$44,000 isnt that bad of a deal, considering all the standard. Build a GT with similar options and you'll be somewhat close to that price.

 

I don't know why you guys would even mention Hyundai. It's a nice car but come on guys. This is an American rwd V8 sedan. Pushrod rumble, bland styling, cheap American leather and plastic, Stone Age engineering, and wonderful. This won't be a luxury car. Quit trying to compare it to anything else but maybe a Charger or a few years old G8. Still saying $44k is too much but unless Ford builds its equivalent, ill be looking to acquire one in a couple years.

 

I just mentioned on what I would spend $45,000 and the reasons why. That doesn't mean that the Gensis is better than the SS and it also doesn't mean that I expected from everybody to agree with that. It was just my $0.02.

 

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Originally Posted by AlsCobra

I don't know why you guys would even mention Hyundai. It's a nice car but come on guys. This is an American rwd V8 sedan. Pushrod rumble, bland styling, cheap American leather and plastic, Stone Age engineering, and wonderful. This won't be a luxury car. Quit trying to compare it to anything else but maybe a Charger or a few years old G8. Still saying $44k is too much but unless Ford builds its equivalent, ill be looking to acquire one in a couple years.

I would disagree with some of your description:

• It’s more of an Aussie RWD V8 sedan slightly modded for the American market.
• Any cross-plane V8 rumbles, regardless of valve train layout.
• I would call the styling clean and refined, even if that comes off as bland to most overwrought American tastes.
• The leather and plastic are ostensibly Aussie-origin too and if the G8 and a number of current GM products is any indication, not too bad at all.
• The engineering is actually pretty up to date and very good at that, hardly the Neolithic-age-tech of your stereotypical American sedan of yore with such stone-axe bits as leaf springs and lively-axle rear suspension (imagine putting such steam-era bits on a modern car with even the faintest of sporting aspirations!).
• ·While perhaps not quite a full on luxury car, it is pretty well fitted out and, well, luxurious, which I suppose is justification for its not-cheap price.
• The Charger and G8 comparisons are probably most apt, though you might throw the Chrysler 300 in there too, but there's undoubtedly overlap with many other large mid-priced sedans too from various corners of the globe.

I would still agree that $44K, if not exorbitant, is a bit steep and should have started pricing at $39,999 at most. I will predict some price cutting in a few months where most end up going out the dealer doors at around the $40K mark in the end.

Nonetheless, I think it will be a suitable successor to the short lived but, now, much loved G8 and should do pretty well. Now if Chevy would do only two or three things:

• Offer a stick.
• Offer a wagon version for those in a family way who still want a performance car rather than being consigned to either an oafish SUV or testosterone-draining minivan.
• Offer an El Camino version for those not yet in a family way but need the room to practice some of the necessary skills.

 

I think I read somewhere that Chevy's only planning to sell about 2,000 of these per year ... at that volume they'll sell at even more money ..... unfortunately.

 

^ This, even though nascar doesn't run "real" stock cars anymore they still have to be based off a production model so they have to sell some in the U.S. to meet the requirement.

i still like it better than the camaro..

 

they also still sell it as fleet vehical with a 3.6L & 6.0L
MSRP is $31,420

 

They have been using the caprice version for police duty vehicles for a couple years already. Looks like it should be a great car but the price will probably hurt sales. Can't wait to drive one.

 

The specs are nice but the styling and price are big negatives.

 

I love Hyundais. I want a coupe 3.8 bad

 

Koreans couldnt build an engine thats worth a ****. I know so many people with Genesises that have blown engines, not even modified. Its cheap and **** falls apart in little to no time.

 

And yeah.. the chevy ss is meh. Not making it to my want list.

 

haha , same here!


Honestly when I first saw this pic I thought I was looking at some boring Chinese-market sedan.
I can't believe it starts at over $30k ... that should be a $19,995 rental-fleet special

 

Sure you do ...

 

I sell ****loads of Hyundais and I never have problems. I'd have to see it to believe it. And even if they blew there's a 100k 10 year drivetrain warranty. I have had the exact opposite experience with them. Most of the cars I sell are about 10 years old with 100k+ miles.

 

Too much... good luck Chevy...