Anyone with half a brain after a serious Australian performance car at a fair and reasonable price is buying an F6 or regular Clubsport and doing some work on it themselves, mind you with the new FG F6 you hardly need bother modifying it, Im quite happy to get one and keep it stock, those things are absolute weapons.

Note to Walkingshaw, grossly excessive greed will land you in trouble, many of the Wall street bankers have learned this and if the lack of market accpetance for your grossly over-priced baby has cost you a financial penalty / (loss), my heart bleeds for you, NOT !!!

HSV should have stripped all of the weight out of this car and made it a barely disguised race car for the road, in the spirit of the old GTHO’s and A9X Torana’s etc. Strip a few hundred kilo’s out of it and see how fast it would be then. Also get rid of that red interior. If they did want to compare it to the M5’s and AMG’s of this world, why give it such a tacky interior?

Wonder where the break even point was on the project ?

But then again I always thought that this was a bit of a “hand job” anyway.

However, where it all goes horribly wrong and just a little bit pear shaped is all the attached hype, rubbish, nonsense, and ridiculous grand standing that inevitably comes along with it.

By anyones and everyones definition a supercar is a supercar, and that means a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani or the mighty Ascari, Koenigsegg and Bugatti. These are SUPERCARS, low slung two seat mid engined monstrously powerful exotics.

Which the W427 isn’t.

It’s only a Commodore with a big engine.

So forget all this supercar rubbish.

What it is though is a massively, massively overpriced car.
It’s double the price of any other HSV. And for twice the money it should be a LOT lighter, meaner, more distinct looking and definately quicker..

In a final act of desperation it’s now not being marketed on it’s merits as a performance car, but as an investment!

Whatever you think of Skaife, it is widely believed Walkinshaw shafted him, hence the saying “you’ve been Walkinshawed.” Holden and HSV tried to “Walkinshaw” the Australian public with the pricing on this car, including raising the asking in a cynical money grab after initially setting the price. Now, as this car is killed off with barely a quarter of the scheduled run built due to lack of buyer acceptance and HSV’s greed, it will be forever known as the failed HSV that didn’t sell, and the Australian public can proudly hold their heads up and say, “we Walkinshawed Walkinshaw!”

Oh and yes you can change the interior colour ,boring black more you ;)

You starting to lose it BM. I was speaking about the Australian market.

I read this big mac mobile doesn’t even have satellite navigation – please confirm? Can you change the leather from bogan red to say something a little more understated?

One last piece of advice; if you go for the Passat you will have absolutely no street cred, and people will think you are gay….

Funny thing is a couple of years ago HSV built a Monaro with a similar hand built enginel upgraded brakes etc like the W427.. it was called the Monaro 427
HSV received way more advanced orders than what they were expecting.

However; in the end HSV decided not to build the Monaro 427 [which was going to be a limited edition of 427] because they said it would have cost approx $150-200K which they thought was a bit too much for most car entusiasts.

Yet at an Auction last year one of the 2 prototypes of the Monaro 427 sold for over $800K

Just as Andrew M says, not that much haggling required :-)