New Chevy SS...
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, Aug 21 2012 08:24 PM
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:41 PM
Just another Commodore with a fukking Chevy bage................. Looks like the aussies have started a trend, even the yanks are copying us.............
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:41 PM
What an ugly pile of shit.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 08:59 PM
Front looks like a Kia with a plasic Chev badge slapped in.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 10:07 PM
almost looks like a fkn toyota aurion /camry boat anchor.well atleast the cops will feel at home in it.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 10:32 PM
Its a dunnydore. Since 1979 its been hard to buy an uglier design and no amount of modifications could ever make it stylish.
Modern car design has made almost all cars look similar and boring. Little wonder old cars are getting a resurgence of interest as people try to get well away from the ME TOO late model cars.
Modern car design has made almost all cars look similar and boring. Little wonder old cars are getting a resurgence of interest as people try to get well away from the ME TOO late model cars.
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 11:02 PM
...and it gets worse...
http://www.chevyssfo...tive-renderings
Looking more like a small car, say a barina? with every new model. I wish 'big' cars were designed to actually 'look big' not copy the tiny hatch look.
Love my Torana a little more after seeing that crap!
http://www.chevyssfo...tive-renderings
Looking more like a small car, say a barina? with every new model. I wish 'big' cars were designed to actually 'look big' not copy the tiny hatch look.
Love my Torana a little more after seeing that crap!
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Posted 21 August 2012 - 11:12 PM
gees...you guys forget the series one gto/monaro?
that was bland as frock...the series 2 had to be "ballsed" up to thier taste to sell over there
if they go with the grey vf it may not look as bad
but i'm guessing the yanks want all thier cars looking like a civic/camry/accord...or whatever now
just like thier nascar race series.....
that was bland as frock...the series 2 had to be "ballsed" up to thier taste to sell over there
if they go with the grey vf it may not look as bad
but i'm guessing the yanks want all thier cars looking like a civic/camry/accord...or whatever now
just like thier nascar race series.....
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 01:55 AM
but i'm guessing the yanks want all thier cars...
Don't group me in with that...
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 05:47 AM
It's only fair that since we are sending you "dunnydores" that you will have return your hatch back here to us in oz where it belongs.
Don't group me in with that...
Hell we can throw in a million cars with the blue oval badge on as a bonus.
We have this clean up Australia drive so sending junk to the USA is one way of reaching the objective.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 06:24 AM
Hi guys,
From my understanding the car will appear similar in some areas as the current model but the roof line will change somewhat as well as the side sytling lines.
I have also been told there will be a new range of engines available with the VF.
The front is totally new, incliding the bonnet and the rear end is more inline with the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu which from my perspective is a great looking 4 door family car.
Anyway, have a look yourself, you be the judge......
Cheers
Alf
From my understanding the car will appear similar in some areas as the current model but the roof line will change somewhat as well as the side sytling lines.
I have also been told there will be a new range of engines available with the VF.
The front is totally new, incliding the bonnet and the rear end is more inline with the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu which from my perspective is a great looking 4 door family car.
Anyway, have a look yourself, you be the judge......
Cheers
Alf
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 08:24 AM
It's only fair that since we are sending you "dunnydores" that you will have return your hatch back here to us in oz where it belongs.
Hell we can throw in a million cars with the blue oval badge on as a bonus.
We have this clean up Australia drive so sending junk to the USA is one way of reaching the objective.
I've already had a VF...and it was years ago
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 08:41 AM
nice looking ride there Jeff 
thats why i went with the VY SS this time round, already had a VE
thats why i went with the VY SS this time round, already had a VE
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 08:57 AM
Dam sight better looking than any dunnydore. Its been a fact of life that any dunny version wins the yearly best award for ugly bland styling. 
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:09 AM
nice looking ride there Jeff
thats why i went with the VY SS this time round, already had a VE
Nice
(Haven't had a VE here before so far)I have had a pair of VG coupes too...so I am futured proofed for the "SS" when the VF is replaced eventually .....ha ha...
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:12 AM
Dam sight better looking than any dunnydore. Its been a fact of life that any dunny version wins the yearly best award for ugly bland styling.
I think if anything, it would have been cool to get the ute here. They were going to before GM here went down the toilet...of course the idiots they are, were going to brand it as a Pontiac. I think the ute just called what it should have been.. a Chev El Camino, would have went over awesome here.
But.....that never happened so here we are
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:54 AM
The ute would go well over there and be a good option for those looking at downsizing from a full size pickup. I read somewhere that Texas accounted for 40% of pickup sales in the USA. When you look at pickup sale numbers thats a lot of big fuel guzzlers in Texas.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:57 AM
Even back when I had my old VR commodore ute here...people flipped out over it. And it was a nothing special thing. The VE's with the LS engines would have been awesome here I really think.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 10:07 AM
Selling Aussie designed cars into the US is keeping Holden alive. Better than dead! aka ford after 2015 ...
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 10:28 AM
Bloody oath, well said.Selling Aussie designed cars into the US is keeping Holden alive. Better than dead! aka ford after 2015 ...
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 10:45 AM
One hell of a free trade agreement going on
http://www.news.com....z-1226454440153
That is the real reason why Aussie utes won't be going to the good 'ole boys.
Someone mentioned the Monaro being bland. Sorry, but in it's original VY form, that was one smooth tasteful design; who remembers the Sydney motor show in 1998 when it was shown? Just because the yanks need to have bits of plastic appendages hanging off a car to think it looks good, doesn't mean it does actually look good. I spend a lot of my life in the US, and there are some hideous looking new 'cars' over here. The biggest problem for the Monaro was that it wasn't made in America.
http://www.news.com....z-1226454440153
That is the real reason why Aussie utes won't be going to the good 'ole boys.
Someone mentioned the Monaro being bland. Sorry, but in it's original VY form, that was one smooth tasteful design; who remembers the Sydney motor show in 1998 when it was shown? Just because the yanks need to have bits of plastic appendages hanging off a car to think it looks good, doesn't mean it does actually look good. I spend a lot of my life in the US, and there are some hideous looking new 'cars' over here. The biggest problem for the Monaro was that it wasn't made in America.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 10:53 AM
The biggest problem for the Monaro was that it wasn't made in America.
I disagree....the car never got much press or advertising and seemed like most people didn't even know of it. Same goes for the G8 Pontiac (VE Commodore) everyone you talk too that actually drove or had one (as with the GTO) loved them...but you never saw GM pushing them here really.
The Camaro was designed there in Melbourne and is built in Canada, yet it gets tons of advertising and pushing by GM, and you in turn see them all over the place. (And yes, they are a Commodore underneath basically)
Anyways...I do my part to help Holden over here at least best as I can...ha ha..
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 11:00 AM
Should have sent that ugly batmobile dunnydore. What a great looking design that was !!!! --- LOL
Looks like the designs coming from Broadmedows.
Looks like the designs coming from Broadmedows.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 11:03 AM
I would drive a Walky (or Group A) over here...NO ONE would have a clue what the heck it was, ha ha ha..
My mate was just telling me about a guy looking to do a deal on a VL turbo with a worked engine, etc. Not that they are a nice looking car perse, but would be a heck of a "sleeper" over here.
My mate was just telling me about a guy looking to do a deal on a VL turbo with a worked engine, etc. Not that they are a nice looking car perse, but would be a heck of a "sleeper" over here.
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