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America's no. 1 automaker has gone for an overhaul of its fleet, unleashing 29 new or updated models. The company hopes to entice young buyers with zippy entries like the Chevy Cobalt. Replacing the aging but best-selling Cavalier, the compact Cobalt offers extras--heated leather seats, an MP3 player and a power sunroof--that should help it compete with the more upscale Honda Civic and Volkswagen Jetta. But the upgrades aren't just aesthetic: relatively large 15-in. tires come with the coupe and the sedan, and a peppier, 170-h.p. engine will be standard on the coupe...
Perhaps the most innovative of GM's new cars is the Malibu Maxx, a cross between a sedan and an SUV. It was designed in part by Saab, as are the Cobalt and the new Pontiac G6 sedan. The Maxx offers excellent ride and handling, rear seats that recline and slide back for added legroom, and a hatchback that opens to a generous-size trunk. Rear-seat passengers even get their own skylight, with adjustable sunshades for each passenger. "The old Malibu was a very average car," says Consumer Reports' David Champion. "We're very impressed with the new model...
...genuinely excited him was the roaring palette of the Post-Impressionists, the way that Gauguin or Van Gogh pumped color to convey feeling, without regard to whether a green face had ever been green in reality. This turned the key in Chagall's mind. Whole floods of vermillion and cobalt and purple came forward. It was this discovery he had in mind when he wrote, "I brought my objects with me from Russia. Paris shed its light on them...
...challenger candidates, Robert LaTrémouille, surveys the sloping riverside clearing, sparsely vegetated and concealed from the Memorial Drive traffic above. He squints one cobalt eye and stares with the other at the patch of river showing through waterside foliage. His jaw is set hard...
...people aren’t in drag at all, including Fred O. Smith ’04, who wears a conservative cobalt sweater and khakis. “I’m going to a Sigma Chi party after this,” he confesses...