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Originally Posted by 72projectbird
Man some of you are harsh on the poor ol' car!
Its nice to see a big V8 rwd car being made again! Im just glad that Chevy didn't name in the Chevelle and ruin the name.
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I believe chevy already did that, does Malibu ring a bell? Another name for the chevelle...................
Just for grins, Chevy was really POed that Pontiac got a RWD 4 passenger performance car in 2004 and took a GTO and did an engineering exercise of a chevelle on the GTO/Monaro car. Because Holden could only produce so many units for the US market and Pontiac had already spoken for those cars chevy was never going to get any RWD chevelle/malibu RWD performance cars. It's not because chevy didn't want the GTO/ Monaro bodystyle, it's just that there was no way Holden could produce that many cars for the US market. I believe it was Car Craft or Hot Rod that had an article showing the chevy version of the chevelle on a Monaro/GTO RWD platform. It was retail red with black skunk stripes.
Now with Pontiac gone chevy can have their Holden built platform, only thing is the packaged it so poorly and priced it so high, no one seems to want one except the police departments. There was talk of the SS being offered to police departments as cruisers, not sure what happened to that proposal.
The down under police used the GTO/Holden cars as cruisers:
