[align=center][:-]Chevy Impala SS 7th Place [:-][/align][align=center]
Base price: $28,655
0-to-60-mph time: 5.6 sec
Quarter-mile time: 14.2 sec @ 101 mph[/align][align=center][:-]Pontiac Grand Prix GTP [:-][/align][align=center]
Base price: $29,430
0-to-60-mph time: 5.7 sec
Quarter-mile time: 14.3 sec @ 98 mph[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]



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January 2007
The Quickest Cars of 2007: $25,000 to $30,000. - Features
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Ten stoplight assassins on a moderate budget.
Introduction
Tenth Place: Subaru Forester 2.5XT
Ninth Place: Pontiac Grand Prix GXP
Eighth Place: Pontiac Solstice GXP/Saturn Sky Red Line (manual)
Seventh Place: Chevrolet Impala SS
Sixth Place: Nissan 350Z
Fifth Place: Mazdaspeed 6
Fourth Place: Subaru Legacy 2.5GT
Third Place: Pontiac Solstice GXP/Saturn Sky Red Line (automatic)
Second Place: Ford Mustang GT
First Place: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution RS

For all the coolness of a car that goes 180 mph, that has about as much relevance to the average driver in this country as a 180-foot yacht. Accelerating from a start, on the other hand, is sort of legal in every state in the U.S., barring law-enforcement officers with an inflated sense of purpose (don't ask how we know about "Unsafe Start" statutes).
Below are the 10 quickest vehicles available with a base price between $25K and $30K, ranked in order of 0-to-60-mph time. Ties were settled first by quarter-mile time, then by which was quicker to the highest speed both cars achieved (usually 120 or 130 mph), in that order. Most cars at this price point offer basic luxury

 

[align=center]MCF has members `Monte Carlo's[/align][align=center]that will blow the doors `off[/align][align=center]any of those cars.[/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Time + $'s + Knowledge = Win [/align][align=center](For under $30K)[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Now, that's a Winner [/align]

 

They have the Impala SSon there but not the Monte Carlo SS i thought they where the same car and the Monte just looks better. [8D]

 

you forgot to mention # 1 josh's tony stewart ss lol jk

 

Base price: $28,655
0-to-60-mph time: 5.6 sec
Quarter-mile time: 14.2 sec @ 101 mph
First the good: For under $29K, the four-door Impala SS delivers the same 0-to-60-mph and quarter-mile time as Nissan's 350Z, with an even faster trap speed. Other than SS badges and aluminum wheels, it looks like every other fleet-favorite Impala, encouraging frequent and satisfying slayings of Teutonic lane poachers. The SS boasts an aluminum-block LS4 V-8, a smaller sibling to the Corvette engine that makes 303 horsepower and 323 pound-feet of torque along with all the right sounds.
But we'd rather drive a V-6 Impala. Italians have an adjective to describe their vision of the American experience: Americanata. This term, inclusive of a sense of exaggeration, is applied to movies like Rambo and all-you-can-eat buffet dinners, and it is readily applied to the Impala SS. The SS is value priced. It's fast. It's ample. It's soft. Turn off the traction control and the 5.3-liter V-8 will incinerate one or both of the front tires until you lift. Normally we applaud such buffoonery, but the experience is ultimately unsatisfying, and the limitations of an 18-year-old, front-wheel-drive chassis proffer an unsatisfying and sometimes unnerving experience. The SS's body ducks and bobs like that's a design feature.
Unlucky engineers were handed a thorny set of ingredients including front-wheel drive, unequal-length driveshafts, and a V-8, and the resulting stew is poisoned with torque steer. Leave the traction control on and the front brakes take turns arresting wheel movement, with a resulting jig from the steering wheel; turn it off and irregular surfaces elicit similar behavior. Unlike the Grand Prix GXP, with which it shares chassis and engine, the SS's suspension, bushings, and concomitant hardware are just not up to the V-8's prodigious grunt. The mechanically similarMonte Carlo SSwould likely have made this list as well, but when we askedGM for one to test, we were told: "We arenot interested in sending you that car."
Worried that we might not heap praise, GM? Come on, we so enjoyed the Impala SS you sent.
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