A digital image created by News Limited of what the new performance flagship SS Holden Commodore will look like. Photo illustration: Will Pearce Source: News Limited
- Final Commodore unveiled on Sunday
- Packed with new, hi-tech features
- Live updates on today's reveal on Twitter with @JoshuaDowling
AUSTRALIA, your new Holden Commodore is almost ready.
It's been seven years in the making - the longest wait for a new model in the Commodore's 35-year history - and it will also be the last of its type, as we've grown to know it.
Holden has confirmed the Commodore badge will live on beyond the new model's 2016 horizon but that car will likely be a four-cylinder, front-wheel-drive sedan sold globally but adapted for local conditions.
The Commodore has been rear-wheel-drive since 1978 - and so has every top-selling Holden sedan since the first "FX" was built in 1948.
Holden is due to release the first pictures of the new 2013 Commodore in Melbourne today, but we have an exclusive photo illustration of the performance flagship "SS" that will lead the Commodore's export revival to North America, where it will also race as a Nascar for the first time.
Holden has loaded the new Commodore with technology.
Due in Australian showrooms in June, it will be able to park itself via sensors in the front and rear bumpers, and warn the driver of a crash in stop-start traffic.
The new Commodore will also be available with the internet music service Pandora for the first time.
Drivers of top-line models will be able to see their vehicle speed and other key information reflected into the windscreen in a digital "heads-up" display, similar to some BMWs.
The "new" model is in fact a major update of the Commodore released in 2006. Rather than create a new car from the ground up, Holden remodeled the front and rear appearance and added technology.
The V6 and V8 engines are carried over from before but the new model is expected to be about 10 per cent more fuel efficient due to the use of weight-saving aluminium in the bonnet, boot and underbody, said to trim 40kg from the car's overall mass.
Holden is hoping for a reversal of fortunes with the new model after the Commodore posted its lowest sales ever last year - in a record new-car sales market.
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HI-TECH HOLDEN
What's new:
- Self-parking technology
- Forward collision warning in low-speed traffic
- Heads-up display on high grade models
- Internet music radio service Pandora
- Large infotainment touch screen
- Sensor key with push button start
- Electronic park brake
- Aluminium boot, bonnet and underpinnings
- About 40kg less weight overall
What's not:
- The sedan's body, doors and glass
- The door handles
- The side mirrors
- The V6 and V8 engines (but they are 10 per cent more efficient)
- The rear of the wagon and ute
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It is banking on some buyers coming back to the brand one last time before the Commodore is replaced by a new global car to be built alongside the Cruze in Adelaide until 2022.
Holden has not said what shape the 2017 "Commodore" will take, but News Limited has been told it is a four-cylinder front-drive sedan similar in size to a Toyota Camry.
Holden boss Mike Devereux promised last Friday that the future model would be called a "Commodore" – but whether Australians will let the iconic badge appear on a four-cylinder front-drive car remains to be seen.
Live updates on today's Holden Commodore reveal on Twitter with @JoshuaDowling
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