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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 01/19/2020 at 18:23 • Filed to: None

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The badge says SS V. It had a gnarly-sounding exhaust.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:28

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Chevy SS.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:30

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SS with commodore ssv badge. And blacked out taillights?

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:30

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I mean isn’t just a Chevy SS with aftermarket smoked LED taillights?

I’m not sure if this applies to Chevy, but wikipedia says the following about the Commodore SS V:

The mid-range SS V features include larger 19-inch wheels and front fog lights (in addition to LED DRLs). Inside the SS V gains leather seats, an enhanced instrument display,8 way electric driver’s seat satellite navigation system and a DVD player (DVD dropped from MY 2015). 

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:30

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Modded Chevy SS

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:38

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Plates say it’s just an LS3 but I’m pretty sure it’s a Malibu

/s

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/19/2020 at 18:38

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I have zero idea.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 01/19/2020 at 18:41

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But won’t this be a FWD car? What’s the point of that?

shop-teacher > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:41

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Its just a Chevy SS with badges off of a Holden Commo dore.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > shop-teacher 01/19/2020 at 18:43

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That makes sense, but won’t this be an FWD car?? What’s the point of that?

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:43

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Ha no it’s a Chevy SS with Holden badges. A lot of people have badge swapped those cars. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 01/19/2020 at 18:44

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Okay, I’m kind of slow, but isn’t the SS an Impala or a Malibu?

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:44

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  The SS is RWD. Handles quite well. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 01/19/2020 at 18:45

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So will the SS be a Police Caprice?

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:46

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No it’s not. It’s RWD and a descendant of the Pontiac G8 GXP. 4 15 HP of 6.2 liter V8 power with manual trans available.

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:47

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  The police caprice is related but a longer car. Both are now discontinued since Holden stopped building cars entirely a couple of years ago.

interstate366, now In The Industry > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:52

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No, it’s RWD. It’s a newer Pontiac G8, essentially.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:53

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Nope, RWD. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 01/19/2020 at 18:54

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Thanks for clarifying. I was under the assumption that the G8 was a Police Caprice. This would have been an expensive car.

So the Police Caprice is no more? Short-lived.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 01/19/2020 at 18:54

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Good luck finding parts for this.

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 18:58

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All of the G8, Caprice and SS were built in Australia. That plant shut down about 2-3 years ago.

G8 and SS were about the same size, though I *think* the SS was on an updated platform.

The Caprice was longer and available with several engines - biggest of which was the LS3 in the SS.

The SS was around $49k and loooved by enthusiasts, but Chevy never tried all that hard to market it.  They’ve held their value very well (as have the V8 powered G8s)  

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:00

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Mechanicals are basic GM LS stuff. Very easy.

Body parts less so but I’m not aware of issues. 

dogisbadob > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:01

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It’s a Corolla

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WilliamsSW 01/19/2020 at 19:01

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Very unfair and a yuuuge disappointment.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > dogisbadob 01/19/2020 at 19:02

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It’s a Troll.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:06

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Ordinarily it looks like this

because it is essentially Australia’s vastly cooler RWD V8 Malibu, but it was sold in the US briefly alongside its retiree focused cousin . Malibus look like this

WilliamsSW > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:07

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A lot of people moaned but I’m pretty sure they lost money on every car and never wanted it to be high volume.  They only came here because of an agreement with the Aussie government that they would export X number of cars. 

Nauraushaun > shop-teacher 01/19/2020 at 19:10

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Its a Holden Commodore SSV with a Chev badge

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:16

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Zeta_platform

Same RWD platform shared with the previous gen Camaro.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:50

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...no, the Chevy SS is a commodore, which in that gen (VF) was RWD

In Aus the trims were
SS - cloth interior and V8 (either L77 or LS3 depending on year)
SSV - bigger wheels, leather interior and factory foglights, better satnav / infotainment etc
SSV Redline - same interior as SSV but with torque vectoring and suspension and brake upgrades. Launch control and some other stuff.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 01/19/2020 at 19:51

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the Commodore is bigger than the Malibu, not really the same other than styling cues and being a sedan.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:54

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Chev SS with HSV tail lamps 

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 19:56

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Caprice is lwb

Ss/g8 is swb

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/19/2020 at 20:05

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https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/end-car-production-australia-what-went-wrong

A major problem is that writing was on the wall before the SS was ever sold. Part is rumored to try and spread the R&D budget,

“ Though the bailout of GM spelled the end of Pontiac and the G8, there were far greater headwinds facing Australian Commodore exports to the US than mere branding issues. As the graph above makes perfectly clear, the major difference between the G8-era exports and the post-bailout exports of Caprice PPV and SS variants of the Commodore has to do with currency. Currency issues hurt earlier Holden exports, but the dramatic drop in the US dollar relative to the Australian dollar since the financial crisis has doomed any hope that Holdens might make money in the US. Ironically that fall in the value of the US dollar has helped GM –and the US auto industry more broadly– recover rapidly. It’s simply done so at the expense of the traditional outposts of the US auto industry: Australia and Canada.”

https://dailykanban.com/2013/11/why-gm-isnt-trying-to-sell-the-chevy-ss-and-why-it-matters/

Then you get into a number of labor agreements in Au, between holden, workers, and the AU gov starting in 2009 . GM had to export at least a certain amount from Au. 

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > pip bip - choose Corrour 01/19/2020 at 20:47

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So I’ve been told.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 01/19/2020 at 20:49

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And jobs...

feather-throttle-not-hair > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/20/2020 at 14:31

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One thing i think nobody mentioned is that the SS came with a 6-speed manual in the U.S. (though obviously an auto was sold as well)

Also one year it came in this very pretty green color which i like a lot.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > feather-throttle-not-hair 01/20/2020 at 17:27

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Six speeds is much rowing.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 01/20/2020 at 19:29

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Much, but not TOO much. Ahem Porsche and Aston Martin and Chevy....

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > feather-throttle-not-hair 01/20/2020 at 20:50

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For my taste, more than five gears make it an automatic with paddles.