http://www.autoweek.com/article/2014042 ... dailydrive
Need we forget the 2008 Cobalt SS (with the LNF turbo 2.0 DI engine) which ran an 8:22, which is dead even with an E46 M3?
Fun facts:
- Renault beat that record 8 months after the Cobalt SS set the fastest FWD record, by 5 seconds, with a pretty raw and stripped down Mégane RS R26.R
- The 300hp Euro-spec Ford Focus RS ran an 8:26
- "The chain drive ecotec engines (the Cobalt's N/A 2.2, and 2.4L, the Cobalt SS' supercharged 2.0L, and turbocharged 2.0L) were all designed and engineered by Saturn in Spring Hill, Tennessee with light involvement from Opel. The first cars to debut a new Ecotec were always Saturns until Saturn was killed off in 2010.
first 2.2L Ecotec? 2000 Saturn LS1."
- "first 2.0L supercharged? 2004 Saturn Ion Redline."
- "first 2.4L VVT ecotec? 2006 Saturn Sky and 2006 Saturn Ion"
- "first 2.0L turbocharged VVT SIDI? 2007 Saturn Sky Redline (quickly followed by the Pontiac Solstice, then the Opel GT, then the Cobalt SS Turbo, then the HHR SS, then the Daewoo G2X)"
- "And the Delta Chassis used by the Astra and Cobalt can also be claimed to be American. First car ever on the Delta platform? 2003 Saturn Ion. Or 2 years before any other Delta platformed variants came along."
Kind of interesting all of the Saturn-ness that is indirectly inside the Cobalt SS.