MOTOR mag - New Munro???
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I'm sure it's just Mr MOTOR & his photo-shop editor havin some fun - As pictured on the last page of the spread GM have touted the idea of a topless Munro back when the CV8 was launched (I actually have that copy of MOTOR here in UK as well) you may see some p/types (with & without lids) at the upcoming Car shows in Oz to bring in the crowds & judge the domestic punter's interest (similar to the CV8's birth story I spose?) but I can't see them doing a lidless version full on - would be too heavy with the xtra metal as a serious performance seller - maybe see them driven by blonde bimbo seppos that want a V8 sunbed but that gotta be the limit of it 4 sure??
As you prob spied from the magazine cover, there is also a blurb in the same issue on the Camaro "coming to Oz". Reading the article, it's talking about the production of the Camaro being done in Oz by Holden (for global market) based on the "success" of the Pontiac GTO (left hook Munro). Makes no comments on the obviously valid earlier question about would there be any logic in building two different V8 coupes at the same time.
hsvgtscoupe said:
As you prob spied from the magazine cover, there is also a blurb in the same issue on the Camaro "coming to Oz". Reading the article, it's talking about the production of the Camaro being done in Oz by Holden (for global market) based on the "success" of the Pontiac GTO (left hook Munro). Makes no comments on the obviously valid earlier question about would there be any logic in building two different V8 coupes at the same time.
I havent read the article, but i think maybe what they meant was that it wasnt so much going to be 'produced' here, rather that Holden is developing the Camaro (on the Commodore Zeta platform) in Australia for GM to produce in the US.
Apparently there are already prototypes running around Melbourne under modified Commodore bodies.
As for Monaro, its well known that Holden got as far as the final clay for a VE Coupe before it was cancelled, but it still exists, tucked away out the back of the design studio, so read that as put on back burner for later use, possibly in the US.
The G8 is just the first of quite a few different vehicles that will be produced by maybe Pontiac, Chevrolet and Buick in both SWB and LWB form, and they wont all be four door sedans. Holden is just building them now as a stop gap till the US factories gear up to do their own 'Zeta' vehicles.
Im sure that there will be a replacement for the GTO, but it would most likely be built in the US, and a few expoted back to Oz (and Britain) as Monaros, or Holden might do it as a niche type export vehicle after G8 production moves to the US.
My feeling is that GMNA is going down the same path again of multiple mid-size vehicles that were so popular there in the 60's, 70's and 80's like the RWD A and G Body Olds Cutlass, Buick Regal, Pontiac Grand Prix and Chevy Monte Carlo.
Remember that the original GTO was just a $300 performance option on one of these regular 2 door sedans back in 1964, namely the Pontiac LeMans.
I think here is room in the US for both a Camaro (sport 2+2 coupe) and GTO (sporty 2 door sedan) like the original, and Monaro.
We know the Camaro will be produced at Oshawa in Canada, but whether there is enough volume for a RHD 2 door sedan like Monaro, or where its built, is anyones guess.
One thing in their favour for RHD is that both cars platforms home is at Holden.
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