Retro Holden, from the future

[Speedman]

The latest concept car from down-under, The Holden Efijy

[rainking]

**wibble**

[skoda_norman]

And when is that going into production?!

[SkoCan]

Those are BIGASSED wheels ;D

[Speedman]

www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=12134

Holden said there are "absolutely no plans -- zero production intent" to build the Efijy.

[Ministrone]

speedman said:

Holden said there are "absolutely no plans -- zero production intent" to build the Efijy.

makes you wonder why they bother

Looks stunning though!

[Revolution 9]

If you didn't know any better you could think that that was a genuinely retro motor, customised to hell by some seriously talented customiser, that's how good a job it is, it doesn't look like a retro-styled new car, it's more like a genuine retro custom! So I reckon anyway, it does seem a bit oddd that tey make these things with no intention to use them though.

[Keefy]

it reminds me of 'scrape'

i guess they do it to raise the profile of the company. After all, when you previously thought of holden didnt you just think australian vauxhall .... now you think of something quite cool! ... maybe lol ;D

[mercmad]

revolution said:

If you didn't know any better you could think that that was a genuinely retro motor, customised to hell by some seriously talented customiser, that's how good a job it is, it doesn't look like a retro-styled new car, it's more like a genuine retro custom! So I reckon anyway, it does seem a bit oddd that tey make these things with no intention to use them though.

As some one who has been down here a while, it looks like one of any number of FJ Holdens that were cut down into coupes in the late 50's .Nothing new at all. Typical boring GM Holden...and it's on a corvette floor pan which makes me think it was probably really built in the US,although aussies like paul barker can build cars to this standard and have done so quite often.
Just another PT cruiser

[Davenger]

Ooooh, I just had an accident ;D
That thing is HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nick]

hmm nice, looks like a modern FJ or something? that car makes me think of the sorta car from league of extroadinary gentlemen or films from the 30's that try do a futuristic outlook...if ya get what i mean.. basically it looks new but based around an old styling which is my favourite thing ever.

[Reynolds501]

I know I probably shouldn't say this, but I bloody love it, sort of puts me in mind of a Chrysler Atlantic, sort of any way!

[Revolution 9]

mercmad said:

revolution said:

If you didn't know any better you could think that that was a genuinely retro motor, customised to hell by some seriously talented customiser, that's how good a job it is, it doesn't look like a retro-styled new car, it's more like a genuine retro custom! So I reckon anyway, it does seem a bit oddd that tey make these things with no intention to use them though.

As some one who has been down here a while, it looks like one of any number of FJ Holdens that were cut down into coupes in the late 50's .Nothing new at all. Typical boring GM Holden...and it's on a corvette floor pan which makes me think it was probably really built in the US,although aussies like paul barker can build cars to this standard and have done so quite often.
Just another PT cruiser

Ah I see, to be honest I haven't seen all that many modded Holdens before, you only really get a few imported ones round here, so it doesn't bore me, no doubt if Vauxhall done the same sort of thing and it just looked like a copy of a roof chopped F Type Victor I wouldn't be as impressed. Having said that, it's not as bad an idea as the PT Cruiser really, at least the Efigy has a V8 and RWD, they way lots of people would've had in real 50s Holden customs, the PT Cruiser is FWD with bog standard four cylinder petrol and diesel engines, so they really don't replicate the 50s custom driving experience even a little, I've driven one, and there isn't one bit of it that lives up to the promise of its looks, and for an MPV it isn't even a practical car, the VX Zafira's a much better car, and that's saying something because I hate those bloody things with a passion!

[mercmad]

The FJ Holden was to a generation of OZ rev heads what the '32 Ford was to a postwar generation of yanks,There was even a passable movie called "the yellow FJ" whichc featured actual street racing in Sydney back in the days of sideburns,mullet hair cuts and daggy flared jeans.
But here is an original By Bob Moule of South Australia,from the june 1968 Aust.Hot Rodding Review....and there were lots more around too,I have a mate in Gosford who had an unfinished coupe that was built from a NEW FJ,meaning that it had been started in 1956...and Johns Rod and Kustom in Berwick .Vic. is finishing one at the moment.

[SteB]

skocan said:

Those are BIGASSED wheels ;D

Have you ever noticed that all concept car drawings have absolutely massive wheels? But these really do float my boat

[MWF]

I really don't think the Efijy could go into production with that front end, too much of a pedestrian mangler.

Which is what makes it look so great.

[mercmad]

Hers what a standard FJ looks like in case you think that bob didn't really need to do much... ;D ;D ;D

Bobs only tools were a hacksaw and a claw hammer and two home made dollies,so don't use the excuse that you have no money for tools etc hold you back!