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27 Aug 2017, 11:18 (Ref:3761916) | #101 | |
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Re-badged Camrys and Corollas were a better alternative to Daewoo's Espero and Cielo, which we probably would have ended up with instead.
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27 Aug 2017, 11:35 (Ref:3761922) | #102 | |
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Back in a V8. Surely your not implying that they will die, you said it before, they survived the supercar scare, which was worse then what we have now. I don't believe that V8s will be gone from Holden forever, just for the immediate future, and far out, with how things are going we may end up having Australian manufacturing or go without all together
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27 Aug 2017, 12:58 (Ref:3761945) | #103 | |
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A Camry/Aurion until recently was still a locally made car, and super reliable. Holden with limited recalls? Because they refuse to take responsibility for their cars like Captiva (etc)? https://www.productreview.com.au/p/2....html?rating=1 Anyway the idea of blindly sticking to local large sedan cars when you could be driving an imported Lexus GS430 or Honda Legend large sedan seems ridiculous to me (yes they will have defective Takata airbags, but so do BMWs and Ferraris -- Takata are a huge supplier for all brands of car.) You surely have to give the Japanese options full consideration -- surely? [Of course that only applies if you are looking at the Calais or G6 that is directly comparable to the Lexus GS and Legend , of course a HSV with a manual transmission is a different beast altogether. ] Last edited by V8 Fireworks; 27 Aug 2017 at 13:07. |
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My understanding is that even if GM brought in Camaros or Corvettes (still with V8s for the time being) they would not be sold under the Holden brand? |
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27 Aug 2017, 13:18 (Ref:3761960) | #106 | |
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Looking forward to eSupercars™.
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27 Aug 2017, 22:21 (Ref:3762175) | #108 | |
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Im somewhat lost about the relevance of how this all relates to Supercars?
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In 1985 we were told the same thing, the Aussie derived formula was no longer working and we adopted a formula "to survive" that made it hard for V8s to be competitive, and ultimately was a turbocharged playground In 1993 we wound up back where we were in 1984, with an Aussie-designed formula with the emphasis on Holden and Ford V8s. |
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28 Aug 2017, 06:34 (Ref:3762229) | #110 | |
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It does to a degree, but on a different note, it seems, once again, someone I know has been commenting my account last night, while they have best intentions it doesn't always come across like that. As it is I am still wondering what on earth happened here a few weeks back, not going to bother asking though, come back from studies last week to find I couldn't log on
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28 Aug 2017, 10:19 (Ref:3762280) | #114 | |
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A wise man once said, "A closed mouth gathers no feet".
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28 Aug 2017, 10:24 (Ref:3762283) | #115 | |
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Believe what you want, I actually put effort into my education over wasting time on a forum that has some of the most wayward things. Up until the 23rd of August I had been in study for the last 8 weeks, I'll say this though, if it was worth wasting the time, a few comments here would fall under defamation law, given that the person, who had the guts to admit they made an error, and tries to avoid all hostility fired at people on here tells me there was more to the story, I cant go back and look at it as it was deleted, yet my friend took screenshots, and believe me, I am appalled with what I saw. I don't approve of what my friend did, but I certainly do not approve of what I saw here, and the fact is, there were multiple comments from multiple people that I would have warned them for, even punished.
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I'm sure the power would be way more linear at 600 than the likely much more that thing is pumping out...plus if it were on race tires and not street tires. |
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