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Known for raining of Ford’s motor show parties, Holden’s birthday celebrations dominated its presentation.

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Holden Coupe 60

New chairman and Managing Director Mark Reuss, the American struggled with some of the Australian names (Toraina, Monairo) but with a background in GM USA’s performance division, it was natural that he introduce the ‘cherry on top’ of the Holden/HSV range, the never before seen Holden Coupe 60.

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A next-generation Monaro in all but name, the Coupe 60 is named to celebrate the 60th birthday of Holden’s 48/215, but it’s also the 10th birthday since the original Monaro was unveiled in Sydney.

With a 6.0-litre engine with Active Fuel Management – cylinders that cut-out to save fuel – plus the ability to run on E85 ethanol fuel, there is a clear contradiction in the Coupe 60: it’s also heavily slanted towards racing.

The Coupe 60 features ‘Diamond Silver’ liquid metallic paint, ala McLaren’s F1 cars, 21-inch alloys with one-off hand-cut Kumho slicks, massive Brembo brakes and a side-exit exhaust. The undertray is flat-bottom, and runs to a rear underbody air diffuser. Bonnet nostrils and side gills are the garnish, but the interesting major features are the pillarless doors and lowered roof line, a feature designers say is production “possible”. Carbon fibre bucket seats feature inside, both front and rear.

Though a concept, the Coupe 60 is “production ready”. Based on the global GM rear-wheel drive platform shared with the VE, the rear end and wheelbase has been shorted to emphasise the length of the cabin and nose. The concept started in 2002 and Holden says is worth somewhere around $2.5 million.

Ruess stated the Coupe 60 was Holden’s gift to its fans. And we will look forward to its evolution into Monaro Mk3. HSV W427

HSV W427

It’s been a long time coming, but the HSV supercar is finally here. The W427, aka 7.0-litre, is “Australia’s first supercar” claimed Ruess. He added it will be Australia’s fastest car – a title Holden’s own Elfin brand might dispute, quicker than five seconds for the 0-100km/h and sporting a massive LS7 V8 with 370kW and 640Nm – figures that are 20 and 16 percent more than the current 6.0-litre HSVs.

The engine is the same as the Corvette ZR1 which means a dry sump, along with a unique cold-air intake and active exhaust with valves that open under pressure.

Finished in Panorama Silver, the same as the Walkinshaw Commodore released 20 years ago, the W427 will be priced somewhere around $125,000 to $140,000 when it’s available in July. Holden Sportwagon

That car better become the flagship for Buick. Call it whatever, but GM better get that car here now. And lower the price about $55k.

Mate thats in AUS$ not american it will be a;pt less than the 89,000 it would be about $50K american

you know exchange rates

Holden putting in 6.0L 260kw 510nm torque into current VZ and also will be put into VE. this has been done so that they will comply with new strick EURO 3 emissions laws wich come into force this year. There are also changes to 3.6l v6 to also comply with new laws :)

Considering that is the base model executive it looks bloody good. Just wit for the SS and HSV models(HSV CLUBSPORT WILL KICK ASS)

pic of new VE realeased by WHEELS Mag (AUS)

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Link is to a a real pic taken in US

Hey our version of the monaro by HSV (holden special vehicles)(ironically called GTO) kicks arse in the looks departmentwith.

That Station Wagon photograph reveals a far bigger story than anybody has realized. The information is in plain view and nobody has picked up on it yet.

Look at this section of the photograph of the Wagon from the VWvortex Forums:



Now look at this image of the same section of the current VZ Commodore Wagon that I cropped out of an image I just downloaded from the Holden web site:



What's in a different location?

The big question is "why is it in a different location?".

For the answer, think back to the really major change that Holden made to the Monaro to turn it into the GTO.

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I am Thinking it has been moved because holden has just modified ther 3.6 alloytec into a dual fuel model.
It has direct injection LPG and has allmost no power loss so maybe thats why i has been moved