New York safety inspections
Share of first inspections failed on safety, by model year. Older cars fail more as miles build up, so compare each year with the average car of the same year. Best against its own year: 2014.
NY DMV Vehicle Inspections, initial inspections since Aug 2021 · how we count
Year by year
| Model year | Complaints | Recalls |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
A model year gets its own page when it has enough data for at least three sections
Fatal crashes in the US
From 2020 to 2023, 14 ss vehicles were involved in crashes on US public roads in which someone died, and 15 people died inside them. These are counts, not crash rates: a model with more cars on the road shows up more often, and people killed outside the vehicle are not counted here.
| Model year | Vehicles in fatal crashes | Deaths in the vehicle |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 4 | 6 |
| 2014 | 7 | 5 |
NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), crash years 2020–2023 (public domain) · how we count
Crash-test ratings by year
NHTSA 5-star results for 4 model-year variants; not yet fully rated. Rollover risk is the estimated chance of rolling over in a single-vehicle crash.
| Year | Variant | Overall | Rollover risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2017 Chevrolet SS 4 DR RWD | — | 0.0 % |
| 2016 | 2016 Chevrolet SS 4 DR RWD | — | 0.0 % |
| 2015 | 2015 Chevrolet SS 4 DR RWD | — | 0.0 % |
| 2014 | 2014 Chevrolet SS 4 DR RWD | — | 0.0 % |
NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (5-Star Safety Ratings), api.nhtsa.gov · US federal work, public domain
In New Zealand
18 ss cars are on the New Zealand register; 78% arrived as used imports.
| Model year | Registered | Sold new in NZ | Used imports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1975 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1972 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1970 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1969 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1968 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1963 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1962 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, Motor Vehicle Register (March 2026) · CC BY 4.0