THE LION’S KING!
Sydney Motorshow 1998: Holden lifts the cover from a VT Commodore two-door coupe concept/show car on the morning of the media preview day. There is a hailstorm of applause from gobsmacked journos (including me).
To use that old cliché, it’s a show-stopper. It’s instantly – and hopefully and logically – tagged the ‘new Monaro’. That afternoon – Thursday 15th October 1998 – in the decade before phone cameras and the everything-instant-everywhere of social media, that dark blue Commodore coupe made headlines in newspapers and on TV news bulletins.
STARS OF THE SHOWS
The VT Coupe Concept was the first Holden ‘wow’ concept/show car in nearly three decades. It demonstrated the talent of the Aussie Holden Design team – especially to the US-based GM bosses when Holden had recently become closer aligned to the USA – and kicked-off the glorious early-noughties era
