Last year we saw a mint example of a 1971 Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III set a new sale price record for an Australian car, a massive $750,000. Not bad you might be thinking. Well, that record has been comprehensively smashed with the $920,000 sale of a Monaro based HRT 427, one of only two [...]

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Holden Special Vehicles unveiled their new W427 at the Melbourne Motor Show last Friday, the car they claim is the final instalment in the company’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

The W427 is finished in the same Panorama Silver as the car that started it all for HSV, twenty years ago, the original Group A SS VL Commodore.

HSV [...]

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Once again Holden and HSV have trumped the opposition at the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show. First the covers came off the oft rumoured, much anticipated LS7 7.0-litre powered VE based hard charger. No, its not being called the GTS-R - HSV have dubbed it the W427 and then the Coupe60…more on that next.

HSV are suggesting [...]

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It would come as no surprise to the average Aussie car enthusiast that bold pictures of HSV’s and FPV’s on the covers of our local car mags does more for monthly circulation figures than pretty much anything else – such is the popularity of these brands amongst the everyday folk.

In the lead-up to the 2007 [...]

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