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Re: 427 Coupe = Supercar?

Thu, 27 November 2003 11:28

Lambolica wrote on Thu, 27 November 2003 14:55

My point exactly the package has proven itself two years running over the porsches and ferarri's. the specs are comparable to those of a supercar. So why wouldn't it be a supercar? (if produced) It was scraped because Holden/HSV/HRT beleived that the 50 cars they were going to produce were to be used as race cars and only a small proportion were going to be road registered. but a survrey of the 50 people found that they would nearly all be road registered. Holden scraped the idea for *safty* reasons and the cost blow out (which they were concidering accepting the loss for promotional reasons).

The Monaro that won the Bathurst 24 hour race is not the same car that HRT built and planned to sell.
Two completely different 427 Monaros were announced at the same time!

The Bathurst Monaro is built by Garry Rogers Motorsport under contract to GMH. It has independent rear suspension, strut front suspension, Holinger sequential gearbox and probably a purpose built chassis by Dencar, who supply body shells for V8 Supercar.
The Bathurst Monaro has a pure race motor that can never be used in a road car, the only similarity this motor has to a Gen 3 LS1 is parts of the block. The rest of the car is pure race car and could never be licensed.

The HRT 427 was a concept car designed to be licensed for the road.
It was scrapped and no cars were ever sold.
The HRT 427 had live rear axle, double wishbone front suspension, a Tremec gearbox and a bored and stroked Gen3 LS1.

Every other car raced in the Bathurst 24 hour can be bought by anyone if you have the cubic $$$$ required.
The initial agreement to allow the Monaro to race was that GRM had to be able to supply the same spec Monaro to customers.
It appears this agreement has been forgotten about!

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