---
title: "Drive Wire for July 7, 2016: Will the 2017 Chevrolet SS Make 600 Horsepower?"
description: "The American sports sedan currently gets by with a “mere” 415 ponies."
date: "2016-07-07"
modified: "2016-07-07"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/4309/drive-wire-for-july-7-2016-will-the-2017-chevrolet-ss-make-600-horsepower"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Chevrolet"
---

# Drive Wire for July 7, 2016: Will the 2017 Chevrolet SS Make 600 Horsepower?

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Today on Drive Wire, *The Drive* adds fuel to the fire of the General Motors rumor mill. With what may be its final year closing in, will [Chevy bless its slow-selling SS sports sedan](<https://www.thedrive.com/muscle-cars/3638/this-chevrolet-ss-hurts-my-eyeballs>) with the fire-breathing supercharged V8 shared in various forms between the last-generation Camaro ZL1, Corvette ZR1, and Cadillac CTS-V? Intel from Australia points to a likely "yes." The Chevrolet SS is based off the Australian-market Holden Commodore—and that will score the supercharged V8 [for its final year](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3741/holden-will-make-a-600-plus-horsepower-stick-shift-only-commodore>) [in production](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3741/holden-will-make-a-600-plus-horsepower-stick-shift-only-commodore>), tuned to 600 horsepower and hooked up to a six-speed manual transmission. As the future of the SS is rather uncertain, put *The Drive* on record as saying a BMW M5-beating, 600-horsepower swan song would be an appropriate way out for the model.

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