A couple months back we showed you the first shot of the Microsoft Live "Street View" truck. Now a tipster to our gadget-obsessed brother site snapped some pictures of what appears to be Google upping the ante. The tipster, who will remain nameless to protect his identity from Google bombs, found ~~in a secret lair~~ at a highway park-n-ride 30 Chevy Cobalts. But these weren't just any Cobalts, all of them were "Street Cam" camera equipped, or "an armada of C.C.C.Cs (Chevy Cobalt Camera Cars)" as the Chevrolet-spotting Gizmodo tipster called them. We're wondering whether this means Chevrolet has thrown aside their allegiance to the forces of good (mom, apple pie, baseball and Autobots) in order to assist the forces of evil (Google)? More than likely Google just got a really good deal on a mess of Cobalts. [Gizmodo]

11:30 AM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Ray Wert
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Meat Farley at 11:43 AM on 07/17/07
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Why the hell not? Nobody else is buying them.
Ray Wert Jr at 11:47 AM on 07/17/07
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Just needs to be C.C.C.P
Chevy Cobalt Camera Patrol

In Soviet Russia, Car pictures you!
TPSreports at 12:06 PM on 07/17/07
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Up periscope!
2trips at 12:15 PM on 07/17/07
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Maybe it's a street racing gang, and they have vertical spoilers for lateral stability.
Cause the cobalt is an oversteering beast?
Ray Wert Jr at 12:26 PM on 07/17/07
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@2trips: light years a head of a cavalier....

Which is like saying Bob Dole is younger than Strom Thurman...
FreeMan at 12:57 PM on 07/17/07
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@Ray Wert Jr: R.O.F.L. !!!!!!

Dole < Thurman LMAO!

Man, I just figured no one else would take the Cobolts, and Google could use the cataclysmic depreciation as a tax write off
ekimap at 02:01 PM on 07/17/07
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Wow, so I was right! A few weeks back I saw a Cobalt with a contraption exactly like that on the roof parked at a Wienerschnitzel in Fountain Valley, CA. I thought at the time it was probably a Google Street View car....now I know it was!
MeMikeYouNot at 03:33 PM on 07/17/07
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I want that job-I'd even drive a Cobalt if I could have it.
scotte at 06:25 PM on 07/17/07
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It's reminiscent of the really bad old early-'50s movie "Radar Secret Service" (which you MSTies will remember from "Mystery Science Theatre 3000")...from the cheap Chevy to the high-tech crap of the day on the roof.
Maymar at 08:32 PM on 07/17/07
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@MeatFarley: It's not so much no one's buying them (it's still one of the best selling cars on the continent), no one buys them in that colour. Hell, I work in the service department of a Chevy dealership, and I think I've seen two in that, well, GM calls it blue. One is one of our rental cars.

Seriously, I like the Cobalt well enough, and I see plenty of them at work. But seeing so many, in the same colour that doesn't occur in nature, that's gonna give me nightmares.
RoninianHoon at 11:00 PM on 07/17/07
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I know google is using them, but I can't help but think of a caption for that picture like "Chevy Colbalt now available with standard remote control"