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    Rumorpile: HSV To Transition To Chevrolet

      Holden Special Vehicles Transitions To Chevrolet Special Vehicles?

    With Holden's operations in Australia coming to a close in 2017, questions have arisen of what will happen to Holden Special Vehicles. Motoring.com.au reports that HSV's future might lie with Chevrolet.

    Motoring.com.au had the chance to speak with Ryan Walkinshaw, Chairman of the Walkinshaw Group which runs HSV. He explained that the group is considering working their magic on Chevrolet vehicles. But he goes onto say that General Motors has the final say on this.

    “We think something like that (CSV) could work. It depends on what products are available. It’s going to depend on the discussions with GM going forward. There’s a lot of factors we have to take into account. But I think we are pretty confident in what we do," said Walkinshaw.

    “We know we could deliver some pretty good products outside what we do with Commodore in Australia and we have proven that plenty of times before with our history and with what we are doing currently for other manufacturers.”

    Now if this comes to fruition, the question of where these vehicles will be built arises. Walkinshaw says the company would like to stay with its manufacturing base in Clayton, but is willing to move to where the vehicles are being built.

    “Ideally, it would be a nice simple transition to just get the cars off the ship part-finished and us to finish them off here. It would also keep us as a company that genuinely makes Australian cars and makes them in Australia, which would be great,"said Walkinshaw.

    “But if the opportunity arises and we have no other option then we are happy to look at manufacturing abroad and importing them as well.”

    Source: Motoring.com.au

    William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at [email protected] or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster.

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    This could have some very cool implications for Chevy and other divisions if GM does this right with useing them to built limited production runs yearly of select elite performance auto's. From Cars to Trucks even CUV/SUV's.

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    HSV manufactured vehicles are currently sold in the middle east as CSV.

    It might be difficult to call themselves CSV in Australia as there is (or perhaps was?) Corsa Specialised Vehicles which did specialty Commodores and body kits :

    http://csvaustralia.com

    But I'm guessing CSV is no longer operating, so it might be possible.

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