Thread: Gmh>>>>gmc>>>>gmh

so,, let me get this straight,,, GMH give them the crewman,, they americanize it,, and then sell it back to us,, oh yea,, that makes sense







Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Trucks/Pickups, GMC, Holden, Australia

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Australian outlet GoAuto is reporting that GM Car Czar Bob Lutz has confirmed that a four-door ute concept based on Holden's rear-wheel-drive Zeta platform but wearing a GMC badge will debut at the New York Auto Show in late March. From Bob's description, the vehicle is much like the Holden Crewman, which was a version of the Holden Ute with its wheelbase stretched to accommodate a second row of seats and two more doors (all-wheel-drive was also eventually an option).

The concept debuting in Detroit will be wearing very masculine GMC styling cues, however, and sounds as if it will be billed as a unibody pickup. This gives the GMC four-door ute a good shot at production since GM knows that demand for trucks in the future has to be satisfied with vehicles that are more fuel efficient than body-on-frame trucks. A recent spate of unibody truck concepts like the Toyota A-BAT Concept and Ford Explorer America Concept show that automakers are very interested in switching to lighter unibody platforms for vehicles that have traditionally been truck-based.

Lutz also points out the obvious upside that if the GMC four-door ute is popular with the public, it can be sold in Australia as Holden's replacement for the Crewman, which wasn't updated along with the rest of the Ute lineup last year.

[Source: GoAuto via Winding Road]

Gallery: 2003 Holden Crewman

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Up until recently we were buying crewmans for service vehicles. Now switched to Rodeos (equally crap vehicles) as the crewmans are going out of production.

Yeah, but what would you call better. A Ford ute?? Hardly, one of the biggest POS on the market and no where near suitable for a trade ute.
A Hilux, Navara, Mazda, Ford??? All so similar to the Rodeo that it is not funny. None more outstanding than the other.
A Landcruiser ute?? Even more outdated than a Defender.