I got my Cobalt for $24,500 loaded, and i added the stage 2 kit for $900 and $50 for the lightweight pulley. I am running better or equal times to those Mustang GT's. Get a cobalt, they are fast, good on fuel when you are light on the throttle, they come with a 7 speaker pioneer MP3 CD system with sub, and they all have leather, tilt air cruise, power everything including sunroof. Plus the 07 and up come with 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. I beat the hell out of mine and no problems so far, just hit 37000 miles. The entire engine was built to handle 500 horsepower with the exception of the pistions, they can only handle 300 horse, the transmission is bulletproof too, it can handle 500 horse and it shifts so smoothly, the powertrain comes from the SAAB turbo, the suspension was designed and built by the corvette division, check the stats on the
nuerburgring track in Germany. The Cobalt SS is the fastest front wheel drive car to ever lap that track, thats out of all the cars in the world! There arent even any Mustangs on there. The Cobalt ss is far from an econobox car. Its a hell of a car.