BACK BEFORE business vehicles had to evade the grasping tentacles of Fringe Benefits Tax, senior employees drove conventional cars, defining their status in the company.
Today, the car park has hardly a four-door sedan in sight, with the boss driving a kitted out Ranger Wildtrak and the oinks in steel-wheel HiLuxes. The pecking order is maintained.
Head back to the 1980s, when Holden actually used ‘Executive’ as a designation within the Commodore range, and everything available as executive transport was a sedan or wagon; mostly delineated by suffixes like GLX, GXE or EFI.
Most weren’t overly plush, but they weren’t barren either. All of our choices came with power steering and almost certainlywith cruise control and a rudimentary ‘trip computer’ option, or not available at all.
