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Diesel just likes to hang around -- exhaust smell in clothes, especially.
I had a spewing gas problem with a Cobalt a couple years ago (seems to connect well with the gas smell and mention of the car...)
The fuel rail started spewing fuel out of the rail endcap about 15 miles from the rental lot. After about passing-out from the fumes, I stopped at home and called for a swap. They brought a replacement Saturn Ion with a really bad BO smell. BBO! It took a whole bottle of Febreeze to get that even tolerable. That was a great trip to Tulsa. Yeah.
Only 2 cars ever crapped-out on me when renting: that Cobalt, and a Grand Am in a torrential Florida rainstorm circa 2002.
I really want to like the Cobalt, but many I've have had problems from major to minor. I did enjoy an SS coupe in Memphis/Oxford/Tupelo once -- fun car.
The rental fleet is a great place to experience "accelerated aging". They're not abused as much as the past, but they're also keeping them beyond the 30K mark. More reliable perhaps.
The 1 mPG observation is straight from Howie and that same announcer guy in the Cobalt vs. Civic and others. All manufacturers tout their highway mileage -- but what good is it when the city figure stinks? The fair comparison is the combined value from the raw excel data sheet (attached).
RH77
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