Oppo Confession: I like the HHR SS

"Logansteno: Bought a VW?" (logansteno) 04/14/2014 at 15:55 • Filed to: None

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It's a more practical Cobalt SS! It's basically a wagon! A turbocharged, 260 bhp wagon!

I've secretly lusted over one of these for as along as I can remember. Drop it a little more, chip the engine, and have a track machine that could be used to go grocery shopping or on a road trip.

Sure the interior is crap, just like any other GM vehicle being produced at the time. But it gets the job done dammit! There's Recaro seats and 3 pedals, that's all that matters.

Now if you excuse me, I'll be scouring Craigslist for a Black one.

Vince-The Roadside Mechanic > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 15:57

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they arent horrible it is better than a pt gt

offroadkarter > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 15:57

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I always enjoyed seeing PT cruiser people talk shit about the HHR people on the PT forums back when my frined had his 05 PT GT

Frank Grimes > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:01

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I do too.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:03

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Plastic.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:03

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Plastic.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:03

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Plastic.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:03

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Plastic.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:04

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Sticky plastic probably.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:04

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Plastic.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:04

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Plastic.

jkm7680 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:04

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I like it, but the build quality in the interior at lest it probably Sub-Par.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Party-vi 04/14/2014 at 16:10

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It's a pre 2010 GM car, what do you expect? Audi levels of interior crafts menship!?

Pearson Hurst > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:10

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Sn210 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:12

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I'd get one and do a Panel Hhr conversion if I had a mobile detailing business or something.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Sn210 04/14/2014 at 16:13

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GM beat you to it

Pearson Hurst > Pearson Hurst 04/14/2014 at 16:13

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I should elaborate. I have questionable taste in vehicles, to be sure, so I am hardly one to be casting aspersions, but this (and the stupid, STUPID SSR) make me throw up things I ate as a child. Sorry, but they're so, so, SO ugly...

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Pearson Hurst 04/14/2014 at 16:13

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But wagon!

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > jkm7680 04/14/2014 at 16:15

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Any Delta platform car had a shit interior.

Sn210 > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:15

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nice I didn't know they did an SS trim on the panels ones

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Sn210 04/14/2014 at 16:16

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I think they only did it for like 1 year

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Party-vi 04/14/2014 at 16:22

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I believe Demuro said that was a positive high class "Exotic" material used in Ferraris?

I also hear it's flammable.

Pearson Hurst > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:27

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Yes, wagon, yes turbo, yes 3 pedals, yes practical, but it still looks like someone beat the hell out of it with the ugly stick.

Probably just my personal Chevy bias. I haven't cared for anything they have produced since the 60s.

Your boy, BJR > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 16:28

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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. I want that. I'd open a bakery and blast this on deliveries.

Richard Doane > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 17:33

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You are not alone.

Party-vi > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 17:36

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No, just some levels of interior craftsmanship.

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 18:31

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Even better.

The more rare panel Version SS

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 04/14/2014 at 18:33

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One produced for a year if I'm correct.

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 18:44

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What do you mean?

The numbers were low but it wasn't one per year

I know of at least 2 in my area, but they are rarely driven and one is an Auto the other is a stick

There is a couple more in Canada.

I wish I got an HHR SS instead of the SS Turbo.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 04/14/2014 at 18:46

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What the hell was I trying to type? Produced for one year is what i meant!

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 18:55

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There yah go lol

I was like what.....

The total was somewhere around 300~ if I remember right.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 04/14/2014 at 18:57

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That's tragically low..

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 18:58

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Looked it up, 216 to be exact.

I like the low production numbers.

Makes the car more weird, out there.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 04/14/2014 at 19:02

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It's funny, cause there's like 3 of them in a 10 miles radius of me.

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 19:14

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Panel Versions?

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 04/14/2014 at 19:15

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Yeah!

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 19:25

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No shit haha

I need one. Bad.

Its just so interesting to see something that is labeled as a "workhorse" move as fast as the HHR panel does, especially with a stripped out interior.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 04/14/2014 at 19:26

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I bet the ass end kicks out real well on those.

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Logansteno: Bought a VW? 04/14/2014 at 19:40

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Even my Cobalt steps the rear out if I power off in the corners.....really a scary feeling when the only correction is more power through it, unlike a rear wheel drive where you can steer out.