RELATED: The wild and unusual Holden Commodore you never ... it was a mash-up of ‘ute’ and ‘roadster’. Under the bonnet, GM’s heroic Gen III 5.7-litre V8 pumping out 225kW was matched ...

Mark Skaife driving a HSV Maloo set a new world speed record for utes and pick-up trucks. It hasn’t been broken since.

Brock crashed the ute late on day three of the Safari ... While power was never publicly disclosed, the V8 – borrowed from the Holden Commodore SS of the era, and modified to produce more ...

One big reason is that it was always going to be the next Commodore, even before Holden decided ... get a whole heap of ute stuff and a stacked safety list, but we’ll come back to all that in a second ...

Justice picked a 2017 Chevrolet SS for the job. Built in Adelaide as the last of Holden’s Commodore SS, the 6.2-litre V8-powered sedan was exported in relatively small numbers to the US.

Taken as an all-new entry in Holden's revitalised line-up though, the new Commodore ticks all the important boxes required of a mid-size to large passenger car these days. It may not be anywhere near ...