Though peak torque arrives early on at 2,000 rpm, this engine pulls the Cobalt SS Turbo like Usain Bolt dragging a Little Red Flyer for 200 meters. Case in point, the Cobalt SS Turbo returns 30 mpg on the highway. That is, produce V6 power with four-cylinder fuel economy. Available since 2008 in the Cobalt SS Turbo and HHR SS, and also in the Pontiac Solstice GXP and Saturn Sky Red Line, the turbo DI Ecotec does now what Ford promises its EcoBoost engines will do in a few years. It is the Alpha and Omega of the Ecotec engine family and a marvel of modern engineering. The heart of the Cobalt SS Turbo is its engine, a turbocharged, direct-inject version of the same 2.0L Ecotec in the first-gen car that now produces 260 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque. %Gallery-34334% Photos Copyright ©2008 John Neff / Weblogs, Inc. There's not a bow-tie badge to be found on the Corvette and you can't find a Camaro SS on a dealer lot anywhere yet. *My colleagues thought it best to explain this statement. Exactly how General Motors turned a bottom-of-the-pack, front-wheel-drive econocar into a class-leading sport compact is revealed after the jump. The result is – and we're not kidding here – the most impressive performance car to wear a bow-tie badge on sale today*. The GM Performance Division completely reworked the Cobalt SS for 2008, swapping in a more powerful turbocharged engine, upgrading the rest of the mechanicals, and tweaking the entire package on the world's most demanding race tracks, including the famed Nürburgring in Germany. But then something entirely unexpected happened. 2009 Chevy Cobalt SS Turbo – Click above for high-res image gallery The first-gen Cobalt SS failed to deliver with a supercharged 2.0L Ecotec four-cylinder producing 205 horsepower and a cast of supporting components that did little to hide the Cobalt's rental car roots.

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