I must say I agree, but then again, I must to certain extent since I drive the plebian 5-pot Golf V myself, albeit in 3-door form.
From some angles, yes, the Golf is a bit awkward looking, but most of these compacts aren't pleasing from all viewpoints and the Subaru and Dodge are downright gawky/ugly.
The Cobalt coupe is of course sharper than the sedan, and that is how it should be. Although I find the sedan to be rather blanderiffic, it looks rather respectable in SS trim with the different fascias and aluminium wheels.
It was such a nice feeling in having my respect for the Cobalt refreshed as when it first came out and compared to the Cavalier.
However, in my experience, the Recaro buckets in the old SS Supercharged and the buckets in the new SS Turbocharged were the only chairs in the Cobalt worth a damn. Comfortable yet firm and properly supporting. The standard cars' chairs are quite dreadful and unsupportive for myself no matter what sort of lever and knob twiddling one could do and I am only around 5' 10" and 133 pounds.
That said, the Cobalt, with new interior or even just better materials and seats in the plebian models coupled with new headlamps, taillamps, front and rear fascias would do wonders.
The basic car itself is exceptionally nice because of the stiff chassis, bountiful sound deadening measures, and firm but well damped suspension. Unfortunately, it was largely the interior, and more specifically the seats that led me to choose the Golf over the Cobalt.
Of course, I was enamoured with the gorgeous and premium feeling Astra but in typical plodding GM manner, it was late to market versus what had been announced by at least three months, and thus, I had to default to the Golf. (It was Golf or no car at this point actually since a number of factors including myself had led to the death of my trusty Plymouth Breeze.)