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Originally Posted by BBDOS CV8
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...
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Totally agree with your points on this. Not to mention the DI V6 is not available here (yet?) - too expensive and complicated to add the infrastructure to support it without it sharing availability with the Commodore - you'd expect the (L99 6.2 auto) might turn up when Holden/HSV eventually releases AFM here (and what's the holdup with offering AFM on the 6.0 here? You'd think with the bad press this week
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...9-2682,00.html they'd be doing everything they could to get some better figures).
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Originally Posted by BBDOS CV8
...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.
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When I went thru the plant a handful of years back (just prior to the VY debut) the WH Statos and VX wagons were being autobot welded on the same machinery as the SWB sedans - the utes and V2 coupes were built on a hand weld line and then joined the main line. LHD and HSV bound cars had a little hat on their roof to indicate that there were special.
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Originally Posted by BBDOS CV8
... 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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Suspect you're spot on on this point.