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HSV Chevrolet Camaro Priced At $85,990 Locally

The HSV Chevrolet Camaro is nearly ready for launch, and we have final pricing from Holden Special Vehicles. HSV announced the Chevrolet Camaro will cost a cool $85,990 AUD when it goes on sale. At today’s conversion rates, we’re looking at around $61,000 USD for a Camaro.

The HSV Chevrolet Camaro will be a conversion process locally. HSV will take left-hand drive cars from the United States and swap the steering wheel and other essential elements to right-hand drive. The process has been three years in the making to offer a V8-powered car following the Holden VF Commodore’s demise.

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“This project has been over three years in the making and involved millions of dollars of investment in product development, testing and validation,” HSV managing director Tim Jackson said.

Converting the Camaro to RHD won’t be a simple or quick process, and HSV has capped production at 550 units for 2018. Buyers who do step up for one of the 550 cars will be treated to a Camaro 2SS trim with the 6.2-liter LT1 V8 engine making 455 horsepower and an identical amount of torque. At launch, only an eight-speed automatic is slated for production, but HSV will offer a six-speed manual later after previously nixing the option altogether.

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Inside, the Camaro 2SS trim boasts heated and ventilated seats, a heated steering wheel, nine-speaker Bose audio system and more.

The Camaro will face its long-time rival in America down under, too. The Ford Mustang has been on sale globally for years and remains the company’s best-selling passenger car in Australia. The 550-unit production cap will hardly challenge Ford’s dominance. But, high production numbers were never in the cards.

“Our business model has always been to provide a niche offering with strong connection and support to our customers and, with just 550 available in our first model year, we are excited to get the product in customers’ hands,” Jackson said.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Hardly worth spending millions of dollars when Chevy will be making the Camaro in left and right hand drive in 2 or 3 years.

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  2. Let’s put the 550 units into prospective. This Chevrolet is being sold in Australia as a high end luxury personal car. The Ford Mustang more than any other factor will make this Chevrolet look over priced. Not much else. The 550 units will find buyers. No problem.

    Perhaps in the end, it’s history repeating itself as GMH assembled Chevrolet and Pontiac from 1949 until 1970 and during that period sold on average 400 Pontiacs and 1400 Chevrolets per annum as high price ‘high end’ luxury cars.

    Best of all this RHD Camaro is being sold as a Chevrolet! A few years back GM-H tried to sell a Chevrolet Surburban as a ‘Holden’. Most who purchased them replaced the Holden badges with correrct Chevrolet badges within days of having taken delivery.

    Welcome back to Australia Chevrolet. It will great to see this brand represented again as its been 48 years since your local GM-H dealer could sell you a new Chevrolet.

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