NASCAR. Because “high velocity billboards rubbing each other while turning left” is simply not catchy enough, and is probably too wordy for many of its viewers. It’s also where the Chevrolet SS nameplate will be racing in 2013, starting with the Sprint Cup Series, where the first event will be the 2013 SpeedWeeks in Daytona, Fla.
The Chevrolet SS race car also retires the Impala from NASCAR racing, which scored 151 wins from 1959-64 and 2007-12. Sequentially, the actual Chevrolet SS sedan will be revealed during the Daytona 500 next year. Based on the upcoming Holden VF Commodore, it will mark the first time Chevy offered a rear-wheel-drive Chevrolet sedan in 17 years.
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That. Is. Sexy.
Not quite as aggressive as i was hoping in the looks deparment, but definitely better than the outgoing Impala.
who cares. it’s the standard generic NASCAR body with a “not quite right” but similar sticker job on the front.
The first Chevrolet SS looks nice but as a Commodore, ugly!
It’s a sad, sad day when NASCAR becomes GM design chief.
This doesn’t tell us a lot beyond the few faux trim details. All NASCARs look alike. I’m sure the real car will look great. I am disappointed though that they didn’t ever give it a real name. I hate “Chevrolet SS”. GM should have used the name “Chevelle SS” name.
It looks better than the butt ugly 2013 Nationwide Series Camaro: http://gmauthority.com/blog/2012/07/this-is-the-2013-chevy-camaro-for-nascar/
But it’s nowhere near as good looking as a race car as the Fusion: http://cdn-7.motorsport.com/static/img/mgl/1200000/1280000/1284000/1284000/1284067/s1_1.jpg
Or even the Camry: http://media.il.edmunds-media.com/toyota/camry/ns/toyota_camry_f34_ns_52312_717.jpg
I know the real car will be slightly different, but I can’t say I’m impressed by its looks. I guess it could’ve been worse, though.
The Camry and SS have similar if not the same fog light and DTR light design.
Looks pretty good. Im sure itll look more aggressive in production form. Im still waiting for what engine theyll use in it. That should be neat.
The 2013 NASCAR stock cars wont share the same bodies people. they are getting rid of the common body. All the cars will try to look like the model in showrooms. If you ask me, they look close enough for 2013.
Check out the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon cars in the V8 Supercars. They are more like the road cars than the new Nascar cars.
I thought they were going to use a Camaro starting next D-500.
Ivan, the Camaro as well:
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2012/07/this-is-the-2013-chevy-camaro-for-nascar/
I had not seen anything written or picture promos of the Camaro lately. Having a 2013 and had a 2011 Camaro and it being more a Race Car than the Impalla, I never understood why they choose an Impalla to represent the Chevy racing brand, especially when Ford chose the Mustang.
Camaro……maybe in a support series.
Now we all know ( big yawn! ) two months in advance what to expect the SS to look like… Just take the stickered headlight and taillight treatments with the slightly rounded
grille and paste them onto a tired old Commodore and wala! There ya go.
( sigh! ) The SS is a huge waste of GM’s time and energy.
I guess one commonality the Chevy will have that the others won’t is the fact that the production car will be a V8, rear wheel drive platform, just like its racing counterpart. Ford and Yoda can’t claim that.
If you ask me, NASCAR has gotten alot better. The cars are looking better. My only problem is the Nationwide series cars, they should have changed the roof line on the cars, especially the camaro.
I have always bought/driven GM vehicles (30+ years), and plan on my next car to be a rwd V8 sedan. If the SS if priced as a “halo” car (above $40,000), for the first time, I’ll be jumping ship to the more reasonably price car – Dodge Charger RT AWD (usually $28-34,000).
Or if GM would get sensible, and release a civilian Caprice ($32,000 – 34,000) – I’ll be in the showroom tomorrow!!!
The civilian caprice would be more than 40k. The PPV caprice is a stripped down Holden Caprice. The Holden Caprice is a luxury car and so if Chevy were to import it, it would be expensive.
Is the Caprice really a luxury car, though? When I hear “luxury car”, I think BMW 7er, Audi A8, MBZ S Class, Lexus LS… Perhaps the Caprice is the range-topping Holden, which makes it luxurious in the mainstream scheme of the industry… but it offers nowhere near the level of luxury, refinement, features, or price compared to the “true” luxury vehicles.
Personally, I’d place the Caprice on the same level as the new Chevy Impala: a full-size flagship sedan of a mainstream brand. The 2014 Impala starts at $27,000:
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2012/11/chevy-prices-2014-impala-from-27525/
I wouldn’t be too surprised if it follows the Malibu to Australia at some point in the future.
On a somewhat related note: the Buick-ified Caprice, known as the Park Avenue in China, fits the “luxury car bill” perfectly:
http://gmauthority.com/blog/2012/12/this-chinese-commercial-for-the-buick-park-avenue-is-stunning-ad-break/
NASCAR (and increasingly V8 Supercars) is garbage. I would be supportive of it if it a) added something to the automotive world (it doesn’t because it constantly trails road trends by at least 2 to 3 decades) or b) had cars that were in some way related to the road cars (which Camry has ever had rear drive, a V8 or a 4 speed manual?). I believe in homologation (which gave us the Plymouth Superbird, Ford Torino Taladega, et al, but was ditched by NASCAR years ago). I’ve stopped watching even World Rally Championship (which gave us the Lanica Stratos HF, Lancia Delta HF Integrale, Nissan Pulsar GTI-R, Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, Ford Escort RS Cosworth, Toyota Celica GT-4, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, and Subaru Impreza WRX) for the same reason. Nothing in it for the masses anymore.
V8SC has the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon which are RWD V8’s on road cars. Next season, Mercedes E-Class’s will race and they have RWD V8 models. The Nissan Altima will race as well but that is different to road car.
i agree with you completely Richard; although, i am still a fan of the V8 supercar series. (even though it’s a Silhouette series it’s still pretty fierce racing and the cars look awesome)
these days, i can’t get into many of the race series. mostly because the cars are so far removed from what is available on the street that i just don’t care anymore. never mind the performance envelopes of the cars are so high that there is none of the dynamic intensity of a good driver wrangling and taming the car and forcing it to do his will, like the you got with a lot of the 70s and older machines. Rally racing and to a shrinking extent Formula Drift is still holding the candle in that regard. but as the money and mainstream influences increase, the cars evolve into tube chassis hyper hp, super gripping, precision instruments.
the grass root rawness of auto racing has long since been sanitized and swept away.
Does nobody watch ALMS or FIA World Endurance Championship racing?
Last night at the Award Banqet ,people were asked to rate the three makes as best looking as they set side by side and at the of show the Chevy SS was first with highest score, next the Ford Fusion and last the Toyota Camry.
its a woderfull racing carand he have a godloock