Aussies! Get in here!

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bananasorus
You mean the old, out dated 5.7l LS1/2 ? where as the zr1 has a 6.2lt LS9, Them HSV engines are outdated american engines, and also weigh 400kg more then an Evo.. Your doubting the performance of a highly modified Evo.. Enjoy smoking it up while i AWD launch it..
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I accidentaly said ZR1, i meant C6.
Most HSV's use the LS3 Corvette C6 engine from 2007, and more recent HSV's use the same engine used in the current Corvette C6, the LS7.

Your Evo might have the speed off the line, but after 100 kph your gone.
The new HSV's can make it too 100 Kph in under 5 seconds now, i bet your evo won't do any better than 4. If that!
 
AussieStig117
I accidentaly said ZR1, i meant C6.
Most HSV's use the LS3 Corvette C6 engine from 2007, and more recent HSV's use the same engine used in the current Corvette C6, the LS7.

Your Evo might have the speed off the line, but after 100 kph your gone.
The new HSV's can make it too 100 Kph in under 5 seconds now, i bet your evo won't do any better than 4. If that!
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I agree, ill be gone after 100kmh, but who races in built areas with traffic lights at more then 100? They're decent in straight lines, but corners? commodores and such cant compete, But too each his own, correct?

but I must say, I do love the sound of the new HSV's :P
 
Coming back from the precipice of a p!ssing contest here (I'm not really a fan of Falcadore either but this is pulling together for the common good), I want us to focus back on what Aussie content we'd like.

Bathurst seems a bit of a no-brainer and I dearly hope PD get around to making it. Was I reading somewhere (was it this thread) that Codemasters have the rights to it until the end of this year?

Okay, Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III has also received broad support, as has the Holden Torana GTR XU-1.

There is also some support for an HSV W427 and the latest Ford Falcon GT-P. The newer cars would be great but the older cars carry a lot of appeal too.

As I noted in my first post in this thread, I'd like to see a Valiant Charger as well, so that classic homegrown Ford, Holden and Chrysler products are all represented. Anything beyond these cars and Bathurst would be a bonus.

So, how do we get Kaz to read this thread and this post?
 
Hey to my fellow aussies i'm playing gt5 from perth and just picked up a commodore n monaro in used car dealership. feel free to add my psn heat_wade03

slowing building up a career aspec level 18 b spec level 10..
 
beau261
I hope I'm not repeating this but isn't the new camaro built on a commodore chassis. According the jeremy clarkson 💡
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The Zeta Platform is the GM body Camaro was built on designed by Holden.

Maybe we can get Kaz to see it by posting a link on his twitter etc.
 
Morsolo
There the Monaro CV8, the Holden Commodore VY SS and a Tickford Race Car (which is a race-painted AUII Falcon).

The Monaro seems to be fairly common on the Car Lot, I've seen the Commodore twice (so fairly rare) and I've NEVER seen the Ford.
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I saw it today,but it costs about $1.2 million
 
AussieStig117
I accidentaly said ZR1, i meant C6.
Most HSV's use the LS3 Corvette C6 engine from 2007, and more recent HSV's use the same engine used in the current Corvette C6, the LS7.

Your Evo might have the speed off the line, but after 100 kph your gone.
The new HSV's can make it too 100 Kph in under 5 seconds now, i bet your evo won't do any better than 4. If that!
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Wrong.

The Limited run W427 used the LS7 rated at 375kW?

The current HSV range used the 6.2L LS3 rated at either 317 clubby or 325kW senator/GTS.

My 2006 Senator uses a 6.0L LS2 rated at 307kw.

Jan 1 2006 the LS2 was introduced to the HSV range in the Z series (due to Euro4 emissions),

Before that both holden and hsv used LS1 motor (except for some of the 300kW GTS's etc which used the C4B motor).

So jan 1 HSV started using the LS2 and holden moved the the L76 (which was a L98 with the DOD removed (displacement on demand (cylinder deactivation)).

Then the E series was released later that year, HSV kept the LS2 and Holden moved to the L98 (6.0L).

HSV introduced the LS3 (6.2L) with the E2 in 2009.

In 2010 Holden introduced the L77 (6.0L) with there VE series II update. (HSV introduced the E3 range but kept the LS3 motor).

This completes your LS1+ HSV/Holden Lesson!
 
Klonam
The Zeta Platform is the GM body Camaro was built on designed by Holden.

Maybe we can get Kaz to see it by posting a link on his twitter etc.
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It sure is, I have a mate who worked on the Camaro Mule here in Melbourne! It was a white VE commodore with only two functioning doors.
 
I've noticed a few people in here saying whats the point, we are a too small a market wah, wah, wah. I think Instead of putting 600 different specs of skylines (don't get me wrong I love skylines) but honestly, gt-r, gt-r spec v, gtr nur, gtr m-spec, gtr vspec I and II, gtr 99, gtr 2000, there is no need for 20 different makes of the same car, instead put something a little different in the game.

You may not like the car we see everyday, but someone that has never seen it on the other side of the glode might take an interest in it, Im sure we all have a car we wish could be in the game but if every body had the "I see that car car everyday i dont want it in the game" attitude, we would have a GT5 with no cars just tracks. I my self am in this situation, I love my laurels and I have never seen one C35 laurel in real life or driven one in a game, but if I could that would just be something else, even if it was for 5 mins in virtual reality.

Im not a fan of holden or ford, but I wold love to see them in gt5 just so I could take one out or a strap.

I also agree that bathurst would be a good circuit to be in the game, just for its technicalality. Again 10 variations of cape ring was a bit unnecessary, why not put 2 different tracks in in their place.

End rant.
 
Jap_Taxi
I've noticed a few people in here saying whats the point, we are a too small a market wah, wah, wah. I think Instead of putting 600 different specs of skylines (don't get me wrong I love skylines) but honestly, gt-r, gt-r spec v, gtr nur, gtr m-spec, gtr vspec I and II, gtr 99, gtr 2000, there is no need for 20 different makes of the same car, instead put something a little different in the game.

You may not like the car we see everyday, but someone that has never seen it on the other side of the glode might take an interest in it, Im sure we all have a car we wish could be in the game but if every body had the "I see that car car everyday i dont want it in the game" attitude, we would have a GT5 with no cars just tracks. I my self am in this situation, I love my laurels and I have never seen one C35 laurel in real life or driven one in a game, but if I could that would just be something else, even if it was for 5 mins in virtual reality.

Im not a fan of holden or ford, but I wold love to see them in gt5 just so I could take one out or a strap.

I also agree that bathurst would be a good circuit to be in the game, just for its technicalality. Again 10 variations of cape ring was a bit unnecessary, why not put 2 different tracks in in their place.

End rant.
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600 skylines point is moot! They made one R32, one R33, one R34, (ok and maybe a few R35's but most were in GT5P).

The rest of them are carry overs from GT4.
 
kayman
600 skylines point is moot! They made one R32, one R33, one R34, (ok and maybe a few R35's but most were in GT5P).

The rest of them are carry overs from GT4.
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my point exactly, y have one of each premium model, and then carry over 89, 91, 93, 94 model R32s, and 95, 96 R33s and so on so forth.
That list could have some different cars that didn't make it into the game.
 
InfernalTyrant
But you don't think that people outside of Australia know about Bathurst? It's one of the world's greatest racing tracks, and everybody knows it.
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Long time lurker, but it's my first post on GTPlanet so be kind :)

V8 Supercars has fans in France also, it's one of my favorite racing series.

Just watched the finale in Sydney last Sunday : the first race was really fantastic :scared:
Great season for James Courtney !

I'd love to have one of the V8 tracks in GT5... maybe in GT6 ?
 
MGF_72
Long time lurker, but it's my first post on GTPlanet so be kind :)

V8 Supercars has fans in France also, it's one of my favorite racing series.

Just watched the finale in Sydney last Sunday : the first race was really fantastic :scared:
Great season for James Courtney !

I'd love to have one of the V8 tracks in GT5... maybe in GT6 ?
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Good to hear. I can't express how much I would love to see Bathurst in Gran Turismo. I would pay silly amounts of money for DLC...
 
Surely you've got to have F6 and the W427, not so keen on the current HSVs. Current XR8 and the SS maybe remebering the SS in-particular is available in quite a few different markets now. Of the classics - surely the Charger E38, GTHO-Phase 3 and the XU1 - probably the HG or HQ 350 GTS Monaros would be appropirate and interesting - perhaps the HSV GTS with the CB4 motor as mentioned.

What about the HRT 427 - there's certainly a story behind that one ...would make for formidable competition to the Vipers etc.
 
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bananasorus
Aussie here, But i hate both holden and ford.. Sick of beating them at the lights in my little 2l 4cylinder, against 6l V8s..

Glad they didn't add too many commodores would rage when i raced them..
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little did he realise they were just accelerating normally... lol poor little 4 banger thought he was in the race of his life
 
Jap_Taxi
I've noticed a few people in here saying whats the point, we are a too small a market wah, wah, wah. I think Instead of putting 600 different specs of skylines (don't get me wrong I love skylines) but honestly, gt-r, gt-r spec v, gtr nur, gtr m-spec, gtr vspec I and II, gtr 99, gtr 2000, there is no need for 20 different makes of the same car, instead put something a little different in the game.
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You can have every model of Holden you want in the game IF you are ok with them all looking like the SS or Monaro. All those Skylines are actually just three cars. They make ONE R33 for instance, then add a badge, change some stats and colour values and they have a spec v or an N1 or any other R33.

To think that you are missing out on some other car because they included more Skylines is to display a fundamental lack of thought in regards to how the cars are produced.
 
I think Kaz's credibility as a car lover goes out the window when he dismisses Aussie cars. People the world over have an affection for Aussie cars especially those that have driven them and if I had a dollar for every Pom that has told me that they would love a Maloo in the UK I could eat at a fine restaurant.

And both Bathurst and V8 Supercars are well known in the US and UK, I know a number of people overseas who are much bigger fans than I and most ordinary Aussies are.
 
bananasorus
Aussie here, But i hate both holden and ford.. Sick of beating them at the lights in my little 2l 4cylinder, against 6l V8s..

Glad they didn't add too many commodores would rage when i raced them..
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Beat this.

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2L is good for a milk carton.
 
The inference being that you need a big cube V8 to get performance and 2L cars are buzz boxes. :dunce: Which you don't, and they aren't.

I have no problem with pride in Aussie cars - but I personally have no particular love for either the local manufacturers - but I like to see them do well on the international stage when compared with other cars (ie. the Wheels tests taking Commodores and Falcons to the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, then the VT HSV GTS taking on M5, E55 etc on the Nurburgring in a Motor magazine, or the Top Gear UK boys gushing over the HSVs etc). However I'd love to see a far more representative range of Aussie cars in GT5 from all eras. I just object to unhelpful comments from the blue singlet brigade about V8s and needing cubic inches as much as I do from the baseball-cap-on-backwards guys who think a car's performance can be measured by the volume of the blow off valve. :grumpy:

There's room for both. 💡 But we'd all like Kaz to look at incorporating more Aussie cars in the GT series - re-introducing the FPVs from GT4 would be a good start, then he can start on the W427, GTHO Phase III, E38 Charger, XU-1.... 👍 ....and move on to putting in the 1991 Gibson Motorsport R32 GT-R of Richards/Skaife, and a Sierra RS500 Group A of Johnson/Bowe, and the Brock Bathurst winning VL from the WTCC visit to the Mountain in 1987....
 
It was a reply to ridiculous comment claiming he was sick of beating V8's from the lights in his 2L. http://www.austprostassc.com.au/top_ten_national.shtml

You do realise the "2L is good for a milk carton" comment is always said in good fun as opposed to the absolutely ridiculous comment from the fly-by guy. I thought it was funny and appropriate.

Sure V8 guys generally hate the 4 bangers and rotaries but we can all still respect (and hate) the quick ones. V8's are quicker and better though ;)
 
7HO
It was a reply to ridiculous comment claiming he was sick of beating V8's from the lights in his 2L. http://www.austprostassc.com.au/top_ten_national.shtml

You do realise the "2L is good for a milk carton" comment is always said in good fun as opposed to the absolutely ridiculous comment from the fly-by guy. I thought it was funny and appropriate.

Sure V8 guys generally hate the 4 bangers and rotaries but we can all still respect (and hate) the quick ones. V8's are quicker and better though ;)
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Yeah, that comment about flogging V8s in his Evo was a bit pointless. Why deliberately try to get up the nose of someone you'll never meet in a thread where I thought we were all heading in the same direction. Horses for courses I guess, but I've seen these debates ruin perfectly good threads before and I dearly hoped this one didn't suffer - it's been the friendliest thread on gtplanet I've seen (there was a lot of snide comments in the lead up to GT5's release tht I think were drawn from frustration about its delay, so i went and spent time in the GT4 forums).
 

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