1995 Chevrolet Impala SS: new colors, disputed production

Chevrolet's 1995 Impala SS brochure, lithographed in August 1994, adds Dark Cherry Metallic and Dark Green-Gray Metallic to black, keeps the LT1 at 260 hp, and lists a limited-slip differential among the car's standard features.

Production for 1995 is genuinely disputed rather than merely thin: Wikipedia gives 21,434, while a separate Engine Factory production page gives 18,649; this record's own conflict entry notes that the Engine Factory page's own color-split figures, 7,134, 9,858, and 4,442, sum to 21,434 rather than to its own stated 18,649 total, an internal contradiction within that single source. A second conflict concerns which color that 9,858 figure actually belongs to: the Engine Factory page assigns it to Dark Cherry, with Black at 7,134 and the Dark Green-Gray at 4,442, but a Hagerty buyer's guide snippet instead describes black as the most popular color at 9,858; this record's own conflict entry leaves that color assignment unresolved rather than choosing one source, and no production figure is attached to the paint list itself as a result. The best missing primary source, GM or Arlington assembly production records or the GM Heritage Impala SS information kit, could not be retrieved due to a website access error.^1,2

No price is recorded for 1995 in this record. The LT1 5.7-liter V8 with sequential-port fuel injection is rated 260 hp, with a 330-lb-ft torque figure drawn from Wikipedia; this record's own engine note explains that the factory sheets it draws on for this year give horsepower only, so the torque figure comes from a separate kind of source than the power rating beside it. The only transmission documented is an electronically controlled four-speed automatic, standard equipment.¹

Chevrolet's 1995 order guide, for model 1BL19, records the expanded color choice directly: Dark Cherry Metallic and Dark Green-Gray Metallic added to Black, while the car still carried a single gray leather 45/45 trim and a single power team, the LT1 paired with the automatic and a 3.08 axle. A handful of regular-production options are documented for the year: the 1SJ base preferred equipment group; the 1SK preferred equipment group 1, bundling an automatic day/night mirror, a rear defogger with heated mirrors, a power antenna, a passenger six-way power seat, remote keyless entry with trunk release, and Twilight Sentinel; the C49 electric rear-window defogger; the K05 engine block heater; the UL0 ETR AM/FM stereo with cassette, automatic tone control, theft lock, and speed-compensated volume; the UN0 ETR AM/FM stereo with a compact disc player, automatic tone control, and theft lock; the A23 heat-reflective windshield; and California and Massachusetts emissions options, YF5 and NG1 respectively.

Three exterior colors are documented from the brochure, Black, Dark Cherry Metallic, and Dark Green-Gray Metallic, matching three paint codes from the order guide, 41U, 77U, and 18U in the same order. The interior is documented as gray leather only in the brochure, with the order guide's own trim entry adding that its specific 143 code requires seat option AS7 to be specified separately in order to be selected. Specification detail includes a 115.9-inch wheelbase, 214.1-inch length, 77.5-inch width, 54.7-inch height, a 23.0-gallon fuel tank, and 20.4 cu ft of luggage capacity. No performance-test data and no identification detail were found in an accessible documented source for the year, so those sections carry nothing further in this record beyond the production, engine, option, paint, interior, and specification data already described.