Crikey! Its an Aussie Dinosaur, mate!
July 25th 2008 14:11
They trumpet that this is Australia’s first supercar!
It does have a 7.0 litre, 370kw V8 thundering under the bonnet, it does have a set of 20 inch alloy wheels and brake discs bigger than a family size Pizza tray and it does have a set of exhaust pipes that make it sound like the Concorde at take off.
But regardless of all of this, it is still a $150,000 Holden Commodore! That’s right folks 150 grand for a dressed up Commodore!
The HSV W427 is the ultimate weapon in the HSV arsenal, but in reality, is it?
It will sell like beer in an outback pub, Mate! Six months ago blokes were paying deposits as large as $ 20,000 just to hold one, without knowing how much it was!
The external styling of the car is reasonably restrained, although AUTOLOUD does feel that the grille is way too Audi or Rover 75 in my view. I could be wrong but the type of buyer that HSV attracts may feel that it is a bit boring in the looks department.
The interior, well, it is red and rather loud! HSV should have visited a BMW or a Mercedes Benz dealership and opened the driver’s door of an M5 or any AMG product and actually looked inside! Obviously that did not happen!
The thought that I can’t get past is, why is it worth $ 70,000 more than a VE GTS?
I can’t see the value myself. Do the maths, How much is the engine worth? $15,000? Even if you said $4000 for the 20” wheels, the rest of the stuff are just trinkets really. Consider for a minute that most of the trinkets are already fitted as standard to a 6.2 litre GTS. Did someone say “Massive profit opportunity”, oh, that was Holden!
Big cars are now the dinosaurs of the new millennium. Manufacturers the world over are working on solutions to make cars like these socially acceptable. In ten years time this is car that simply will not be allowed to be produced.
I know that this is supposedly the epitome of the Australian Sports sedan; it is a well developed, powerful car. Now AUTOLOUD should say that I am all for personal freedom, I am not a greenie and I am as open minded as the next bloke but in these days of 110kmh speed limits, hidden cameras, radar guns and wombats on the roads, just where the hell can you use all 375 kw at once?
So, for those lucky 427 people who will spend the necessary dollars to own one of these Omegas in wolf clothing; Enjoy the W427 while you can and the petrol lasts!
It does have a 7.0 litre, 370kw V8 thundering under the bonnet, it does have a set of 20 inch alloy wheels and brake discs bigger than a family size Pizza tray and it does have a set of exhaust pipes that make it sound like the Concorde at take off.
But regardless of all of this, it is still a $150,000 Holden Commodore! That’s right folks 150 grand for a dressed up Commodore!
The HSV W427 is the ultimate weapon in the HSV arsenal, but in reality, is it?
It will sell like beer in an outback pub, Mate! Six months ago blokes were paying deposits as large as $ 20,000 just to hold one, without knowing how much it was!
The external styling of the car is reasonably restrained, although AUTOLOUD does feel that the grille is way too Audi or Rover 75 in my view. I could be wrong but the type of buyer that HSV attracts may feel that it is a bit boring in the looks department.
The interior, well, it is red and rather loud! HSV should have visited a BMW or a Mercedes Benz dealership and opened the driver’s door of an M5 or any AMG product and actually looked inside! Obviously that did not happen!
The thought that I can’t get past is, why is it worth $ 70,000 more than a VE GTS?
I can’t see the value myself. Do the maths, How much is the engine worth? $15,000? Even if you said $4000 for the 20” wheels, the rest of the stuff are just trinkets really. Consider for a minute that most of the trinkets are already fitted as standard to a 6.2 litre GTS. Did someone say “Massive profit opportunity”, oh, that was Holden!
Big cars are now the dinosaurs of the new millennium. Manufacturers the world over are working on solutions to make cars like these socially acceptable. In ten years time this is car that simply will not be allowed to be produced.
I know that this is supposedly the epitome of the Australian Sports sedan; it is a well developed, powerful car. Now AUTOLOUD should say that I am all for personal freedom, I am not a greenie and I am as open minded as the next bloke but in these days of 110kmh speed limits, hidden cameras, radar guns and wombats on the roads, just where the hell can you use all 375 kw at once?
So, for those lucky 427 people who will spend the necessary dollars to own one of these Omegas in wolf clothing; Enjoy the W427 while you can and the petrol lasts!
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