[Revo1]

Originally Posted by bigearl

Looks pretty nice Ssooch, I like it. I've never been in one but I've been in the turbo cobalt and it was pretty damned fast.

Interestingly enough for Revo1, Mark Reuss the VP of blahblahblah for Chevy said this:

"Reuss told reporters Thursday that instead of smearing the SS across Chevrolets "like peanut butter," the "new" GM will carefully consider which models get the SS designation at all, which ones will get SS as just a trim level and which ones will get the full SS treatment.

He noted that throughout Chevrolet's history, SS has been used as a sporty trim package as well as on a full-blown model with a powerful engine and all of the accompaniments. But mixing the two strategies as GM did with the Cobalt was "a mistake," he said.

"We probably didn't do a very good job on the Cobalt SS," said Reuss, who headed GM's performance operations before taking over GM's Holden operations in Australia, just prior to his newest job. "We came out with probably the best sport compact tuner with the 265-horsepower Cobalt SS. That car was an amazing track car, it was fun to drive and it was very affordable."

But then GM also put the SS label on a Cobalt as a trim package but without the engine and other performance hardware.

"That was confusing — confusing to me and confusing to the customer," said Reuss. "It's like trainspotting, figuring out which SS has the 265-horsepower engine."


So basically Chevy agrees with you going into the future. But it's not a flat 300hp thing, but an overall worthy thing.

And there we go. Great post Earl, this is essentially what I'm getting at