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Follow this link to read a more thorough take on this story, but be ye alerted: all of a sudden, Chevrolet will sell you a very frugal Cobalt.Â
- New Chevrolet Spin Is An Mpv Version Of The Cobalt For South America And Asia
Less than a year after the introduction of the new Chevrolet Cobalt sedan for select markets around the globe, General Motors pulled the sheets off a new compact minivan called the Spin. The MPV was designed and developed by GM Brazil with the automaker...
- All New 2012 Chevrolet Cobalt Revealed In Production Form, Will Be Available In 40 Countries
The Chevrolet Cobalt may be dead in the States where it was successfully replaced by the Cruze sedan, but the nameplate lives on in the rest of the world. After the debut of the concept version at the Buenos Aires motor show this past summer, General...
- Gm Unveils New Chevrolet Cobalt Sedan Concept At Buenos Aires
Here in the good ‘ol US of A, General Motors replaced the Chevrolet Cobalt compact car with the new Cruze sedan. In South America, however, it’s another story as the Detroit brand has given birth to a new Chevy Cobalt that is being revealed...
- How The Success Of The 2012 Ford Focus And 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Will Be Measured
Ford Motor Company is about to come roaring out of Detroit's North American International Auto Show with even more momentum than it had going in. General Motors, meanwhile, may not have PR on its side; but does have a nice flock of product to help...
- Chevrolet Cobalt Driven - Part 2
Excellent fuel economy alone is not enough to secure buyers. If only one demand was made by the collective consumer world, we'd all be riding bicycles and burning calories. Chevrolet has been selling plenty of Cobalts this year. Most manufacturers...
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NEW WORLD ORDER - low-tech solutions work for Chevrolet Cobalt
Follow this link to read a more thorough take on this story, but be ye alerted: all of a sudden, Chevrolet will sell you a very frugal Cobalt. Named the XFE (get it? eXtra Fuel Economy), this Cobalt will make use of low-rolling resistance tires - a great trick many hybrids make use of - while also remapping the 2.2L four-cylinder engine. The 36mpg result comes with the manual transmission only. Reserved for former Cobalt's and continuing automatic tranny cars will be 31mpg on the highway.
Five miles per gallon is hardly gradual, but referencing it that way for now help makes the point that subtle, gentle changes can make huge differences in the long-term. If year-over-year, General Motors and its competitors can make gains like this in efficiency, consumers will save money in two different ways. First, fewer fill-ups. That's easy to understand. But equally important is the lack of expensive technology required to make the Cobalt into a 36mpg car on the highway.Â
The Chevrolet Cobalt XFE leaves the home-market Ford Focus just 1mpg behind, but strong competitors like the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla are also in arrears. Traveling an extra mile or two on every gallon of gasoline you pump into your car is going to - or already is - going to mean an awful lot.Â
Smart thinking, GM. More like this and this, please.Â
- New Chevrolet Spin Is An Mpv Version Of The Cobalt For South America And Asia
Less than a year after the introduction of the new Chevrolet Cobalt sedan for select markets around the globe, General Motors pulled the sheets off a new compact minivan called the Spin. The MPV was designed and developed by GM Brazil with the automaker...
- All New 2012 Chevrolet Cobalt Revealed In Production Form, Will Be Available In 40 Countries
The Chevrolet Cobalt may be dead in the States where it was successfully replaced by the Cruze sedan, but the nameplate lives on in the rest of the world. After the debut of the concept version at the Buenos Aires motor show this past summer, General...
- Gm Unveils New Chevrolet Cobalt Sedan Concept At Buenos Aires
Here in the good ‘ol US of A, General Motors replaced the Chevrolet Cobalt compact car with the new Cruze sedan. In South America, however, it’s another story as the Detroit brand has given birth to a new Chevy Cobalt that is being revealed...
- How The Success Of The 2012 Ford Focus And 2011 Chevrolet Cruze Will Be Measured
Ford Motor Company is about to come roaring out of Detroit's North American International Auto Show with even more momentum than it had going in. General Motors, meanwhile, may not have PR on its side; but does have a nice flock of product to help...
- Chevrolet Cobalt Driven - Part 2
Excellent fuel economy alone is not enough to secure buyers. If only one demand was made by the collective consumer world, we'd all be riding bicycles and burning calories. Chevrolet has been selling plenty of Cobalts this year. Most manufacturers...