General Motors has zero plans to produce the sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro in right-hand drive for select markets, but an Australian conversion company wants to sew the steering wheel on the opposite side for those who can afford it.
Wheels reports Melbourne-based Crossover Car Conversions (CCC) will take care of importing a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and do all the necessary work to convert the car to RHD for a final sum of $150,000 AUD, or about $114,000 USD. That’s 2017 HSV GTSR W1 territory.
CCC will snag a 2017 Camaro ZL1 ($60,000) and ship it over ($3,800) to the land down under, but the interested party will have to fork over about $13,000 in import fees and taxes just to let the Camaro touch land as well. All of that cash is before CCC even begins its work.
The work itself consists of re-engineering and converting the car for another $33,500 and takes eight to ten weeks to complete. That’s after waiting six months for the Camaro ZL1 to reach Oz.
GM has reportedly given the green light for the seventh-generation Chevrolet Camaro to support RHD from the factory, which means an Australian launch may be imminent early next decade. However, in the meantime, and if you have the cash, you’ll score quite a conversation piece with a 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.
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There are another two Companies, that I know of, doing the same thing in Australia.
The Aussie Govt is laughing all the way to the bank – $13K in import fees and taxes!! I get there should be a small concession for “processing” the vehicle at the border, but $13K is an absolute reaming of the consumer. It probably takes two hours to inspect for creepy crawlies (i’m being generous here), 10 minutes to fumigate it, VIN it – another two hours including data capture, process some import paperwork… let’s say 8 hours “border” work all up. That’s $1,625 an hour to process ONE vehicle. Bad joke, you are overcharging and under delivering. Oh, and all that import tax protects exactly Zero jobs because there is no two door coupe V8 production in Australia. Probably needed so your local Senator can drink Moet while whoring it up on Hamilton Island on a sabbatical.
All too true, after October this year, there’ll be no, nil, zilch, zero local manufacturing, when Holden closes it’s doors, two, three or four door. A sad day, indeed. All caused by that same Government you refer to. Ford gone, Toyota gone. The thought of me paying that sort of money to that lot in taxes is laughable. Also the same Government that reduced import tariffs to nil, which has given us a huge array of cars, that our small population cannot possibly support.
I can guarantee one thing, there are no politicians on Hamilton Island at the moment, whilst Cyclone Debbie and it’s 100+ knot winds tear the place to pieces. There’ll be plenty there, glad handing, when she blows through, though. They’re our creepie crawlies.
Time for a new Govt. I hear you Aussies change leaders more often than hot dinners. 😉
We like to try to keep the bastards honest, an extremely difficult task. The present lot should be out next time around. Still better than what you have, presently. Free Trade Agreements aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, ask Donnie.
It won’t make any difference, local manufacturing of anything larger than a milk container in this country is done and dusted.