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    HOLDEN VE SS/CALAIS V8

    Aug 17, 2022 4 minutes

    The VE Commodore was intended to secure Holden’s future locally and provide a platform for income-generating exports. Sadly, it did neither and today the VE leaves us only with memories and outstanding models like the Calais and SS.

    The VE began life as an almost clean sheet and went on sale in 2006 as a vastly different car from the VZ it replaced.

    A totally new structure swept away issues that had been simmering since the 1990s and were never properly addressed. The new design was primarily concerned with protecting occupants in the event of an unavoidable crash, but also went to improving

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