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Holy Smoke: Chevrolet Releases Pricing For Australian Camaro and Silverado, We Choke On Vegemite


Holy Smoke: Chevrolet Releases Pricing For Australian Camaro and Silverado, We Choke On Vegemite

Well if you thought that buying a Camaro SS or Chevy Silverado here in the good old USA was too rich for your blood, wait until you hear the news that Australians recently got. The headline says it all. Chevrolet releases pricing for Australian Camaro and Silverado, we choke on Vegemite. Why? The Camaro will be priced at $90,000 Australian and the Silverado will be priced starting at $130,000! The Camaro will be the only V8 car available in the Aussie Chevrolet lineup.

For those of you with supremely short memories, remember that GM stopped production of Holden cars in Australia after Toyota and Ford announced that they were doing the same thing. Their solution is to import Chevrolet models in from around the world, mostly from the Asian market. The two nameplates they are bringing from America are icons but are they icons that people in Australia will pay this dearly for? The Camaro SS will be $30,000 more than a freaking Mustang GT!

The Silverado is a new addition to the market and it will be converted to right hand drive as the Camaro will be. Full size pickup trucks are going to be a large change for Aussies and by large we mean it literally. Cruising Aussie automotive publications reveals their incredulous reactions to the size go the trucks that will be coming over. While we in the USA are used to roads full of half ton, three quarter ton, and one-ton trucks, this is a new one on them. The pricing seems to indicate that they will not exactly be million sellers but like anywhere else on Earth, people will money will want a cool new toy and one that sets them apart. Those bucks will likely flow toward the Silverado and not the Camaro. Our guess. We’ll see.

So there you go, Aussies. The Fords are there, the Chevrolets are coming. Gentlemen, start your wallets!

Link: Australian Camaro and Silverado pricing revealed – it ain’t cheap!

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22 thoughts on “Holy Smoke: Chevrolet Releases Pricing For Australian Camaro and Silverado, We Choke On Vegemite

  1. KCR

    I don’t mean to sound like a dick. But it will be that way and get worse ,until people stop paying their unbelievable prices.The Camaro now days ,when optioned all out.Kinda falls into a “super car” category.That is when you look at performance and handling.So I kinda get that .But a factory 130k pickup .And starting at that price.Unless the exchange rate is 3 to 1,The article does not say anything about that .New car loans are being written for as long as 8 years.If you had a $40,000.00 trade in ,and no one does do to depreciation .And it was paid off .And you were to get a normal 4 year loan. Your payment would be $2,000.00 per month.If I pay that type of money for something. It better have an address .What the heck they are Chevy’s anyway.Get a better deal go purchase a mopar

    1. Daza

      LOL Mopar choices = 300c V6 for 60K or a 300srt for 65K only sedans. No manuals either? Nearly 2000kg with 360kw compared to 1700kg with 340kw Ill take the holden thanks. I am a bit of a mopar guy though as I have a 1970 A body wagon with a 245 hemi.
      A 2K per month mortgage might get you a house 1 ~ 2.5 hours from a capital city.
      Cheers

  2. bob

    Oh just wait, they will be that in the US in a few years. It seems there is no limit as to what people will pay for a vehicle.

  3. Arild Guldbrandsen

    130$ for a Silverado..that was cheap.Here in Norway,you better throw up 250000$ for a Silverado..

    1. Greg

      The article Threedoor links to answers my question. If they were trying to protect the Aussie auto industry, I could see a hefty import duty, hoping to persuade you to buy domestic. But there aren’t any domestics anymore, making the duty seemingly unnecessary. But then governments seldom like giving money back. Wait til the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania has his way and we get slapped with 30% import duties, making many Ford, Chevrolet, VW , Mopar and Honda cars built in Mexico and Canada affordable to most of us.

    2. Greg

      The article Threedoor links to answers my question. If they were trying to protect the Aussie auto industry, I could see a hefty import duty, hoping to persuade you to buy domestic. But there aren’t any domestics anymore, making the duty seemingly unnecessary. But then governments seldom like giving money back. Wait til the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania has his way and we get slapped with 30% import duties, making many Ford, Chevrolet, VW , Mopar and Honda cars built in Mexico and Canada affordable to most of us.

      1. Greg

        Checked a dealer near me…2018 Camaro SS, loaded up, sticker 54,295. 90,000 AUD concerts to 71 and change USD. They have to be converted to RHD, and shipped from I assume the USA, plus import duty…makes it seems slightly less outrageous.

      2. Threedoor

        Don’t we still have the 25% Chicken tax on imported light trucks? Tarrifs don’t do anyone any good.

  4. aussie351

    People have already been paying $120,000 plus (AUD) for current model, imported, RHD converted F-Trucks and Silverados. Usually owners of transport and earthmoving companies. Now they can get factory RHD’s with full warranty.
    The Camaro on the other hand…. Holden needs a hero car now the Commodore is dead. Ford’s had the Mustang here as a Falcon replacement for a couple of years now, but it’s mostly bought by real estate agents and middle-age ladies.
    The Camaro, at $30K extra, will be bought by posers and tossers

    1. Daza

      I think they will be extremely lucky to sell more than 200 Silverados a year as the sales of the local conversions of the big new full size trucks don’t get close to breaking triple figures a year in total. When new Suburbans were available in Australia there were less than 750 imported over 3 years and they were Heavily discounted to get rid of them. Our towing regulations are not as generous and petrol at 20 liters per hundred kilometers is to expensive (1:50 per liter or $30.00 per 60 miles).
      As for Camaro’s and Mustangs they are coups and most Aussies might buy one once but only once. They will go the way of the Monaro’s and they only lasted as long as they did because of the GTO. They were lucky to be selling 3~4 a day by the end of the VZ run… I would bet that less than a 100 Camaro’s will be sold new here a year with few repeat buyers. Mustangs will do a little better as there is a bit more pent up demand but with all the ecoboost models being sold they are rapidly approaching market saturation.
      Honestly I think it is HSV just trying to remain relevant…… They should be properly hopping up the Colarado instead of installing stickers and seat covers. If they were making a LS powered Colorado there would be a market for at least 6000 a year in 2WD on a lowered platform in all cab types. With a factory LS costing only 10K more than the V6 I don’t think they could make them fast enough.

  5. Matador

    Had an 2005 F250 bought new in Aust, super cab 7.3 4wd. Loved it , a right hand drive conversion costs $ 40,000 Aust on top of base price plus import duty and shipping if you bring one in.

  6. ben burnacky

    These prices just reflect how exchange rates work when our dollar is converted to another country\’s funny money.

    Now you see why corporations move in and out of the usa to take advantage of a stronger or weaker dollar.

    A small movement in the exchange rates can mean $millions of profit or loss.

    As an aside, china has been doing this for years and that\’s why the president has deemed them currency manipulator.

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