Generalizations: the Five Best GM Cars Ever and the Five Worst

February 19, 2018

Chevrolet SSR

Let’s talk about this stupid thing. Have you ever heard of the Plymouth Prowler? It was Chrysler’s attempt to market a modern hotrod, but they stuck a terrible engine under the hood, making it more tepid than hot. Then GM did exactly the same thing a few years later in the shape fo the Chevrolet SSR. Far beyond it looking atrociously unpleasant, like the back alley baby of an alcoholic VW Beetle and a Chevrolet Advance Design, it had the chassis of just about every other SUV GM were putting out at the time, and if you don’t have bad memories of most early 00s SUVs, then I’m concerned.

The result of this chassis choice was a heavy car. Instead of putting a powerful engine in, GM instead decided to give it a lackluster and lazy LM4 V8. Then they priced it at $42,000. Sales, as you might expect, were pitiful, with 9000 being sold in its first year. This was despite a heavy marketing campaign which even saw this travesty being used as the pace car for the 2003 Indy 500. Ugly, uninspiring, and plain unforgiveable.

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