Just because General Motors fuddled the original SSR’s debut doesn’t mean the SSR couldn’t work today. Chevy fitted the 6.0-liter LS with an extra 90 horses, and while performance improved, it was too late to save the SSR, and the following model year was its last. Instead of the 6.0-liter V-8 found in the concept, the production car arrived with a 5.3-liter V-8 with just 300 horsepower to shift well over 4000 pounds of vehicle, and the performance couldn’t match the SSR’s sporty looks. The Chevy SSR concept car revealed at the 2000 Detroit auto show got a positive response, but by the time the retro pickup/roadster mashup debuted for 2003, it was a dud.

Oh, and he's ugly, too.”-Dan Pund, December 2001. It is the punk kid out behind the garage smoking cigarettes while holding a skin magazine in one hand and throwing rocks through windows with the other, all the while teaching the neighborhood children the more colorful portions of Anglo-Saxon. Early cars ran to 60 in 5.3 seconds with the higher-powered version reducing that time to 4.8 seconds.“If the Corvette is a rebellious child of the extended automotive family, the M coupe is the blackest of sheep.

Later versions received the high-revving 315-hp 3.2-liter inline-six from the E46 M3. Nicknamed the “clown shoe” for its shoe-like proportions, the first two model years of the M version came with a 240-hp 3.2-liter inline-six from the E36 M3. The platform is known as the E36/8 and like the Z3, it is a marriage of E30 and E36 bits. When the engineers finally revealed the coupe, the board approved the creation putting it into production for the 1999 model year. Legend has it that BMW engineers worked in their spare time to build a coupe version of the Z3 Roadster.

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