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Old 03-08-2008 | 09:34 AM
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I'm liking that sedan, especially since I have an 8 month old to move in and out of the back. Plus it would make for a nice sleeper if you debadged it.
Old 03-08-2008 | 10:02 AM
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i was just on motortrend this morning. they have a write up for the ss/tc. It does 14.2 in the quarter mile AND 5.7 sec 0-60. Since the trans on the new tc is just about maxed out, seems logical that my car, running a 13.8 - 13.9 can hang or take it. Can someone explain to me though how a tc cobalt can take a sc cobalt to 60? is there no turbo lag?

I like the supercharger whine, scares the crap out of old people going down main street. I guess im just old sch0ol.


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Old 03-08-2008 | 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by JKennedy1612
So have the axles been beefed up or not?
Yes. The new axles are 34MM

Originally Posted by Maccoy316
any word on how much the sedan will range and power wise is it equal to the coupe version? If anything I want the sedan, I like having the 4 doors myself.
Everything on the sedan will be identical to the coupe.

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Old 03-08-2008 | 11:03 AM
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Yes. The new axles are 34MM

whats the stock SS/SC ones?
Old 03-08-2008 | 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by distillion


whats the stock SS/SC ones?
21 or 23, I'm not sure
Old 03-08-2008 | 11:05 AM
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Which color would look better on this car, red or black? Just wondering...
Old 03-08-2008 | 11:35 AM
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Would the new clutch work in the SS SC
Old 03-08-2008 | 11:54 AM
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Which color would look better on this car, red or black? Just wondering...
WHITE
Old 03-08-2008 | 12:08 PM
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does anybody know how big the turbo is and the trim size
Old 03-08-2008 | 12:21 PM
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Don't know if this a repost, but found some more sedan pictures.

http://www.motivemag.com/pub/news/Fi...SS_Sedan.shtml
Old 03-08-2008 | 12:39 PM
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Don't know if this a repost, but found some more sedan pictures.

http://www.motivemag.com/pub/news/Fi...SS_Sedan.shtml
nice find
Old 03-08-2008 | 12:53 PM
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call me crazy, but I think that the sedan is better looking then the coupe. It just seems to sit better, perhaps its the color and the wheel combination in those pic's. But I just think that it's a better looking car overall
Old 03-08-2008 | 01:22 PM
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i will have to disagree; the one thing about the sedan that always bothered me was the way the rear door and rear glass is shaped. to me, it doesn't fit with the flow of the front end of the car.

i just wish the coupe had a liftback (rear glass lifts up like the Celica/RSX/Eclipse) instead of just a little trunklid opening; it would make the car SO much more useful and it wouldn't look any different than it does now.
Old 03-08-2008 | 01:24 PM
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WHITE
I would want White soo Bad
Old 03-08-2008 | 01:45 PM
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hmmm so i guess this makes my black ss with red interior even more precious to me!

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Old 03-08-2008 | 02:10 PM
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i really like the interior of that sedan. awful hard to keep clean thou lol
Old 03-08-2008 | 02:41 PM
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Thats just because amaricans are too lazy to drive sticks now and everyone chooses to fall asleep putting it in "D" and driving around effortless. Sorry dude but automatics are for ******.
I don't live in a fantasy world of open roads where one can run through the gears and open up with their hair blowing in the wind. I live in the real world where 95% of driving is work related, in traffic, stop-and-go, creeping along, lots of lights, and 45 MPH speed limits. You know, where a 6 mile drive requires more than 50 clutch operations and 40 shifts and practically never see 5th gear.

Be nice to own a top-of-the-line Cobalt AND be able to enjoy driving it EVERY day too.
Old 03-08-2008 | 03:37 PM
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this is really interesting......
Old 03-08-2008 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Red07SSNA
I don't live in a fantasy world of open roads where one can run through the gears and open up with their hair blowing in the wind. I live in the real world where 95% of driving is work related, in traffic, stop-and-go, creeping along, lots of lights, and 45 MPH speed limits. You know, where a 6 mile drive requires more than 50 clutch operations and 40 shifts and practically never see 5th gear.

Be nice to own a top-of-the-line Cobalt AND be able to enjoy driving it EVERY day too.
I agree with you 100%. True, there is nothing like open road driving and banging through the gears. But coming back to reality, alot of people live in congested suburban areas where driving a manual is just not practical and makes the car un-plesent to drive everyday. I resent the remark that I am a lazy "American" who does not want to drive manual. I #1 have a manual SS Cobalt that I love to drive and would gladly drive everyday if I did not live in the suburban hell of New Jersay where there are more cars then people on the road and every ten feet there is a stop sign or traffic light. #2 I just purchased a HHR SS AUTOMATIC for this reason. When you need to go back and forth to work and school and such, having a driving "experience" is not top on my priority list. I just need to get there, plain and simple. I have always said that a car for fun should be a manual, its more fun (no pun intended). But for everyday driving, give me an automatic anyday. Its easier on the car and just easier period


oh and on a side note, if your going to make fun of AMERICANS, please spell it right
Old 03-08-2008 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by SS_SC_Cobalt
WHITE
I have a white car, and that thing is hard as hell to keep clean. Besides, black looks cool to me.
Old 03-08-2008 | 03:57 PM
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City driving is the most fun for a manual tranny.

Unless you're one of those lazy farks who need an automatic. Or you need a free hand in order to keep that cell phone permanently fixed to the side of your head.
Old 03-08-2008 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by billwit
City driving is the most fun for a manual tranny.

Unless you're one of those lazy farks who need an automatic. Or you need a free hand in order to keep that cell phone permanently fixed to the side of your head.

I LMAO listening to all the manual equipped car owners at work constantly whining about driving their manual trannies to work. Day after day it becomes a chore -- not a pleasant long term experience. I enjoyed driving sticks when I was younger too -- but times have seriously changed when it comes to the "fabled" open roads.

I just want Chevy to get a grip on the real world and offer their car models to an old-fart like me the way I want one -- and I'm the one that can afford one. Being .3 seconds quicker on a dragstrip in a stick-Vs-auto car is not important to me.
Old 03-08-2008 | 04:37 PM
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To all you people bitching about traffic- Get away from the damn coasts. Other than Chicago and Minneapolis, the REST OF THE COUNTRY doesn't really have traffic issues. Shoot, there are only like 2 million drivers in the whole state of Wisconsin, lol.
Old 03-08-2008 | 04:40 PM
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Thats alot easier said then done, besides the fact that my job, school, friends and such are out here. The idea of simply up-rooting and moving west just for the sake of having more open spaces is alittle immature, there are alot more factors besides that.
Old 03-08-2008 | 04:41 PM
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back on topic please......................


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