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F'cking horrible, ugly and lazy headlight design.

For looks, the VX s*its on the VE

THE CAR THAT KILLED HOLDEN...UTTER PIECES OF PLASTIC SHITE!!!

Paul Salmon got re-drafted back into the AFL, after this game!! Haha unbelievable.

A mans car, not like the rubbish now

Holdens VE baby is a story of stretched timing chains, excessively heavy weight and terrible fuel consumption.

Too many sad cars made by the same manufacturer previously! In any case the Australian bogan progressed from the huge Commodore/ Ford falcon to an even bigger 4wd!!!!

How do they put the boot floor in the spear wheel compartment

Just stepped up from VY Ute that was the most reliable car I’ve ever had to a MINT condition VE series 2 SV6. Factory option double hump hard lid and interior that looks like the day it was built and an underbody so clean you could eat your dinner of it. Full service history. It’s a beautiful car to drive and goes extremely hard. I’ve had over 30 cars mostly holdens VK VL VY VS but this car is in another league. DEFINITELY a keeper. And to all the FLOPS on here talking timing chains the series 2 used upgraded chain kits and I’ve had ZERO issues. It’s all about maintenance and oil changes. If you treat ANY car like shit it’ll repay you by being unreliable. And fords outdated shit boxes had PLENTY of issues.

Isn’t it an Opel vectra

I scored a VE SSV Z Series Ute. Turns out it came with Redline suspension. FE3, the best performance suspension Holden ever offered. And she had her radiator filled at Elizabeth on my birthday. I'll never sell her. Ever.

secret poo

Riddle me this 1 billion spent on development and on multiple v6 engines with stretched timing chains thanks GM for designing them to fail. The sky is the limit, my my how far we can fall thanks Mary Barra (GM CEO)

Too cheap compared to Korean luxury vehicles.

Was a great show, shame it came to an end. Though was at its best when Eddie, Sam & Trevor were on it. I was not impressed when Trevor was no longer on the show, as did not watch it as much after that

I have mine a 2012 HDT Gtoup 3 based on a fully optioned SSV and i have no plans of selling it anytime soon its a pleasure to drive and I've never driven it when someone doesn't come up to me raving over it, peter Brock may have been killed in 2006 but he is still alive and kicking in every holden guy in Australia 18 years later

It's Karen and ken 😂

Surely they’ll bring em back when the economy fixes its shit

And to think all those job tiles were made redundant.

This was good engineering but a commercial failure as GM decided to sideline the platform early. To be frank big thirsty low riding cars were already on the way out so this was not going to end well.

I don’t know about the sv6 ve commodore, my car seems to just come up with problems after problems

I was there it was awesome

Two more sleeps for me to see the boys ❤

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Holden's Last Billion Dollar Baby

GMH and QANTAS both shaft the public😅.

checks to see if the CD skips 🤣🤣

My best Holden's were the Hz kingswood sedan hd 66 sedan both my fathers vb & vh commodore I drive a ek Honda Civic that's sought after I'm happy 😂😂😂😂

Im pissed that the legacy doesnt live on.. thanks gm for killing Pontiac and Holden. Such a super diving experience .. what a useless sub-perfomance marketing by gm here in the states..

shit cars can barely do a skid because they’re so restricted, gas guzzlers & ticking time bombs. glad i got rid of mine

There should be a show america about nfl that has a similar format to the afl footy show called primetime football with jimmy fallon as host peyton manning as co host and kevin hart as comedian behind the bar

What's the easiest way to totally blow a BILLION DOLLARS???...Build a Commodore!!!

Great looking car , but the early v6 was a piece of junk in the ve model . The v8 engine was built excellent.

As a g8 gt owner this is sick.

I had a silver VE 6.0 Calais with the white leather interior and 18" wheels. Absolutely beautiful car to drive and cruise around in. Wasn't going to win any land speed records but turned heads on more than one occasion because the sound of the 6 litre was quite biblical with a good exhaust. I was heart broken about 6 months in to ownership when a junky in a Range Rover Sport ran in to the back of me while I was stationary at traffic lights. I was the 4th car in queue but still ended up in the middle of the intersection after ploughing through the 3 cars in front of me. The RR was going about 70km/hr and I was completely stationary but received no injuries whatsoever. The rear number plate was pushed up against the back seats, and the front of the car was all but gone, but the passenger compartment was 100% intact, all 4 doors still opened perfectly and you could see how the energy had transferred around the cabin instead of in to the cabin. Remarkable engineering in terms of safety. I sent photos and a thank you letter to Holden at the time, I attribute the fact I can still walk to the fine work their engineering team delivered in this vehicle. I work as an electronic, electrical and software engineer myself, currently designing weapon systems for naval warships and other military hardware for the MoD and DoD so I understand the amount of work that must have gone in to such an epic cabin design that would withstand such an enormous amount of force. I miss my VE dearly, and while my M3 is arguably better in terms of performance, there was something special about owning a piece of Australia when I lived there and it will remain one of my favourite cars of all time.

My sv6 vz was a far better car in comparison with my ve calais.

Sick

No one mentions the one dollar timing chain on the six for this billion dollar baby😅.

Holden should have produced a SUV car based on the ve platform from what i read it was in the works but GM did not give it the green light which is a shame because it might have saved holden. Also they could have made the commodore a smaller car and the statesman the bigger car

Ive never really liked ve’s now I own a VE senator manual because the vfs are too expensive haha

yea Ford won that argument.

Testing a V8 crate engine from GM USA, what a lot of shit!!

Holden, the biggest lie ever!!!!

And just like that all of this engineering ability, production capacity and good design sense was thrown to the wolves and killed outright. Over 90 years of Holden in Australia let go up in smoke because of hard nosed stupid right wing politicians, General Motors problems with the GFC and their lady CEO wanting out of Right Hand Drive markets. "Australia's Own Car" left to wither on the vine and die, the proud lion...it's paw resting on the rolling stone of progress...euthanized because of tory politics and stupid decisions in Detroit. So sad...so bloody sad.

These cars (the v6) were the ultimate POS...

The VE/VF was really a good car but about 10 years too late. Also needed an AWD, twin turbo option. Bogan V8 hoons are a dying breed. Why make a new car only designed for them. Australians want more sophisticated cars that Holden were only just starting to realise.

To be frank, this car was way behind in both performance and technology compared to it's German rivals. The Yanks basically just dumped the left overs on Australia when they were down with the Lumina.

Man, it's just a Chev, a Chevrolet Lumina, nothing Australian about it, GM does the same thing in Europe with the Vauxhall brand. Your just esambling a Chevrolet. Holden started to exist as a horse saddle making company in Australia. The only thing Ausie about it is the name Commodore, that is an Ausie name for the model, bit it's still a Chevrolet Lumina, same as a Vauxhall VXR8, they all part of General Motors, even Opel and Isuzu Holden never had it's own cars, it's always been assembling debatched cars from proper car manufacturers.

Deb-Bor-Rah!

The VE design is dog shit.