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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
Who built the Camaro SS? The V-coupe? Who will build the next Corvettes, and the Z28? 
The performance division may not be around anymore...but the people who made it up certainly aren't gone...GM performance is far from dead.  |
The CTC-V and the Z28 had their high performance engineering work pretty much done before the group was disbanded. I don't think the Corvette is done by them (I think the ZR1 was though), and the Camaro was largely engineered by Holden. The Cruze is a bit different since there isn't a specific performance division to create an SS and GM is scaling back the usage of the badge.
But speaking of the potential Cruze SS, I'd like to see it with not just competitive performance to cars like the Speed3 but utterly dominant. Screw the 2.0L ecotec and step up to a turbo V6 or a NA V8. Make it an OMGWTFBBQ crazy machine. I don't care what sort of voodoo magic they'd have to pull to do it. I figure they should either go big or go home. It would be a car with limited appeal anyway, so why not make it the most appealing to that limited crowd? If they want FWD performance (for what ever misguided reason) then give them the absolute best performance in that segment without any possible room for questioning. Make the others look like they brought a knife to a nuke fight. Yeah, a nuke fight, not just a gun fight.
That is what an SS
should be.