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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    They're killing the Cobalt SS entirely?


    Okay, now all the HHRs, Cobalts, and G6s sold are pieces of shit. GG, GM.

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    They murdered the Cobalt SS?


    Surely... a Cruze SS... right?


    RIGHT?

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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    Hear that? It's the Golf GTI's evil laugh now that there are no more obstacles to their world domination.
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    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    GM...Gelding Motors
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/08/09

    @xenon33: That's pretty damn clever.
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    Image of wallcouldtalk wallcouldtalk
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    There was an HHR SS? Why?
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    05/08/09

    @wallcouldtalk: Why not?
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    Image of htrodblder htrodblder
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    If they are gonna kill off every cool product they have wouldn't that make them, Toyota?
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    05/08/09

    @htrodblder: No, they'd still need to have a mountain of cash in the kitty to weather the Carpocalypse.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    I guess government motors has decided that there is a bit a stigma still attached to the "SS" moniker.
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    Image of cgarison cgarison
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    The removal of the Cobalt SS from the line up is a shocker. The only thing that could make this reasonable is a 2012 Cruze SS in the pipes to capture the market generated by the WTCC car.
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    05/08/09

    @cgarison: I suspect if there's much attention given to WTCC, it's pretty easy to slap a turbo back onto the Ecotec engine. (WTCC are all non-turbo, IIRC)


    I'd love to see WTCC catch on in the US, marketed sort of like "NASCAR Junior" or something. If it's done right, it could probably do pretty well. And the bonus is that the cars really are "stock cars"

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    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    Confirmed dead now include HHR SS


    Confirmed dead-to-me now includes GM.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/08/09

    @Ash78: I'm trying really hard not to think like that. REALLY HARD.


    But... HHR SS was so awesome!

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    05/08/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: Yes. I'm already using past tense.
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    05/08/09

    @Pessimipposaurus: You immediatist!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/08/09

    @Ash78: Damn straight.


    If I had to buy a brand-new FWD car, it probably would've been that rocket-powered breadvan.


    Well, now it'd be a Mazda3. But the breadvan had a lot going for it.

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    It looks like GM is replacing all the SSs with IOUs.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    05/08/09

    @Graverobber: I think they're replacing everything with IOUs. News last night said that if GM Canada didn't get a government bailout, GM would be pulling all the manufacturing plants from Canada altogether. "Give us money or else." You stay classy, GM.


    As for the SS, I can't say I'm heartbroken. I've been saying for a while that I felt they were badly diluting the "SS" badge by slapping it on a lot of slightly-more-powerful cars. I want the "SS" badge to be synonymous with "batshit insane", rather like Audi's "RS" badge.

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    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    What does GM have against the Schutzstaffel?
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    05/08/09

    @.threefiveseven: I am noticing your wearing your gold star..


    In to the train ja..


    Perhaps because Obama is running the show, he doesn't want to be compared to other former leaders with visions of hope / change

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    05/08/09

    @WheatKing: So it's a Nazi/Illuminati/Teletubbies/Al Queda plot to rule the world? I knew it!
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    Image of Conflicted Conflicted
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    I can understand all the choices here, except for completely killing off the Cobalt SS. I was under the impression that this is actually a well put together car that can be lots of fun at an affordable price level, which happens to have the unfortunate fate of looking like a Cobalt. Does this mean no fun pocket rockets from GM anymore?


    So much for appeasement by killing off the sedan but keeping the coupe.

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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    05/08/09

    @Conflicted: Beat me to it. I am not a fan of FWD, (Read: I loathe it) so I would never buy one, but it filled a niche in the american market that little else does (other the SRT-4). If they redesigned it to freshen it up a bit, it could be quite a cash cow.
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    Image of Sloop_John_B Sloop_John_B
    05/08/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: Drive the Cobalt SS and you might change your mind. Driving an MS3 changed mine, that's for sure. Yeah, it has its limitations, but fun to drive is simply fun to drive.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    05/08/09

    @Sloop_John_F*cking_B_Jalopnik_Gold_Edition: I dunno. I just don't like FWD handling characteristics. That, and any car with enough power for my liking has to deal with torque steer. The turning radius tends to suck too...


    It all comes down to personal preference, and I don't hold it against anyone to like a FWD car. The only way I would own one though is if I lived somewhere that it ever snowed. Even then, I would probably go for something AWD.

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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    05/08/09

    In reply to GM Axes Every High-Performance Trim Level Except Important Ones
    You know, you pay a lot for high performance trim, but you're only in there for like 5 minutes, so is it worth the extra money?


    Wait, what are we talking about?

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    05/08/09

    @OldeEnglishD: LMAO...if you launch just right, it's more like 12-13 seconds.
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    05/08/09

    @Ash78: For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.


    /can't help myself sometimes

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    Image of Joe Valasek Joe Valasek
    05/08/09

    @acarr260: So, the first ten or the second ten? Or were you talking 1/8th mile?
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    05/08/09

    @Joe Valasek: F&F reference... 1/4 mile in ten seconds... I guess it went over your head.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    05/08/09

    @acarr260: Hah, I suppose you could do a ten-second quarter mile in a Civic. With a proper six- or eight-cylinder engine.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    05/11/09

    @OldeEnglishD: A careful barber will spend more time than THAT on your hair.


    Oh, that's not what you were talking about?

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    Image of GTBruiser GTBruiser
    05/07/09

    In reply to GM Kills Chevy Impala SS... Again
    It's unfortunate GM decided it wasn't worth the effort to sort out the torque-steer problems, but, I am a big fan of the Impala SS. No big spoilers, scoops, badges, tape stripes on the outside, nor, overwrought shapes and tunnel vision gauges on the inside. Nice, big sleeper. For grownups. Like the last GTO.


    Too many doors, though. And G8 is a hideous name for a great car.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    05/08/09

    @GTBruiser: Exactly. If they had called it "Bonneville" or "Catalina" they might have sold slightly less abysmally.
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    Image of Starlton Heston's Revenge Starlton Heston's Revenge
    05/07/09

    In reply to GM Kills Chevy Impala SS... Again
    Wouldn't this be death #3???


    1958 - 1985

    1994-1996 SS only

    2000-present


    I say F the regular and let's have round 2 of SS revival but in original style, all engine options available with just tasteful fender badges differentiating between them (admittedly 219,366,378 don't have the same ring as 327,396,409). During the nose job, the engineers could maybe figure out a new rear fascia with 6 tail lights too, Audi halo style...


    well that won't happen.

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