HHR SS bashing?
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From: Republic of Texas
Apples to oranges. Curb weight alone is enough to surpass a car that weigh roughly 3600 pounds. Again, you have to read my whole post, and not pick through bits of it. For the time period that 1968 Chevelle was what SS symbolized. A car with 4 wheel discs is certainly going to out brake a base model with drums in the rear and a single piston up front. A 2 door car with a 396 stuffed in it, is going to out-accelerate a 4 door chevelle with a 280hp 350. And an SS chevelle is going to out-handle a base model, although dangers of rolling over could stop you from trying. You see my point? For the TIME PERIOD of 1968, that SS chevelle was top notch, by todays standards where even a base model HHR has a 2 piston caliper up front, and is a whole almost 500 pound lighter than a 1968 steel mill, of course it will out perform your brothers SS Chevelle.
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Wow man, I am sory for offending you so. To answer directly, no I am not shocked. It is after all the internet, and an internet forum at that. It doesn't "shock" me in the slightest to see opinion taken to such misconstruance. I happen to be very fond of my HHR, that is why I sold my sports car, and bought one after all.
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From: Rockport, Tx.
Apples to oranges. Curb weight alone is enough to surpass a car that weigh roughly 3600 pounds. Again, you have to read my whole post, and not pick through bits of it. For the time period that 1968 Chevelle was what SS symbolized. A car with 4 wheel discs is certainly going to out brake a base model with drums in the rear and a single piston up front. A 2 door car with a 396 stuffed in it, is going to out-accelerate a 4 door chevelle with a 280hp 350. And an SS chevelle is going to out-handle a base model, although dangers of rolling over could stop you from trying. You see my point? For the TIME PERIOD of 1968, that SS chevelle was top notch, by todays standards where even a base model HHR has a 2 piston caliper up front, and is a whole almost 500 pound lighter than a 1968 steel mill, of course it will out perform your brothers SS Chevelle.
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From: Rockport, Tx.
Please dont misinterpret my "passion" for , well for anything but what it is. I dont mean to be nasty in any way, and am sorry if I come off that way. BTW, do you have a 70 Judge? if you do, you are one lucky sob. I am an old pontiac lover myself. Last one I had was a 77 Grand Prix, cammed up 400. I adored that car,,inside and out.
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From: Clinton, Mass
Originally Posted by The Auto Channel
Bob Lutz, GM’s respected product guy, popped in to the media launch of Chevy’s hot new HHR SS this week and spent some quality time both behind the wheel and smoozing with us assembled scribes from around the US and Canada.
He acknowledged that Chevy had been guilty of diluting the SS image on some models in the recent past by issuing some with little more than cosmetic embellishments.
“No more,” he vows.
Beginning with the HHR SS, GM’s Performance Division boss, John Heinricy, will oversee and approve no Chevy “that doesn’t turn, stop and go substantially better than the base model.” Only then will the SS badge be applied.
That's all I got
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It hauled ass but better not drop anything.
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Please dont misinterpret my "passion" for , well for anything but what it is. I dont mean to be nasty in any way, and am sorry if I come off that way. BTW, do you have a 70 Judge? if you do, you are one lucky sob. I am an old pontiac lover myself. Last one I had was a 77 Grand Prix, cammed up 400. I adored that car,,inside and out.
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From: Illinois
Judging from his commentary he seems to think it should only go to V8 Muscle cars or high end sports cars with a much higher sticker price. I think it all depends on the class of car and seeing as the HHR and Cobalt are considered compact/small cars I think 260- 300HP and the abilities these cars have even at stock or with the simple GM Stage kit it is very well deserving. These cars outperform many of the SS's of the past all while delivering awesome fuel economy and at an affordable price. What some fail to understand is that SS originated as an appearance package and that is true today to some extent. The performance is an added bonus.
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Why LOST options?
The only things I can't understand are:
1. Why the heated leather seats that are LT options are unavailable either as-is, or adapted as sport seats, for the SS, and
2. Why signal mirrors, or heated mirrors, or both, are not available as factory options for the SS (or any other HHR trim) when they are made for GM by an outside contractor as factory options for some of GM's other models. Said contractor sells a made-to-order custom retrofit of HHR heated signal mirrors, so why couldn't the factory offer them?
1. Why the heated leather seats that are LT options are unavailable either as-is, or adapted as sport seats, for the SS, and
2. Why signal mirrors, or heated mirrors, or both, are not available as factory options for the SS (or any other HHR trim) when they are made for GM by an outside contractor as factory options for some of GM's other models. Said contractor sells a made-to-order custom retrofit of HHR heated signal mirrors, so why couldn't the factory offer them?