General Motors went for broke here, with a hard-covered flatbed and retractable hardtop roof, both of which operate at the flick of a switch. Interior buttons and gauges, sheathed in matte aluminum, keep with the doo-wop theme; they’re oversize and almost cartoonish-looking. But like many pickups, the SSR is a two-seater, which seems a bit outdated. When I hauled a new computer home from the store, my husband had to drive his own car so our son wasn’t left behind. Not very practical. But then, this is no ordinary pickup; not when you consider a grown man risked a broken nose in his Lexus just to check it out.
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