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This is the catalogue record of the Chevrolet Cobalt, one of 277 models Chevrolet has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Chevrolet Cobalt properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ford Ford Mustang, the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson, the Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki Swift — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Chevrolet Cobalt reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L GM Ecotec engine#2.0 LNF / LNF Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L GM Ecotec engine#LSJ / LSJ Supercharger / S/C I4 / 2.2 L GM Ecotec engine#L61 / L61/GM E; kerb weight is recorded at 1246 kg (sedan) / 1216 kg (coupe); drive goes through 5-speed F35 (MU3) manual / 5-speed Getrag F23 manual / 4-speed 4T45 automatic; the layout is Front engine, front wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Chevrolet's own catalogue the Chevrolet Cobalt sits alongside the Chevrolet Adra, the Chevrolet C-10, the Chevrolet Camaro (2015), the Chevrolet Corsa. The record names the Geo/Chevrolet Prizm (Cobalt) / Chevrolet Cavalier (Cobalt) / Pontiac Sunfire (G5) as its predecessor and the Chevrolet Cruze (Cobalt) / Buick Verano (G5) / Chevrolet Onix (3rd generation) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Phil Zak. Assembly is recorded at Lordstown, Ohio, U.S. / Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
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