Holden Commodore News

The Holden VF Commodore 10 years on

By Byron Mathioudakis · 26 Feb 2023

The Holden VF turns 10 this month. Feeling old yet?

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GM invests in new generation V8

By Chris Thompson · 23 Jan 2023

General Motors has announced it will invest US$918 million into its production facilities in the US, with the majority of that figure targeted at preparing for production of the company’s sixth generation small-block V8.

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Walkinshaw finds success after HSV

By Tung Nguyen · 07 Jan 2023

Five years on from the demise of the locally built Holden, Walkinshaw Automotive Group (WAG) is in an even better position than it was while producing Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) models.

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Cars you might not know share engines

By Chris Thompson · 24 Dec 2022

With the twin-built Toyota GR86 and Subaru Impreza carrying over their (albeit now larger) shared engines into the new generation, a conversation was sparked in the CarsGuide office about unexpected cars that share an engine.

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Why car names are getting worse

By Stephen Ottley · 12 Nov 2022

Naming cars used to be simple - either you picked some evocative names (think Mustang, Falcon, Monaro, etc) or a sequence of numbers and/or letters (think 3 Series, C-Class, A4, etc) - but these days it feels more like car names are randomly selected by marketing teams rushing to get to the weekend.

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V8s bucking electric car trend in Australia

By Tim Nicholson · 08 Oct 2022

For all the talk of electric vehicles lately, you'd be forgiven for thinking that petrol and diesel cars were a thing of the past.Given the slow uptake of EVs in Australia, and slow progress on incentives of any kind, internal combustion powered cars are

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Ford Ranger vs Commodore: different but same

By Byron Mathioudakis · 14 Aug 2022

On paper, the Ford T6 Ranger and Holden VE/VF Commodore are two very different vehicles, devised and developed during different decades and with little in common on the surface, especially when comparing their shapes, sizes and body construction.

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