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Originally Posted by flappist
It sold so poorly that it went on to special order only and was then dropped.
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I'm not sure if you are correct on that one. The GTS went to special order when the VYII Clubsports came out with the 285kw LS1. They kept in on sale, from my understanding because it sold well, and they were worried that people who wanted the extra features that came with the GTS would miss out. The limited numbers of them that they made all sold from what I heard. And they reason they dropped it after that was when the VZ came out with the LS2.
I'm sure they would have kept the whole thing going had there been another crate motor available through the model cycle that concsistently had a 40-50kw gap between the BASE HSVs. Now since they have a couple of options with a 7 litre LS7 or supercharged LS9 they are bringing the model (albeit a GTS-R) back. The concept of a limited edition highly powerful top of the range to HSV definitly was and will be a success, otherwise they wouldn't bother bringing it back altogether.
09-02-2008, 12:14 PM
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