Mine won't be at 240,000 miles. And totally not stock.

What do you guys think?

 

collectible? sure why not. in the same way fieros are collectible. the right group of people will desire them, however i highly doubt they will be valuable.

 

My 09 SS is at 7800 miles

 

I think not. I don't know why but I just don't see it. It's a cobalt nothing more nothing less.

 

Agree with most of this. As "collectible" as they may be, i do not think we will see them going for much more that what they were worth new, adding inflation.

I will add though, i know several people who had old hemi cuda's, chargers, ect who would have been in a good position had they kept them. I asked them why they sold them. Most replied "They were everywhere, everyone had them back then and i didn't think in 30-40 years they would be worth so much."

Only time will tell, highly collectible, doubt it. Worth a decent amount of change, i think so.

 

Try a yellow SS sedan as a collector lol

 

another article on that

Why The Chevrolet Cobalt SS Is A Future Classic

 

Collector is like it will gain value as it gets older. So Idk if the cobalt falls there just yet haha But it is a car getting more credit the last few years. When I first got my both my SS's not many knew they were boosted. Now I get more boy racer fk's asking what boost u running blah blah blah. So yeah they might be a car ppl want more in the next few years cuz of the power. But im not worrie about keeping the miles low or stock thinking it's gonna pay off. Just keep it clean, these cars are ment for fun😎

 

I think yes but its going to take some time

 

expanding on my first post, here is my take. for a car to become collectible it needs to be more than just a car. it broke gm into the fwd sport compact market and was one of the better all around packages out there. it opened gm up to a lot of road racing, and really opened peoples eyes on what a fwd could do. gm built on that with the turbo cobalt, however the road racing success started falling off, the sport compact drag racing was dead, and gm just killed it all off. no more racing these types of cars, and no building anything more in a performance fwd. had gm carried on and built the cruise ss and campaigned it like they did when the cobalt came out, the cobalt ss would be seen as the car that started it all, as far as gm stuff goes.

im gonna throw another car out there, specifically a car and engine. beretta gtz with the quad 4 ho. similar idea as the coablt ss, 15 years earlier. high powered (for the day) fwd, sporty feeling car. gm raced with it and even brought out the special 195hp "w41" quad 4 in very limited numbers. again, gm killed it all off and didnt follow it up. what are they worth today? scrap steel.

to be collectible, if the car isnt "one that started it all", have a racing heritage, it needs some sort of a hook. grand national is a good example, no racing herritage, just a grandpas car with a killer motor. its hook, in its last year, it was faster than the corvette.

now i could be wrong on this all, the cobalt, now 5 years out of production, the books are closed on it, but it could yet earn a hook. as much as we all hate to see it, in years to come hybrids and plug in electrics are going to take over the compact car market, to the point were you might not even see a gasoline/diesel only powered small size car being made. this really isnt that far away from happening. compact cars make up a huge amount of vehicle sales, and thats how car manufacturers meet the strict cafe fuel standards, by getting every bit of economy out of these cars. really its inevitable. and this could be how the cobalt earns its hook, it could become the last performance oriented gm fwd ever built.

 

meh I'm still gonna DD mine and ride it into the ground, Sharkey is right and I bought it to drive, hell even if I bought a Zr1 I'd still drive the !@#$@# out of it as much as I could. Its not like we're driving some rare old Ferrari that'll blow the Barrett Jackson one day.

These will be collectible to a small group of people, like the SRT4, and they'll all be cheap ***** who wont want to pay more than 5K for a mint T/C in 3 years.