You drive an Astra?
I do know what you mean, yes.
It held true except for the splits in the vinyl.
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I’m well aware of it’s position in the corporate structure.
I’ve been getting text messages and email’s from Booran regarding my commondoor, saying my free service’s and extended warranty will be honoured.
Thats comforting I guess.
I am actually quite impressed with the car itself, ( also one of the last series made here). It’s got all the bells and whistles including HUD which I thought at the time was just a gimmick, but now wonder how I ever did without it.
My MIL has it in her Merc, I find it annoying.
The last few series of Commodores were actually very very good cars, and good value for what you got. But in general, people had moved away from family sedans.
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Saw a cop car this morning, Hyundai…
Ewww
What a sign of the times
Somerville coppers cruise up and down Coolart road in a Beemer.
They look happy.
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Yep, I’ve seen quite a few Bimmers being used as police vehicles. Including an unmarked car .
The last Holden we had was Mrs Fox’s Adventura LX8. Not sure but reckon we got it in 2006.
It was all wheel drive 5.7 litre V8 and it had the sweetest sound. It was a fantastic car to drive with a seperate aircon in the back to keep our dogs cool.
My Dad always had Holdens, and I still remember every one of them. His HD had a layback front seat which was fantastic to take my girlfriend to the drive in. His first Commodaore was an ex-police inmarked car, and went like a cut cat.
My brother-in-law raced Monaros and took me around Sandown once so fast and so close to walls that I nearly pizzed myself.
I cannot believe that our Governments (all types) have let this happen and not screwed GM severely.
Plenty of highway patrol driving BMW M5 Competition models up here.
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The Kia Stinger flies. Doesn’t have a V8 though. Probably best to ask @Mr_Sunbury_1 what he thought when he was driving his white stinger down the Calder at 220 over the weekend.
I’ve had a HZ V8 wagon for my first car. Loved it. Nowadays I’ve own VE SS wagon an I just can’t bring myself to sell it. I sad the way it has all ended up with Holden. The world is changing fast
Did the smokies over there ever drive Mitsubishi Cordias?
I have fond memories of the old man getting his EH. First car we’d ever had with leather upholstery and aircon.
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I had a VE Sedan and got 448k out of it with minimal trouble. Wish I kept it now.
Dad’s first car was a 1928 Chev, with wooden spoke wheels! Unfortunately one wheel had a tendency to fall off on Sunday drives. Then around 1958 he bought an FC, two tone blue, reg # GUT 998. That was traded for a grey white EH wagon, a 3 speed auto wagon, with the classic 179 straight 6, red motor. He looked after both cars very well, and we took the wagon to Queensland via the Newell, it took us 3 days. My sister hung on to the car for years. The last time l drove it, the suspension felt strange, but not in a good way. We should have kept it, as l am sure it would be worth a lot now, as a genuine one owner vehicle. She got rid of it about 15 years ago, for $600…
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My first car was a turquoise (“peacock green” technically) TE Gemini coupe.
Over the course of 6 or 7 years, I dinged her front right and back left, the underside was rusted under the driver’s feet, and the cigarette lighter only worked if the internal fan was running (never could work out why…) The front passenger seat’s metal frame had been cracked (from… umm… nocturnal activities… I don’t need to spell it out, do I?) so had to be propped-up with a milk crate wedged in behind it. Additionally, the two internal door trims were made from over-stitched carpet off-cuts stuck onto stiff cardboard (I’d ripped the original ones in a fit of rage when trying to fit stereo speakers… never managed to source a match for the original ones from a scrapyard…)
She’d been pretty well run into the ground when I sold her for $500 to a panel-beater mate of a mate. He did her up beautifully over a couple of months and brought her round to show me before putting her up for sale. I was in love and wanted her back (even though there was probably as much polyurethane as metal in the body by that point…)
A great car, which never gave me any trouble at all…
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That is what Holden should have done out of the GFC, instead of doubling down on the Commodore. They should have focused on developing a 2ltr car. Branded it as a new generation Gemini, made an HSV super version and a reasonably priced entry level that competed in the Mazda 3 space and I guarantee you all they’d still be around today.
Idiots ran that joint.
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I don’t think anything would have saved them, far cheaper to make them OS and with a greater profit margin