Holden Coupe 60 In America?
12-05-2011, 07:38 AM
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Here's a neat idea: The next time a killer concept comes from one of GM's divisions in Australia or Europe bring it to the states RIGHT THEN. Not 5 -10 years late when all of the tooling is going to be trashed for the next generation......
12-05-2011, 04:35 PM
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Really????
12-06-2011, 05:55 PM
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True but there's still cars in America that people have had shipped here with the driver on the other side. I was at a local meet a little bit ago & a guy was driving a Honda with the steering wheel on the right
12-09-2011, 09:44 PM
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Probably not too expensive if you buy an Aussie made car in Australia but shipping it over and getting it street legalized here will cost at least $10k. I was talking to an Aussie soldier and he said a new Mustang GT is $150k there and a new Challenger is $70k. So if you plan on going to Australia anytime soon, take a few over with you. By the way that car is sick.
12-12-2011, 11:00 PM
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Holden has had quite a few good concepts over the past decade, like the Torana sedan and the Coupe 60 here.
Both of which ended up being huge missed opportunities by Holden and GM.
The Coupe 60 was completely feasible for production and would have made a good Pontiac coupe. Maybe the next gen Holden sedan and variants will find homes at Chevrolet here in the Americas.
Both of which ended up being huge missed opportunities by Holden and GM.
The Coupe 60 was completely feasible for production and would have made a good Pontiac coupe. Maybe the next gen Holden sedan and variants will find homes at Chevrolet here in the Americas.
12-13-2011, 12:01 AM
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That Holden 60 would have been an awesome next gen GTO after 06 or as a G8 coupe but as stated many times in the past and in this thread all the cool Holden performance cars never come here...we get boring slow stuff. 
12-13-2011, 05:37 PM
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Any model car that was not exported to the US can not legally be imported and registered unless the car is over 25 years old.
The only way to get around it is to import it as a show car, but you can't get plates for it, etc.
The other way around it is VIN swapping (which of course is illegal and acquiring the car in the first place would be quite difficult).
