General Motors‘ Australian subsidiary, Holden, is stopping production by the end of 2017. Holden will turn to offering imported, rebadged models from other General Motors brand names. However that doesn’t indicated the automaker will go silently. Holden Special Vehicles, which will continue after Holden’s native offerings vanish, will send out the Holden Commodore off with a four-door ZR1-like model.
The last Commodore-badged HSV will be the fastest and most costly automobile ever and will be called the GTS-R W1. The automobile is anticipated to get the supercharged LS9 from the previous Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 for tire-roasting trouble. In the ZR1, the supercharged 6.2-liter V8 made 638 horsepower and 604 pound-feet of torque.
The GTS-R W1 is going to built on the 2017 Commodore’s chassis. The standard automobile will be constructed at Holden’s Elizabeth plant and after that delivered to HSV’s facility in Clayton where the company will install the LS9 engine.
No more than 250 models will be constructed and the sedan will be an Australian-only affair. And with the Chevrolet SS’s abysmal sales figures, it’s not likely that General Motors would provide the American sedan the exact same touches. Prices is reported to begin at roughly $128,000. A four-door ZR1 may sound too good to be real, but we heard a similar rumor in 2015, which might imply that it really is in the cards.
A four-door sedan with the beating heart from a ZR1 seems like the ideal way to bid farewell to Holden.
