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Look! It's a truck! No, it's a rod! No, it's SSR; Chevrolet finally puts concept excitement on the road.
Sitting in the garage, sheltered from a sprinkling rain outside, it looked nothing at all like the big purple machine that made such a splash at the Detroit auto show almost two years before. No pickup bed, no roundy-round front end, no chrome or fancy paint. And definitely no trick folding hardtop.
Instead of a low-slung street machine, there sat a decidedly upright, squared-off, beat-up-looking sport/ute, along the lines of a TrailBlazer. But they promised, these Chevy engineers and brand guys, that it would drive like the SSR. A test mule, they called it, a vehicle with a chassis tuned like the SSR's, used for ride-and-handling validation tests. So we hopped ...
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