Aussie Car Discussion

well you guys will be getting the mustang, so there still WILL be a performance vehicle from ford, just american instead of australian, but yeah, sad day

 

I honestly want one. That's a nice looking car. Sad to see it go.
(Also; whiteknight, there is no way you're 16. You look 12.)

 

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"swiggity swooty, comin for dat booty"

 

i like the red one

 

You say that. But a friend of mine posted something I found rather amusing on Facebook tonight. Went to nandos as you do, shown to a table, yet she was given a pot of crayons and an under 10s menu. She's 20.

 

That's pretty fuckin funny.

And back on topic.
Pretty sad stuff

 

Oh I agree. I literally lol'ed at it. Had a photo of her little pot of crayons and everything. True, she doesn't look 20, but she certainly doesn't look under 10.

 

1978 Holden Commodore (Yes its heavily based on an Opel) but as usual the Holden version looks 10x better.

The Opel

 

Well to me it looks just like the Opel with a stripe and a spolier, also this is the normal commodore, its practically just a different badge.

 

Completely different rear end, even the rear pillars are different mate.

 

Yeah to the best of my knowledge all the Opel based commodores pretty much got the complete rebuild and a V8 option of course.

For the record it might look like a opel with a spoiler and stripe but your opel won't win at bathurst but that HDT Peter Brock built commodore did.

No your stock Opel won't do this but your stock commodore will and take all the podium spaces(race around australia in completely stock cars).

 

Your v8 Holden won't do 27 mpg now will it?

 

Read it and weep muthafucka!

 

That's because you posted an Opel Senator, which is a Commodore with a different rear end (same concept as a Statesman)

The Commodore C/VB VB Commodore are identical in terms of the body, but the engines are different (Holden = 3.3l I6 or 4.2 & 5.0 V8, Opel = 2.5l I6) as are the axles, and apparently Holden invested quite a bit into strengthening the Opel frame, bit I'm not certain on that one.

VB Commodore:

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Opel Commodore C:

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On a side note, the Opel Commodore was offered in a 2 door coupe, like so:

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The Holden was not offered in this body, however there was a company who converted Australian Commodores to coupes in the early 80's (no doubt using Opel panels). They looked like this:

 

I think the Opel Monza was a lot better looking than that, even Peter Brock had one brought over and converted to a "Holden" Monza.

(imported from here)

 

i realise this was said a while back but i would like to say that the original comaro (used in transformer) was made on a pontiac gto (monaro) chassis. I'm not sure whether they changed it or not, but that makes it a holden with a different body

 

Not at all.
The Camaro was on the F-body platform, along with the Pontiac Firebird, which was designed and built by GM. The GTO was on it's own platform, shared with the pontiac LeMans, and had nothing to do with the F-body platform. The Holden Monaro was based on the GM V platform, developed by Opel in the 60s.
I gotta step in when someone claims that a classic american muscle car is "a holden with a different body". Continue your Australian car discussion.

 

He was referring directly to the transformers movie prop camaro which was in fact not a camaro but a fibreglass shell on a modern gto chassis (ie, a holden designed one).

 

I'd say this was the shell of the Monaro that used to be on that platform.