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Originally Posted by AndrewGS
It will come to Australia and it will be a Chevrolet, just like the C7 Corvette. It will be sold through the Premium Channel with Hummer, Cadillac and Saab. This will be the case in other parts of the world as well. Oh, and the RHD model will roll of the same Oshawa, Ontario line as the LHD.
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I highly doubt GM will spend $millions to engineer the C7 RHD when the major RHD markets (England and Japan) both allow LHD cars registration. This can't be long coming here, by hook or by crook - maybe when the Oz car industry dies. Even if they were available RHD, at the $100K+ price they would command by the time they were modified for our ADRs they would sell five or ten a year.
As far as the Camaro - I can't see Holden trying to sell V6s - they couldn't move CV6 Monaros, even at $15K (25%) less than a CV8. Total production over Series 1 and Series 11 was 300 cars, or about 5%. If they sell a V8 you can be guaranteed it will be the SS, and I would expect it to cost $65-75K, once the luxury car tax was added - remember it will be very limited volumes.
As far as building them here? Not likely. The Monaro shells were hand-welded in jigs offline in the paint shop, as were all the LWB cars including Statos, Utes, Wagons, Crewmans in the paint shop until VZ, then dropped them back into the line for drivetrains and interiors. It caused enormous disruption to normal assembly - it's been estimated Holden could build 3-4 sedans for every Monaro. Same with GTO assembly, which was as much of a curse as a blessing.
The VE/WM all go down the line together and are autobot welded which is why they are all on the same floorpan stamping and the Ute and Stato get their extra wheelbase from offset suspension members. That tooling is not made for the Camaro wheelbase/bodyshell, and on the tiny volume of Oz sales (optimistically in the hundreds a year longterm) they'd never bother building them here - just to inventory the parts would be a major pain in the ring.
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Originally Posted by FBODYRULES
the Australians are taking far too much credit for the car, they did help out but this is going too far:
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My, my - tetchy. Did your woolly girlfriend knock you back last night?
Check out this fake ad campaign to convince Oz we should invade New Zealand:
100% There for the Taking
They should add '0% Car Industry'