Toocoolforschool Doorag’s? Regardless, neither of them could manage to make this Cobalt look even a little intense or hip. Whose Cobalt is it? Miss Sassy Welltanned’s or Mr. In standard form, the Cobalt doesn’t look very dangerous. We’ll start with one of the better ones, the first (and last) real attempt by GM at a high performance compact car, the aforementioned dangerous Cobalt. I have found and photographed examples of most of them, though there are a few that have eluded me to date. The fact that Chevy offered performance versions across almost their entire lineup is rather remarkable, so I think it’s worthwhile for us car enthusiasts to look at them, see what was on offer, and consider if they were worthy of their SS heritage. Some of these were more successful in execution and/or sales than others, but all of them had at the very least somewhat improved performance and image. From 2000 to 2009, an SS model was added to most of the cars (and even trucks) Chevy offered. A few more SS models came in the ’90s, but the 2000s is when Chevy decided it needed to SS all things.
It wouldn’t win a drag race with a B.E.A.SST.ly 71 Chevelle SS454, but by the (low) standards of the time it was reasonably hot. Every English teacher I ever had should be cursing me now).Ĭhevy dipped their toe back into the muscle car game with the 1983 Monte Carlo SS, which I would consider the first M.E.SS. The SS moniker fell out of use after 1973, which at least showed respect for the brand since any SS released in the next 10 years would have been weak sauce indeed compared to their tire-smoking predecessors, to which I’ll give the not-at-all-tortured title Before Emission Attenuations SS Touchstones (B.E.A.SST.s for short.
Chevy’s SS models from the ’60s and early ’70s are esteemed and coveted by muscle car fans.
#2007 chevy cobalt ss series#
This article starts what I plan to be an occasional series on Chevrolet’s modern-era SSs, or M.E.SSs for short. Read on and we’ll see if Cobalt really is dangerous and if their SS version should be taken seriously. Maybe the name just sounded good, but the name came to be associated with more danger than GM knew at the time.
Hazardous if you disrespect it, yet healthy and life-giving in the right form. More like lock-up-your-daughters dangerous. They didn’t intend it to mean the car was dangerous to drive, of course. They called it Cobalt because it’s dangerous.
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