive cars any time soon and there is still talk about shutting down Buick or Pontiac This is really sad what the heck is GM doing They used to be king of the mountain http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[indyjps]

i did notice that they used the same song. yeah not very appealing to have your car commercial associated wtih people do stupid things. another song i noticed was the geico gecko doing the robot song is also used in a makeup or shampoo ad model strutting their stuff to the gecko robot song is great. i watch too much tv.

[whitetop]

$23500 for a supercharged 200hp cobalt.

For approx. $1500 more you can get a 300hp 05 mustang.

Plus the speed equipment is going to be way cheaper for the mustang vs the cobalt. Once the speed equipm people get on line you can probaly get an easy 100 more horsepower out of the Mustang for $1000-1500.00

To get another 100 out of the cobalt probaly $3000-4000.00

Of course this may be moot as the cars are going after a different target audience.

[Motion Camaro]

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Don't forget that the early Impala SS cars had 6 cyl engines so there wasn't a lot of performance in those.
But it is a joke with all the Chevy vehicles that they slap the SS on nowadays.

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<font color="blue">Just like the Early Chevelles .. you could order the "SS package" .... !!!But!!!! ....
at least then you could order almost any drivetrain available.
Today, the SS is the package ... unless you want to upgrade the...



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[Motion Camaro]

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$23500 for a supercharged 200hp cobalt.

For approx. $1500 more you can get a 300hp 05 mustang.

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<font color="blue">Or, for even less $$$, you could get yourself a 6cyl. Mustang (4.0 LITER!!!), do some body mods, computer mods &amp; turbo it &amp; still have less than an 8cyl.Mustang &amp; not much more than a Cobalt SS &amp; BLOW BOTH their Doors OFF! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/scholar.gif </font>