{"id":60570,"date":"2009-12-02T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/02\/report-chevrolet-cruze-ss-being-pushed-for-hard-by-company-insi\/"},"modified":"2009-12-02T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T01:02:00","slug":"report-chevrolet-cruze-ss-being-pushed-for-hard-by-company-insiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/60570","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Chevrolet Cruze SS being pushed for hard by company insiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Sedan<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Chevrolet<\/a><\/p>\n

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2011 Chevrolet Cruze – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nStill mourning the death<\/a> of Chevrolet<\/a>‘s pint-sized pocket rocket, the Cobalt SS<\/a>? According to a report from Motor Authority<\/em>, you’re not alone, and a number of those fellow fans come from right inside Chevrolet’s own hallways. This begs the question: With the Cruze<\/a> set to replace the aging Cobalt for the 2011 model year, is there any chance that General Motors<\/a> will revive the SS nomenclature for a high performance version? Could be, though we’re certainly not holding our breathe.<\/p>\n

The powerplant for the supposed Cruze SS is ripe for the picking in the form of the excellent 260-horsepower turbocharged and direct injected 2.0-liter four-cylinder called Ecotec and six-speed manual gearbox as seen in the defunct Cobalt SS and still-available HHR SS<\/a>, including the very cool Launch Control and No-Lift Shift technology. Of course, the Cruze’s rear torsion bar suspenders may limit the car’s handling prowess a bit, but a wholesale redesign would cost way too much for a low-volume SS model.<\/p>\n

In any case, if the car ever does come to market – and, like we said, we’re not holding our breathe – it won’t appear right away, perhaps instead for the car’s planned mid-cycle refresh in 2014.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: 2011 Chevrolet Cruze<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Motor Authority<\/a>]<\/p>\n

REPORT: Chevrolet Cruze SS being pushed for hard by company insiders<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Chevrolet 2011 Chevrolet Cruze – Click above for high-res image gallery Still mourning the death of Chevrolet‘s pint-sized pocket rocket, the Cobalt SS? According to a report from Motor Authority, you’re not alone, and a number of those fellow fans come from right inside Chevrolet’s own hallways. This begs the question: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}