HSV Ends Silverado 2500 Production.

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If you want a Chevrolet Silverado 2500 pick-up, converted locally to right-hand drive by HSV, you’ll need to be quick on the draw.

The popular 332kW/1234Nm truck has almost sold out, and there won’t be a direct replacement in the works for quite some time.

The plant at Clayton re-engineered around 1200 of the 6.6-litre turbodiesel leviathans, with work starting in June 2018. Now there are only around 100 in the dealer pool around the country, split between the off-road targeted Midnight Edition and the more bitumen-oriented Custom Sport.
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The reason the pipeline of vehicles from the US has dried up is because this current generation of Silverado 2500 is on run-out. Now that the factory has no Camaro 2SS or Colorado Sportscat models to offer, its focus switches to the 6.2-litre V8 petrol-powered Silverado 1500.

This 313kW V8 model is offered in a single LTZ specification and boasts a 4500kg maximum braked towing capacity. The first batch of right-hook vehicles are set to be sent to dealers from Melbourne imminently.



HSV stopped production of the reengineered 2SS Camaro earlier in the year, and GM’s closure of its Thai plant (effectively killing the Australian Colorado) means the Sportscat dual-cab has also been axed from the local line-up.

Before COVID-19 threw a huge viral spanner in the works, HSV was set to rebrand as General Motors Specialty Vehicles (GMSV), thus broadening its scope within the GM empire.



Now plans have had to be put on hold, for the short term at least, and there will, as a result, be a significant delay until the next-gen Silverado 2500 starts shipping from plants in Mexico and the USA for an Australian clientele.

For the short term at least, the Clayton plant will be concentrating on Silverado 1500 utes on one side of the building and RAM 1500 and 2500 trucks on the other. There are exciting plans afoot for HSV that could well propel the business into a very different sphere. The future will be branded GMSV.
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[XRtowcar]

Wondering if there will be GM after Covid19.
Drop in sales will hurt them badly.

[marty351]

Just stick some Chev badges on a Ford and be done with it.

[Swordie]

I'd like them to convert the Challenger.

[blue sleeper]

Originally Posted by XRtowcar

Wondering if there will be GM after Covid19.
Drop in sales will hurt them badly.

It's not like GM has got a massive Government Bailout in the past before......

[MercuryT]

Not being nasty but is it any surprise?

Hardly a truck you'd want.

[MercuryT]

Raptors are equally rubbish but I can see the appeal to be tough etc etc.

Look ok too.

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by Swordie

I'd like them to convert the Challenger.

That and the Charger. Surely a few sales there in one or both. But they aren't GM so probably not going to happen.

[chevypower]

Originally Posted by MercuryT

Not being nasty but is it any surprise?

Hardly a truck you'd want.

they don’t make much sense to just drive around (though they aren’t bad for cruising in), they are fantastic for towing. I bought a 8.5’x20’ enclosed car hauler to convert into a tool trailer. I could pull it without hardly ever downshifting on the freeway, even up hills. It could always safely do the speed limit doing it too (130km/h). It’s nice having something that doesn’t get pushed around by the trailer. Sometimes the enclosed trailers can act as a huge wind sail, and the weight, width, and length all help to add stability.

[Franco Cozzo]

Silverado 1500 is priced:

https://www.carsales.com.au/editoria...priced-123809/

$114K + ORC

[bungarra]

Originally Posted by Swordie

I'd like them to convert the Challenger.

Prior to the Covid 19 financial destruction of the western world, FCA Australia had put the business case to FCA Corporate HQ to bring the Challenger and Charger to Australia.

How it pans out now, is anyone's guess.

It would be good to have them both here, drove both in the USA and would easily go either if they price them right.

[naddis01]

How good would this be...

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by bungarra

Prior to the Covid 19 financial destruction of the western world, FCA Australia had put the business case to FCA Corporate HQ to bring the Challenger and Charger to Australia.

How it pans out now, is anyone's guess.

It would be good to have them both here, drove both in the USA and would easily go either if they price them right.

The numbers were never going to stack up for Charger and Challenger. They tried repeatedly to get the numbers to stack up, but the sales numbers were just too tiny to justify. It will never happen.

[Polyal]

I dont think this is much of a surprise, unless its RHD from the start it just doesn't make sense. RAM fellas seem to be doing OK but the price point seems to work.

Chalk it up to another HSV/Walkinshaw brain fart.

[MITCHAY]

Still amazed these conversions are doing so well. I actually see a lot of ASV conversions around here so no doubt they are filthy their grass is being cut with these factory backed conversions.

But they can still make $$$ on other trucks outside the 'official' lineup. No factory backed F trucks still.