Chevrolet SSR
Chevrolet SSR – unusual combination of pick-up with a convertible based on the frame of the Chevrolet TrailBlazer. Chevrolet SSR is powered by a fork-shaped, eight-cylinder unit with a capacity of six liters and power 390hp coupled to a four-speed automatic transmission or six-speed manual. Within three years of production left the factory, including 24,150 of these cars.
The first outlines the concept of the Chevrolet SSR (short for Super Sport Roadster) created in 1999. Model for SSR became a pick-up produced in 1947-1952. Designers, however, decided to equip your car with a removable hardtop, creating a vehicle which is a combination of the truck and roadster. The car made its debut at the motor show in Detroit in 2000 among nine other GM cars.
To reduce production costs, engineers SSR and decided to take advantage of components already produced model TrailBlazer. From the new constructed while aluminum engine with a capacity of 6 C 8-liter 401hp, which works automatic transmission with ratios GM 4L60E 4-E Hydra-Matic. Rear-wheel drive with a diameter of 20 inches is transmitted via a Torsen differential system, limited slip, which in conjunction with the control system optimum traction disconnects power to the wheel location, and the vehicle.
For engine designers a very important factor was the sound of a SSR. Engineers were trying to get tons of like silencers issued by the Chevrolet Camaro SS. Chevrolet pick-up is equipped, the vehicle model type hod-rod in circles different from one another width and diameter – front used specially designed for this model Goodyear low profile tires of size 225/45 R19, while the rear 295/40 R20. Front suspension was based on the podwÄ‚Å‚jnych wishbone rear a distance> multi-link. Thank ™ ki ago conducting SSR and has nothing to do with rickety pick-up period, which was its pierwowzÄ‚Å‚r.
The car looks like a rounded and smoothed Chevrolet pick-up from the 50s Protruding from the body front fenders, a distinctive grille, round headlights, the shape of the cabin – all very reminiscent of the old American pickup truck. Cover the rear cargo area is covered with a retractable lid automatically developed in cooperation with the ASC and Karmann. The whole operation takes around opening 20 seconds.
The interior design of the Chevrolet SSR very clearly refers to the construction of the ’50s dashboard is divided into two halves, knobs and switches are styled on those found old cars brand. Many components are made of metal satin surface. Care was also about details such as the glove box, ashtray and radio – all of which are decorated in the style of the 50s Some parts of the interior were covered with paint in body color, which also was typical of the old Chevrolet vans.
Despite their design and very practical body design SSR and was so successful that the company decided to put it into mass production. Initially planned to produce several thousand units SSR-a year, but the market’s expectations verified. Demand for car turned out to be much lower compared to the one expected.
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