2014 Chevrolet SS Performance – Great Car, Awful Name. Cadillac ELR Also Coming

by Derek Kreindler

April 25th, 2012 1:35 PM

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2014 chevrolet ss performance great car awful name cadillac elr also coming

Technology blogge r Christopher Price has found out that two all-new 2014 models from GM are coming, thanks to doing some digging around OnStar’s website.

Price found out that 2014 will bring about a Cadillac ELR, the long rumored Cadillac version of the Chevrolet Volt. Chevrolet will also apparently get a car dubbed the “SS Performance”, supposedly the new sports sedan based on the Holden Commodore. The new RWD Zeta sedan should be a wonderful car, but surely GM could have come up with a better name than “SS Performance”. Wouldn’t “Caprice” suffice?

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Glen.H on Apr 26, 2012

I saw a LHD Holden Caprice badged as a Chevrolet Caprice Impala SS at Holden's Adelaide plant the other day- could it be this car? It looked like a standard spec Caprice, maybe with hi-po underpinnings?

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Ponchoman49 on Apr 26, 2012

I'm sure it won't be called SS performance as that is as lame as they come for names. ELR is bad enough. Whats next the LSD?

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