I highly doubt a fixed roof option will happen. The fact that its a hard top convertable is part of its appeal and part of what you pay for in the price. It takes lots of engineering dollars to do that and isnt as easy as it may seem to some of you. Its a cool truck point blank, cant any one just accept that and not bash it? Its not a camaro and not meant to be one. Just a fun niche truck and gm had the ***** to finally make it which should be a good sign!

 

Nope, can't accept it. Complete, total and undeniable waste of engineering effort that would have been FAR better directed towards bringing out an F5. But INSTEAD of working on a program that could sell 80,000 cars at an average of (say...) $26,000 a copy, GM gives us a program that is designed to sell 15,000 of these turds at $42,000 a copy. You the math... a completely bone-headed manuver.

I'll eat my hat if they 15,000 of these tubs at $42,000 a copy for three years.

$42,000??? I still can't get over that. As mentioned before... I'll take a Vette, thanks.

I literally cannot wait to lay the smack down on one of these things. I'll chalk it up as a little victory for Camaro lovers everywhere.

 

I know that the SSR was only meant to be a short term production vehicle. 3 years tops sounds right for something like that. But at $42k, I can see them selling every one of about 15,000 made, sold. The following years I can see it drop to 10,000 and eventually 7,000. There's no way they can sell 15,000 a year for 5 years.

 

I don't think it would be too difficult for GM to build a few different vehicles on the SSR chassis. Afterall, it is a body-on-frame vehicle like the other trucks in GM's line-up.

What GM should do is build a Nomad, and a Bel-Air hardtop and convertible on the SSR chassis.

 

I like the idea of taking a standard platform and doing a bunch of low-volume niche vehicles off of it, but it seems that such a vehicle would need to sell for less than $40K to really be a decent value.

I mean, come on - a shortened Trailblazer chassis with fancy bodywork and big wheels is worth that much money to some folks? You could buy a turnkey classic truck with modern powertrain bits for that money.

Yea, it's an image vehicle, but the image it projects to me is the same as that of the Prowler - too much money, not enough brains.

Now, had GM done something cool with the powertrain (AWD with either a hot GenIII V8 or a pumped-up version of the 3800) and turned this into a modern-day Syclone, then this thing would be droolworthy. Too bad they didn't dig deep enough into the parts bin to make that happen. Unlike the difficulty of warming-up the T-bird, this would have been a pretty simple task.

 

Me too. And I also agree that if we see a BelAir and Nomad...I sure hope they go for WAY under $40K.

 

I was a little disappointed when I found out it can only tow 2500 lbs behind it...

and If I read it correctly, the bed was intended to be a "dry" bed too?

300 hp engine, but it has all the weight to push around..

definantly a niche cruiser vehicle.. not a performance machine or a truck... although it would be interesting to see someone drop a ls/c5r based 427 in it to see how fast it'll go down the quater just for kicks..

I was hoping it would have more either performance or trucklike practicality...