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Originally Posted by jcampos
I've made this argument before a long time ago. The new SS should have been the Malibu SS, chevy's chance to bring back that old skool heritage of the 60's Malibu SS. However, chevy didn't want to redefine the G8/SS/GTO look. Rather got lazy and made up a car like Pontiacs G8, we all see how well that did, psh. IMO, chevy should have lengthened the SS drop the top a smidge and square/modernize it more and slapped the Malibu SS emblem on it and it would have got a lot of the older generation guys a hard on for the car. Just IMO... but whatever chevy knows what their doing that is why the Chevy SS(???) is doing so well...
I think the new Malibu looks decent and that line up sells good, why wouldn't chevy bring back the Malibu SS???  |
The point of the SS wasn't to spend a crapload of money to bring it to market, which what you're asking for would take. It was just to give the VF Commodore an additional export market (which was the purpose of the G8 for the VE Commodore).
So yes, believe it or not, GM does know what they're doing. Creating a "Malibu SS" in the way you're describing isn't a viable business case in the least.
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Originally Posted by jcampos
Says the guy who has a Chevy SS in the picture...
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But he's right. SS was meant to be a low volume car from the start. In fact the initial plan was to offer it available as a special order only.
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Originally Posted by BMR Sales
I have never understood why GM wanted to limit how many SS's they sell. Their Template for Nascar is the SS, they make Police Cars under the Caprice name, etc
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CAFE. And Caprice and SS are two different cars.