MM Full-Review: 2014 Chevy SS (updated from static-review)
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He's also correct that we're getting off topic.
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Here's a very important update...and we can give rkyat credit for bringing it to our attention by posting it in another SS thread. I felt it was important enough to add it to the formal SS review I did. A traditional 3-pedal manual transmission, the sophisticated electronic GM Magnaride suspension, and some new colors (including my personal favorite, purple) are being added.
http://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-ss-man...irm-1607990115
http://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-ss-man...irm-1607990115
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Here's a very important update...and we can give rkyat credit for bringing it to our attention by posting it in another SS thread. I felt it was important enough to add it to the formal SS review I did. A traditional 3-pedal manual transmission, the sophisticated electronic GM Magnaride suspension, and some new colors (including my personal favorite, purple) are being added.
http://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-ss-man...irm-1607990115
http://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-ss-man...irm-1607990115
The purple may be a bit nostalgic to some too
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Ford and GM, though, back in the 1960s when the original SS was at its peak, never, to my memory, used purple as production color. Dodge/Plymouth and AMC did from '69 to '74, depending on year and model.
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Road Runners, Superbirds, and other Plymouth muscle-cars were offered in the same bright purple, in 1970 and 1971, as the Dodges. Dodge called it Plum-Crazy, Plymouth, In-Violet (the Plymouth marketers originally wanted to call it Statutory Grape, but the managers turned it down).
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Road Runners, Superbirds, and other Plymouth muscle-cars were offered in the same bright purple, in 1970 and 1971, as the Dodges. Dodge called it Plum-Crazy, Plymouth, In-Violet (the Plymouth marketers originally wanted to call it Statutory Grape, but the managers turned it down).
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http://www.69pace.com/paint.htm
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Originally Posted by Hoovey411
are you kidding me? That's clever but wow
It was a nickname that some in Chrysler marketing considered using (and one that some auto journalists called it). But management, even back then before the days of the extreme political correctness we see today, thought was simply too controversial. They would not approve its use in the actual Dodge Plymouth product brochures for that paint-code. That, of course, was back before web-sites, and the only real information/access to factory-specs came from printed company sources in the media or brochures.
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