Above: This Week's Car Review - 2020 Mitsubishi ASX Exceed ABOVE: Camira and Cruze Why Did Holden Fail? Why did Holden Fail? The answer is simple: product, price, arrogance. Put simply, a series of mis-steps, blunders, and an appalling attitude to the market, combined with interference [...]
Who would have thought a decade ago there’d be a diesel Commodore. How times have changed with the Holden Commodore Calais ZB model now available with a 2.0-litre, front drive, four cylinder turbo diesel engine complementing the front drive, 2.0-litre, turbo petrol four and the all-wheel drive, 3.6-litre petrol V6. The diesel missed ZB Commodore’s launch phase arriving only [...]
Let's get two things sorted straight off the bat, firstly, this isn't anything at all like any Holden Commodore we've seen so far, secondly, this is without question the best car yet to wear a Holden badge. Those points will be hard to take for the Aussie engineers and workers who built the car for 40 years on home [...]
It isn’t often I feel sad getting in to a car, but a thick veil of gloom came over me this week when I took the HSV GTS R out for a quick run. This is the very last Australian built HSV, period. The Zeta platform supported Commodores for the last 2 “generations”. Although the VF Commodore built on [...]
The next-gen Commodore’s cousin, the Opel Insignia, has hit the road for the first time in Europe and the news is good. Very good Sleek new Insignia praised by European media for smooth handling, luxury finishes and technology, all with premium levels of refinement European launch marks just the beginning for the next Commodore, with Australian- focussed V6 AWD and [...]
Cruze hatch is something Australians can feel just a little bit smug about. GM’s global Cruze was given a rear door right here in OZ courtesy of our very own Holden design team. What a shame Holden is considering disbanding them. I’ve never been in love with the rear of the Cruze which looks just a little too chunky. The [...]
I heard this car was being retired from the press fleet with almost 13,000 k’s on the clock. It would have been remiss of me not to take her around the block for one final victory lap. I should declare now that the SSV Redline is my personal favourite Australian car With this many k’s and this much time [...]
