![]() Primary-control feel, too, is class leading. With such excellent wheel and body control, the ride-and-handling balance demonstrates a level of expertise-dare we say passion?-Chevrolet has heretofore only achieved with the Corvette. At the limit, the Cobalt remains responsive and easily controlled, without sacrificing comfort and confidence on uneven roads the way the Mazdaspeed 3 does. A stable 0.92 g on the skidpad is outstanding for this class. GM is not known for small-car excellence, but if it keeps this up, it will be. All the SS extras that come with the coupe are included on the sedan, meaning the same suspension treatment, the same Brembo front brakes, and the same body mods.Īnd just like the coupe, the SS sedan works remarkably well. A five-speed manual is the only transmission available. Like the coupe, the Cobalt SS sedan is blessed with a 2.0-liter, direct-injection, turbocharged four-cylinder stirring up 260 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. And now the SS is available with four doors. We took a coupe down to Virginia for our annual Lightning Lap track fest, and it dominated its class, setting a new front-drive record and lapping VIR’s 4.2-mile Grand Course more quickly than a Subaru WRX or Mitsubishi Evolution MR, not to mention plenty of higher-pedigreed and far pricier machinery, including a Honda S2000 CR and the 416-hp Lexus IS F. ![]() News flash: The turbocharged Cobalt SS is good. ![]() Chevrolet’s small cars have been so consistently dreary-when was the Vega introduced?-that it’s hard not to greet the arrival of a new one the way we start each Detroit Lions football season: just waiting for the faults to appear and the excuses to start. ![]()
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