End of the line: GM builds last Chevrolet SSR
03-23-2006, 08:18 PM
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Remember what you guys are saying now. In 20 years they will be the next Superbirds and Daytona Chargers, Super Duty T/A's, hemis. Those things sat in dealer show rooms for years back in the day. Dealers couldn't give them away! The Superbirds and Daytonas were ridiculed. Now just try to buy one at auction. SSR 20 years from now? You watch. 
03-24-2006, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by TriShield
I remember when the concept was new, and the public demanded GM produced it. So they did. Now it's the gayest thing ever? Sometimes I really don't understand GM fanboys.
Personally, I think it's a real headturner and one of the more unique vehicles GM has ever made. The retractable top is super-slick and the LS2/six-speed option is killer. It's a cruiser, not a sports car or truck. Similar to the Thunderbird or Prowler, a real weekend showpiece for the street. I appreciate it for what it is.
I think it's great cars like that are produced and I'm sad to see another one go.
Personally, I think it's a real headturner and one of the more unique vehicles GM has ever made. The retractable top is super-slick and the LS2/six-speed option is killer. It's a cruiser, not a sports car or truck. Similar to the Thunderbird or Prowler, a real weekend showpiece for the street. I appreciate it for what it is.
I think it's great cars like that are produced and I'm sad to see another one go.
04-17-2006, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by WECIV
Glad to see it leave. GM was retarded to ever try that, AGH!!! A Colorado SS with an LS2 and a T56 is what they need to make...
04-17-2006, 02:33 PM
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I think its cool that GM built something like that, but not so cool that they killed something like the f-body and didn't spend the same development costs to build us a 5th Gen instead. Hmmm, which would have sold more, that SSR or a new Camaro?
Stupid move GM.
Stupid move GM.
04-17-2006, 04:06 PM
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Yawn. Overpriced, overweight, not functional for anything but show. Hmmm, now why would the average person buy this vehicle? Only those with a lot of money to burn would go this route. These are the same folks who drive the prices of collector cars beyond the reach of most of us.
To me this vehicle will never quite reach the status of a COPO Camaro, Superbird, Daytona or ZL-1. Just doesn't have the mystique.
I think GM would have been better served (as stated several times inthis thread) to spend the money on an F-Body replacement.
Just my opinion, for what it is worth. Which addmittedly may not be a whole lot.
GM - Build the Camaro, I still have my check ready for that one!
To me this vehicle will never quite reach the status of a COPO Camaro, Superbird, Daytona or ZL-1. Just doesn't have the mystique.
I think GM would have been better served (as stated several times inthis thread) to spend the money on an F-Body replacement.
Just my opinion, for what it is worth. Which addmittedly may not be a whole lot.
GM - Build the Camaro, I still have my check ready for that one!
04-17-2006, 06:45 PM
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Everyone is failing to realize there was HUGE public reaction to this when the concept truck was shown. GM felt it was so great that they had to produce it. It was never intended to be a mass market vehicle, but more of a halo vehicle, the Corvette of trucks in a sense. I wanted one myself real bad and the nearly 10K higher sticker than what was anticipated really killed sales. I still almost traded my SS for one the beginning of last year. Most of those that don't like it are too young to remember cars that had shapes and curves and didn't look like boxes or jelly beans. I'm only 31 but grew up at car shows and always loved the pre 50's styling much better than anything in the late 50's and up. I will own an SSR someday.
04-17-2006, 08:40 PM
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You have got to build a vehicle people want at a price they're willing to pay. How hard is that? GM was built on that basic principle, but now they've forgotten how to do it...
04-19-2006, 10:58 AM
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the SSR would have been more successful if it didn't compete in pricing with Chevy's other 2-seater, the Corvette. How many people would pick an overpriced heavy slow truck that can't haul for the same price reach as a Corvette? Obviously not that many.
The SSR could have been a winner with a less expensive hard top, an actual bed that could haul stuff, less expensive wheels/tires, and an LS1/T56. Pricing should have been in the high 20K range, like a fancy S10 replacement type truck.
The SSR could have been a winner with a less expensive hard top, an actual bed that could haul stuff, less expensive wheels/tires, and an LS1/T56. Pricing should have been in the high 20K range, like a fancy S10 replacement type truck.
04-19-2006, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Nine Ball
Stupid move GM.
If people wanted a sporty 2-seater for $50K, they go with the Corvette. If they wanted a fast truck, they go with the Lightning for much cheaper (plus it's actually fast), and you can still haul **** with it.
The SSR really served no purpose whatsoever. Had it have been closer to the $30K mark, it wouldn't have been so bad, but to cost as much as it did yet to be so impractical in just about every single way, it was just stupid.
04-19-2006, 06:39 PM
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Agreed. Would have been a different vehicle if it had a $25K maybe even $30K price tag.
Not to mention the stupid stealships putting 5K plus mark ups on them the first couple years. That kind of stuff puts a bad taste in people mouths, so they bought something else.
Not to mention the stupid stealships putting 5K plus mark ups on them the first couple years. That kind of stuff puts a bad taste in people mouths, so they bought something else.
