Chevrolet to unveil new 420hp SS sedan next month in Daytona - Automobile News

Though General Motors has modest expectations for SS sales, NASCAR team owner and North Carolina Chevrolet dealer Rick Hendrick told ESPN that his showroom has already seen significant interest. The production SS will share no actual parts with the NASCAR SS race car, but Chevrolet hopes that consumers will see more of a connection between the two now than in the past. Previously, Chevrolet campaigned a NASCAR Impala that had nothing in common, even conceptually, with the more fleet-oriented Impala production car.



"[After NASCAR testing], we started getting orders for deposits on the [production] car," Hendrick said of the SS. "We've got people who want to get in line to buy it. So that's a big step. You've got people who are enthusiasts all over the world looking at this car."

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Last year, our spies nabbed a lightly-camouflaged version of the new full-size performance machine out on the streets of Detroit. Chevrolet is keeping quiet on specific details, but the Detroit automaker says the SS will hit the market in late 2013 as a 2014 model year vehicle.

Riding on the same Zeta rear-wheel drive platform that underpins the Chevrolet Camaro and the next-generation Holden VF Commodore, the SS will be Chevrolet's first rear-wheel-drive sedan in nearly two decades. Given those Holden roots, it should come as no surprise that the SS will be built in Australia.

No word on just which V8 will power the SS, but Chevy has a few to choose from. We know that the Camaro's 426 horsepower 6.2L will fit in the Zeta platform, but the Bowtie brand is also developing a new small block V8 that recently debuted in the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette (the first one of which was recently sold to Hendrick for more than $1 million). Of course Chevy's 6.2L supercharged V8 is also an option, which would make a fitting follow up to the departed Pontiac G8 GXP.

However, Hendrick revealed that the SS will boast 420 horsepower in his interview with ESPN.

Our spy indicates that the camouflaged vehicle he spotted boasted a distinct "deep rumble of a V8" and that it was escorted by a Cadillac CTS-V. The NASCAR SS that debuted late last year - and recently underwent testing at Daytona Motor Speedway - gives us some limited styling hints about the SS' front fascia.The spy photos we've seen so far don't give us much to go on as far as SS detailing is concerned, but we can see that the car takes a rather evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, approach to replacing the current Commodore. The sedan remains large and low-slung, especially on the twin-spoke wheels that wrap around high-performance brakes. Large dual chrome-tipped tailpipes emerge from the rear splitter, indicating this is a V8-powered model.


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