“But, but,” I sputtered, gesticulating in a fashion I hoped was somewhere between acceptably friendly and usefully threatening, “when I reserved online, I specifically chose a Chevrolet Cobalt or similar.” “This is similar,” the smiling woman behind the counter assured me. “It’s very similar. It is also a Chevrolet, and it is the only intermediate we have left.” “Listen, lady,” I said, trying desperately to not sound like a crazy person, “the 1977 Cutlass Supreme Brougham was an intermediate. This is a tin box from Korea.” Despite its obvious absurdity, it was the last even vaguely rational thing I said. Bottom line: they were out of cars here at the Asheville airport. This was what they had left. Although I eventually received a four dollar and twenty-one cent credit to my account, there was no changing the fact that I would have to drive an automatic-transmission Aveo through the Great Smoky Mountains. Oh well. At least I could perform a top-speed test.
More than thirty years ago, General Motors responded to the flood of competent, cheerful imported small cars by introducing the Chevrolet Chevette. The Chevette was far from a perfect vehicle—perhaps no modern subcompact has been farther from the ideal—but it was designed by American GM personnel, from a European GM platform and built in the United States. It represented an honest attempt by GM to compete in the market. It should have been the first of many such efforts.
Instead, the Chevette was more or less replaced by the Sprint, a rebadged three-cylinder Suzuki. GM told us it was just temporary until the bright, shining day when GM would strike back with an all-American small car. Ha. More than twenty years later, we’re still waiting. Cruze much? We shall see. In the meantime, GM’s subcontracted the job to an even lower-cost producer, their Korean partner Daewoo. How pathetic is that? Let’s put it in perspective. Honda’s knocked out seven generations of Civics since GM sold a new American-made entry-level car.
It’s tempting, therefore, simply to pan the Aveo because it represents one of the most crass, cynical decisions ever taken by the company that was once America’s greatest automaker. That would never do here on TTAC. So instead I’ll review the car on its own merits, which are negligible.
Our tester stickered for $16,185. Forget about the used cars you could buy for that money. Within a thousand bucks up or down, we have everything from the underrated Ford Focus to the aforementioned Honda Civic, to say nothing of the VW Rabbit. All of those are real cars, which is to say they can climb hills.
The Aveo does not climb hills. Through the Smoky Mountains, it frequently reached for second gear in its woeful automatic transmission. In an ultimately unsuccessful effort to maintain the speed limit on steep grades, I pasted pedal to metal. Unfortunately, it did little to limit the time spent inside. While not unpleasant to observe, the Aveo’s front seats are proscribed by the Geneva Convention.
Though the Aveo couldn’t hold seventy up a hill, we were certain that it would be possible to break the magic “ton” downhill. At the crest of a long five percent grade, I gripped the wheel and asked the engine room for maximum thrust. Down we flew . . . eighty . . . eighty-five . . . ninety . . . The doors shook in their rubber moldings. The ChevyWoo’s nose began to wander alarmingly across the road surface, forcing me to correct at high speed like Raikkonnen coming out of the tunnel at Monaco. As the speedometer passed ninety-five, a low moaning noise gained terrifying resonance in the cabin. Things looked good for triple-digit street speed, but a rather gentle curve at the bottom of the long hill interrupted the party.
A quarter-turn of steering produced plenty of noise but no appreciable variance in heading, forcing me to left-foot kick the brake and then to induce some further oscillation with a sharp shake of the wheel. Finally, the squealing Aveo, now on the safe side of eighty-five, nosed into the turn. It was, without a doubt, the most terrifying moment I’ve experienced at even vaguely legal highway speeds in a long time.
Okay, so the Aveo doesn’t go, turn, or stop. Did you think it would? I didn’t. Again, I did expect that the Chevy would offer some solid value and rewarding features for the money. The Aveo doesn’t even offer more features than the similarly priced competition. Our tester had no cruise control, no power windows, no power locks.
Time for the good news: we averaged around thirty-five miles per gallon on a long, hill-infested trip, and nothing broke or wobbled loose. That’s it. It’s impossible to care about this car, but don’t worry. GM shares your disinterest.
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I had the misfortune to rent an Aveo for a few days last summer. I was only going to be in town for a couple of days, and didn’t figure to be driving much. Plus, I was on my own dime, and I figured that the money saved would be better spent on drink.
The car was as horrible as you paint it. I was pretty sure at the time that the parking brake was stuck on, a view reinforced by the howl from the back of the car. I kept driving it. It wasn’t worth the hassle of getting another car, and I figured that it wasn’t like I was destroying the Statue of Liberty or something if the car burned up.
Small, scary, pathetic, cheap. I just can’t see how anyone would buy one of these when, for the same money, you could have a Honda Fit – a car that seems light years ahead in design and quality.
Aveo – the American Trablant.
This is the future of the “new GM”. With Opel gone, NewGMNA pretty much only capable of engineering on-frame SUVs and trucks and Holden too small to matter, you’re looking at the results of the talent behind the new automobiles to come forth from New GM.
I would only buy a Daewoo (no matter how badged) for 1/2 price of retail. In fact, did so in 2003 (a leftover 2002). Long story, but didn’t want a used car – got a Nubira. Ironically, it was far better than the Ohio built 1997 Cavalier or Mexican built Dodge Neon we’d had prior… both US engineered.
Which speaks volumes all by itself.
You forgot to mention some other wonderful GM small cars. Pre-Chevette – the Vega – had a number of interesting ideas but none of them worked out. The Cavalier. I don’t have high hopes for the Cruze – it’s also from the Daewoo folks. Daewoo went bankrupt and became part of GM. Remember the last Pontiac Le Mans? – a Daewoo vehicle – one of the many bad chapters of the end of Pontiac.
GM has never taken small cars seriously. That’s one of the reasons why they are in their current (sad) state.
1 star? That’s generous! The Aveo is alone in its spot as the shittiest car ever sold as a Chevrolet. That includes the Vega and the Monza. Absolute garbage.
$16,185?
What meaning does that number have? Has an Aveo ever sold for that price?
I’ve never driven one of these. Maybe that’s why I can ask, “Why does everyone have to be so mean to the Chevy Aveo?”
The Cruze won’t be the equivalent to this car–it’s the next class up. And a good share of its engineering was performed outside the U.S.
Which means that the Aveo competes with the Fit rather than the Civic. Not helping it’s case. I fully expected the Aveo to be much cheaper in an apples-to-apples comparison–but if anything the Fit seems to have a slightly lower price. Oops.
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Michael Karesh: “Why does everyone have to be so mean to the Chevy Aveo?”
It’s shit.
Really. You’d be far, far better off in any other subcompact in the market, including the (other) Korean marques Hyundai/Kia.
Go take one for a test drive – I guarantee they won’t give you any hassle other than trying to get you to move up to the Cobalt.
35 years ago I got stuck with a Chevette with A.C. for a rental. Every time the compressor kicked in, you had to pull over to let loaded semis get by you.
Amizing that in 35 years nothing has improved in GM’s sub-econo arsenal.
I’ve never driven one of these. Maybe that’s why I can ask, “Why does everyone have to be so mean to the Chevy Aveo?”
Michael -
It’s not that the cars are small and cheap and underpowered. It’s that it’s drudgery to drive one. That’s the unforgivable sin of the Aveo.
A small cheap underpowered car can be a joy to drive. I used to love VW beetles because you HAD to rev them to the redline, but those tiny engines loved that and I LOVE little screamers (heh). You leaned them over in the corners and thought you were going on the roof, but you were only going 30 mph. They were FUN. A drive to the office was a lap of the ring.
The Aveo is like walking with one of the Volga boatman. Yo ho HEAVE ho, doom doom doom doom, Yo ho HEAVE ho…
superbadd75: “The Aveo is alone in its spot as the shittiest car ever sold as a Chevrolet.”
Worse than the Chevette? Ouch. The only thing the gas pedal did in the Chevette was change the pitch of the noise.
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Baruth,
What rental company is that? If they’re foisting Aveos on innocent consumers who reserved “intermediate” cars, I want no part of them.
when I reserved online, I specifically chose a Chevrolet Cobalt or similar
One of the nice things about Clown Car Compacts is that they really are well-packaged. That goofy roof height allows a really comfortable seating position, one better than what the next size up does. It’s the reason I own a Fit and not a Civic or Accord: I actually fit better in it.
I had an Aveo as a rental a few years back (and have been in and out of the little buggers since) when my wife was some eight months pregnant. She found the car nearly as comfortable as our in-the-shop-again Saab 9-3 and much more than our old Mazda Protege.
Through the Smoky Mountains, it frequently reached for second gear in its woeful automatic transmission.
The automatic is, horrifically, the better of the two transmissions. The five-speed manual has to be the worst passenger car shifter in history. I’ve driven medium-duty trucks with more “snickety-snick”. The automatic, though, generally finds the right gear, does so quickly, and doesn’t get flustered.
I think what you’re noticing is that little 1.6L lump of iron GM purports to call an engine. Compared to the little marvel in the Yaris, this is a truly awful powerplant.
A quarter-turn of steering produced plenty of noise but no appreciable variance in heading
Yeah, there’s that, too. A car this small should be quick on it’s feet, and this isn’t.
When the Aveo first came out, it really was reasonably competitive, and it utterly shamed the next-up-the-ladder Cavalier** in terms of refinement, packaging and interior quality. It was also more or less better than the contemporary Rio and Accent, and at least bigger than the Echo of the time, if not better. The hatch was especially appealing for entry-level buyers, and I recall Chevy dealers being really confused about how the hell to sell Cavaliers when this was in the showroom. In those first few months, it moved fairly well.
But then the Rio and Accent were revamped and got marginally better than the Aveo, the Yaris showed up and was definitely better, and the Fit and Versa changed the game completely. God help the Aveo when it gets cross-shopped against the Fiesta.
Right now, this car sells only because it is cheap, and even then, it’s not appreciably cheaper than the Kia Rio.
** not a ambitious target, I’ll grant you.
you should drive the hatchback, it’s even worse. i was cruising (if i can use the term) on a six lane highway in Dubai, could barely muscle 80kph to run way from the trucks. it was a deathtrap on wheels, had to keep my eyes on my rear view mirror to avoid cars passing me rather than keep my eyes on the road, because i was never going fast enough to catch up to anything in order to crash into it, not even a traffic sign at the rate they change traffic flow in Dubai .
The reality is that GM doesn’t actually sell this car for the $16,185 sticker price; it simply isn’t competitive at that price. They have to offer massive discounts to get the price low enough so that the shortcomings are not as serious. $16,185 is simply what they would like to sell it for, but in reality, it needs to sticker for somewhere around $13,000.
When we first arrived in the USA, we had the misfortune of having one of these shit boxes for nearly a month. It was by far the worst car I’ve ever driven, and I’ve driven hundreds, including the woeful and dangerous Dodge Nitro.
There are motoring journos who say things like “There are no more bad cars.” They have obviously never driven a Chevy Aveo.
We had the 4 door sedan model, a model that most markets thankfully will never experience. Not only did it have a laughable trunk, fully capable of holding maybe one bag of golf clubs… if you took them out and squished the bag down so that the gooseneck trunk lid mechanism wouldn’t crush them. You might be lucky to stick a decapitated torso without arms or legs in the trunk. It’s not even a one body trunk.
We ended up putting our luggage into the back seats, which is made all the more difficult by the narrow opening doors, and quite frankly a terribly wasteful design. I’m sure the sedan was a complete afterthought for the USA market, who for some rather stupid reason hates hatches.
Keeping up with traffic was simply not possible. It was dangerous to merge if you had a short on ramp – even on a 45 mph parkway. It didn’t have the engine, brakes or steering in reserve if you were about to be collected by a granny in a Toyota Corolla in the right lane, so you had to carefully plan your route or drive only when it’s very quiet and pray to God that Jack Baruth wasn’t in the emergency lane.
The fuel economy was woeful. We got 21 mpg out of the 1.6 litre engine. That was highway driving (IAD to Columbia, MD) and running around town 5-10 miles at a time at moderate speeds on the various parkways around town.
You had to keep your distance – the car’s braking system was like standing on a piece of wood, which btw is what I’m moderately sure the drum brakes were lined with as they stunk if you had to stop suddenly – once.
We bought a VW Rabbit 5 door in late January 2007, and despite only costing an extra $2k over our hire car’s MSRP, we had a sunroof, a quiet and well built interior, a thirsty if capable 2.5 litre engine that regularly managed 28 mpg on the highway, cruise control, decent road feel through the steering, rock solid stability at 70 mph, cavernous interior room that literally swallowed our two large Ikea trolleys of flat pack furniture in one hit, had ESP and ABS and EBD and 7 airbags, and was everything the Aveo was not. Getting out of the Aveo and into the VW was like stepping into an entirely different world.
I think 1/5 is overly generous. The Aveo is the anti-car. Even “I only buy cars to get from A to B” folks would hate being in this penalty box. It’s the true definition of “shit box” in every way.
I’ve never driven one of these. Maybe that’s why I can ask, “Why does everyone have to be so mean to the Chevy Aveo?”
It’s not as bad as it’s made out to be. That said, it’s also the second-worst car you can buy new (winner: Dodge Calibre). That’s saying something.
Which means that the Aveo competes with the Fit rather than the Civic. Not helping it’s case. I fully expected the Aveo to be much cheaper in an apples-to-apples comparison–but if anything the Fit seems to have a slightly lower price. Oops.
The Aveo is often discounted to levels the Fit will never, ever reach. Ditto the Yaris (which is really more it’s natural competitor, and a thoroughly better car) and the Versa. It’s up against the Rio and Accent, which are also better cars.
No one buys fully-loaded Aveos, or at least if they do, they don’t pay what GM or it’s dealers need in order to make money. The Fit and Yaris (at least in Canada) are not often discounted, and the upper trims do sell.
Again, it’s not really horrific, but you can tell it exists to fill a price point, and that GM doesn’t really want to sell it. It’s doubly-shameful when you see Opel Corsas for sale in Mexico that are much better cars, on the whole.
Not really arguing with the statement that the Aveo is quite possibly the shitiest car sold in the US, but a few counter points:
1. It is quite spacious, the trunk in the sedan is really quite huge. I test drove a Fiesta recently in Chicago (Ford’s marketing event) and it felt smaller inside than this 7 yr old daewoo design
2. The recently revamped interior is close to the best in the segment
3. The ride quality is way way better than the last gen Fit (haven’t driven the new one)
4. The fuel economy is very decent and the acceleration is on par with the segment.
The three things that make the Aveo so terrible are the absolutely crappy handling, lack of refinement and the pricing.
I think 1/5 is overly generous. The Aveo is the anti-car. Even “I only buy cars to get from A to B” folks would hate being in this penalty box.
No, it isn’t. The Corolla (or Yaris) is the anti-car person’s car; the kind of vehicle you buy as when you need your car to last, cost nothing, be comfortable and not kill you.
The Aveo is what you settle for when you can’t afford better and, for no reason I can figure out, can’t or won’t buy a used Yaris.
That was total BS from the rental company. If the Aveo is intermediate, then what do they rent in the compact size, golf carts? If this happened to me, I wold never rent from them again. Just a word of advise, look over the list of available cars from any rental agency. It will give you a chance to see what you can get stuck with at a particular company so you can counter offer an alternative.
The Aveo taught me a valuable lesson – don’t cheap out on a rental car. I had the unfortunate experience of renting one for a trip from Albuquerque to San Francisco. It is as bad as everyone describes, and I didn’t get anywhere near 35 MPG, and our trip was all highway driving. This car is indefensible, considering what else is available on the market, new or used.
I am going on a 10-day trip next week to visit the national parks in Utah and specifically reserved an intermediate car so I would not have to suffer through another trip in an Aveo. I hope I don’t get stuck with one.
psarhjinian
The Aveo is what you settle for when you can’t afford better and, for no reason I can figure out, can’t or won’t buy a used Yaris.
Wal, shoot… yu’d buy one of these if you was wantin’ to buy you a ‘Murrican car instead of one of them Japanese thangs. After all, Chevy’s ’bout as ‘Murrican as yew ken git!!
Seriously, though, what’s really sad is that nothing’s changed about the car underneath. Too bad they didn’t put as much effort into making it drive better as they did in trying to make it look more like a small Impalibu.
HERTZ told me the only car you can reserve definitely is the PRIUS as it is in their “green collection” and green is green….or is it?? as they name a SUBARU OUTBACK in their green collection after the jump….I guess only because it is actually painted green as 20/26mpg is hardly green is it !!!!!
https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/byr/index.jsp?targetPage=USgreencollection.jsp?leftNavUserSelection=globNav_3_5_1&selectedRegion=United%20States
I don’t see the Outback in the green collection…when I’ve had them from Hertz, it was the equivalent of a midsize sedan (Fusion) or crossover (Escape). But I usually get Xterras, which I’m becoming fond of for field work in the mountains and plain states.
The one I rented last year wasn’t too bad. It did steer poorly, but overall I thought it handled fairly well (granted I never exceeded 70 mph), but I have to ask why anyone would buy one when, for the same money or a few bucks more, you can do so much better? This is why GM is in trouble.
John
@sutski
The Subaru isn’t considered green because of its gas mileage, but rather because the actual production process of the car is “green”. I’ve got a feeling it’s a partial zero emissions vehicle as well.
I’ve got a feeling it’s a partial zero emissions vehicle as well.
You can get a PZEV Legacy, but not all Legacies are PZEV.
My sister had a 2006 Aveo. Note that she HAD it. In 20,000 km it went through an engine, transmission and two computers. The dealer was a total jerk. She flogged the thing before the reputation of the car became commonplace and bought a Civic, which, two years later, has been trouble free.
The Cruz is just going to be yet another of GM’s much vaunted “import fighters.” There is no way on God’s Green Earth it can compete with the Corolla or Civic.
GM has never taken small cars seriously
Pretty much this.
Why sell somebody a small car with razor thin profit margins when you can sell somebody a body on frame truck with much much much larger profit margins…
One star! That’s exactly what the Aveo got on its EuroNCAP crash test!
I have no idea why anyone would want to buy these GM-Daewoo pigs… the engines are agricultural, even by Korean standards, the handling is terrible (a Kia Rio or Hyundai Accent may not have any grip, either, but they have much more handling confidence and much less understeer…) and the build quality borders on Chinese.
Last time I drove a Lacetti/Optra, I was struck by how clumsy the manual felt and how much understeer there was. And that was while driving at just 30 mph.
I think the most surprising facts from this review are:
1. That you actually got to 95 mph before the crappy alignment and wheels started vibrating in protest.
and
2. That you got 35 mpg. I was under the impression that it was physically impossible for GMDAT four-bangers to get over 20 mpg.
@Canucknucklehead
Yup..bad engines, bad transmissions, cruddy handling, horrible cheap plastic smell. Possibly worth about the new $8999 entry level price and not a penny more.
Obama-mobile.
You will learn to like it…
Wife ended up with one of these two weeks ago as a rental unit while our Fusion was being repaired after a parking lot fender bender. Her impression? After three days she gave it back and chose to drive our son’s (now available since he’s off at the Academy and can’t have a car) 1997 Toyota Tercel with 184k on the odometer! That’s pretty damning…(for the Aveo, that is. As for the Tercel, we simply love the little scooter).
Hence the reason why I always push folks towards a Versa if they’re looking for commuting on the 10k to 12k side of the world.
GM seemed always to saddle their tinymobiles with crappy handling in order to meet the imagined demand for big-car ride softness as a prerequisite. The products exist mainly to satisfy CAFE requirements via the bizarre formulae that allow manufacturers to cobble together legions of unsellable junk to rot on the lots to offset their thirsty SUVs. I noticed the absence of the GEO line in the above discussions — was that any better, or just not even worth the mention?
Our tester stickered for $16,185.
Last fall I bought a Civic as a daily driver, an ‘09 LX for $17.2k and for the money it’s such a nice car. It is amazing that someone can actually sell the little junk cars like the Aevo (or even buy one) when a basic Civic doesn’t cost that much more.
Wasn’t the aveo advertised as the “cheapest car in america” ?
Isn’t the base hyundai accent MSRP at under $10k?
$16k sticker price = nsfw…??
Our tester stickered for $16,185.
I very much doubt that any Aveo goes out the door at that price, especially with cranker windows.
GM is so hopeless; I am a businessman and I would not give up one percent of my market if there were one cent to be made on it. Repeat buyers are what you want. Besides, Honda makes a profit of everything they sell, which kind of blows the “no profit on small cars” mantra.
Besides, Honda makes a profit of everything they sell, which kind of blows the “no profit on small cars” mantra.
There’s a difference between “we can’t make a profit” and “we don’t think a car is worth making”. Honda probably doesn’t make much (if anything) on the Fit, but knows they have to spend money in order to snare future Accord/Oddy/Pilot buyers.
GM makes this vehicle simply to fill a slot in the lineup and give dealers something to move; given the choice, they’d rather not make it at all and don’t seem to understand that every Aveo buyer is a potential shopper for something better. Or rather, every Fit, Yaris and/or Versa isn’t just a lost Aveo sale. it’s a lost Malibu/Traverse/etc as well.
You cannot ignore the low end of the market, or if you do, it’s at your peril. It’s where buyers will fall back to in bad times, and it’s in those bad times that you hope you’ve got a war chest and an appealing product so that you’ll steal sales and mindshare from your competitors.
Upper-market buyers are fickle and will switch brands and products easily; they’ll also forgive problems and failings in their purchase because it was ego-driven and discretionary. Low-market buyers are much more hard-headed, and will avoid you like the plague if you burn them.
Honda probably doesn’t make much (if anything) on the Fit
Actually, it probably does make a decent profit per car. The Fit is sold all over the world in practically identical form and the last generation was sold unchanged for seven years. Nor is a Fit particularly cheap, especially when you add a couple of options. Just goes to show that people will pay more for a product they perceive as a better value,
I’m surprised you got 35mpg. My wife too got suckered into renting one of these when all the good cars were gone.
28mpg round trip from Lexington to Louisville. I’m sure you are aware there’s no mountains between the two and unless she had it stuck in 1st gear and didn’t realize it, that’s such an epic fail for a small car.
The next week she got a Nissan Versa. Standing alone it may not be a desirable car, but compared to the Aveo it’s the best car on the planet.
This is the Chevy Cobalt with a different name.
You better be buying KIA or Hyundai.
@BEAT:
“This is the Chevy Cobalt with a different name.”
What.
I did a double-take when I saw that MSRP – went to Chevy’s “Build Your Own” site, and sure as shite: $16,185 with the only options being Auto tranny and ABS.
For giggles, I built a 2LT sedan loaded with all of the (plus dealer-installed) options: $19,180.
The 2LT doesn’t even come with aluminum wheels – GAH!
Aveo… must…die.
What do you mean by What?
Aveo is Chevy Cobalt. Understood
My theory regarding the Fit is this…
Honda is breaking even at best making it in Japan right now and selling it here, but the biggest plant for Fit/Jazz production is… CHINA! European Jazzes are now coming from China.
So, once everybody is comfy with Fits here in the US, they will start streaming in Chinese production, just like they did with US production in 1982.
That’s called “playing the long game”.
No offense to this GM owned Korean entry level car for the NA sub-compact market – but it isn’t even close to being an intermediate.
When I was presented an Aveo as being my only choice by an airport rental agent, I smoothly held onto their paperwork that the agent disinterestedly put in front of me to sign. – Then turned around and announced that I needed to shop around with the competition first.
At that point the Enterprise agent picked up the phone and a Pontiac G6 became available.
I was interested in the Aveo hatchback when they first came out. Of course I had no idea how horrible they were back then. We were looking for a car for my wife. She didn’t like the looks of the Aveo, but I liked the price. We ended up with a used Jetta TDI. Glad I didn’t buy an Aveo. The TDI loves hills and still gets great economy.
People waits months to buy one down here. Really. They usually pay overprice too. Price being between US$ 11K-37K depending on the exchange rate chosen.
I’ve seen those things going 110MPH in the highway here. Not faster than that.
The version shown in the picture is called LS here, and was more expensive than the normal one. We haven’t got the facelift on the 3-5 door versions.
And I don’t like them.
@BEAT:
“This is the Chevy Cobalt with a different name.”
- Not in a long shot. – The base 2.2 in the Cobalt will pull the car at 80 mph all day long and still return 30 mpg. – The Cobalt is built on an entirely different platform than the Aveo.
BEAT
What do you mean by What?
Aveo is Chevy Cobalt. Understood
I don’t understand. Please elaborate.
I would have walked away from the rental counter if they tried to push one of these on me. I understand that’s not always an option.
What do you mean by What?
Aveo is Chevy Cobalt. Understood
Uh…negative. The Aveo is a rebadged Daewoo Kalos, built in Korea and (unfortunately) floated on a big boat over to unsuspecting American rental car companies.
The Cobalt is on an American GM Delta platform (the Saturn ION and Pontiac G5 were on this platform as well) and is built in Ohio.
Aside from the badge on the nose the two cars are otherwise unrelated.