The Chevrolet Impalibu, er, we mean, Chevrolet SS, has often received flack for its conservative design. While beauty remains in the eye of the beholder, there’s no denying a couple of cars at Dodge turn heads more often—if you even spot an SS roaming the wild at all.
We get it. The car looks pretty boring to many. Jalopnik provided evidence of its humble design upbringings after the Chevrolet SS was tapped for a role in the film “ChiPs.” At the beginning of the film, Ponch, played by Michael Pena, works undercover with bank robbers and selects an SS for his getaway car. Neat.
At the end of a chase scene, the crew ditches the SS, and of course, they need to destroy the evidence. Suddenly, the SS becomes a previous-generation Chevrolet Malibu before the crew ignites the car and fire consumes it. Perhaps it’s a testament to the SS’ incognito looks that the production team thought the Malibu would serve as a fitting replacement?
Maybe. We’re glad no Chevrolet SS was harmed in the making of the film.
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And here we have the problem with most of today’s cookie cutter look alike cars. Few people will notice that this is a Malibu except us enthusiasts with eagle eyes. It also speaks volumes about rebadging a car from another company and not giving it it’s own unique styling. Chrysler did it much better with the Charger/Challenger.
How much do you think Pontiac gets paid for allowing Chevy and Holden to use their G8 design?
“How much do you think Pontiac gets paid for allowing Chevy and Holden to use their G8 design?”
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There is so much wrong with that statement, it’s not even worth bringing out JJ to laugh at how wrong it is.
Pontiac is dead. Oldsmobubble is dead. Saturn is dead.
Your next Aztec will have to come from the used car lot.
Thank goodness they are gone
So at the end of Dr Strangelove, can we swap out Major Kong for Trump riding that bucking nuke to ‘freedom’?
Pontiac design ??? WTF, what planet are you from ???/
Fooled me!
Some may call the SS styling boring, plain, generic. And then there some of us that are mature. (AKA OLD) And like the subtle styling. None of that boy racer look.
Why didn’t people buy the SS?
The old switcharoo “let’s blow up the junk car” trick. TV and movie producers do this all the time on the police action type shows. Most recently I’ve seen this on Criminal Minds but it goes way back to The Rockford Files, Dukes of Hazard and Smokey and the Bandit movies.
When Kowalski crashes the Challenger at the end of the original “Vanishing Point”, it miraculously turns into a Camaro !!