From Factory To The Floor: Building the HSV GTS

Ever wanted an exclusive behind-the-scenes insight into how HSVs are made? From the initial core vehicle, to getting all of the design, performance and technological innovations manufactured into it, "From Factory to the Floor" gives you a unique front-row seat into the work that goes into making each and every HSV a standout but the building of the #001-plated 25th Anniversary HSV GTS.

[ReaLzEdits]

This video was needed, thanks guys for all the hard work you put into every single one of these cars. I just want one.

[saleshlal]

Have just bought my dream car today 27/11/17..
2012 E3 manual gts 63kms.
$62k nz dollars..
Love it to the max been a long wait but worth every bit..
Now i can say i have one..

[jellybaby]

2024...Holden Gone. R.I.P
2012 HSV GTS Is the Greatest Australian Car Ever...
Sexier than Sarah O'Hare
& I'm a Ford man

[pogly]

You should release a cheap model, just the base car with little wheels and no body kit. Those things look badass.

[cheekykent]

love hsv, have a gts but they're riddled with issues lol

[ogmoustachemalefacialcompa]

As a brit I find the kangaroo walamalooo gtrsxtrv model appealing.

[demonknight]

do you really like the front and rear end?

[domskate]

back end is beastly but the front makes me sick

[Samqdf]

all the technology? how about putting one in a wind tunnel?

[il_calabresi]

big shame me being motor mechanic for over 20 years and to think to look forward to always working on aussie icon even in tafe days, working on older VP-VY holdens. the battle of ford and holden is now gone. even in general men talk day to day.. big shame the icon is gone... working on cars today is absolutely boring!

[maoripighunter]

that's mean I didn't know that i thought they all came standed I WANT ONE

[demonknight]

what they should have done was instead of having 3 E series, they should just have 2. E1 original then E2 with all the E3 interiors only and leave the exteriors alone and that's it. I guess this is what happens if they let a child do the design. Then they moved all the 2013 models to have the same power output? The GTS should have like at least 20kws over the Clubsport.

[ShaneMcGrath.]

No need, It's automatic cred if you have a HSV as most of the population can only afford cheap underpowered SUV imports or small cars these days!
If you have a sub $100k 430kw car of ANY sort there is no problem getting any street cred. lol
You forget it's not a 1200kg 2 door supercar, It's a family sized 1800+kg all round sedan that does 0-100 in under 4.5 seconds, Not too bad at all getting all that 740nm torque to gain traction on a RWD car. Look will grow on people just like previous models

[SamnissArandeen]

HSV: I just want one.

Unfortunately, as I am an American, I can't have one of these beauties. /sadness

[HAWKize]

the VF HSV front end looks great but the back ruins the whole car, no guy is gonna gain cred from driving around a car with a back end that looks like a Toyota.. the ultimate HSV would have the VF front end with the VE beastly back end!

[davidbailey]

I think the dude in the video is a salesman, he was dribbling some shit.

1. If, during the early days of HSV, when they would make 2 cars per week, how is it that "most of the guys that work here have been here since the beginning"? I highly doubt they would have had 50 workers building one car. The original core group of employees would have been eclipsed by the influx of newer employees required to keep up with demand.  

2. The dude says that HSV's are hand built without a robot in sight. I remind the dude that Holden use robots in the manufacturing process of the core vehicle.

3. I would hardly say that HSV 'build" a car, seeing as though a good 85% of the manufacturing process is already completed by the time it arrives at Clayton. They're more of a "supplemental assembler".

But having said that, I'd still own one, just don't bullshit me and make yourselves out to be something you're not, like saying you're a fully fledged manufacturer.

[jakebrakes]

Zf diffs are absolutely rubbish in these vehicles

[VErted]

why were you blown away at new wheels and new badges? piss poor effort really for a 25th edition