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And here's why

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But the company could not meet the projected $215,000 price target. Sources suggest the on-sale figure would have been in the region of $300,000 for the project to have been viable.

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if they made if for 215K it would have been a bargain, if you look at the cost of all the parts on the car, gearbox, brakes, engine, dry sump setup etc you would not be able to buy a monaro and mod it with a extra 100k and get a car with half the extras this thing had, it would have been a weapon on the street.

It would be like nissan relasing a 9sec R34 GTR for 200K, not possible.

hahaha, suck shit i say. and damn straight they should lose the bathurst title, i can't believe they were allowed to race it even tho it wasn't even a "production car" yet, that means any man and his dog could enter his prototype come production car. F*ck should give the pommies a call and tell em to enter the Zonda, just bullshit that they're gonna make 100 of them. Altho, Zonda is stupidly quick and handles like a go-kart, don't know how it do around the mountain. And the funny thing is, it's hella cheap too. Twin motorbike engines, rev to like 50,000,000 rpm... crazy.

So the ford diff, harrop suspension, le mans engine, that all just for the 24hr car? or was that in the road car as well?? If it was, ford prob crack the sads and said f*ck it, make ur own f*cking diff! HSV would be like...ah... we can't do this by ourselves? someone else makes us parts? pls??? :bahaha: losers

Originally posted by Clint32

if they made if for 215K it would have been a bargain, if you look at the cost of all the parts on the car, gearbox, brakes, engine, dry sump setup etc you would not be able to buy a monaro and mod it with a extra 100k and get a car with half the extras this thing had, it would have been a weapon on the street.

It would be like nissan relasing a 9sec R34 GTR for 200K, not possible.

yeh and with all that shit added it was a high 11 seconds car, which i beleive is still pathetic.. People who would of actually brought those cars must of been off their head, if they want a fast monaro they can get a CV8 @ 50k and spend a 40k on it and have good brakes and do 10 or even less seconds.

Mid 2004, Ford Aus is bringing out the legendary GT-HO with 375kw a supercharged 5.4ltr engine.. So it looks like the game is over for Holden :bahaha:

A car like the 427 is not designed to pull of fantastic 1/4 mile time. If that's the case then the Mclarens F1 is an even bigger waste of money. They are built for circuit racing, not put down impressive 1/4 mile times.

This is good news I reckon. In an attempt to make a mockery out of some world class manufacturers like Porsche and Ferrari, Holden bent the rules and produced a purpose built race car that was almost up to the pace of the HRT V8 supercars. Holden would have known that this car would never have made it into production. They have cheated everybody and deserve to have the trophy taken away from them....

I believe that Holden had alot do do with the organising and the funding of the 24 hour race at Bathurst last year.. Hmmmm. This could have somethin to do with it.

And is it true that Lamborgini didnt compete in the race cos they knew that Holden were cheating? I heard this on the news.

I say we all do up 50 of our cars to look the same, and then enter a 9sec GTR claiming that we all bought the same production car.... ok fine... I'm goin back to sleep

too much GT3 for you bunch... lets see if we can get suzuki to enter their pikes peak escudo.... mmm 390kw stock twin V6 engine goodness with more wings than a riced up civic hatch.

Contrary to some of the overwhelming bias in this thread, in a little disapointed that it didn't make production. It would've been one hell of a car... maybe Holden/HSV can make something in the middle of the HSV GTS and Concept HRT 427, for the road.

The overwhelming bias is from CAMS, not us here.

They banned the GTR because it was just too good for the local pushrod boys. Then they bend over backwards to allow an illegal non existent supposed production car to win.

There is no way you can call a mega dollar one off prototype a production car, No way.

The whole thing is a bloody joke.

yeah, 24hr is not production car race, there are 6categories, with group 1 being FIA N-GT and "invited cars". Leaves it pretty open....

Nations Cup, however, does require production based cars. HSV were not the only company putting low volume race cars into the international gt category, the ferrari is a race special as is the porsche carerra cup car.

Honestly, I'm surprised that HSV canned this if it really was just for cost reasons. If youve got 50 orders @200,000 years before its available, you WOULD be able to eventually sell 50@300,000. And as already pointed out, this model was purely PR, never to make a great profit.

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