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Old 12-04-2011 | 11:35 PM
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Old 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......
Old 12-05-2011 | 07:53 AM
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Bad *** car.

Would of made a killer 5th Gen Camero...or even a 6th Gen.
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Originally Posted by 1CAMWNDR
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......
I always wondered why car companies didn't make a poll for across America that asks do you like or not? If it turns out that American people like it then they build it!

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Bad *** car.

Would of made a killer 5th Gen Camero...or even a 6th Gen.
Really????
Old 12-05-2011 | 10:24 PM
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^^He drives a Cobra

and time to move to Australia, they get the cool cars..
Old 12-06-2011 | 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by FocusVince
^^He drives a Cobra

and time to move to Australia, they get the cool cars..
Lol anyone actually know how much it would cost to ship a car from Australia to America??
Old 12-06-2011 | 05:26 PM
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no but the steering wheel is on the wrong side anyways Unless you're into delivering mail...
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Originally Posted by FocusVince
no but the steering wheel is on the wrong side anyways Unless you're into delivering mail...
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
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oh I see, is it legal? Or was it strictly a showcar...(honda showcar?)
Old 12-07-2011 | 05:00 AM
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oh I see, is it legal? Or was it strictly a showcar...(honda showcar?)
Na its legal just not practical at all.... But for the right car I could make that sacrifice as well. I would never for a Honda but yea
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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.
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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.
Old 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.
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BMW M3 killa in my opinion!!!!!!
Old 12-13-2011 | 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by DoggyB22
Na its legal just not practical at all.... But for the right car I could make that sacrifice as well. I would never for a Honda but yea
The Honda was only legal because the same model was exported to the US.
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).
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Originally Posted by 95zpro
BMW M3 killa in my opinion!!!!!!
I doubt it.
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yes please!
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What an outstanding machine. I'd buy one. Would have been nice to see that instead of the monaro for the GTO.
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Check out this guys replica Holden Commodore SSV with 584 hp NA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1k_XIvqmvg
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Originally Posted by DoggyB22
Check out this guys replica Holden Commodore SSV with 584 hp NA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1k_XIvqmvg
Nice.


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