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Commodore Celebrates 30 Years on Australian Roads
Australia’s to the fullest extent-selling vehicle, the Holden Commodore today celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The first Commodore rolled off the strand on 25 October 1978, signalling the coming of what is now Holden’s longest-standing and most winning nameplate.
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Commodore has been Australia’s top selling voyager car for the past 12 years and is on dog to maintain that position in 2008.
More than 2.5 million Commodores have been built since the first VB series sedans went into television, replacing the Kingswood as Holden’s peerless family car range.
Throughout that period the Commodore name has graced 14 paragon series and four generations of rear-where drive vehicles for Australian and abroad buyers.
GM Holden Chairman and Managing Administrator Mark Reuss said Commodore had become a arms of local design and engineering adroitness and Australia’s ability to compete on the have stage.
“Over thirty years Commodore has earned a come about in the hearts and minds of generations of Australian families,” Mr Reuss said.
“On the way to becoming Holden’s longest station and most successful nameplate, Commodore has delivered pregnant advances in passenger car safety, abundance and handling.
“We’re always seeking to improve Commodore so that it remains the clever choice for Australian motorists.
“It is a indicate of the skill and creativity of the Australian automotive toil that we have been able to build top-selling cars of this talent for local and overseas markets.”
All-inclusive Motors started work on Commodore in 1971 as the subordinate GM ‘world car’ program. Variations were sold in England, other parts of Europe and South Africa with the Australian kind receiving locally developed engines, steering, elimination, body strengthening and dust sealing.
The radically dissimilar VB Commodore was generally judged to have brought a new direct of sophistication to the market with efficient extent packaging, high levels of plenty, generous equipment levels and matchless handling due to the development of Holden’s winning Radial Tuned Suspension.
Commodore has afterward collected more than 60 major motoring awards and won the celebrated Wheels Car of the Year award a make a notation of five times – VB (1978), VN (1988), VR (1993), VT (1997) and VE (2006).
Advances in aegis technology such as driver, passenger and side strike airbags, computer optimised restraint systems and ABS brakes as model fitment were all introduced on Commodore as ‘firsts’ for an Australian-manufactured car.
Commodore’s r as an ambassador for the Holden brand has extended beyond the showroom worst to the racetrack where it has been the spearhead of its motor-hold up to ridicule participation for almost 30 years.
During that ease, Commodore has won an unrivalled 18 Bathurst victories and nine V8 touring car and supercar championships.
Commodore Facts
Sales & Manufacturing
Commodore has been Australia’s top selling car for the recent 12 years and is on track to plead for that position in 2008.
A total of 37,505 Commodores have been sold so far in 2008. This puts Commodore more than 700 vehicles up ahead of the next largest seller.
Commodore is produced in formerly larboard and right-hand drive configurations at Holden Channel Operations in Elizabeth, South Australia.
Record
The current VE model is number 14 of the Commodore series. Exemplar designations are: VB (1978); VC (1980); VH (1981); VK (1984); VL (1986); VN (1988); VP (1991); VR (1993); VS (1995); VT (1997); VX (2000); VY (2002); VZ (2006); VE (2006).
Serious model changes occurred in 1988 with the introduction of the VN Commodore, in 1997 with the VT Commodore and in 2006 with the VE Commodore.
Trivia
The 2.5 million Commodores produced since 1978 would fill the car park of the following greater shopping centres in each state:
Victoria’s largest shopping converge, Chadstone, 294 times.
New South Wales’ largest shopping nucleus, Westfield Parramatta, 584 times.
Queensland’s Pacific Rosy shopping centre on the Gold Seashore 454 times.
South Australia’s largest shopping meet, Westfield Marion 454 times.
Western Australia’s Galleria shopping centre, 595 times.
Tasmania’s largest shopping heart, Eastlands, 1785 times.
Looking Back at October 1978
The first Commodore rolled off the prepare at Holden’s former assembly line at Pagewood, New South Wales.
The low model price at the time of Commodore’s 1978 notice was $6513.
Popular songs at the time of the pitch included: Three Times a Lady (Commodores), Summer Nights (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John), Who Are You? (The Who).
Everyday movies at the time of the launch included: Saturday Tenebrosity Fever, The Goodbye Girl, Dulcet Baby and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.
Important events during the month of Commodore’s catapult included: Polish Pope, John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian Universal Pope in 450 years; Australian chorus-member Johnny O’Keefe dies.
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