Holden Coupe 60 the star of the 2008 Melbourne motor show
“Holden’s radical Coupe 60 concept” - Drive
Radical? Putting an even larger V8 in yet another commodore variant more than likely weighing about 2 tonnes - how less radical can you get?
How about a 200KW engine in a car weighing in at about 1300Kgs - now that would be radical.
Posted by: All Torque no Action
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Exactly. Ford and Holden are not interested in weight saving. Apparently the only thing important is the number of kW on the badges.
If they are taking a regular GTS and ADDING a bunch of extra shit to it and massive heavy wheels it will probably end up with an extra 100kg of weight.
From memory they actually did have a decent design process with the HRT427 (carbon fibre bits), but since that would cost too much it failed as a business decision. But now it is extra easy for Holden because they can just slap in a yank powerplant, stand back and say wow. “Quick slap a 427 badge on there!”
Nice case study: M3 vs M3 CSL.
M3 power 252 kW
M3 weight 1525 kg
M3 CSL power 265 kW
M3 CSL weight 1385 kg
Thats is how it is done.