If you were a fan of General Motors, the 2000s offered you such wonderful vehicles such as the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky twins, the striking Chevy SSR, the Corvette C6, the Pontiac G8, the Pontiac GTO, the Cadillac CTS-V, and so on. It really seemed like the 2000s had a little something for everyone and multiple automakers were willing to take chances on bombastic designs. GMĪs we’ve noted in the past, enthusiasts living in the 2000s had access to a smorgasbord of sport sedans with manual transmissions, fuel-injected motorcycles, medium-duty commercial trucks with pickup beds, reborn pony cars, and a number of takes on retro-modern style. This week, we’re headed back to the 2000s - an era that seemed to be pretty glorious for car enthusiasts. A Ford Escort, Chevy Monte Carlo, or a Mercury Tracer may be cars many of us don’t remember fondly, but there are versions of them that might be worth taking another look! After all, this whole Holy Grail thing started because David loves finding obscure versions of Jeep Grand Cherokees. We’ll happily plant the red and white ribbon on the weirdest version of a Yugo just as much as we’d give it to a skunkworks BMW production. Just 2,110 of them were built and most of them have seemingly been abused, forgotten, or both.Īs a reminder, Holy Grails celebrates the best or most obscure versions of any car regardless if the base vehicle is forgettable or iconic. Ford realized it wasn’t even on the podium when it came to compact tuner cars and for a brief two years, the automaker offered up a version of the Escort with a variety of parts that made it a little faster and gave it better handling. Last time on Holy Grails, we took a trip back to the late 1990s, a time when readers Jack Trade and Rootwyrm wanted us to remember the best of the last North American Ford Escort. That base car was nutty enough, but Chevy went on ahead and built just 216 in panel wagon form, so you could deliver flowers with a smoky burnout, of course. One of those vehicles was the Chevrolet HHR SS, a retro-modern hatch with serious firepower in the form of a turbo four making 260 HP and 260 lb-ft torque. If you look past all of that, you’ll find some real diamonds in the rough. Its interiors were plastic, some ignitions were faulty, and the General was unapologetic about badge engineering. General Motors of the 2000s is known for a number of not-so-flattering traits.
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