Australia's most popular car, the holden commodore has been majorly overhauled and is due to be revealed at 10:50AM EAST (Eastern Australian Time)
What makes it interesting for people outside Australia that this is the first commodore that has been designed to be exported as well as available locally. The old commodore was the basis for the Holden Monaro which was also known as the Vauxhall Monaro and the Pontiac GTO (pontiac stuck a really ugly grille on the front though :S)

Base model will feature a 200kw (270BHP) v6 3.6L right up to a 6.0L from a corvette.

Historically the prices have started at around the AUD$30,000 (N3000000) for the v6 up to about AUD$56000 for the V8.

You can watch the unveiling at 10:50AM Sunday (That's a late one for people in nigeria, I think about 12:00am Sunday)

http://ninemsn.video.msn.com/v/en-au/v.htm

Can't wait to see what they've come up with!

Click on the "GM Holden reveals the new VE commodore" to view.

Tommorow after it's revealed I'll the promo pictures here for the people that couldn't be bothered watching.

5 Minutes to go

Here is a picture


I'll post more as they are released

ps, they're 19" rims 20" are options

Here are some more pictures


These are of the fast version









The luxury model










Then the affordable luxury/performence (about A$50000 N5000000)











They also have a pretty good mini site on it as well

http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/jsp/campaigns/vecommodore/newcommodoreframe.jsp

You seem to love cars so much, Hunter!

Looks a bit like the Chevrolet Epica/Daewoo epica. I think that they might be built on the same platform

obua:

Looks a bit like the Chevrolet Epica/Daewoo epica. I think that they might be built on the same platform

Nope, the VE commodore is a completely clean sheet design. Though it could be exported using those names.

Nice work by holden. Their engineering might is ever increasing. first they designed and built the new generation GM V6 used in Cadillacs and now Holden itself, now they engineer the platform that GM would use to revive RWD cars in USA and most importantly as the basis for the stunning camaro


The styling of the car is on the conservative side though. My only problem with this car is with fuel prices going nowhere but up. these Big engined holdens would suffer (the base engine is a 3.6L V6), now even more so as Australia is dropping their outragious tarrifs on imports (Toyota camry comes to mind). With $920million invested development seems like a huge gamble. I will be watching how it performs in the market.

If it's around the same as the current commodore it shouldn't be too bad, my brother has one with an older engine (3.8l V6) (worse fuel efficiency) and that still does around 10L/100k and about 13/100k in the city.
One of my friends managed to get the consumption on the 5.7L v8 in his parents car well into 40L/100k when he was driving, rather quickly. (an old commodore clubsport)


Most of the cars will be bought by our government for fleet vechicles anyway so it doesn't really matter

The dynamics of a camry will never really measure up to the commodore either, I don't know if you've ever driven a camry but it's one of the most boring cars I have ever driven (some hyundai piece of $@$* takes the cake as the worst)