Ho-hum, I thought as the bright-red Cobalt was delivered.
Another four-door four-cylinder automatic econobox.
Someone wake me at the end of test week. While the hot-rod
Cobalt SS coupe is getting the most media attention,
I asked Chevy for a mid-level four-door sedan, the model
most people will be buying. I certainly wasn't expecting
to enjoy it... but once again I have been proven wrong.
It didn't take ten minutes of seat time to realize that
the Cobalt, even in it's most humdrum form, is not a
humdrum car at all. It has -- surprise, surprise --
personality! The Cobalt's predecessor, the Cavalier,
was as bland as over-boiled cabbage. With the Cobalt
sedan poised to take the Cavalier's place as the darling
of the car-rental biz, it would be perfectly acceptable
for it to have the same dry-as-toast character. Sort
of like those chain hotel rooms that look the same whether
you're in Prescott, Arizona or Presque Isle, Maine.
Sanitary, vaguely familiar, and not the slightest bit
memorable. But no -- the Cobalt does something that
the Cavalier never did. It actually stands out, albeit
ever so slightly, from the crowd.
