The Super Sport (SS) name for the Holden Commodore rebadged as a Chevrolet in the US has been condemned by a Hebrew newspaper as having a Nazi reference - and threatened with being banned from entry.

A report in The Times of Israel quotes Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth slamming the badging because of association with the notorious Nazi SS unit led by Heinrich Himmler under Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror across Europe.

According to the report, the name was critised by Barach Shuv - a manager of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and chairman of the Organization of Partisans, Underground Fighters and Ghetto Rebels.

"The use of this name is very inappropriate," Shuv is cited as saying in the Yedioth story. "It is not a name that will bring them pride or success."

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