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Originally Posted by Rodge
This GTS certainly polarises opinion doesn't it !! It is what it is. By any rational and objective analysis its a better package than anything FPV have ever offerred...really if FPV had been capable of delivering a vehicle like that we would have been absolutly rapt. It costs a bit more than a GT-P but I think its fairly priced for the kit that's included.
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The only people it polarizes are those who insist on looking at the FPV with rose-coloured glasses. As you say, by almost any objective measure, the FPV is beaten. The GTS is quicker in a straight line, its quicker on a track, its better equipped, its simply a way better package overall. Of course, it comes at a substantial premium.
Why would HSV price it so? Simple, they don't rate the FPV as its competition for this car. They're gunning for those whose bank balance allows them to aim for an M3/C63. They've priced the car above the psychological 6-figure barrier ... that speaks volumes about their confidence in their product.
Meanwhile, FPV are pricing like they're going out of business..... don't hate on HSV for having the balls to build what their customers wanted, ask FPV why they wouldn't do same for theirs. The 5.0 SC V8 is ample evidence they had the capability, yet no GTHO after all these years.