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Gt5 bathurst leaked?
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- Froudeybrand
What's that supposed to mean?
We quite often call the V8 Supercars "supertaxis' cause it has IMO been getting stale and alike....
the statement I made "rwd" cause the last incarnation of nissan it what was to become the v8s were gtr 4wds and alike that dominated it. the new nissan is / has to be rwd...
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You're an Australian and your not proud of Australia and it's achievements? I have nothing further to say to you. I think you confuse patriotism with nationalism, but that's just my opinion. Holden is an Australian company which is a subsidiary of General Motors, an American company.
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- mrvajj
So you work for carsguide.com.au then? You sure sound like the same sort of person who relishes an opportunity to stick it to the locally designed product...
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Off topic:Holden is an Australian car company. As a holden fan I understand that it is a subsidiary of GM. How am I deluding myself?
On topic: I do hope that GT5 does get bathurst, or a track like Philip island etc..
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Matthew77258
GM Holden is an division of GM. It is not a separate company. You can't buy Holden shares. So no matter how many Holden fans come here and say otherwise, it's GM Holden, a part of GM. It will never be Holden Inc.
Bathurst will not be coming soon if at all. It will take too long to model. Philip Island will not come either. Not Adelaide, Gold Coast, Sandown or any other track in Australia. They will remodel old tracks not in GT5 that have been in previous GT's as part of the modeling is already done.
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No, I'm just saying that the Holden fan's favourite argument, "We're more Australian than you are", holds no water.
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Oh ok. In that case I agree - a Ford Falcon is, if anything, more Australian these days than a Holden Commodore.
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A Holden Commodore, Holden Cruise, Ford Falcon, Ford Territory, Toyota Camry are as Australian as each other. To put it simply, they are assembled here. They do not make cars in Australia, they assemble them from parts gathered from around the world.
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Um the panels, floorpan are stamped in Geelong. The engine is cast and built in Geelong. The parts are then trucked up the highway to Broadmeadows and assembled there.
Sure some of the ancillaries are imported and sourced for elsewhere, the glass for example was made at Pilkintons in Geelong but is no longer, but the majority of the Falcon and Territory are manufactured here.
Cheers Shaun.
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Wrong. The main thing COTF does is make a control chassis for all the cars on the grid. The bodies are done exactly the same as now and so are the engines. Cars are made equal in the wind tunnel and with engine restrictors. Each will still have their own little advantages and disadvantage. This is not going to be like NASCAR at all.
We'll see about that my friend. Theoretically, your argument makes sense, but eventually i'm sure GT will end up with Bathurst and maybe a few of the other great Australian tracks.
Commodore and Falcon are designed and built in Australia. While they may use parts from elsewhere, send they're profits elsewhere and show a worldwide badge but they are Australian made. In my opinion anyway...
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Then my Shogun bicycle is made here because the guy at the bike shop assembled it?
Unfortunately, the rules in Australia are so lame that assembling something here qualifies it to be called Australian. I know that some of the parts for all 3 manufacturers are made here. But it would be less than 30%.
GM Holden, as it likes to be known, is not a separate company. GM dictates what and how many of each car it can put up for sale. If GM wants to bring in a Chevy Malibu, then slowly remove the Commodore, GM Holden has to do it. If GM wants to bring in the Opel Astra to undercut the Cruise, then GM Holden will do that too. GM Holden is no more or less Australian than Ford.
Unfortunately, the rules in Australia are so lame that assembling something here qualifies it to be called Australian. I know that some of the parts for all 3 manufacturers are made here. But it would be less than 30%.
GM Holden, as it likes to be known, is not a separate company. GM dictates what and how many of each car it can put up for sale. If GM wants to bring in a Chevy Malibu, then slowly remove the Commodore, GM Holden has to do it. If GM wants to bring in the Opel Astra to undercut the Cruise, then GM Holden will do that too. GM Holden is no more or less Australian than Ford.
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You'd need a lot of patience. A big part of Bathurst's design rests with the shape of the land it is build on. When you're going up through the Cutting to Reid, Sulman and McPhillamy Park, you're actually following a ridgeline in the mountains. And when you're coming back down through the Dipper and the Esses to Forrest's Elbow, the circuit is actually built along a spur; although there is a sheer drop to your left, there's also a second (though less steep) drop out to your right. The circuit's design is only really possible because of this.
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MONSTAR-1Someone just tweet Kaz a picture of Bathurst and the Winfield R32 GTR, that should help get it over the line
.... And the JPS BMW, the Sierra's, the Jags, the Valiants, the Monaro's, Toranas, Falcons, Commodores, Mustangs, Carollas etc.
But it might take a Skyline to get it over the line.
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Will do lol
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there's going to be few people on here with egg on they're face if Bathurst appears in GT5 anytime soon lol would be nice if it were true,
