But I legitimately knew nobody who picked any of those. That's because most of my friends and I picked the Chevy Cobalt SS instead. Yup, a hum-drum economy car GM lightly souped up from the ...

And they didn’t bring much money, either. A Ford Contour SVT sold for less than 9 grand, while a Chevy Cobalt SS and a Mercury Topaz GS each brought barely $4000. The most bang for the buck this ...