Holden Commodore (VH)

Start with what the Holden Commodore (VH) is: a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon with 1.9&nbsp, built from 1981 to 1984, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Leo Pruneau.

How it came about

The Holden Commodore (VH) is a mid-size car that was produced by Holden from 1981 to 1984. It was the third iteration of the first generation of the Holden Commodore.

The hardware

The engine is 1.9  other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1152 kg – 1326 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual / 5-speed manual / 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2668 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Family and rivals

In the Holden line-up the Holden Commodore (VH) has a clear place: it replaced the Holden Commodore (VC); it handed the line to the Holden Commodore (VK); the factory was Adelaide, South Australia (Elizabeth). The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the DeLorean Motor Company DeLorean DMC-12, the Mitsubishi Pajero, the Toyota Camry. Its Holden stablemates include the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.

Owning one today

There is no federal ownership record for the Holden Commodore (VH) — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.