HSV Maloo sprung - unclad.

XR8putts · 28-09-2007, 05:34 PM

Oh boy, HSV won't be impressed. HSV just can't keep their VE's under wraps huh?

Van D · 28-09-2007, 05:35 PM

where's the rest of it!

XR8putts · 28-09-2007, 05:39 PM

Can you not picture a Clubby with the above rear-end? :P

Ls1 boys don't seem happy.

b2tf · 28-09-2007, 05:39 PM

First thought was Camry?

FordFella · 28-09-2007, 05:42 PM

That looks like a badly integrated Ssangyong. Are you sure that Caradvice haven't got confused?
I guess the ute looks rather svelte compared to this. Another example in HSVs new "Aggressive" design. They looks aggressive, but in the same way a wild pig looks aggressive. The rear of this maloo just look ugly - you cannot have tailights that wrap around what is effectively a very sharp angle!

bigdave · 28-09-2007, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by b2tf

First thought was Camry?

+1 lol same here, shame it's so blurry

fmc351 · 28-09-2007, 05:46 PM

Theyre Holden fans, theyll justify it somehow.

irlewy86 · 28-09-2007, 05:46 PM

Holden fans have some new spank bank material

red_hotxr6 · 28-09-2007, 05:47 PM

Sorry, but really who cares, its a holden, flat out.

ClevlndStemer · 28-09-2007, 05:48 PM

actually i am looking forward to see a better pic. I like the light treatment.

5.0failane · 28-09-2007, 05:52 PM

Are you sure the tights on the tailgate arent just a stick on to throw people off. They look far to flat to be real in that pic??

Allen · 28-09-2007, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by 5.0failane

Are you sure the tights on the tailgate arent just a stick on to throw people off. They look far to flat to be real in that pic??

Agreed, they don't have any depth to them, they look like holographic style decals on the tailgate, with standard taillights around them.

stevz · 28-09-2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by red_hotxr6

Sorry, but really who cares, its a holden, flat out.

If you don't care then why click on the thread? Grow some brains.

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kocho · 28-09-2007, 06:34 PM

Holden show us a really nice new Wagon that they've come up with but this is a dogs breakfast for sure. That looks horrible, what were they thinking?

b2tf · 28-09-2007, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 5.0failane

Are you sure the tights on the tailgate arent just a stick on to throw people off. They look far to flat to be real in that pic??

Id say they are real, if you remember back when VE first came out, one of thye things that was said about HSV's was that they wanted to make them harder to copy (i.e. you cant just go and buy a HSV bodykit, put it on a base model and drive away). Thats why the taillights etc are so different from your normal models.

fmc351 · 28-09-2007, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by stevz

If you don't care then why click on the thread? Grow some brains.

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Because its a FORD forum, and well a forum, where people post things, thoughts etc.

You could try that last one, thought.

Smoke Pursuit · 28-09-2007, 07:49 PM

Product differentiation is something Holden / HSV has all over ford..

sleekism · 29-09-2007, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by LSTerritoryGhia

Product differentiation is something Holden / HSV has all over ford..

Real utes and not just chop shop jobs is what Ford has! 100 million dollars??
Give me a 9 inch angle grinder and a six pack of beer and I could have made the VE ute.

FPV8U · 29-09-2007, 10:51 AM

does nothing for me, like the rest of the VE Utes

Xitdxr · 29-09-2007, 12:25 PM

mmmmm, they just love to give me reasons to dislike there range. That is but ugly, just like the rest of the HSV range!

Ryan · 29-09-2007, 12:44 PM

Pretty stupid to make judgement, based on a blurry back end picture.

I reckon it'll look pretty good actually.

WASP · 29-09-2007, 01:49 PM

I'll reserve my judgement on the rear lights for now, but from the mock up pictures in MOTOR mag, the Maloo looks the business for a show Ute. My favouite HSV is still a Black GTS however. Just because we're Ford nuts doesn't mean we can't appreciate other models.

[Tonko] · 29-09-2007, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by CDAA

I'll reserve my judgement on the rear lights for now, but from the mock up pictures in MOTOR mag, the Maloo looks the business for a show Ute. My favouite HSV is still a Black GTS however. Just because we're Ford nuts doesn't mean we can't appreciate other models.

Smartest thing said in a long time on these forums.

GS608 · 29-09-2007, 03:36 PM

the taillights look sort of audi-ish?

soulfire · 29-09-2007, 05:56 PM

It really does look like an Aurion rear end, I don't like it. Big fan of some of the other VE cars though.

Dezza · 29-09-2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by soulfire

It really does look like an Aurion rear end, I don't like it. Big fan of some of the other VE cars though.

I agree. The pictures I've seen of the wagon look good, but I haven't been impressed with the utes so far. I don't like the back end of the VE utes at all, and this looks the ugliest so far.

4Vman · 29-09-2007, 06:36 PM

FFS its a ute.. imagine a clubsport sedan till the B pillar, with a ute rear... Geez...

Dezza · 29-09-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by 4Vman

FFS its a ute.. imagine a clubsport sedan till the B pillar, with a ute rear... Geez...

but does that look like a ute rear?

I know it is one, but it doesn't look very ute-ish to me.

blackers10 · 29-09-2007, 06:57 PM

the ute was advertised on TV today..
not a maloo by the look was just a regular SSV type of thing..

looked pretty similar to every other ute they have made in the VX -VZ shape..

FlipXW · 29-09-2007, 07:17 PM

Atleast holden are trying to separate their highspec cars from the base models. I think what they have produced so far is very good and what they have done with the VE has been brilliant. This should force ford into another gear with what they do with orion.