New Commodore VE

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The VE is the short wheelbase version of the Holden Commodore.
I guess this platform would be closer to the one used for the Camaro…

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  1. no the commodore is the short wheel base car….the statesman and caprice are the long wheel base, all versions of this car are the same length…..except the stretched statesman and caprice

  2. Poor auto world. Could really anyone bragg about this design? Hope they will not bring it to the rest of the world.

  3. it sucks that the blatantly obvious is so difficult to see.

    this car should be sold all over the world!

    it is way better than most of the rubbish the US and Korean manufacturers are putting out.

    the worst part is that this car sells for the equivalent of US$22,000!!

  4. not sure about that $22,000 thing the original commodore was the same as our catera, and the opel omega, and neither of these were $22,000 cars….they both were premium cars and the commodores are also. but they are nice cars, and it makes you wonder why gm cant get it right over here

  5. gm may win the cup with this one:
    blandest new car for 2007. And they are really down under. The power window switches are still in the center console – the worst place to be. Don´t they have the know-how to put them in the armrest?

  6. bring it here to the us as a buick, i’m sure it’ll sell, it’s a world better than the lucerne!
    yeer man !!!!

  7. The base commodore sells for the equivalent of $22k US. You can’t argue with that fact so shut your trap.

  8. I’d like to know how you got the inside word on where the window switches will be located in a car that nobody has gotten interior shots of yet. I’m sure you have facts to base that on. I mean, it’s not like you’d be making stuff up to validate an uninformed opinion you’re holding purely for the sake of making you look opinionated, right?

    And the Commodore isn’t anything like the Catera or Omega. It shares the same platform (heavily modified) but is sold as a large family car, where as the Catera and Omega were sold as entry-level luxury.

  9. you lazy yanks….you’re assessing the worth of a car because its window switches are in the centre! Forget performance, forget dynamics..why dosent is have 8 cupholders or the radio button on the left. No, im not saying its a good car, but please dont be so presumptuous as to assess the worth of a car based on a minor erognomic flaw.

  10. “Anonymous said…
    not sure about that $22,000 thing the original commodore was the same as our catera, and the opel omega, and neither of these were $22,000 cars….they both were premium cars and the commodores are also. but they are nice cars, and it makes you wonder why gm cant get it right over here”

    The “Original” Commodore was released in 1979, The VB was based on an Opel platform, however it was highly modified for Australia as the original cars imported from Germany to begin test work, Literally broke in Half during testing.

    The 1997 VT Commodore was based on the Opel Omega. However your Catera was simply a rebadge, the Commodore was not. In fact not a single panel is interchangeable.

    The commodore is sold as maily a Family car/Fleet car, not as a Luxury car like the Catera, it Ain’t no premium car, that is for the LWB Statesman and Caprice to take car of.

    And who care’s abour the window switches being in the centre console? They have always been there in Commodores, long before exports we ever though of.

    SWB = VE Commodore
    LWB = WM Statesman

  11. Anonymous above, thanks for clarifying the codes. I was about to correct Vince myself. And if it’s like the present VT–VZ models, the Middle East, South America, South Africa and a few other places will get these as Chevrolets. Just not where Chevrolets originally came from.

  12. I should add this appears to be a sporting model—an S or SS? Probably housing a six-litre V8 from the ’Vette underneath the hood.

  13. “Anonymous said…
    you lazy yanks….you’re assessing the worth of a car because its window switches are in the centre! Forget performance, forget dynamics..why dosent is have 8 cupholders or the radio button on the left. No, im not saying its a good car, but please dont be so presumptuous as to assess the worth of a car based on a minor erognomic flaw.”

    You can thank our wonderful automotive media for that. To most of them interior materials, MPG, and what country a vehicle is made in are considered more important then driving dynamics, horsepower, and good looks.

  14. Australia makes better cars than the US does. The Holden Commodore VE is just another great example. It looks good and from what we hear of the specs it should go good too.
    It sucks car wise to live in the US.
    RWD all the way!

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