When I first saw Mad Max, I thought that there were a lot of cool looking cars Down Under. Now, I find this Holden prototype, and I gotta say, I’d love to have one! Wow, just wow.
hehe. they spelled craftsmanship wrong :rolleyes:
thats a neat design,
funny they say they had a corvette “laying around”
i wish i had stuff like that laying around
It’s stylish in a show car/noir/comic book kind of way. But will Australians embrace the Prowler/PT Cruiser/Retro T-Bird thing? I haven’t seen a Prowler in years. I seldom see T-Birds. (Of course, I’m not in L.A. anymore.)
Well, Holden is a GM brand. “Lying around” probably means a different thing to those guys.
Seeing designs (works of art, really) like this makes me appreciate how difficult it is to design an attractive and original mass market car. I guess that’s why there are so few truly beautiful cars on the roads these days.
man, this car is UBERCOOL! I’d buy one in a heartbeat-looks a lot like a 1953 Buick! man, i didn’t know australia had such neat car designs! Holden is GM-any chance a few of these will be imported into the USA?
But the steering wheel is on the wrong side.
What?
Well, maybe. But if you’re a lefty, the gearshift is on exactly the proper side for speed shifting.
So when are they gonna offer the supercharge that goes thru the hood? Yeah, I want me one of these!
Well, seeing as how it’s GM and that they’ve got the “Midas touch” at the moment (everything they handle turns to shit), I’d say no.
Johnny, the problem with the Prowler and the T-Bird is that they were more show than go. Plus, they were only made for a short period of time, so people would rather keep them in their garage (to help hold their value) than drive them. I did see a Prowler the other day at work, but then again, I see a 1948 Tucker almost every day, so. . . .
For the non-Aussies who may have missed the reference in the article, i’ll point out that the concept car’s name, Efijy, is a homage to the FJ, which was the second model of car that Holden produced in Australia (after the 48-215, or FX).
Here is a picture of a 1955 FJ. Some info, and more pictures here.
The Holden company was actually formed in the nineteenth century as a saddlery. In the 1910s they began making motorbike sidecars, and then car bodies, continuing as a local supplier of bodies for GM cars. After WWII, they began to produce Australia’s first fully home-grown cars.
Well, as it’s currently only a one-off concept valued at over a million bucks, i think the question is still open as to whether anything like this will even see production in Australia, let alone for export.
Assuming that this ever makes it beyond show car stage (a big, big if), there will probably be institutional reluctance to import it as GM is still smarting from the failure of the recent Pontiac GTO, a rebadged Holden Monaro.