The Chevy Camaro was briefly offered in Australia via Holden Special Vehicles, which converted Camaro SS and ZL1 models to right-hand-drive for local consumption before slow sales put an end to the short-lived program.
Now the iconic American muscle coupe may be set to return to Australia thanks to the new General Motors Special Vehicles venture. According to WhichCar.com.au, GMSV is looking at reintroducing the RHD Chevy Camaro in Australia in both SS and ZL1 guise.
While the HSV-converted Chevy Camaro SS started at a steep $86,990 AUD when it was on sale, GMSV will be able to get a better exchange rate deal on the cars, WhichCar reports, enabling it to offer the muscle coupe for a price that will be more competitive with the Ford Mustang. The 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost starts at $49,990 AUD, while the V8-powered Mustang GT is priced from $62,990.
It would make sense for GMSV to re-introduce the Chevy Camaro in Australia, seeing as it plans to race the car against the Ford Mustang in the Australian Supercars Championship from 2022 onward. The Chevy Camaro is being built around the series’ upcoming Gen3 regulations and will replace the ZF Holden Commodore that currently races in the series.
GM pulled the plug on the Holden brand earlier this year and has indirectly replaced it with GMSV. Unlike Holden, which sold rebadged GM cars, trucks and crossovers, GMSV will focus on importing specialized GM vehicles from North American into Australia. GMSV vehicles, which will either be converted to RHD or built in RHD layout from the factory, will be sold through a large network of dealerships consisting of 50-plus retail storefronts.
In addition to the Camaro, GMSV will also have the C8 Corvette to offer performance-obsessed GM enthusiasts in Australia and New Zealand.
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Who cares, without a proper KDC facility or RHD production the RHD Camaro will fail like the previous one..
What are you, Chinese?
WTH with this political BS?, I say more clearly, if GM half-efforts a RHD Camaro instead of actually having making it RHD in Michigan from the start or have a partly assembled car better known as KDC (Knock-Down Car) and convert it into an proper Australian vehicle, it’s an expensive waste of time to do it GMSVs way of disassemble a LHD vehicle to make it RHD. Don’t know how you get ChiComs in this equation.
Trolls be trollin’….
We should all thank Australia for having the baIIs to stand up to China.
This pandemic was 100% planned by the Chicoms. China benefited immensely when it infected the world with the made-in-Wuhan virus. China bought oil assets for pennies on the dollar…made deals of a lifetime….even bought the government of Chile and all of Chile’s Lithium.
Here is a fun little fact….China’s vaccination rates were 200% higher in Nov and Dec of 2019 compared to other years….and it was not because they were worried about the flu…they already had the CanSino vaccine.
China murdered millions around the world, and now China will devastate the world’s oceans….killing dolphins and whales with a fishing fleet that cares nothing about mother earth.
So go ahead you dumbmasses, support China….you will get what you deserve.
I stand with Australia.
You know, the Chinese boil puppies alive….makes the skin easier to peel.
Ace Spades
Is China a just discovered Pokémon, and are you one of these China Pokémon? Did you just reveal the plot of Detective Pikachu 2?
Sorry, I thought the subject here was Camaros being sold in Australia?
It seems a bit late in the game, given the short life left to the current Camaro. It’s already beginning its 6th year in production and in a normal world the replacement would be close to unveiling.
So long as there is a Mustang there will always be a Camaro. Chevy vs. Ford.
Except for 2003-2009. Alternate Timeline much? Welcome to the Kelvin, George……….
Ace Spades você falou um monte de asneira sem comprovação nenhuma. No deve ser um Bolsonarista recalcado. Levanta um monte de fake news tentando a convencer mais alguns idiotas Bolsonarista.
Interesting, considering we’re hearing of the Camaro ending 2022/23!
When Mustang ends so will Camaro.
Interesting as we’re hearing of the Camaro ending in 2022/23.
When Mustang ends so will Camaro.
Long live the CAMARO