The good folks at iseecars.com actually compiled a list of the 30 most likely vehicles to reach a quarter million miles or more. In the top ten, Chevrolet trumps other Detroit automakers with the Chevrolet Suburban (22% chance of lasting 250k miles or more) in seventh place and the Silverado 1500 in tenth place with an 18.8% chance of lasting that long.
The list then continues with the Chevrolet Tahoe (12th with a 17.7% chance of surviving the threshold), but sadly there are no passenger cars on the current list. Well, that would be a pretty impossible task because Chevy doesn't have many of them around: the sixth-generation Camaro kicked the bucket late last year, the Malibu will go down at the end of the 2025 model year, and the Corvette is all about performance rather than big miles.
So, maybe people would like to see a Chevrolet car that will last a while for its owner and also offer some freshness and great performance, all at the same time. Never fear. The parallel universes of vehicular CGI have already identified a suspect in the imaginary realm of digital car content creators. Meet the good people at Car Q on YouTube, aiming to shock and amaze audiences with a possible styling take on their vision for the reborn Chevy Chevelle SS.
The resident pixel master is certainly challenging our traditional conception of the Chevelle SS: It was invented in the mid-1960s as Chevrolet's entry into the midsize muscle car wars, a step above the Camaro pony car. While the CGI expert keeps the idea of the dual left and right headlights, they're gone, but they're rather subtly inspired by the seventh-generation 1994-1996 Chevy Impala SS, and the small taillights positioned on the edge of the car have been replaced with round LED elements that cover a much larger area.
The unofficial and completely hypothetical two-door coupe's proportions are more in line with what we're used to, though: It has a long hood with a simple greenhouse and muscular profile lines, plus large black alloy wheels and beefy brakes. Unfortunately, Chevrolet probably won't bother resurrecting the beloved Chevelle SS nameplate, although a coupe like this with a hybrid powertrain would probably challenge the Ford Mustang S650 in a heartbeat. What do you think? Is it a yes or a no?
