2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS: a single Monroney label

This record's own dek states that the SS continued for 2001 with the 200-hp 3800 V6, and that a surviving window sticker shows the Oshawa-built car at $22,400 base, the single specific data point this record has for that year's actual selling configuration. Wikipedia's own 2000-2007 production table, citing The Encyclopedia of American Cars, gives 71,268 Monte Carlos of all trims for 2001 without a separate SS split, and this record's own production notes state that the missing SS figure reflects a genuine gap rather than an implied zero.¹

That Monroney label, for a single documented vehicle with its VIN redacted by the hosting site, shows a $22,400 standard vehicle price, $2,598 in options and a $600 destination charge for a $25,598 total. The label itself lists a Monte Carlo SS Preferred Equipment Group at $615 with a driver information center, heated mirrors and a six-way power driver seat, alongside an electric sunroof at $700, leather accent bucket seats at $625, a six-way power passenger seat at $305, and an AM/FM stereo with CD and cassette at $223.²

GM's own 2001 restoration kit lists the 3800 V6, RPO L36, at 200 hp and 231 cu in as standard on the SS, alongside the smaller 3400 V6, RPO LA1, at 180 hp on the LS, both paired with the same MX0 four-speed automatic overdrive transaxle. This record's own key facts give an estimated 3,391-lb curb weight for the SS specifically, distinct from the LS's own estimated 3,340 lb on the same factory document.

This record's own paint and interior sections carry an explicit scope caveat: nine exterior colors, from White and Sandrift Metallic through Torch Red and Navy Blue Metallic, and eight interior fabric and leather choices, from Neutral cloth through Ebony leather seating surfaces, are documented from the same restoration kit, but each entry is labeled as drawn from a line-wide list with SS-specific availability not separately stated, so this record does not assert that every color or trim was actually orderable on the SS specifically.

Specification detail includes a 110.5-inch wheelbase, 197.9-inch overall length, 72.3-inch width, 55.2-inch height, front and rear track of 62.1 and 61.2 inches, a 17-gallon fuel tank, a 38-foot curb-to-curb turning diameter, front and rear disc rotors of 11.93 and 10.94 inches, and an EPA rating of 20 city and 30 highway mpg for the 3.8-liter SS specifically. The transaxle's own final drive ratio is printed on the factory document as 2.86 for the Sedan and 3.05 for the LS, a distinction this record carries exactly as printed rather than resolving to a single SS-specific figure.²

This record's identification section notes that the documented Monroney label shows model number 1WX27 and final assembly at Oshawa Plant 1, Ontario, Canada. A single unpublished lead states that Wikipedia gives 2001 pace car production as limited to 1,300 cars, but this record notes that the claim is tertiary and uncited, so it is not adopted into this record's own production figures for the year, leaving the same overall SS production gap already described above unfilled by that pace-car figure as well.^2,1