HSV Colorado SportsCat V8 2021 Review @carsales.com.au
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2021
- If Holden had survived, this fire-breathing V8 ute would have been released around now priced under $80K! 👉 Full Review: www.carsales.com.au/editorial...
HSV - or Holden Special Vehicles - made its name developing high-performance Commodore V8s.
But when that business ended in 2017, it switched to its own version of the Holden Colorado ute, dubbed the SportsCat.
The one thing the SportsCat lacked was a powerful engine, something HSV intended to address with this V8. But Holden’s demise signalled the end of the Colorado, the SportsCat and HSV’s V8 project.
This road-registered development car is proof of how close the concept got to production. We’ve driven it and we’re spewing it’s not on sale!
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Who is the genius in the editing department that thought it was a good idea to play a music soundtrack over the sample of the exhaust note we were all trying to listen to!?!?!?! "No Rodney, they don't want to hear the exhaust system of the car that they're trying to watch a video about, they want to hear this 💩 UA-cam music". 👍
Some millennial editor who has no appreciation for the subject matter.
@@DeathByMoshPit93 wow that's a pretty self destructive thing to say.
Getting rid of Holden is an absolute slap in the face to all Australians
No it's not. DUMB SHIT.
Not one cent of the profit was coming to Australia, but Holden wanted more money from the government.
They also got 51 million dollars cash from the government promising some utter lie. Then they just walked out when they were told they not getting hand-outs anymore
@@shanejumbo4432 woah why are you so aggressive? Relax
@@SANDYFRECKLE
Bro you got no idea what you are talking about. Go do sme research b4 commenting.
@@shanejumbo4432 just answer this one question, what sort of car do you drive?
The luxury car tax is due to the government trying to sustain the shit brand. Should of axed it sooner.
If this were to be released I believe it would force the hand of other manufacturers to come up with a competitor
Nope, if it was released, it would sell abysmally. No respectable "Tradie" who is conscious of his bottom line/construction worker or business owner is looking to purchase a 79k Ute with a V8 when you can get something far cheaper and accomplish the same work, Utes are all about practicality and as the name describes, "utility". Only in America would it sell a significant amount to make it a profitable product and its only because America is wealthier and has a gigantic population compared to Australia, also consider the fact Americans pay significantly less for petrol compared to Aussies, our current average around 1.80 per liter where as Americans average around 90 cents per liter. And if you're gonna say it's not directed towards the working class but more towards a "driver", well, that's the thing, we just don't have as many of those types of people who would rather spend 79k on a Ute vs the copious foreign alternatives. If you're feeling my statement is wrong, just look at the current line up of Ute's on offer and look at statistics of how many top tier versions are sold vs lower tier. Lower tier models are what every company buys for their fleets, it is the bread and butter for many manufacturers and the sensible option for any company.
@@sp6450 I don’t know there seems to be a lot of 79 cruisers getting around and there about 80k
V8 ranger raptor would be so sick.
@@tasteless_5915 that's really what a Ranger "Raptor" should be the US market 2.3t EcoBoost would be an improvement over the 2.0t diesel
And we would be more like the yanks
If they’d brought this to the market there would still be a Holden.
That would of saved Holden, building that ute
I agree, imagine being the only v8 dual cab maker in Australia
No chance. None of their other cars were selling including the Colorado. Even if it was hugely popular would it of been 60-70 thousand a year popular to replace what they lost just with commodore. Not including all the astra vectra etc that they lost when Opel was sold.
@@Wotm16 second* don’t forget about the 79series
shame the colorado is rubbish
No way this would have saved Holden.
If Holden had manufactured it and manufactured it here. then there may have been an incentive for GM to hang on a little but I very much doubt it would have made any difference.
Gm lied straight into our faces and stole millions of Australian tax payers dollars knowing full well they were closing Australian production down down regardless.
The ATO should have relentlessly gone after the septics to recover monies they deceived from us Australians.
The profits on these cheap to make Thai Ute's are astronomical.
Can you give us some numbers, please?
@@paulsz6194 My second cousin worked at Ford said their made in Thailand at 20% of what the Ute's can be made in Australia. Said their even cheaper due to a free trade agreement. Also said the workers only eat rice which is very cheap. Said the managers at Ford are so wealthy thst they wouldn't be seen dead in a Ford. All true.
Fords had a V8 ranger prototype for a few years now just hope it’s in up coming raptor.
No, v8 are obsolete in Ute. Even Ford Australia knew that. But I'm hoping to get the twin turbo v6 from the 2020 US Ford explorer. Pumping out over 300kw that stock standard destroyed a jeep srt8 in a drag on UA-cam
Rangers are such trash.
@@Trenscendent cry me a river,
Ponderous....that's every dual cab 4wd ute going around I thought
I want that LT1 in a ZR2 platform
What we could have had. What a shame that HSV could not bring this machine to market. Real shame.
$80K for an outdated Isuzu based ute? As Darryl Kerrigan once said in The Castle - "Tell him he's dreamin.."
And they would have sold like hotcakes!
@@madrx2 true 😂 people giving 80k for a 4cyl hilux ruggedx I have no doubt in my mind that a V8 ute would save Holden from extinction
Isuzu and Holden split up after the rc Colorado. Isuzu is still using the same 3L engine
@@trentneumann5788 True - They did "Split" however GM still relied on Isuzu for the ladder chassis & 90% of the body for the RG Colorado. The only main difference was the very rattly and noisy 2.8L VM engine GM used for the RG Coloroado.
In my opinion, the Colorado has never been a great vehicle - Squeaky suspension rubbers, noisy engine, diff pinion seal leaks, broken exhaust brackets, dash rattles, unexpected horn beeps when parked... List goes on. It was a poor excuse for Holden to have a dual cab ute in the segment. There were/are far better utes available.
Back then it wasn't, Simmo. ,
I would have got one for sure
Would have been the perfect P platers first car with daddys money for sitting and revving at McDonalds and KFC
Are P Plater's allowed to drive V8's?
@@michaelbithell9163 not on the east coast
@@CP0rings33 Wrong. Power to weight ratio decides it. You can get a VN-VS 5L with the 165Kw engine no worries. My mate's 17yr old daughter got a VN Calais 5L for her birthday, and she's fully legal to drive it. 👍
@@MafiaboysWorld is that applicable in Qld, haven’t seen anyone able to do that
@@CP0rings33 Yes it does and this is one I have first hand experience with my wife and our Hyundai Veloster Turbo. She was on her L's when I bought it, got her P's in it, and drove her whole P's until full licence with no issues. See, it's not just V8s, it's turbos and any other hi-performance engines. You can't drive an E36 or E46 BMW M3 legally. Maximum power to weight is 125Kw/ton. 👍
If this R&D has already been done.
Why can’t they team up with a current producer of a similar Ute.
Isuzu still make the same vehicle that Holden called Colorado , GM still make LT engine, it's not hard to see what could still be 🤔
How much
Not sure what HSV would have done with a crew cab in 2023 however. Maybe based on the DMAX or a right hand version of thr chevy colorado.
Bring back holden for Australia.
That would have been a kick ass ute
Yeah I would have brought one
what if the Australian government just bought out all rights to Holden and do everything from aussie and just have an agreement of some sort where they can share platforms.. something like KIA and Hyundai ? would that work?
OooOOOooo the Haytch s v Colorado 🧐
It has the brakes of a bicycle. That seems like brake fade will occur very quickly.
Thanks Joe hockey ya flog!
When business is forced to pay unskilled shop floor workers 120K pa a decade ago what did you think was going to happen?
Just seen this car in NSW
I just want one
the Colorados sit so nice on the road to the eye. They make raptors look silly...and im normally a ford guy but on the roads right now im like woooooah thats a nice looking, what is it - colorado. okay. alright.
They had Many years to bring this to the market, but didn't. They can only blame themselves.
BRING THIS TO THE US
Is this really relevant now, the person that does purchase the item is only going to store it in the shed ...you know this
Imagine putting a Godzilla engine into those little puppies.
I don't even think they would even fit.
It'd be cool. It'd also cost about 50 grand. Which is far too much for a small truck.
At what point do you buy a ram trx ( hypothetically)
Another 120k on top of the V8 colorado is that point
At an estimated 200k AUS dollar when it eventually arrives, no I'm not complaining when all thngs are considered, if I had it then I wouldn't blink an eye at spending it. Just like I have no issues with the 100+ tag on a standard RAM when all things considered, you're getting a far more capable towing vehicle than the equivalent Toyota which no one seems to bat an eyelid at dropping 100k on
@@royaldrift3485 i guess the next question is given we no longer manufacture in australia to protect - at what point can we purchase and drive left hand drive cars locally. Frankly the trx is a circa 100k us$ car
@@bitpri05 yep. Totally agree. Most of the huge price tag on these things is from the local manafacturing to right hand drive. If we didn't have to do that, we'd pay only on the most part the conversion rate plus shipping. I don't know what the answer is, bit I'd suggest it lay along the lines of changing the side of the road we drive on to align with most of the rest of the world. Apparently not much of the world is right sided drivers hence alot of the inflated costs on many cars, especially these things that are converted locally.
Downside to aligning with the rest of the world is the huge tax funding required for road signs and roads across the country to be changed not to mention how many years it would take to change habits.
I don't have the answer unfortunately, I just know I want one, and if I had the money I'd get one....that and a dodge demon 🤣
They did this to the last gen Colorado.. it failed also.
There's a company in QLD that will take your Sportscat, and for around 35K do a complete swap with an LS....and for around 45K a supercharged version. You can buy a fairly high Km Sportscat for around 35-40K...so you could potenially have one of these for around 70K
Do you know the company
@@GGAkythere’s a few, just Google them easy to find
LMTC will buy it….
That engine suits it being tall and heavy
You could of at least given us a demonstration
HSV surely it wouldn't be hard to transfer this over to the Isuzu dmax. I would sign up for one tomorrow.
The Isuzu is a kmart 4x4
@@tylerthecollins7256 you do realise that the base of this car is the Isuzu dmax 🤣
@@marcusjackson4063 yeah and Holden Colorado's are so much better from my experience, driving a dmax is the same except literally worse in every way possible
I would've bought one.Those turbo diesel's give me the shits.What a shame for Holden.
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about ! My boss has 1 of these in white he used to come see me in it while I was at work ! It is a sexy Ute & sounds crazy ! He told me it’s very rare & that he paid $85000 for it . The only reason why he bought it was because he is a very smart man as he knows that in 10 years time it will be worth $300000 minimum.
Aren’t Colorado’s still being made?
no
@@louismccully5411 Colorados are still in production, no V8’s obviously. They did cease the diesel option due to supply chain issues. But still being built every business day. No idea which countries they sell in and don’t sell in though
@@kaijorgensen6940yer there only being sold in left hand drive markets and its not sold as holden....
@@louismccully5411 So? Colorados are still being made. Does it matter which market, maybe. They’re still being made, and you said “no” to someone questioning if they were, which is obviously wrong. Holden would still be a brand had people bought more of their vehicles, oh well
@@kaijorgensen6940 copy that buddy
What's the point, history is full of what could've been.
But they used mate
Why can't they put them in the D-Max they still make them
A petrol V8 in one of these utes sounds good but not sure about real world practicality. The V6 Amarok is the best engine on the market now. The new Ford Ranger will have one too.
Surely I'm not the only one who remembers the adverts that briefly aired, then suddenly stopped, before 'Holden' had even whispered anything about termination.
With a sad day Holden went away Canberra to blame
Ended up being screwed over by the union that controlled things more than GM did.
Wages became so high it was inevitable.
Only one way to stop this happening again.
Everything constantly gets more costly and people need to wake up.
Politicians constant pay rises are the top blame, stop their money grabbing 6monthly raises and everything else will eventually level out.
For that price I would have bought one brand new. I hate the slow and shit sounding diesel dual cabs. A v8 engine and good off road capability and payload, what more could you want
Mate that’s yesterday’s news holdens gone 🤦♂️
You want a V8 Colorado? Check out Tommy FYEAH Spec and his LS Colorado’s which are much better in style and overall build quality
#NextGenRanger
Hopefully, but I can't see it
Why are HSV making shit with VW? They aren't long for this world.
Not really. If you ever driven a ute or owned one you will know that its not a car that needs hp, utes up high need torque. That much hp would make for a really unstable drive and drama waiting to unfold
No use hanging onto the past.!
I would get two Great Walls.One for me and one for my Son!
You obviously have not worked in any section of the car industry or you certainly would not be buying a chinese made ute. Unless of course you have plenty of money and are not planning to keep it for any length of time.
@@grantreid8583 Spoke to a Tradie in South Africa a While Back.Drove 200k and still Happy!
@@grantreid8583 the Colorado was the exact same as the LDV, same engine ,chassis, suspension the LDV just gets better interior and disc brakes on the rear end. The Colorado was garbage for the price.
Planning on hitch hiking are you mate
@@grantreid8583 based on what?
That is shit, it’s built in Thailand not Australia stop advertising cars that is built overseas not Australia
Well it's GM 😐
HSV Colorado SportsCat V8 better than same old smoky diesel Colorados unfortunately same rear monotonous drum brakes on a V8. Colorado SportsCat should deserve a 2 door coupe utility with rear disc brakes and 4WD designed in Australia just like old Commodore utes.
80K ???
Tell him he's dreaming!!
I don't see 80k there at all.
Think what you could buy from Europe.
Better built more refined higher performance vehicles.
That little truck needs a twin turbo v6 like the cyclone not a v8 imo and that color weak looks like a grandma color
would have could have should have to little to late
I'm confused why lots of people in the comments are saying this would've saved holden, yet these have already been produced.... and
The diesel option was produced but not the v8 in the vid
Typical GM . Pulling the plug on the edge of greatness 😠
Lets Axe Holden and back Pfiz…..Kia
Say something honnest like suspension is average then back track with excuses after saying it was the finished production model.
Another paid production.
Boomerhsv's names written all over this one
The diesel 4 potter is good enough.........
V8s are the new Dodo Bird. If not axed then it wouldve happened in the next year or so #fact #emissionsregulations #hurt #bigboyfeelings
Hsv lol