So, where do renters go first? To the trunk, of course, to dump off their suitcases. It's an appropriate venue to meet the Cobalt everything about it suggests that it was engineered so badly it Hertz. Doing so got me a four-door Cobalt LS, resplendent (kind of) in Victory Red with plastic hubcaps, devoid of high mileage stress. If you need a refresher course as to how that turned out, head down to your local Enterprise office and ask for the basic $20/day buzz box. The Cobalt has to be better than competing small cars to get the market to notice." According to the buff-book bluster, "Lutz told engineers not to hold back on the good stuff and… they'll get that money back and more in reduced rebates." Another gem: "Lutz says being competitive isn't enough. The Cobalt, you'll remember, was launched to similar fanfare in 2005. So things will be different this time, right? Just like they were going to be different three years ago, when the Cobalt was released? The Cobalt I rented this weekend? Bah, humbug, I say. "In North America, we never did a good small car," Ed Welburn mea culpaed. A compact come-to-Jesus from the higher-ups quickly followed, delivered by GM's Design Chief. "All hail the new Cruze!" shouted the GM Kool-Aid Klub, apparent fans of intentional misspelling. A couple of weeks ago, grainy images portending GM's bright, small-car-driven future "leaked" onto the Web.
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