MotorWeek actually did a very interesting review on the car. They said it perfectly: "It's Mitsubishi's offering to the Mustang and Camaro crowd." I'd say it was badged as the Challenger for this very reason, because instead of buying a Mitsubishi, you bought an American... "Icon."
It's even worse. They're selling a rebadged Fiat Fullback, which in turn is a badge-engineered Triton...
The way I see it, it was a (very) poor attempt at Mitsubishi officially entering the U.S. market at the time. They used Chrysler as their importer, badged some Mitsubishis as Chryslers, sold the same cars under their own name as well, then Daimler-Chrysler happened in 1998. I'd argue Daimler saw the beginning of the fall of DSM in the U.S.
Lots of people apparently. A good portion of Chrysler cars at the time also used Mitsubishi engines. In all fairness, anything Chrysler made at the time fell apart at the seams before you knew it. In high school, I worked on a near-pristine Mitsubishi 2.6 which came out of an '86 LeBaron that literally fell apart around the engine.
I assume that the owner pushed the Lada to the car show. --- Post updated --- NOOOOOO! Not after you release a drag car for the road! Whyyyyy Dodge? Whyyyyyy?
Calling @HadACoolName. A friend of mine just brought this Gee-toe home. LS 350 with a receipt from Texas Speed as long as my leg, custom cam, custom heads, 10.5:1 pistons, all in all it dyno-ed at 479 HP in 2013. Unfortunately, it's got an automatic. but it's barely got 90,000 miles, and at the price he got it at, it was still a huge steal. Something interesting, if you try to do a VIN lookup on it through the GM decoder, it only says the date it was added to Pontiac's inventory, not the actual build date, and all the under hood stickers that tell you stuff like the belt routing and such, all say Holden on them, so do the windows.
That's pretty awesome to hear Your friend should join some of the groups on Facebook, particularly the "Holden Owners Club Of North America" page. Also I know this is a very cliché thing for me to say but.. Holden conversion?
Holdens (up until 2016) were Australian designed and built with American engines. Yes, they used the LS3 and LS6 (I think...?). From late 2016 on, the Australian motor industry as a whole pretty much imploded. Both Holden and Ford of Australia use badge-engineered designs over there now, which is a travesty.
Not exactly, we get rebadged opels (which are usually awful), the Commodore has an LS3 for the latest model, and has had a 6.0 LS(?) something for the earlier ones. AFAIK the Pontiac GTO and Chevy SS are rebadged Commodores, not the other way around. Could be completely wrong however, the Australian car industry is so bad these days that I just don't care anymore.
No, you were right, the Pontiac GTO and G8 were Commodores, had GM not pulled the plug, the US would've gotten the estate and ute versions as well. and yes, the HSVs used various LS engines. Also the Chevy Caprice from the middle east, and that was only available for police departments in the US were Holden based.
Wait, does this not get you excited, hot and steamy under the collar? [/s] in case its actually needed
Speaking of rebadges, the fact that GM started working with Toyota in the 1980s, and started building a Corolla with a Chevy Badge in 1984, but there was never a Chevrolet or Pontiac AE86, to be an utter travesty. I know it probably would have stolen sales from the Fiero, and probably the Camaro/Firebird too, to the extent that it sold at all (existing AE86 sold rather poorly here) but it's still painful that that never happened. Also could have been a good excuse to sell the (better-looking and less annoying) fixed-headlight AE86 in the US; I think that would have fit very well with Pontiac in particular. Since the Corolla-clone was called the Nova, they might have called the AE85 the Nova RS and the AE86 the Nova SS; if it was a Pontiac, it could have been called the Ventura and Ventura GT respectively.
I posted this image in Car Drawings/Sketches, but I'd really like some feedback on it so figured I'd post it here as well where people will actually see it. Are there any motorcycle people who could tell be how mechanically accurate it is? I have literally zero experience with motorbikes but will most likely end up needing to draw this one a lot in the near future. The gear lever is odd for reasons I'd rather not delve too far into on this forum, and I realised when it was finished that the rear shock absorber doesn't make any sense and isn't attached to anything. Other that that I have no idea how good it is.
The Holden Commodore is available in a 3.0l SIDI V6, 3.6l SIDI V6, 6.0l L77 V8, 6.2l LS3 V8 The current HSV models come in 6.2l LS3 V8, 6.2l Supercharged LSA V8, 6.2l Supercharged LS9 V8
The Conquest ( Or starion) seems to be the most interesting one for me, I'd love to get my hands on one before their value goes up. Followed by the "Challenger".
