new cobalt ss , ms3's killer ???

[Chief7925]

srt foooooooouuuuuuur

 

[J-protege]

Yes, it will be quite fast in a straight line, maybe even handle nicely. However, most of us also own the car as a daily driver.

Low 14's or not, would you really want to drive a Cobalt day after day as your daily driver, just to be able to pull a quick quarter once in a while?

There's more to a car than the 0-60. A quick car should be paired up with a livable interior, plus have room for 5 people, and some storage space.

New Cobalt SS: Fast
New SRT-4: Fast + spacious
Current MS3: Fast + spacious + an interior you can actually stand to look at.

 

[jalaan1]

Meh

(iagree)

 

[Rotary_Powered]

Overall I still want to see this come out, it raises the competition on the playing field, and competition improves the breed for the others as well.

 

[flipstylex]

ya'll know that this thing is actually 16 seconds faster on nurburg. But i don't really call nurburgring a good track to get times cuz its 11 miles long !!! I would say laguna seca would be better to pair the 2 bcuz the track is way shorter and the curves is just right. To be honest, if paired on a shorter track, i think ms3 would still pawn bcuz on car and driver, they tested some of these cars an ms3 is 2 seconds away from 350z and pawned the s2000 by 2 secs ....hence rwd too...

 

[AutoXRacer]

Wow, I'm impressed with its numbers and equipment wise... But as far as looks, meh I'll pass.

I think our engines might have the upper hand on power and torque with mods...but we'll have to find our own homemade reciepts since Mazda won't help us out.

We just have to wait and see what the media will say about this SS...
Till then, we are still King!!!

 

[flipstylex]

ya'll know, even king kong takes a fall , it's nice to be on top, but sooner or later, sumone is gonna overtake ya...Well, king or not, i still luv this car. It suits me well cuz i got 2 dogs and my backseat can fold, that way my dog can sit nicely !! It's all about personality , not speed , but to be king, its just an icing in the cake.

 

[numbnuts22715]

There was also some speculation I was reading aboiut how the cobalt ss was using slicks when it went around the nurburgring. I dont know if its true or whatever though. So who knows.

 

[Sacrilicious]

as far as performance goes, i'd not be surprised if this cobalt ss left us behind in both acceleration and handling. as far as practicality goes, though, we still have a big advantage on it. as impressive as our car is, this is a cutthroat fwd performance market, and cars rise and fall at an amazing rate. i'm just pleased that we did as well as we did for so long...=D

 

[AutoXRacer]

Mazdaspeed will always remain the best balanced cars on the road...whether they are not the fastest nor the best handling...no one can beat the total package!!!

And thats what Mazda is all about... "The Total Package"

Its a drivers car...no matter if its a wagon or a pure sports car...

Zoom Zoom biotches!!!(drive2)

 

[BluMicaR]

Did anyone say Cobalt < or = Cavalier yet? 'Cause it just looks like the crappy Cavalier all the 'cool' punks and hoodlums drove around 10 years ago.

 

[protegeV]

You should void his warranty considering his blower is going to explode being spun that far out of spec. Eaton's blow heat after 12 psi. Spin them over the max rpm and that damn thing is going to go boom! Ive seen a few lightnings explode eatons because of a 2" pulley on the blower shaft and a 6 psi overdrive pulley on the crank. I can only imagine what the oil looks like in that blower.

haha, wish I could. Thing is, there's no way to "void" someones warranty. You cant put a big VOID stamp on it and you can't prevent another dealer from fixing it under warranty. If we were to deny service they'd just complain to GM...we'd get screwed on our customer service, and ultimately have to fix it anyways. This happens all the time...Mostly with the Cobalt SS and Corvettes.

 

[Andrewsmc]

Hm i actualy like the cobalt, I was VERY close to buying one before i bought my msp. Just had to sign about 1 more paper lol.

 

[chaos4]

Theres no telling what this car can do until it comes out.
There ios a possibility that since its a coupe and not a 5 door hatch that it could handle better than the ms3, but we wont know until it comes out.

There's on article saying it beats the nurburgring record by like 13 seconds, and if thats the case, it's going to beat out the ms3 pretty easily, but until the car comes out and gets reviewed by an external source it doesnt have much validity.
I'm excited to see something come out that actually has a chance of giving the mazdaspeed3 a run for its money.

What the hell Nurburgring record did it beat? There must be 100's of records at the 'ring. Again, which record?
(protest)

 

[Sacrilicious]

the ms3 time was 8:39, i believe...that's a healthy 17sec better than ours.

 

[clos561]

its a nice car and im not going to hate on it, i just hope they do a good job on the interior without SO MUCH PLASTIC in this one. Wil be fast and will handle good because it is a coupe. Alot of you guys are jsut str8 up flaming this car without knowing much about it.

 

[clos561]

what the weight on this thing anyways? about the same as a regular cobalt ss?

 

[GullyBoy21]

Hey you guys...lol

WAIT! You guys are saying the new cobalt is going to be faster than MS3? Chevy Cobalt SS is being dropped altogether from chevy's line.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/04/chevy-cancels-cobalt-ss-supercharged-for-2008/

HHR SS is taking over the cobalt SS. It looks heavy and only has 260 hp.

 

[CHICO2003]

lmao

 

[flipstylex]

mwahahahah .....

man, i was expecting a real close matchup, now, it's another garbage truck being put against the ms3. s***, with all the expectation with the srt4, another garbage came along jeez... anyways, why can't they make a sports compact that can come close to the ms3 ;-) !!!

ms3 ftw