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Holden’s final US-bound Chevrolet SS has been built, marking the end of the Australian export program.
The final Chevy SS was ‘Phantom Black’, and its LS3 was hooked up to a six-speed manual ‘box.
A Holden spokesperson says that one of the last built had some extra personalisation after a request from its buyer.
The manufacturing team at Elizabeth obliged, and signed under the bonnet and on the deck lid carpets.
“This is a great example of the pride the manufacturing team has in the product they build, as well as the respect that our US customers have for the great quality car we make for them.”
US outlet Road and Track recently wrote: “The SS will be sorely missed by the few that recognised its charms. It’s so good, we deemed it worthy of comparison to the all-time benchmark sports sedan, the E39-chassis BMW M5.”
So low, in fact, that dealerships dropped the price to US$39,932 (A$52,770). Dealers in Australia are banned from applying similar discounts to local Commodore SS models, though huge demand means they are unlikely to need to.
A total of 7305 police Caprices were built here, with 652 of those in the last 12 months.
For the cars that are to stay on home soil, the final build date is October 20, 2017.
