Pontiac G5, America is getting one too...
05-12-2006, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by bjjoh
Actually the Ions do have different interiors from the Cobalt. First thing you would you notice is the center mounter gauges(people complain and howl about it but it is not really that bad) and also the grade of plastics is a lot lower in the Ions than the Cobalt.
05-12-2006, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by sqela
looks kinda like a "baby" gto
05-12-2006, 03:06 PM
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I've never thought the Cobalt was bad, and definatly would have considered one for the replacement for the GA way way down the road. I'm liking the look of the G5 though, should be interesting to see how well it does.
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Originally Posted by Ryan
Plus the ION has the quad-door system or whatever it'* called. And Logan, the ION has a different interior, at least when I drove them. Admittedly, I drove an 05 ION Redline and an 06 Cobalt SS (not supercharged :(), so it'* possible Saturn changed it for 06.
EDIT: Just checked both sites, the interiors are still different.
http://www.saturn.com/saturn/vehicle...otoGallery.jsp
http://www.chevrolet.com/cobalt/photogallery/
EDIT: Just checked both sites, the interiors are still different.
http://www.saturn.com/saturn/vehicle...otoGallery.jsp
http://www.chevrolet.com/cobalt/photogallery/
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I would imagine the ducts are the same, different vents.
They use IDENTICAL (I'm not wrong this time) climate controls.
I sat in an ION today, I can vouche that the window controls in the door are the same.
Same shift handle.
Same headunit, different trim surrounding it.
Passenger airbag indicator, almost the same, different location.
If you want to get petty, yes, they are different. They have the same stuff though, in almost the same location (many times in the same location).
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I would imagine the ducts are the same, different vents.
They use IDENTICAL (I'm not wrong this time) climate controls.
I sat in an ION today, I can vouche that the window controls in the door are the same.
Same shift handle.
Same headunit, different trim surrounding it.
Passenger airbag indicator, almost the same, different location.
If you want to get petty, yes, they are different. They have the same stuff though, in almost the same location (many times in the same location).
They use IDENTICAL (I'm not wrong this time) climate controls.
I sat in an ION today, I can vouche that the window controls in the door are the same.
Same shift handle.
Same headunit, different trim surrounding it.
Passenger airbag indicator, almost the same, different location.
If you want to get petty, yes, they are different. They have the same stuff though, in almost the same location (many times in the same location).
Yes they are pretty much similiar but have differnet enough styling and interior trim that they are distinguished from themselves(hopefully enough that they can capture different parts of the market). It think its great that they share parts and R &D yet are somewhat dissimiliar. GM cannot keep building mere rebadges and retain marketshare just because they are GM like they did in the late 70s and 80s.