Chevrolet SS Only $7,525 Less Than A Corvette
$44,470 will buy you a Chevrolet SS when it goes on sale later this year. That’s about $7,500 less than a base model, no-options C7 Corvette Stingray $5300 less than a Chrysler 300C SRT8 and $2995 less than a Dodge Charger SRT8. The SRT8 cars have more power, but the SS does have a couple advantages; it’s more subdued looking than the overwrought Charger.
Word around TTAC is that the 300C in SRT trim is a monster of a machine, and adding a supercharger makes it an unbeatable weapon when street racing lesser machines. Personally, I have a major issue with all of those cars; no manual transmission. I’d much rather take this gently used C6 Corvette Grand Sport for the same money. Because, like all real enthusiasts, I buy used. And I’m poor.
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Chevrolet was the largest seller of vehicles over $40,000 MSRP for many years, thanks to Tahoe/Suburban and top end Silverados. I have no idea if that is still true with the decline in the Large SUV segment, though Corvettes and Camaros I see on the local dealer's lot are over $40K as well. The average selling price of a new GM vehicle in America is over $32,000, and the majority of them are Chevrolets. This car's price fits in fine, especially with its features and performance capability.
I have to admit, it is really not a special looking car, pretty plain.
In the name that is all that is holy, I want to smack GM's marketing folks numerous times on their pointy craniums. How about some pics of a blinged out black SS, or a Nassau blue model, or a red one? Would three more cars be that much work? If you can't tell, silver doesn't excite me. At least they didn't have a pic of an appliance white one. GM used to put out some beautiful colors and pretty cars. Yes, I said pretty.
Sooooo... it's between $3-6K less than its DIRECT competition (SRT8 models), and $7K than a car with which it doesn't even really compete (because GM USA erroneously believes, as it did in the days of the Fiero, that Corvette sales would be cannibalized if you make any other model just as powerful). I don't see the problem. Except, as user el scotto has mentioned above... that all the pictures are on a SILVER model. Silver is the new beige. Virtually none of the G8s I have seen in regular driving are that color, and it kind of doesn't do much to sell the car. This is a model geared toward enthusiasts who don't want to plunk down BMW dollars for a big-engined, RWD sedan. The price doesn't really bug me, so much as some of the marketing. I was a fan of the G8, and generally like the SS (though I'd rather it as a wagon...which we'll never see in the USA, unfortunately).