Command performer
It may have been the ‘Command Performer’, according to Holden’s advertising campaign, but it’s the car that never got to perform. Not only was it never put to the test against the GT-HO Phase II at Bathurst, but the true nature of its performance potential wasn’t revealed publicly in the motoring press until after the 1970 Bathurst 500 – which was some four months after the model had been released, and only about a month before it was discontinued!
No one, it seemed, was in any great hurry to sing the praises of the latest model Monaro in mid 1970. All the attention was on the remarkable little XU-1 and, as detailed in the HT GTS 350 Buyer’s Guide in , it’s not as though the press would have been expecting much from the new HG anyway, as Holden was in the habit of
