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Started by _Gunmetal LH_ , Aug 21 2012 08:24 PM

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#26 _oz772_

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 11:19 AM

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..

What you write is effectively what I mean. It doesn't matter that the Camaro was designed in Australia; yanks wouldn't know that. It is built in North America (Canada is near enough), and so that is better than it boarding a boat from 7,000 miles away to be shipped to the States as a Chev. I suspect the GTO wasn't advertised or pushed much for the very reason that it was built in Australia. I certainly interpret that from what I have read in Hemmings publications on many occasions, where they actually sing the car's praises.

Same goes for the Caprice police cars; they are miles ahead of the yank offerings, and make Crown Vic's look like dinosaurs, but they suffer the not from America tag, and hence why the numbers haven't been there.

Reference the G8, that car was head and shoulders ahead of any comparable American sedan available at the same time it was on sale. The last of the Grand Prix Pontiacs was a laughing stock of ugly plastic add-ons. [Some may say the same of the Walkinshaw, but it was built that way for a purpose, to improve the aerodynamics for racing. The plastic add-ons on yank cars serve no purpose].

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#27 _CHOPPER_

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 12:47 PM

Should have sent that ugly batmobile dunnydore. What a great looking design that was !!!! --- LOL

Looks like the designs coming from Broadmedows.

That looks very similar to most 4 door Hyundai Excels driven by people not born in Australia.

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#28 308 Sunbird

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 01:28 PM

That looks very similar to most 4 door Hyundai Excels driven by people not born in Australia.

Now that's funny :clappin:

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#29 orangeLJ

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 01:37 PM

The only way our large RWD platforms will remain is for them to become "global" cars.

I actually dont mind some of those renderings....

As for the G8 in the USA, I think timing killed it too, everything sort of turned to shit (economically) about that time.

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#30 _nial8r_

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 04:20 PM

That looks very similar to most 4 door Hyundai Excels driven by people not born in Australia.

i would have to agree and it would have to be in my top 10 most worst looking cars ever made IMO :nada:

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#31 _Quagmire_

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 08:55 PM

when i worked on the Adelaide export program we did 200 odd cars a shift....
2 shifts per day...400 odd a day 6 days some times 7 a week (1 shift)...so 2200 odd cars a week
no wonder holden wants the export market....that's not a "small amount" in the scheme of things
that's most of the domestic market combined.....nen zed was the extra icing on the cake
(we never prepped them..or hsv export cars)
and i think melbourne did the same amount
ford dropped the ball and that's what killed em in oz
shame really as forget the badge and they drive as well or better than a crumpledoor :DOH:

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#32 _LXSS350_

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:32 PM

I would drive a Walky (or Group A) over here...NO ONE would have a clue what the heck it was, ha ha ha..

True but having everyone say that the car looks like it has an outbreak of herpes might get tiresome .... LOL

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#33 yel327

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 10:09 PM

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.

I agree the original VT Monaro concept was a great looking car, and any of the Monaros look better than the uglied up GTO or GTS bastardisations. Apart from the Coupe4 I don't rate any of the HSV coupes in th elooks department! They were never a VY though. They are only V2 or VZ in Monaro form.

I actually don't mind the look of the car from the original post all that bad. It could look better, but so could a VE!