You’re looking at the best Australian muscle car money can buy. It’s the new 430kW/740Nm Gen-F GTS. Does it make you want to look the other way too? Well, it may be best if you don’t, because the rear view isn’t any better.
As a teenager in the late 1980s living in country NSW I really did just want one. An HSV, that is. Badly. Back then they looked good even though they were, in real terms, pretty underpowered. Of late, HSVs have been, arguably, overpowered and over designed.
It’s true, styling is subjective, and what I find distasteful some will find irresistible. No more so will that be the case with the Gen-F range. To be fair the looks are a step forward on the terribly styled E Series models. But this new range does nothing for me. The buzz for HSV has long gone.
I want to like and admire HSVs, I really do, but they make it hard when they pump out over styled dross that really should never get past the concept stage.
Please, fire away in the comments section below.
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10 replies on “HSV releases Gen-F range”
It sure is hideous, they keep outdoing themselves in those stakes. However, 430kW is insane and HSV deserves applause for being so mental. But I really think Australia is the worst country in the world to own a car like this, so I rarely see the point of them. Good for towing I guess.
Looks like a Cruze with an aftermarket bodykit.
I like the 430kW output though, good on them for doing it (albeit only in the GTS).
Frankly, it looks like an abortion… But will still hang onto its local hero status after boof heads from the likes of Motor Magazine do a few burnouts and decide that it’s the gateway to performance motoring nirvana. No doubt, it still has a prehistoric transmission, no steering feel, and a base Commodore interior with spray-painted plastics and decent seats in attempt to make up for it. Great way to spend $100k.
Better off with a used C63 and handful of cash leftover.
It looks whole lot better than the current abortion but it looks like they stole the rear wing of a SLS Black.
White looks very good too. But the rear end it is about as suttle as a kick to the nuts, the front is looking better but when will they learn to tone it down like an E63 or M5
I think as well as the car, HSV has upgraded their ‘Ugly Stick’ to something around of a factor of 100 larger. Man, that thing has been beaten with it within an inch of it’s miserable looking life.
Ugly a sin!
power output is nice… but i don’t think i’ll ever own one.
Why in that video did they only show the VE on the track? or is it hasn’t changed that much they could put a VE body kit on it?
Jeez I know I’m getting old[er] but 430kw?Has anyone from Holden noticed the standard of driving these days?
I like performance cars and fast[track] driving as much as anyone[probably more] but this is nuts.
It’s great material for the anti-speed brigade and it’s a wonder The Authorities haven’t said “now,hang on a minute here….”
Anyone remember the furore preceding the [cancelled] release of the Phase 4 GT HO Falcon?[Probably not,…you’re all too young…]
This thing makes the Phase 4 look like a Prius.
Selling these to the general public is bordering on irresponsible.
Haven’t they seen the way the average HSV owner drives?
bring it on i say can’t argue with value for money with the hardware who cares if it looks like a Cruze on roids. Put in a new pulley zorst and chip and probably 500kw!!!
it would sell heaps grouse if they made it into a ute.
yeah.