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by **Lloyd** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:21 pm

What do ya reckon? Didn't think they were going to do a Coupe version of the VE but...

http://concept.holdencampaign.com.au/

by **flygt4** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:31 pm

looks very Nissan GTR to me :lol:

by **IH8TEC** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:42 pm

love the side pipes

and that sounds bloody nice.

doesn't have much resemblance to the gtr in my books

either way it looks better, just hope it has a decent whack of power to go with it, ie 400+ kw :twisted:

by **Lloyd** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:53 pm

6L of V8 in a sports coupe, you'd hope it goes alright. Be interesting to see if they release it. Seems silly not to with how the Monaro went

by **flygt4** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:05 pm

yet they still won't release a s/c variant with 500hp to compete with the euro big guns

Website · by **AJz** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:54 pm

the back is nasty. Sidepipes look cool, hope they dont burn the bodywork like a viper

no b pillars ?? lol

by **thegreatestben** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:56 pm

pillarless is hot

by **MR2SIK** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:58 pm

there were some concept type pics of a 'new torana' doing the rounds recently, could be along those lines?

by **rolla_fxgt** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:48 pm

Motor Trend are saying its just a re-skin/slight change of a 3 year old GTO concept, so yeah maybe it will reach production.

I like the idea but the styling just doesn't do it for me

by **d1 mule** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:01 pm

that whole "New Torana" was just to see if the general public liked the new "VE" commodore design, kinda decieved everyone on that one. Or so iv been told anyways

by **Voodoo** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:42 pm

flygt4 wrote:yet they still won't release a s/c variant with 500hp to compete with the euro big guns

but they are bringing out a 7l ..370kw

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html

by **flygt4** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:46 pm

yeah thats the LS7 from the corvettes, they even kept the dry sump system. itll probly get the corvette gearbox too by the sounds.
kinda cool, but they should still go all out and do a s/c LS7 :lol:

in saying that it looks like it'll be going for big money if they are saying 125k+, that puts it against a lot of serious cars, nissan GTR will be somewhere around that mark.

by **cat007** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:31 pm

Voodoo wrote:
flygt4 wrote:yet they still won't release a s/c variant with 500hp to compete with the euro big guns

but they are bringing out a 7l ..370kw

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html

A fair chunk of torque - but 7L to get 370kw? HAHAHA now THAT'S funny

by **Lloyd** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:46 am

Come on, its still 500hp N/A with a fairly big whack of torque. And I'm pretty sure there is a blown version of the LS7 making its way into a few Corvettes too

by **cogent** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:38 am

flygt4 wrote:yeah thats the LS7 from the corvettes, they even kept the dry sump system. itll probly get the corvette gearbox too by the sounds.
kinda cool, but they should still go all out and do a s/c LS7

in saying that it looks like it'll be going for big money if they are saying 125k+, that puts it against a lot of serious cars, nissan GTR will be somewhere around that mark.

Isnt the LS9 out of the new ZR1 vette just a SC LS7?
I dont know dick about 'merican engines but im pretty sure its a SC engine.

by **Zitchu** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:02 pm

Yea new LS9 has a supercharged V8. Makes about 640hp.

by **Voodoo** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:53 pm

HRT wrote:Come on, its still 500hp N/A with a fairly big whack of torque. And I'm pretty sure there is a blown version of the LS7 making its way into a few Corvettes too

yup, and wait till someone turbo charges one, plenty of turbo and s/c v8s over here with plenty of hp

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