Originally Posted By: Black Bart
Here is what one site has to say on it.
The fact that it has more torque with better mileage is big deal to me.
They may have the final gear real high but when you are in the first four gears it would out perform the others hands down
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Suddenly Cobalt Beats its Competition
By Igor Holas | 04.11.2008 | http://www.autosavant.net
Among all the excitement over Chevrolet’s new 260 horsepower Cobalt SS, GM made a much quieter, but much more significant change to the Cobalt lineup.
Starting immediately, GM claims the Cobalt with manual transmission to be among the “most fuel-efficient compacts on the market” with 36 miles per gallon highway. This is mostly true, as this new number beats out the Corolla (34mpg for the now current 2009 model) Civic (34 mpg) and Focus (35 mpg) who have been leading until now. However, the Civic with automatic transmission achieves the same highway mileage and better city mileage, and the Civic hybrid (of course) beats out all of them. Nonetheless, the mileage improvement is a meaningful and important improvement to the otherwise well-rounded Cobalt. Using a standard engine that is significantly larger than its competition, the Cobalt has been saddled with a somewhat mediocre 33 mpg until now. Moreover, the new mileage rating was still achieved on the 2.2l EcoTec, which also boasts the best-in-class horsepower (148) and torque (152), leaving the 1.8l and 2.0l engines from the aforementioned competition in the dust. To exemplify the magnitude of GM’s achievement, the very-much acclaimed Mazda3 with a similarly-powerful 2.3l engine achieves miserable 29 miles per gallon on the highway – a full seven mpg difference.
Correction on their Mazda3 Comments. The 2.3L Mazda3s is rated 156hp, not 148 like the cobalt and is rated 29mpg hwy. The 2.0L Mazda3i is rated 148hp (same as cobalt) and is rated 32mpg hwy.
FYI, the 2.3L in my heavier mazda6i will get 36mpg on the hwy.
Here is what one site has to say on it.
The fact that it has more torque with better mileage is big deal to me.
They may have the final gear real high but when you are in the first four gears it would out perform the others hands down
QUOTE
Suddenly Cobalt Beats its Competition
By Igor Holas | 04.11.2008 | http://www.autosavant.net
Among all the excitement over Chevrolet’s new 260 horsepower Cobalt SS, GM made a much quieter, but much more significant change to the Cobalt lineup.
Starting immediately, GM claims the Cobalt with manual transmission to be among the “most fuel-efficient compacts on the market” with 36 miles per gallon highway. This is mostly true, as this new number beats out the Corolla (34mpg for the now current 2009 model) Civic (34 mpg) and Focus (35 mpg) who have been leading until now. However, the Civic with automatic transmission achieves the same highway mileage and better city mileage, and the Civic hybrid (of course) beats out all of them. Nonetheless, the mileage improvement is a meaningful and important improvement to the otherwise well-rounded Cobalt. Using a standard engine that is significantly larger than its competition, the Cobalt has been saddled with a somewhat mediocre 33 mpg until now. Moreover, the new mileage rating was still achieved on the 2.2l EcoTec, which also boasts the best-in-class horsepower (148) and torque (152), leaving the 1.8l and 2.0l engines from the aforementioned competition in the dust. To exemplify the magnitude of GM’s achievement, the very-much acclaimed Mazda3 with a similarly-powerful 2.3l engine achieves miserable 29 miles per gallon on the highway – a full seven mpg difference.
Correction on their Mazda3 Comments. The 2.3L Mazda3s is rated 156hp, not 148 like the cobalt and is rated 29mpg hwy. The 2.0L Mazda3i is rated 148hp (same as cobalt) and is rated 32mpg hwy.
FYI, the 2.3L in my heavier mazda6i will get 36mpg on the hwy.
