Whats up with all these chevys with SS badges on them? A Malibu???!! I can see a impala and maybe a monte but geez for the malibu and 2.4 balt I think they went way over board...Today I even seen a new red chevy pickup SS ...Retartded... I am waiting to see a aveo ss

 

The last Chevy SS pickup was badass.

 

GM had a article about how they are stopping it and they admitted to over doing the SS badge on the cars so there will be a few less in the future

 

yeah from wut i heard, no cobalt ss in 2008

 

Ok I can see that they mest up a bit but dont you think re changing the cars to non ss's will make gm look even stupider? The new turbo balt wont even be a SS?

 

The supposly new turbo cobatl will be a SS they said they are keeping it on certain vehicles and the SS is staying on only one of the cobalts instead of two

 

you laugh at the idea of a Malibu SS???

Ever hear of back in the 60s where Chevy stuffed a 350 under the hood of the MALIBU SS which the base came with a fourbanger?

The problem isn't the OVER USE, it is the fact that GM abandoned the RWD platform for what looked to be a better solution, FWD...if they kept RWD all this time, there would be no fuss over the over use of an SS badge.

 

i've got an 06 Malibu SS. i'd beat most 2.4s and prolly quite a few SCs with it.

 

another thread for damnn SS badges.....SEARCH FTW

 

There are about a billion Chevelle, Nova and Camaro SS owners out there who think there should never have been a Cobalt SS in the first place.

 

Unfortunately for their aurgument though...a stage 2 SS/SC is just as fast, if not faster than some of those older SS cars...

 

with the exception of a few big block camaros and a nova or two, i'm thinking that the SS/SC is faster than just about any of them, and an 07 SS impala would def outgun them.

that said, a 2.4 SS is actually as quick as most of those cars, showroom stock.

 

ss/sc should have the SS name, because the SS means super sport, and the SS/SC being the highest trim with a supercharger, better interior, and a better body overall, would represent why chevy brought out the SS name in the first place

 

why do people get upset. who cares. it does have some history behind it but WE ARENT IN THE 60s OR 70s ANYMORE! times change. it is just a trim level. dont worry about it. mostly anything that carries the SS badge has been modified by its owner anyway.

my dads 71 Nova SS isnt even a real SS!! it has 454 in it, but it was originally a regular nova. does that make it any less than an SS/?

 

Exactly!! Don't forget about performance.

 

You mean it's a SS Nova clone? If so, then to most it would be less (pedigree? & money-wise) than a real SS (evn though it would be just as fast, etc.)

 

yep.

 

Cool ...I always wanted to stuff a 440 in a Dart or Swinger....

 

what motor does this car have in it to be trapping 96 to 100 in the 1/4 stock

 

Do you lack a life to care what Chevy names a ******* car?

 

Who are you responding to...?

 

Original poster.

 

I guess if you consider being slower than both the Ford Lightning and SRT-10 Ram by a mile badass.

You sure about that? The fastest I've heard a Malibu SS (stock) run is 15.3 in the 1/4. That's barely even w/ the 2.4 SS.

Maybe, until they pull up next to one and find out how their Motor City muscle loses to a little 4-banger. Those cars weren't that amazing stock. Maybe at the time, but not compared to today's standards. A '67 Camaro SS runs about a 15.4, Nova about a 16, and the Chevelle was the most respectable, with a 13.8. These are all stock numbers, but they're also big V-8s. And don't even mention racing a Cobalt against any of those cars on a road course.

 

OK...Makes sense now

 

It's the 3.9L V-6, same as in the G6 GTP. 240 bhp I believe.

Good point.