You mean the chronically undercompeditive rebadged Caprice cum Impala SS barge of 20 years ago?
Screw ‘tradition’, all of it. Nothing says an SS has to be RWD and a V8. In fact, the Impala SS of 1996 is overlooked today becasue it didn’t do anything to EARN the SS badge.
Want to know what car of late did earn the SS badge? The turbocharged Cobalt SS. I don’t recall the 1996 Impala SS ever going to the Nurburgring and setting a production car record in it’s class, or even compeating in SCCA compeitions. Probably because the Impala SS had inferior power to weight ratio and didn’t do anything partically well enough to warrant a replacement in the 21st century.
The calls for an SS Cruze are endless, and globally. Impala SS’s, only if you can be bothered to remember that worthless heap.
