The Diver was Rob Trubiani, a Holden in - house Dynamics Engineer & it cost Holden $50k to send the Car a Crew over to Nurburgring! If they attacked it with a Pro Racer & Holden's HSV GTSR W1 (a LS9 powdered Ute & the fastest ute/pickup truck ever built) it would be deep into the 7 minute barrier easy!
@@SkiRacingOz Holden were most profitable, economy was doing doing fine till Holden closed. Due to GM cutting down costs to their costs but GM took 2billion dollars of Australian tax payer money that was ment for sequel to the VF the economy for all car brands were low but it was gonna pick back up
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto Toyota sold the most and had to get payed the least, Holden may have sold more than the likes of ford but many were imports like captivas, Colorados and Cruzes, while the commodores, like the falcons, had become unprofitable
The C8 Corvette started its life as a holden. They'd been experimenting with a mid engine layout on a holden chassis for a while and had a fully drivable ute with mid engine. Then they started to build the C8 based on what they learned from building that. It was showcased in one of the C8 launch events which had invite only media present.
the driver was Holden Dynamics Engineer, Rob Trubiani, a very experienced track driver. I saw him do the Adelaide track in a Super V8 in time that would have put many professional drivers to shame. BTW, I think his record that day in Germany still stands.
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto don't you mean capitalist GM, Holden Australia wasn't profitable due to Ford and Toyota leaving meaning ancillary parts suppliers couldn't survive at existing prices driving up the costs of Holden. It was an industry collapse not just GM pulling out.
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto We have NO car manufacturers left and if Holden was profitable as a manufacturer or a reseller GM would've SOLD them like they did Vauxhall and Opel instead of walking away with a loss !!! Blame GM all you like but the fact is not enough Australian built cars were being sold to justify the cost of building them and the entire industry was in sustainable without huge taxpayer subsidies.
So cool. Holden came such a long way before they stopped making cars here. I have one of the last built FJ Holden Utes (1956, second owner), totally original survivor vehicle which you can sit in the engine bay when working on the car. Incredible that that technology grew into such an awesome vehicle.
@@scott4603 Don't know much about cars do you bro.. Holden is Holden and these utes are Australian.. see in 1932 A Australian farmers wife wrote to Ford Australia and said i want a car to go to church on Sundays and a vehicle to take the pigs to market on monday. Ford Australia built the Ford coupe ute and not a pickup like rest of world builds. 1940's GM USA and GM Australia Holden designed 1948 Holden 48/215 ute.. now known as FX Holden ute and every Australian Holden ute comes from this. General Motors send Australian Holdens to Europe and rebadge them as Vauxhall. Vauxhall Monaro.. Australian. Also send Australian Holdens to USA and rename them 2005 Pontiac GTO Coupe and is a Holden Monaro .Pontiac G8 sedan is a Holden Commodore. 2017 Chevy SS is a VF Holden SS Commodore. Chevy Caprice police car is a Holden statesman caprice and is a luxury car in Australia. So Vauxhall is a fake rebadging can't build own cars and is a subsidiary of General Motors USA. Even Top Gear did reviews on these utes and saids is Australian rebadged as Vauxhall's.
This, and The HSV GTS, are the Reason GM America pulled the Plug on GM Holden Australia.. Two cars, Designed and Built in Australia, That Embarrassed the Corvette and Comaro.. This Ute is the SSV Version, Brembo come standard.. American R&D Drivers come to Australia, with RHD Mustangs... And they ask if they can have a go in the Camera car ute.. then step out and go? That shits on the Mustang.. The GTS Maloo Version is even Faster..
Rob Trubiani. Definitely a top class driver. Looking at his performances at Bathurst, makes me wonder what Peter Brock would have done in the same car on that track?
Hallo i'm Daniel from Germany. A few month ago i have seen the video whered you react to Group B Rallye, and i was impressed to see such respectfull comments and truly opened emotions. The second i've realized is that you are one of the rarest type, which See the sports not as war, only as this what it is as Sport....thank you for that....and Do so on,....
Standard VF SS is 270kw ( 363 HP ), there are several high end VF Maloo uses we have in Townsville Queensland Australia that have between 370-450kw ( 496-603 HP ). Sadly never came with the biggest that the VF GTS Sedan had...557kw ( 747 HP ). All able to hit over 300km/h ( 186 MPH )
As an Australian I loved your video. The VF V8 ute is a thing of beauty over here and I'll never get the chance to drive one. But with nothing in the rear, you would either know what you are doing or leave the traction control on. So glad he did the lap in a manual.
@@aussiemilitant4486 it's got lag, it's a manual but possably not a standard auto He shifts up like racing transmission Semi auto possably. Or hes just really good at shifting
Lol in my VY SS Holden ute i passed the Gold Coast M1 fixed speed camera at 230km/h... i was tired and forgot was there.. Was waiting for the police to come knocking but never did. I was racing a mate and he was wtf dude i slowed and you kept going lol. you are screwed.
@@matthewbeale8570 Nice unless trying to be a penis measurer.. do know that newer cars are limited. pretty sure mine was hardly revving and i actually had to slow down as traffic was coming up. i have wound every one of my old cars off the speedo before. so what.
This VF ute is an SSV Redline which has the optional front brembos and standard rear brakes. Basically just a trim stepdown before the hsv line which are the gts, clubsorts, senators etc. The generation before the VF called VE from 06-13 came all with 6L L76,L77and L98 for the v8s. (V8 trims came in from ss then to ssv then ssv redline, then HSV variants). VF ran L77 or L98 from late 13-15 then went ls3 from 16 and onwards.
So awesome. I was lucky to have the chance to drive a “ring rental” around the ring back in 2010. Best advice is when you see the locals sitting on camp chairs on a hill, best slow down a bit more for that corner. 😂 There’s a reason they’re watching.
This engineer is one of the world's best suspension engineers. Rob Trubiani. He made the Australian Holden Colorado a really sweet handling and planted vehicle to drive - and straight off the production line. Hard to improve on that.
There is a Holden UTE club in the US and a Holden club event that takes place at a property near yourself once a year. The Chevy SS is the VF SS Commodore .
hey ian i've been around the nsw police driver course , at st ives near sydney. the corners are banked the wrong way, yeah lots go off into trees. but the most crazy thing , you drive as fast as u can , foot to the floor, then the instructor pulls the handbrake on. lots spin out or freak out. but both me and my partner pulled up dead straight. then the skid pan, then the crazy , look like cattle pens , but bent , have to reverse just with mirrors, well u do have about 1 inch clearance each side. then the 4wd drive course , so cool i became an instructor. after all this is australia. my sons 1st car was a torana pretty beaten up. he worked weeks on ir but got nothing done, except to try to put the wheels on backwards. the car was a non runner, we had a big row , and i told him i would have it running within an hour. 20 mins later brmm. so a few day later while i was at work, my son drove the car , unlicensed , uninsured , unregistered. i specically told him police MUST take action on any of these, but his mate told him yeah u can get a caution. then some time later i found out he did get pulled over for those very offences. but then i found out he didn;t bother to show up at court. so all the fines doubled, plus the court cost. needless to say it took him 5 yrs to pay it off. well you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink! my son is past 40 now but still the same, dad knows nothing , until something goes wrong. well u can't pick your relatives. but, alas always dad to the rescue. you can;t live with em, but u can't live without em!
Very calm driver who was obviously familiar with the characteristics of Nurburgring and the performance of the Malloo along with the limits of the tyres, Would have enjoyed seeing Peter Brock and Dick do some lap times
8 mins19 seconds and with sand on the track due to oil spills is pretty awesome. For comparison the R32 GTR achived 8mins 22 so thats pretty good. The Ute is a LS 6litre 4 piston Brembo up front 2 rear no ceramics, normal SS LSD, great car. Cheers Tony from Australia
In June 2013 Holden set a world record - the fastest ute to lap the famous Nurburgring circuit. The time set was 8:19:47, making it not only the fastest ute, but one of the fastest cars to lap the German track.
A couple of years ago they released the RAM out here. They seemed to think we only used Japanese Ute's out here, which are all based on light trucks. So they made the mistake of using the slogan "Eats Ute's for breakfast ". Then they discovered the indigenous species. This add was one of the shortest running adds on Aussie TV. Oops. Actually what impressed me most in this video were those road tyres. They just kept hanging on, just.
the HSV ute is speed limited at 150mph (in the US), and will reach that in 4th gear short of redline (6 speed box). I can verify that first hand having done it myself. they are pretty dang quick. This is the 5 speed version so probably peaking out at around 180mph, perhaps a little better.
The Ring is 20.8km so his average speed was 150km/h or, for Ian, 93mph. Thanks for the reaction, mate, and yeah, it's a shame you blokes didn't get the ute version, they'd have sold like hotcakes, I reckon. Probably still be pulling good coin, today.
Great reaction. A well cared for second hand Holden ute or SV in Australia right now are selling above their original purchase price. Darn fine vehicles.
Ford Australia also had the 425 HP supercharged Coyote and the older 5.4 32 valve Quad cam Boss motor ! In utes ! They were insane ! And the Barra 24 valve Turbo six, six speed manual !
About one year before GM folded up Pontiac they announced a G8 Sport Ute which was basically this truck. For the life of me I didn't understand why it wasn't a Chevy El Camino but, never the less I was ready to trade my '05 Dodge Ram for it immediately. All I need a truck for is to haul my motorcycle and for DYI home projects. Then even when Pontiac folded I didn't understand why they didn't do the El Camino. It's still not too late GM. I still have that Dodge.
Sabine Schmitz She completed the Nürburgring run in the Ford Transit van in 10:08. Sabine Schmitz died from cancer at the age of 51, but her legacy on the track lives on, google it you will be impressed by this wonderful lady.
I think the VF SSV redline, which is the top of the range in the Holden SS range before going to HSV, came out with Brembos. It appears to be pretty much a standard ute that we could walk in and buy off the showroom floor.
The driver is Rob Trubiani.Holden’s chief dynamics engineer he helped design the suspension in these cars. I love my utes and have owned LC GTR Toranas LH and LX Toranas all models of commodores. But i always seem to buy a ute and have owned from EH to WB and few newer SS Commodore utes also. I even once pulled up at a set of lights in my 76 HX styleside Holden v8 ute and Dick Johnson V8 famous Australian racing legend pulled up beside me.. smiled and took off from the lights lol.
My father beat Dick Johnson twice, the first time was travelling back from Bathurst back in 1980 and again in a rematch from his home at Daisy Hill when we delivered a drawing I made in pre-school which was placed in his foyer alongside the rock he hit that year
@@SGTMARSHALL1 Haha nice yea i didn't race him as just changed my 6 cylinder ute to v8 and was fresh motor. my electric dizzy blew up and i had a old points one in and was driving to repco to buy it. points were not set right and backfired and carried on over half throttle. Was so disappointed i couldn't race him. He pulled out of Shell servo on Compton rd Sth Brisbane in his XR8 ute in all his livery. I saw it and thought was someone who done a tributary car. Surprised when he pulled up at the next set of lights near BP down near underwood. People i told said he lived in Forrest Lake at the time. so was probably going to his shop.
@@nedkelly9688 he was driving a turbocharged ute coming back from Bathurst, they took his 2 track cars the second time to see who would win in a fair contest, he was a very sociable and humble man throughout the years
@@SGTMARSHALL1 Iam a Holden guy and have owned some Ford's. and yes Dick is a nice guy and never heard anything bad about him. Peter Brock are some stories of him at times being rude. Also some awesome stories also. They are just normal people too.
It's just a ute guys. Common as down under and as a daily driver. I use the V6 version of that ute as a work truck. LFX 3.5 litres n 6 speed auto. Canopy (shell) n ladder rack on top. Slightly lower spec suspension n wheel wise than the SS version but still can be peddled fairly hard when you want them to get a move along
Ian, The V8 SS ute was pretty good in its time and was touted as matching the BMW M5 !! However, if you go to the "HOLDEN SPECIAL VEHICLES RANGE" (VERY SPECIAL !!) you are looking at the Mighty Maloo an absolute MONSTER !! That was a real fun machine and could make you sweat off the kilos/pounds !! It was truly the HAIRY CHESTED ute we all dream of. I don't recall if it had the options that the sedan HSV GTS had (6.2 litre V8, 6.2 litre supercharged, 427 naturally aspired V8 and last but not least 427 supercharged V8.) I believe Walkinshaw had a lot to do with these vehicles if my memory serves me right. I reckon Highway Patrol would have loved a few of these versions in the USA. Using any of these vehicles on the Nurburg Ring Nordschlief (not sure of the spelling), known as THE GREEN HELL would be a real blast ! Enjoy !
Looks like it is the vf ss redline. Has 6 piston calipers on the front and 4 piston on rear. Come factory with these brakes. One of the best looking commodores made.
No no no Ian the thumbnail is all wrong mate I think that you are going to have to do your Australian citizenship again because it's a ute not a truck because only Americans call them trucks 🤣🤣🤣👍
I’d say anything under 9 minutes is good, under 8 minutes is hard, you’d be going for hundred thousand dollar Supercars minimum (and have it tuned to the track) to drop that 20 seconds.
I have a Mate that works at the Ring.. When this lap was Done.. the Porsche Drivers waiting for their turn, went WTF... one Asked, that is Holden Ute you can buy in Australia? mate said, yep, but the HSV Version is even faster..
@@R4M_Tommycheck the original video. That lap was set 9 years ago. At that time a nissan gtr set a time of 7 min 19 sec - somewhat close to what a type-r would set a few years later and blowing us all away at how fast FWD could go, competing with litteral supercars on the leaderboards. All this to say i think it’s fair to assume that quite a bit of progress in pace has happened in 9 years and that ute lap was a record 9 years ago, so definately fast at the time
Even the stock VF/VE Holden six had 4 piston brakes , the top line like this came factory with Brembo 6 piston caliper brakes ! The stock brakes are 330 mm brakes , these are 350 mm .
I have a 2014 VF SS Ute with 6.0 and 6 speed manual. She now has Wilwood 355mm (14") discs all round, 6 piston up fron and 4 pot in the rear. Last year I added a Magnuson 2.9litre supercharger, laying down a lazy 550 RWHP on stock bottom end. Could of safely pushed it out to 650 RWHP but kept a mild tune as I had to drive it across the Nullarbor Plain from Perth in Western Australia, almost to Melbourne in Victoria. A distance of approximately 2100 miles. Averaged 22mpg at 70mph. Not bad for a blown 6 litre!
Looks like a Redline that comes with the 6.2L and 4 pistion brembo brakes , You should have a look at the VF HSV UTE with supercharged LSA engine and six pistion brakes
I’m a young lad who’s seen a fair share of Holdens in my life… started working at a young age and first bought me a Holden commodore ve sv6 and fell in love with Holdens, not long after heard the sad news of Holdens not continuing and quickly bought me a new Holden commodore vf SS V8 and I love that car too pieces 😂😂😂
I live in Australia and drove a 2017 VF V8 sedan, and damn what a car...GM Holden had got almost everything right with the car, and then they pulled the pin and closed down in Australia 🙄😒
Looks like VF SS-V Redline MY17 so last year of production. LS3 V8 6.2L 304KW, 570Nm of torque. Lots of different specs with cars and if you were serious you'd add the Walkinshaw kit, new exhaust and headers bit of tweaking and hey presto you got a winner. The Brembo brake package varied but he discs were just normal drilled and ventilated discs. You'd never get carbon fiber/ceramic brakes hot enough in normal road driving. A mate has an HSV Maloo ute and I think it's something like 340KW or 455HP.
The ute was completely standard, aside from an extra little bit of negative camber on the front wheels, though Holden says it was still within production tolerances.
you got it as the Chevy SS. Fun fact. Its illegal in the US to modify A chevy SS to a single cab ute. However, in a few US states (cant recall which) there is a coach building company that found a loophole. you can import an SS Commodore Sedan, Shipped as a kit-car thats patially dissassembled, and rebuild it in the US as a Ute, then have it registered as roadlegal one-off imported kit car, with a holden badge. YOu can also do the kit-car work around by importing a VE series Ute and modify it to a VF. total legal
Hi Ian and clan. so glad things Australian keep you so interested in what we have to offer.. Im 100% positive you;ll be stepping on our soil one day.. God bless you. and USA . our biggest buddy.
@Ian, have you looked into the crazy japanese car scene called Bosozoku or the wild tuned VW-buses in Germany / Europe? Example vids: Bosozoku: ruclips.net/video/rMwLwokeupw/видео.html VW-bus Tuning treffen: ruclips.net/video/USBgPS7LE4M/видео.html And maybe the coolest of all, VW T1 at Spa track day, in-car view from a 911 GT3: ruclips.net/video/-JB6JzzY4Yw/видео.html
all my life i have loved holdens. My dad had a HK Monaro, which i loved and was hoping to inherit it but he sold it for a ford. Aussies have a huge rivalry between holdens and fords. I don't like fords, however my dad bought an XW 351 GT, and I hate saying it, but it was nice, and I got drive it when I was 17. I am now 48 and a few years ago I bought my favourite holden, 2005 VZ V6 Calais. Apart from how smooth she drives. my favourite thing about her is her paddle shifters. Being a country girl, we get taught to drive manuals, so I have always owned manuals. Paddle shifters is like next level and I have to keep reminding myself that I am not a racing car driver and unless I head out of the city and maybe on some backroads, do I then allow myself a little fun. 🤫🤗😇
There's a video on RUclips with a stock standard W126 300SE Mercedes from the eighties. He does it in a little over 10 minutes which is remarkable considering what it is. Plus the driver mentions h could do with new shocks and tyres!
I have a 2015 VF ute that I bought used in 2016, base model, came with I think 16" steelies, 281hp. I put 18" wheels on it and a hard lid, nothing crazy. The interesting thing is it was traded in by the Victoria Police. I don't know what they used it for, but the only mod I could find was it has two batteries - maybe it was a stakeout car and they didn't want to risk a flat battery. As ever, thanks for your channel, Ian.
to lorax i also bought a ex police ute same year i phoned the police transport dept. and they told me they took off the tailgate and fitted the paddy wagon canopy for prisoner transport,when they reached the k's limit they traded them off, i also fitted a hard canopy and front bumper clip from a ss, lowered with King springs and 18's all round,looked good and didn't cost a lot
@@billjohnstone1992 That's great info, thanks. Yes, I got a good deal on a year old ute with 59,000 k's on it. As I love cars but hate driving, it now has almost 86,000 and goes just great.
@@thelorax9622 yeah i kept the ute for a couple of years then the chance of getting a ex fleet low k's 38000km series 2 evoke sports wagon came up and i traded the ute with a 4 grand change over and got the last production year real commodore made 2017 and i done the same as the ute SS front bumper,king springs and 18" black series wheels,same as you i don't do a lot of k's just turned over 55000k's in 3 and a half yrs but love it still no plans to sell it as they don't make them anymore cheers
The reason why the Holden Commy SS ute is my dream car. Get just over 8 minutes on green hell on the weekend, load her up with tools and build a house during the week
Bathurst brother. Top ten shootout. V8 Holden and Ford Ute racing. Truck racing. We got motor heads down here. Our muscle utes go to work faster than you'd like and there's no shortage of them in the road. (All purpose shopping cart)
hi ian i read when this run occured all they did to the ute was reset the wheel align & reset the rev limiter. i think was a ss spec with 5 speed later ones were 6 speed when production finished on 22nd october 2017. very sad day. i have a 2017 vf sport wagon . all the best mate
Its a ute, which by the way was an Australian invention taken up by the yanks big time- a farmer wanted a vehicle to work on the farm during the week and a car to take the wife to church on Sunday so he cut the back out of a model A and made it into a ute ( Utility vehicle)
the real story is a pig farmers wife in Victoria in the late 1920,s went with her husband to buy a new ford , wile there, the wife asked the dealer if he had a car with a car front end and a rear with a flat bed so they could bring the pigs into town on sunday at the same time they went to church, the ford dealer thought that was a grate idea and submitted it to ford Australia who took the standard ford car , deleted the back and add a tray , it was a big hit and the ute was born ! and it is NOT a truck its a passenger utility vehicle ! (UTE).
This is a Mid spec level V8 SS ute. Unfortunately with the Auto, not the 6 speed manual. We have Higher Trim packs under the "HSV" logo, which stands for Holden Special Vehicles. The HSV Maloo, Is basically this thing, Except fallen face done a line of Cocaine, putting out just under 600 horse with a Supercharged V8. Then you've got the Maloo GTSR W1. Which is basically a HSV Maloo, Which has basically fallen face first into a pile of Cocaine, And then Smoked half a Kilo of Crystal Meth for good measure. LS9, 6.2L with a 2.3L supercharger making well over 600 horsepower. Put that thing on the track and yeah.... Definitely some different numbers.
Always loved that car. These are the HSV versions with sports upgrades. When I was down in Aussi I wanted to buy the Station wagon version. You could have them with the Corvette ZR1 engine for a bargain
The Diver was Rob Trubiani, a Holden in - house Dynamics Engineer & it cost Holden $50k to send the Car a Crew over to Nurburgring! If they attacked it with a Pro Racer & Holden's HSV GTSR W1 (a LS9 powdered Ute & the fastest ute/pickup truck ever built) it would be deep into the 7 minute barrier easy!
That W1 is bad ass.
Yeh the Aussies know how to build muscle cars , especially for the road
The things you learn….. I thought they were LSA powered
Just curious. Where did you get the $50k figure from?
@@moe2470 probably sending the car and crew to Germany plus expenses
So sad to have lost this industry in Australia. I have had a series of Holdens most of my life.
Blame GM for taking 2Biilion dollars of Australian tax payer money not allowing holden to make a sequal to the VF 2
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto blame Joe Hockey for goading the car industry to shut up shop. As they say, I'm just Holden back the tears 😢
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto blame the Australian economy for it not being profitable for ford, gm, Mitsubishi or toyota
@@SkiRacingOz Holden were most profitable, economy was doing doing fine till Holden closed.
Due to GM cutting down costs to their costs but
GM took 2billion dollars of Australian tax payer money that was ment for sequel to the VF
the economy for all car brands were low but it was gonna pick back up
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto Toyota sold the most and had to get payed the least, Holden may have sold more than the likes of ford but many were imports like captivas, Colorados and Cruzes, while the commodores, like the falcons, had become unprofitable
@IWrocker Ian reacting to Sabine Schmidtz's Nurburgring records would be an amazing experience!
R. I. P. Sabine Schmidtz.
Sabine will always be the queen of the Nurburgring to me
Just imagine Sabine driving this thing. ❤
I have a feeling she was the real Stig
@@SGTMARSHALL1 Ben Collins was without fail. I think she is nearly as good as the stig, but the stig couldn’t match her around the ring though
Didn't Sabine pull a quicker time in the Ford Transit van than this ute
The C8 Corvette started its life as a holden. They'd been experimenting with a mid engine layout on a holden chassis for a while and had a fully drivable ute with mid engine. Then they started to build the C8 based on what they learned from building that. It was showcased in one of the C8 launch events which had invite only media present.
Is that the one that looks like a VE UTE, if so i actually have a picture of that sit out side a shed on a rainy day.
@@-sandman4605 black one with a wing
@@PartikleVT
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yep, my brother did some work in holden proving grounds and he said he saw a ute with an engine in the back haha this is going back probably 2017/18
Very interesting 😮
the driver was Holden Dynamics Engineer, Rob Trubiani, a very experienced track driver. I saw him do the Adelaide track in a Super V8 in time that would have put many professional drivers to shame. BTW, I think his record that day in Germany still stands.
Shame that Holden is no more.
@@craigdawson1694 blame socialist GM
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto don't you mean capitalist GM, Holden Australia wasn't profitable due to Ford and Toyota leaving meaning ancillary parts suppliers couldn't survive at existing prices driving up the costs of Holden.
It was an industry collapse not just GM pulling out.
@@robertmason8297 GM are the only reason Holden closed, and Australia still has strong manufacturing without GM
@@FiendishlyDelightedSefto We have NO car manufacturers left and if Holden was profitable as a manufacturer or a reseller GM would've SOLD them like they did Vauxhall and Opel instead of walking away with a loss !!!
Blame GM all you like but the fact is not enough Australian built cars were being sold to justify the cost of building them and the entire industry was in sustainable without huge taxpayer subsidies.
So cool. Holden came such a long way before they stopped making cars here. I have one of the last built FJ Holden Utes (1956, second owner), totally original survivor vehicle which you can sit in the engine bay when working on the car. Incredible that that technology grew into such an awesome vehicle.
Holden is just a Vauxhall probably came all the way from Germany
@@scott4603 probably, troll.
@@scott4603 Good one Scott ... assume you are trying to be funny .... if not ... hummm
@@scott4603 Don't know much about cars do you bro.. Holden is Holden and these utes are Australian.. see in 1932 A Australian farmers wife wrote to Ford Australia and said i want a car to go to church on Sundays and a vehicle to take the pigs to market on monday.
Ford Australia built the Ford coupe ute and not a pickup like rest of world builds.
1940's GM USA and GM Australia Holden designed 1948 Holden 48/215 ute.. now known as FX Holden ute and every Australian Holden ute comes from this.
General Motors send Australian Holdens to Europe and rebadge them as Vauxhall. Vauxhall Monaro.. Australian.
Also send Australian Holdens to USA and rename them 2005 Pontiac GTO Coupe and is a Holden Monaro .Pontiac G8 sedan is a Holden Commodore. 2017 Chevy SS is a VF Holden SS Commodore. Chevy Caprice police car is a Holden statesman caprice and is a luxury car in Australia.
So Vauxhall is a fake rebadging can't build own cars and is a subsidiary of General Motors USA.
Even Top Gear did reviews on these utes and saids is Australian rebadged as Vauxhall's.
Gm sold opel/vaxhall to Stellantis in January 2021
I love how he explained his shifting, braking etc. Good for new ones on this track :)
This, and The HSV GTS, are the Reason GM America pulled the Plug on GM Holden Australia..
Two cars, Designed and Built in Australia, That Embarrassed the Corvette and Comaro..
This Ute is the SSV Version, Brembo come standard.. American R&D Drivers come to Australia, with RHD Mustangs...
And they ask if they can have a go in the Camera car ute.. then step out and go? That shits on the Mustang..
The GTS Maloo Version is even Faster..
*Braking
@@module79l28 thx mate, always get this one wrong ^^
@@graemejohnson9025 nice information, thank you. I never thought this car would be that fast on the Ring
@@str1kerxx - No worries! 👍
Rob Trubiani. Definitely a top class driver. Looking at his performances at Bathurst, makes me wonder what Peter Brock would have done in the same car on that track?
Hallo i'm Daniel from Germany. A few month ago i have seen the video whered you react to Group B Rallye, and i was impressed to see such respectfull comments and truly opened emotions. The second i've realized is that you are one of the rarest type, which See the sports not as war, only as this what it is as Sport....thank you for that....and Do so on,....
Standard VF SS is 270kw ( 363 HP ), there are several high end VF Maloo uses we have in Townsville Queensland Australia that have between 370-450kw ( 496-603 HP ). Sadly never came with the biggest that the VF GTS Sedan had...557kw ( 747 HP ). All able to hit over 300km/h ( 186 MPH )
As an Australian I loved your video. The VF V8 ute is a thing of beauty over here and I'll never get the chance to drive one. But with nothing in the rear, you would either know what you are doing or leave the traction control on. So glad he did the lap in a manual.
I'm pretty certain it was an auto, judging by the speed of the changes.
@@elroyfudbucker6806 no mate, it's a manual
@@fulltimber nah its definitely an auto, as you can see a few times the car shifts gear while both of his hands are on the steering wheel.
@@aussiemilitant4486 it's got lag, it's a manual but possably not a standard auto
He shifts up like racing transmission
Semi auto possably.
Or hes just really good at shifting
@@fulltimberit’s auto 100%
That`s where the years of Bathurst pedigree come into play. Nice one Ian, really enjoyed this one.
Yeah Gricey raced a ute there in the 90s!
I’ll never forget the first time my dad and I did 200kmph down the freeway in his VX SS. It was an absolute rush! Holden made very good cars
Lol in my VY SS Holden ute i passed the Gold Coast M1 fixed speed camera at 230km/h... i was tired and forgot was there..
Was waiting for the police to come knocking but never did.
I was racing a mate and he was wtf dude i slowed and you kept going lol. you are screwed.
I did 220 down the m4,in a $100 front wheel drive automatic subaru liberty with like 95kw at the Flywheel
@@jmaracing7074 Good for you.. i did 220 in a old 70's Holden old suspension etc.
I pulled 195 in my daty 1980 200b sx 2.0 litre mildly worked.. Down the Melbourne Lancefield Rd..
@@matthewbeale8570 Nice unless trying to be a penis measurer.. do know that newer cars are limited. pretty sure mine was hardly revving and i actually had to slow down as traffic was coming up.
i have wound every one of my old cars off the speedo before. so what.
This VF ute is an SSV Redline which has the optional front brembos and standard rear brakes. Basically just a trim stepdown before the hsv line which are the gts, clubsorts, senators etc. The generation before the VF called VE from 06-13 came all with 6L L76,L77and L98 for the v8s. (V8 trims came in from ss then to ssv then ssv redline, then HSV variants). VF ran L77 or L98 from late 13-15 then went ls3 from 16 and onwards.
all VF redlines came standard with front brembos
No VF came with a L98
So awesome. I was lucky to have the chance to drive a “ring rental” around the ring back in 2010. Best advice is when you see the locals sitting on camp chairs on a hill, best slow down a bit more for that corner. 😂 There’s a reason they’re watching.
This engineer is one of the world's best suspension engineers. Rob Trubiani. He made the Australian Holden Colorado a really sweet handling and planted vehicle to drive - and straight off the production line. Hard to improve on that.
Just watch the Video of Sabine Schmitz forcing a Transit van around the Nordschleife. She was a legend.
There is a Holden UTE club in the US and a Holden club event that takes place at a property near yourself once a year. The Chevy SS is the VF SS Commodore .
The guy that holds the Holden event is in another of Ian's videos on how to register a Holden ute in USA.. the video is on Vinwiki also.
@@nedkelly9688
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hey ian i've been around the nsw police driver course , at st ives near sydney. the corners are banked the wrong way, yeah lots go off into trees. but the most crazy thing , you drive as fast as u can , foot to the floor, then the instructor pulls the handbrake on. lots spin out or freak out. but both me and my partner pulled up dead straight. then the skid pan, then the crazy , look like cattle pens , but bent , have to reverse just with mirrors, well u do have about 1 inch clearance each side. then the 4wd drive course , so cool i became an instructor. after all this is australia. my sons 1st car was a torana pretty beaten up. he worked weeks on ir but got nothing done, except to try to put the wheels on backwards. the car was a non runner, we had a big row , and i told him i would have it running within an hour. 20 mins later brmm. so a few day later while i was at work, my son drove the car , unlicensed , uninsured , unregistered. i specically told him police MUST take action on any of these, but his mate told him yeah u can get a caution. then some time later i found out he did get pulled over for those very offences. but then i found out he didn;t bother to show up at court. so all the fines doubled, plus the court cost. needless to say it took him 5 yrs to pay it off. well you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink! my son is past 40 now but still the same, dad knows nothing , until something goes wrong. well u can't pick your relatives. but, alas always dad to the rescue. you can;t live with em, but u can't live without em!
The advice when you bought one of these things was to take a photocopy of your licence (so you remember what it looks like).
..... before you lost it?
@@elroyfudbucker6806 yep 😀😀
Now what would an Aussie V8 supercar do on this track, wouldn't that be so cool to see??
Probably a huge amount of time more than a AMG Merc, or an M3. And even more behind a Porsche
The difference between the supercars and the world gt3 is very small the difference at Bathurst is like 1 second or less
Or have a classic SS v V8 Supercar v HSV GTS contest
(like they've done at Bathurst)
Very calm driver who was obviously familiar with the characteristics of Nurburgring and the performance of the Malloo along with the limits of the tyres, Would have enjoyed seeing Peter Brock and Dick do some lap times
Would have gained some time for sure.
It's an ss ute,not a Maloo,so a Maloo should have been even faster🇭🇲
8 mins19 seconds and with sand on the track due to oil spills is pretty awesome. For comparison the R32 GTR achived 8mins 22 so thats pretty good. The Ute is a LS 6litre 4 piston Brembo up front 2 rear no ceramics, normal SS LSD, great car. Cheers Tony from Australia
In June 2013 Holden set a world record - the fastest ute to lap the famous Nurburgring circuit. The time set was 8:19:47, making it not only the fastest ute, but one of the fastest cars to lap the German track.
General Motors stuffed up killing off the Holden brand
A couple of years ago they released the RAM out here. They seemed to think we only used Japanese Ute's out here, which are all based on light trucks. So they made the mistake of using the slogan "Eats Ute's for breakfast ". Then they discovered the indigenous species. This add was one of the shortest running adds on Aussie TV. Oops.
Actually what impressed me most in this video were those road tyres. They just kept hanging on, just.
the HSV ute is speed limited at 150mph (in the US), and will reach that in 4th gear short of redline (6 speed box). I can verify that first hand having done it myself. they are pretty dang quick. This is the 5 speed version so probably peaking out at around 180mph, perhaps a little better.
My guess is that the spec would be SSV Redline - LS3, Brembo brakes, FE3 suspension and possibly the wider (275) rear wheels/tyres.
It's a series 1 VF with the 6.0. The series 1 have silver brembo calipers series 2 have red
My brother has the exact model he brought new that has been modified. Pumping out 800 odd horsepower. Absolute weapon
The Ring is 20.8km so his average speed was 150km/h or, for Ian, 93mph. Thanks for the reaction, mate, and yeah, it's a shame you blokes didn't get the ute version, they'd have sold like hotcakes, I reckon. Probably still be pulling good coin, today.
Great reaction. A well cared for second hand Holden ute or SV in Australia right now are selling above their original purchase price. Darn fine vehicles.
Ford Australia also had the 425 HP supercharged Coyote and the older 5.4 32 valve Quad cam Boss motor ! In utes ! They were insane ! And the Barra 24 valve Turbo six, six speed manual !
lol no one gives a crap about about fords (Found On Rubbish Dump) lol
LOL! Nice...that was fun to watch. Cheers Ian.
I feel privileged to say I've done a hotlap with Rob in a Tesla during his time at Vinfast around the holden proving ground
You definitely need to check out Sabine Schimidtzs she was something else, her lap in a transit van is something to behold.
About one year before GM folded up Pontiac they announced a G8 Sport Ute which was basically this truck. For the life of me I didn't understand why it wasn't a Chevy El Camino but, never the less I was ready to trade my '05 Dodge Ram for it immediately. All I need a truck for is to haul my motorcycle and for DYI home projects. Then even when Pontiac folded I didn't understand why they didn't do the El Camino. It's still not too late GM. I still have that Dodge.
Sabine Schmitz She completed the Nürburgring run in the Ford Transit van in 10:08. Sabine Schmitz died from cancer at the age of 51, but her legacy on the track lives on, google it you will be impressed by this wonderful lady.
She was so good.
I think the VF SSV redline, which is the top of the range in the Holden SS range before going to HSV, came out with Brembos. It appears to be pretty much a standard ute that we could walk in and buy off the showroom floor.
It's an SS Ute. The Brembos are factory for that trim, but steel discs. Comes with the LS3. It's exactly the Ute version of what was sent to the US
This is a series one, L77 6.0L in this one
The ss came with brembro brakes etc stock the use is the production version on street tires
Those tires on the Ute are Bridgestone Potenzas RE050-A.
America had the Chevy el Camino and ford ranchero which were essentially utes too.a guy around the corner from me has a black el Camino looks good too
I had a 70 Ranchero GT 351 4V. Not a bad car,, but not near as strong as my Aussie Falcon ute.
Yes they did and were copied from the Australian UTES that we produced since the 1930s.
I remember a while back the Pagani Zonda RR done 8.13, so for the Ute to do that time is awesome 👏🏻👏🏻😊🇦🇺
The zonda r was around 6:30
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Reported but didn’t. Best is a 6:47
The driver is Rob Trubiani.Holden’s chief dynamics engineer he helped design the suspension in these cars. I love my utes and have owned LC GTR Toranas LH and LX Toranas all models of commodores.
But i always seem to buy a ute and have owned from EH to WB and few newer SS Commodore utes also.
I even once pulled up at a set of lights in my 76 HX styleside Holden v8 ute and Dick Johnson V8 famous Australian racing legend pulled up beside me.. smiled and took off from the lights lol.
My father beat Dick Johnson twice, the first time was travelling back from Bathurst back in 1980 and again in a rematch from his home at Daisy Hill when we delivered a drawing I made in pre-school which was placed in his foyer alongside the rock he hit that year
@@SGTMARSHALL1 Haha nice yea i didn't race him as just changed my 6 cylinder ute to v8 and was fresh motor. my electric dizzy blew up and i had a old points one in and was driving to repco to buy it.
points were not set right and backfired and carried on over half throttle.
Was so disappointed i couldn't race him.
He pulled out of Shell servo on Compton rd Sth Brisbane in his XR8 ute in all his livery.
I saw it and thought was someone who done a tributary car.
Surprised when he pulled up at the next set of lights near BP down near underwood.
People i told said he lived in Forrest Lake at the time. so was probably going to his shop.
@@nedkelly9688 he was driving a turbocharged ute coming back from Bathurst, they took his 2 track cars the second time to see who would win in a fair contest, he was a very sociable and humble man throughout the years
@@SGTMARSHALL1 Iam a Holden guy and have owned some Ford's. and yes Dick is a nice guy and never heard anything bad about him.
Peter Brock are some stories of him at times being rude.
Also some awesome stories also.
They are just normal people too.
@@SGTMARSHALL1 I was just stunned he would street race lol.. i wasn't ready for that.
It's just a ute guys. Common as down under and as a daily driver. I use the V6 version of that ute as a work truck. LFX 3.5 litres n 6 speed auto. Canopy (shell) n ladder rack on top. Slightly lower spec suspension n wheel wise than the SS version but still can be peddled fairly hard when you want them to get a move along
Ian, The V8 SS ute was pretty good in its time and was touted as matching the BMW M5 !! However, if you go to the "HOLDEN SPECIAL VEHICLES RANGE" (VERY SPECIAL !!) you are looking at the Mighty Maloo an absolute MONSTER !! That was a real fun machine and could make you sweat off the kilos/pounds !! It was truly the HAIRY CHESTED ute we all dream of. I don't recall if it had the options that the sedan HSV GTS had (6.2 litre V8, 6.2 litre supercharged, 427 naturally aspired V8 and last but not least 427 supercharged V8.) I believe Walkinshaw had a lot to do with these vehicles if my memory serves me right. I reckon Highway Patrol would have loved a few of these versions in the USA. Using any of these vehicles on the Nurburg Ring Nordschlief (not sure of the spelling), known as THE GREEN HELL would be a real blast ! Enjoy !
Maloo is great ute to drive, my mate had one , was a beast to drive
Looks like it is the vf ss redline. Has 6 piston calipers on the front and 4 piston on rear. Come factory with these brakes. One of the best looking commodores made.
yeah nah, 4 pots on the front mate, 2 pots on the rear. No SS got 6 piston calipers from the factory (I have a 2016 VF2 redline)
Yeah that would be the right model they had the big brembo but 4/2
No no no Ian the thumbnail is all wrong mate I think that you are going to have to do your Australian citizenship again because it's a ute not a truck because only Americans call them trucks 🤣🤣🤣👍
I’d say anything under 9 minutes is good, under 8 minutes is hard, you’d be going for hundred thousand dollar Supercars minimum (and have it tuned to the track) to drop that 20 seconds.
I have a Mate that works at the Ring.. When this lap was Done.. the Porsche Drivers waiting for their turn, went WTF... one Asked, that is Holden Ute you can buy in Australia? mate said, yep, but the HSV Version is even faster..
@@graemejohnson9025 they defenetly did not say thta
The Honda Civic type R is way under 8 minutes, there's sedans pushing the 7:30. It's not that hard anymore.
@@R4M_Tommy chuck ya spades and tools in the type r 😂
@@R4M_Tommycheck the original video. That lap was set 9 years ago. At that time a nissan gtr set a time of 7 min 19 sec - somewhat close to what a type-r would set a few years later and blowing us all away at how fast FWD could go, competing with litteral supercars on the leaderboards. All this to say i think it’s fair to assume that quite a bit of progress in pace has happened in 9 years and that ute lap was a record 9 years ago, so definately fast at the time
Even the stock VF/VE Holden six had 4 piston brakes , the top line like this came factory with Brembo 6 piston caliper brakes ! The stock brakes are 330 mm brakes , these are 350 mm .
I saw that exact vf magnum Ute. It was in the Holden museum in Trafalgar
its actually only the SS ute which was the entry sport ute, but it has the R8 Maloo top of the line brembo brakes on it for some reason ;)
I have a 2014 VF SS Ute with 6.0 and 6 speed manual. She now has Wilwood 355mm (14") discs all round, 6 piston up fron and 4 pot in the rear. Last year I added a Magnuson 2.9litre supercharger, laying down a lazy 550 RWHP on stock bottom end. Could of safely pushed it out to 650 RWHP but kept a mild tune as I had to drive it across the Nullarbor Plain from Perth in Western Australia, almost to Melbourne in Victoria. A distance of approximately 2100 miles. Averaged 22mpg at 70mph. Not bad for a blown 6 litre!
Did you know that 'car cam' was invented and pioneered in Australia?
Australian performance vehicles were banned at American dealerships as it would have affected USA manufacturers.
Yank don't like the Idea that we Produce a better product.
I think this is the Redline spec version. I own the auto gentlemen version & it's fast enough for me.
Looks like a Redline that comes with the 6.2L and 4 pistion brembo brakes , You should have a look at the VF HSV UTE with supercharged LSA engine and six pistion brakes
It is impressive. You have to remember utes are rear end slippy also. Top driving.
A company in Denver Colorado imports utes and converts them to left hand drive ( left hand drive utes)
I’m a young lad who’s seen a fair share of Holdens in my life… started working at a young age and first bought me a Holden commodore ve sv6 and fell in love with Holdens, not long after heard the sad news of Holdens not continuing and quickly bought me a new Holden commodore vf SS V8 and I love that car too pieces 😂😂😂
I live in Australia and drove a 2017 VF V8 sedan, and damn what a car...GM Holden had got almost everything right with the car, and then they pulled the pin and closed down in Australia 🙄😒
Holden didn’t pull the pin. It was the head honchos at GM. Australians were gutted when it all happened. 😢
@@dynevor6327 clearly a Ford fan. Are you sure you’re Australian if this didn’t hurt 🤔
Instead we are just bailing out Qantas with 2.35 billion so that a leprechaun can continue to screw it up and waste money.
@@raceyrache8463 you can blame GM all you want but at the end of the day not enough people bought Holdens and GM was just bleeding money
Looks like VF SS-V Redline MY17 so last year of production. LS3 V8 6.2L 304KW, 570Nm of torque. Lots of different specs with cars and if you were serious you'd add the Walkinshaw kit, new exhaust and headers bit of tweaking and hey presto you got a winner. The Brembo brake package varied but he discs were just normal drilled and ventilated discs. You'd never get carbon fiber/ceramic brakes hot enough in normal road driving. A mate has an HSV Maloo ute and I think it's something like 340KW or 455HP.
It's a series 1 redline. Silver Brembo calipers on series 1 red on series 2
The ute was completely standard, aside from an extra little bit of negative camber on the front wheels, though Holden says it was still within production tolerances.
IIRC Rob Trubiani wanted to try it again with a Redline edition (i.e. Brembo brakes) to try to crack the 8 min mark.
Yeah, it was pushing like a pig!! Typical Dunnydore. 4 mdeg of camber would have helped.
Reminds me of when I used to drive my AUSE Valiants on NZ highways, was great fun while not crossing the center line.
There was a holden ute in the dakar race a couple of years ago but it didn't Finnish the driver suffered a back injury
you got it as the Chevy SS. Fun fact. Its illegal in the US to modify A chevy SS to a single cab ute. However, in a few US states (cant recall which) there is a coach building company that found a loophole. you can import an SS Commodore Sedan, Shipped as a kit-car thats patially dissassembled, and rebuild it in the US as a Ute, then have it registered as roadlegal one-off imported kit car, with a holden badge. YOu can also do the kit-car work around by importing a VE series Ute and modify it to a VF. total legal
We used have a race series with Ute's I'm sure power and handling options were developed for the Ute's in question.
From the colour of those front brakes it's a series 1 VF SSV redline
Hi Ian and clan. so glad things Australian keep you so interested in what we have to offer.. Im 100% positive you;ll be stepping on our soil one day.. God bless you. and USA . our biggest buddy.
Lol the USA is a global joke and 50 years behind socially
We love V8'S and we love Ute's over here in Australia 🇦🇺 put them together and we are even happier
Holden commodore Ute VF redline. That’s the model, brembos came standard on that model of VFs
An Aussie ute yes a ute and a very good time
There is also a RUclips video somewhere of a German who built a Torana to run at the Nurburgring.
I suggested this video months ago, glad you got around to it 👍
Cool video and loved the camera angles this guy can drive bro... Love to see the HSV MALOO on this track
@Ian, have you looked into the crazy japanese car scene called Bosozoku or the wild tuned VW-buses in Germany / Europe?
Example vids:
Bosozoku: ruclips.net/video/rMwLwokeupw/видео.html
VW-bus Tuning treffen: ruclips.net/video/USBgPS7LE4M/видео.html
And maybe the coolest of all, VW T1 at Spa track day, in-car view from a 911 GT3: ruclips.net/video/-JB6JzzY4Yw/видео.html
all my life i have loved holdens. My dad had a HK Monaro, which i loved and was hoping to inherit it but he sold it for a ford. Aussies have a huge rivalry between holdens and fords. I don't like fords, however my dad bought an XW 351 GT, and I hate saying it, but it was nice, and I got drive it when I was 17.
I am now 48 and a few years ago I bought my favourite holden, 2005 VZ V6 Calais.
Apart from how smooth she drives. my favourite thing about her is her paddle shifters.
Being a country girl, we get taught to drive manuals, so I have always owned manuals. Paddle shifters is like next level and I have to keep reminding myself that I am not a racing car driver and unless I head out of the city and maybe on some backroads, do I then allow myself a little fun. 🤫🤗😇
There's a video on RUclips with a stock standard W126 300SE Mercedes from the eighties. He does it in a little over 10 minutes which is remarkable considering what it is. Plus the driver mentions h could do with new shocks and tyres!
The track and the sound of the wheels and engine screaming gave me flashes of the good old gran turismo games from playstation 1 and 2 ^_^
I have pretty much the VF sportswagon version of this but the 6.0 L77 not the 6.2 LS3 as seen here. Brilliant cars and sound sweet.
Hyundai N, VW golf, and Honda Civic type R are at 8:01 just for context. all run a 2 litre. times are a changing.
I have a 2015 VF ute that I bought used in 2016, base model, came with I think 16" steelies, 281hp. I put 18" wheels on it and a hard lid, nothing crazy. The interesting thing is it was traded in by the Victoria Police. I don't know what they used it for, but the only mod I could find was it has two batteries - maybe it was a stakeout car and they didn't want to risk a flat battery. As ever, thanks for your channel, Ian.
to lorax i also bought a ex police ute same year i phoned the police transport dept. and they told me they took off the tailgate and fitted the paddy wagon canopy for prisoner transport,when they reached the k's limit they traded them off, i also fitted a hard canopy and front bumper clip from a ss, lowered with King springs and 18's all round,looked good and didn't cost a lot
@@billjohnstone1992 That's great info, thanks. Yes, I got a good deal on a year old ute with 59,000 k's on it. As I love cars but hate driving, it now has almost 86,000 and goes just great.
@@thelorax9622 yeah i kept the ute for a couple of years then the chance of getting a ex fleet low k's 38000km series 2 evoke sports wagon came up and i traded the ute with a 4 grand change over and got the last production year real commodore made 2017 and i done the same as the ute SS front bumper,king springs and 18" black series wheels,same as you i don't do a lot of k's just turned over 55000k's in 3 and a half yrs but love it still no plans to sell it as they don't make them anymore cheers
the ssv ute has the option for brimbo brakes and has the ls3 but the series 1 had a 6.0 liter engine
ruclips.net/video/hwBmywdMqKM/видео.html
The reason why the Holden Commy SS ute is my dream car. Get just over 8 minutes on green hell on the weekend, load her up with tools and build a house during the week
Love the ute, but also had a real soft spot for the VE or VF sportswagon.
VFII V8 Sportswagon is the wifes daily, I get a drive occasionally 😅
Got one of the very last VF2 Sportswagon to come off the line at Elizabeth. Worked for Holden at the time. Love it.
I own the same year and model as that vf ute (SSV Redline) but in white, love owning a bit of Australian history
Bathurst brother. Top ten shootout. V8 Holden and Ford Ute racing. Truck racing. We got motor heads down here. Our muscle utes go to work faster than you'd like and there's no shortage of them in the road. (All purpose shopping cart)
Auto box, using manual shift. That was fast. I have the model before, VE ute. I love it, my forever car!
hi ian i read when this run occured all they did to the ute was reset the wheel align & reset the rev limiter. i think was a ss spec with 5 speed later ones were 6 speed when production finished on 22nd october 2017. very sad day. i have a 2017 vf sport wagon . all the best mate
The v6 was a 5 speed ...all of the v8s 6 speed in a manual
Its a ute, which by the way was an Australian invention taken up by the yanks big time- a farmer wanted a vehicle to work on the farm during the week and a car to take the wife to church on Sunday so he cut the back out of a model A and made it into a ute ( Utility vehicle)
the real story is a pig farmers wife in Victoria in the late 1920,s went with her husband to buy a new ford , wile there, the wife asked the dealer if he had a car with a car front end and a rear with a flat bed so they could bring the pigs into town on sunday at the same time they went to church, the ford dealer thought that was a grate idea and submitted it to ford Australia who took the standard ford car , deleted the back and add a tray , it was a big hit and the ute was born ! and it is NOT a truck its a passenger utility vehicle ! (UTE).
I own a 2009 VE commodore SS manual sedan she goes fast and corners well, I've had her up to 180km/hr and she handles it smooth.
I have a 2017 SSV redline Ute, it came with Brembo’s all round as standard 👍🏻
This is a Mid spec level V8 SS ute. Unfortunately with the Auto, not the 6 speed manual.
We have Higher Trim packs under the "HSV" logo, which stands for Holden Special Vehicles.
The HSV Maloo, Is basically this thing, Except fallen face done a line of Cocaine, putting out just under 600 horse with a Supercharged V8.
Then you've got the Maloo GTSR W1. Which is basically a HSV Maloo, Which has basically fallen face first into a pile of Cocaine, And then Smoked half a Kilo of Crystal Meth for good measure. LS9, 6.2L with a 2.3L supercharger making well over 600 horsepower. Put that thing on the track and yeah.... Definitely some different numbers.
ian robert trubiani was a dynamics engineer at holden works cheers mate
ian the drivers name was robert trubiani not sure on his backgrounrd
Always loved that car. These are the HSV versions with sports upgrades. When I was down in Aussi I wanted to buy the Station wagon version. You could have them with the Corvette ZR1 engine for a bargain
This is the SSV, standard Holden just high in the trim.
They have 380mm brembo disc with 6 pots and 330 4 pots on the rear
You should check out Sabine Schimdt ( RIP ) on the Numburgring in the Ford Transit van
Go back a few years and watch the ute racing class. .Bent panels everywhere.
Now I gotta duck off pick up a couple of bags of cement and finish off that paving job for my neighbor ! 😎👍