PLEASE BUY GTOs

[GMH454]

Well after the intial excitement on the Monaro/GTO here in 2002 when it was released, sales have drifted slowly down and have settled at around 150 per month. Very hard to find one in a dealer showroom anymore, and our GTOs (yes we do have them, ) are now only built to order.

We have too many hi-po cars at the moment (a XR-6 Falcon turbo with exhaust and chip enhancements cracked 192 mph, recently,) and we have Boss 5.4ltr cammer Fords, as well as Holden has its own SS, a four door commodore variant with all the Monaro gear but sells for near 10k less.Both Ford and GMH also offer these engines in our utes, similar to your old El Caminos. So the poor old Monaro has lots of competition.

If you or the arabs don't buy near 20,000 per annum, I can't see Holden perserving, though, the sustainable level for R&D etc may be as low as 10,000.

Hav'nt bought mine yet, as my LS1 c'dore still rolls along fine, and I may wait till the 6Ltr LS2 (or whatever it will be called in 2006 )

From discussions at the Melbourne Motor show with GMH engineers the LS2 should arrive in the totally new C'dore and Monaro/GTO in around mid 2006.

So guys, keep em rolling out of the showroom's over your way until then.