HSV’s all new model based on the Holden Colorado, called the HSV SportsCat, has officially gone into production with prices and finer specs confirmed. As revealed earlier this year, the SportsCat comes packed with the Colorado’s standard 2.8-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine producing 147kW and 500Nm. It’s fitted with a six-speed […]
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HSV Colorado SportsCat revealed, Camaro coming as Chevrolet
The future of HSV has begun, with the unveiling of the all-new HSV Colorado SportsCat, previously thought to be called the Wildfire. This is the vehicle that was rumoured a couple of weeks ago, based on the Holden Colorado. Firstly, the engine. HSV has unfortunately not touched the Colorado’s 2.8-litre […]
HSV Colorado ‘Wildfire’ to be revealed on December 8
Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) is gearing up to unveil its first new product since the demise of the Holden Commodore-based Clubsports and GTSs, sending out a couple of teasers onto its Facebook page. The Walkinshaw-owned firm first released a teaser of a headlight over the weekend, and then earlier today […]
Holden Colorado-based HSV ‘Wildfire’ in the works – report
While Ford has Mustang and soon the Ranger Raptor, Holden doesn’t currently offer a performance car for enthusiasts – excluding the potential Holden Camaro. This is set to change though with word of a hotted-up Colorado on the way, by HSV/Walkinshaw. Holden Special Vehicles doesn’t currently offer any new models […]
Top 5 quickest 2017 diesel utes across 0-100km/h tested by PerformanceDrive
If you’re in the market for a ute, chances are you couldn’t give two hoots about 0-100km/h performance. However, we thought we’d put together a quick top five video to show you the difference in acceleration in today’s available products. Getting across 0-100km/h in such and such a time might not […]
2018 Holden Colorado SuperUtes racer revealed
The Holden Colorado SuperUtes race car has been revealed, ready to enter the new motorsport category next year. The sport will see dual-cab utes tearing up race tracks around Australia, with turbo-diesel power. As we already know, the SuperUtes series is a production-car-based championship for rear-wheel drive utes. For the […]
Killa Special Vehicles develops V8 Holden Colorado conversion kit
The Holden Commodore and Ute range end production in October this year. After that there’s no way to buy a new Holden V8 ute in Australia. Right? Wrong. HSV are said to be working on a performance Colorado, which should be a great car in its own right, but if […]
Top 10 engine conversion ideas for production cars: Vol. 2
Following on from our popular Top 10 engine conversion ideas for production cars feature (one of which resulted in a controversial Cruze A9X photoshop), we’ve revisited the idea with some fresh candidates. The trend of downsizing engines continues, meaning some of our favourite cars miss out on six or more […]