AMC BEST LETTER

RIP Calais

Once again well done on another issue. No doubt you will get a ton of emails about the article you wrote about the death of the Commodore (which by the time 115 gets printed the brand will just about be finished for good in the new car section).

Wind the clock back and in regards to the deletion of Commodore from the lineup, one other thing that meant was the end of the Calais nameplate. While the Calais was a spin-off from the Commodore, it still had its own following and had its own unique history (without the Calais there would have been no Senator for HSV and no Director for HDT).

While people will argue until the end of time if the ZB should have been called a Commodore (I don’t think it would have made much of a difference), personally I think the ZB Calais (V) was arguably the best of the breed.

A Calais is about luxury, style and gadgets it doesn’t have to be a V8 (the VL Calais has a huge following and not because of the V8 option), the ZB Calais V ticks all of those boxes very easily – it has style, is by far the most luxurious gadget-packed Calais we have ever seen, and the V6 has enough punch to it – although a 2.0 AWD would have been the icing