Irrespective of all the Chevelles, Impalas, Camaros, and even S-10 pickups that accept beat Chevrolet's SS badge, the aboriginal car to do so was a one-off Corvette. Corvette administrator Zora-Arkus Duntov and GM designers created the aboriginal Super Sport (below) in 1957 as a chase and engineering toy and as a administration study. It is, so far, the alone Corvette to be alleged an SS. If a determined enthusiast accumulation of General Motors artefact types, designers, and advisers accept their way, there could be another--and it would aperture into the calendar aloft the accessible Z06.
This Super-Vette is far from a done deal, but we apperceive for a actuality it's getting advised aural the halls of GM. With the abject Corvette rated at 400 application and the Z06 now clearly called at 505, the Corvette SS would charge at atomic 550 horses to ambit itself from the others and cull abundantly advanced of the Viper. Our assumption is that Chevy aswell wants to leapfrog the Ford GT, so 575 to 600 isn't out of the catechism if the powertrain wizards can crank that abundant out of the Z06's LS7 V-8 and still advance driveability and emissions compliance.
This MT-exclusive analogy blends anatomic and administration cues of the Z06, the Corvette Grand Sport of the mid-1960s, and the accepted C6-R ALMS racer. We doubtable a track-style rear addition would be a necessity, as would added advancing rocker panels and foreground fascia. Count on 20-inch rolling banal and conceivably beyond grille and beat openings in the name of cooling and accelerated aero management. When a Corvette SS would appear to market, how abounding Chevy would build, or how abundant it would amount is anyone's guess. But don't attending for it afore 2008--if the activity gets a blooming light. Given GM's abounding challenges and priorities, that charcoal a big if.