THE FIRST AUSSIE V8: An Aussie V8 by our people, for our people

摘要

YOU CAN THANK this very engine for making the V8 an Aussie icon, It never won Bathurst and it won't rate a mention in banter on our greatest cars, but the 253-cubic inch Holden V8 was genuinely Australia's Own - our first home-grown V8 Upon its arrival in the HT Holden in 1969, we described it as "an all-new, cheap-priced V8, designed once and for all to make Australian motorists V8-conscious". And it worked a treat When Ford's six-cylinder was 250 cubes, GM-H touted the 253 as a "low-cost V8 which delivers 185hp [138kW] with economy almost as good as a six."