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Old 31-08-2005, 11:21 PM   #1
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Default VE spy piccies?

found these on LS1.com.au
apparent spy pics of what the VE is.
also info here
http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/s...d.php?p=330181
http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums...770&#entry6770
http://www.ls1.com.au/forum/showthre...6&page=1&pp=15

hope it isn't a repost

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Old 31-08-2005, 11:25 PM   #2
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looks to be a lot of american cars in the background to me......
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Old 31-08-2005, 11:34 PM   #3
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looks to be a lot of american cars in the background to me......
and the test car has the steering on that side as well, but that shouldn't mean anything, they'll be using a global platform and probably have a few mules over there being tested and maybe even for export.
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Old 31-08-2005, 11:38 PM   #4
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i highly doubt that is the VE, its totally different to any of the wheels and motor pictures, and is quite small
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Old 31-08-2005, 11:43 PM   #5
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I look at it and I think BMW or Euro
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i highly doubt that is the VE, its totally different to any of the wheels and motor pictures, and is quite small
But isn't the Wheels & Motor mag pictures just cut & past versions of what they believe the VE will look like?
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Old 31-08-2005, 11:44 PM   #7
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Its probably either the new camry or the new lwb galant mitsubishi is developing in the US.
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Old 31-08-2005, 11:46 PM   #8
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But isn't the Wheels & Motor mag pictures just cut & past versions of what they believe the VE will look like?
Yup, the VE's you see in the mags are just artists impressions based on reasonably good info.

I agree with you, looks very Euro and the first thing I actually thought when I looked at the pics was that it looks very small compared to your average Bombodore.
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Old 01-09-2005, 12:33 AM   #9
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looks like a vectra...
wish i could hide my car like that.. legally.
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i dont think vectra is due for a change just yet....
too small for for a commo... is this, dare i say it........... torana?
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Old 01-09-2005, 01:07 AM   #11
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doesnt the badge look more like a ford badge over a holden one i mean holden ones are huge..

it could be a chevy badge
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if you look closely its got what seems to be a similar bumper to the torana concept
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Old 01-09-2005, 02:48 AM   #13
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The car is small, no way its a commodore
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I don't think it a Commodore either, we'll just have to want & see when the car is release
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doesnt the badge look more like a ford badge over a holden one i mean holden ones are huge..

it could be a chevy badge
Exactly right. That's the giveaway - Holden has been deliberately doing a Honda with its grille badges, ie. stupidly bigger is better. To them, everyone is blind and therefore their cars, needing identity badly, require a foot high grille badge.
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It is very small, maybe that's the way they are going again, they went that way when they introduced the Commy, they wanted something that looked smaller from the Kingswood??????.
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As people have said it looks too small to be a commodore. Maybe a new medium car model?
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No way, it looks like a mid sized hatch, and is too far removed in styling from the current model to be related.



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...and is too far removed in styling from the current model to be related.
VE is going to be an all new model though.
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I cant see holden going this radical. Too big a gamble.

An interesting suggestion that this could indeed be a torana. Now that would raise some eyebrows. Looks Torana shapeish. Looks like a hatchback though.

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Found another pic.

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Looks like a hatch.

Would Holden go so far as having dual exhaust?
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is it just me or does the cloth on the back of the hatch look photoshopped
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How do we even know its a holden at all?
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Its got a rear windscreen spray jet, its a hatch. Maybe a new commodore variant - I've got the feeling that torana was more VE commodore than concept car.
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Wonder if the VE will be front wheel drive too!!! :Reverend:



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and the test car has the steering on that side as well
You are wrong, in the second photo, the driver is visible on the right hand side of the car with his finger tips on the steering wheel.
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Wonder if the VE will be front wheel drive too!!! :Reverend:
Never. Part of Holdens export boom has been because of thier RWD set up.
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Yes after seeing that rear pic, with the spray jet, I too say it's the Torrana.
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Never. Part of Holdens export boom has been because of thier RWD set up.
Export boom? to where? i thought the monaro was a flop hence them axeing it.



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