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Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
South Australian Porsche crew Kevin Weeks and Bec Crunkhorn cruised home to win their third straight Classic Adelaide tarmac rally today. The pair crossed the finish line after an almost trouble-free run over four days of competition, needing only to adjust the speed of their 1974 Porsche 911RS to keep comfortably ahead of the opposition. They won by almost one minute and 40 seconds. The result in...
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Classic cars, rallies and races (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Popular English racing driver Win Percy will reunite with Jaguar, the make that brought him renown at Le Mans and Bathurst, to tackle the Classic Adelaide international tarmac rally later this month. Percy will return to Classic Adelaide after an absence of several years to drive a current Jaguar XF sedan in the Thoroughbred Touring category of the 18-22 November event – and it will be an occasion...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
POLICE are investigating a crash late last night where a Holden Commodore ute ploughed into a house in suburban Belmont.
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
We're not exactly shocked to read that "police say they suspect speed and alcohol were contributing factors in the crash" with this bit of what appears to be staggeringly stupid hoonery. The incident took place Sunday morning in Parklea, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and the good news is that nobody in the house was injured when the "late model Commodore sedan" got out of control,...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
SYDNEY - Two men have been rescued after their car hit a mound and became lodged in the roof of a Sydney home where a couple and baby were sleeping inside.The Holden Commodore became airborne after striking a concrete median strip...
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Filed under: Motorsports , Government/Legal , Australia Bathurst 1000 fan enjoying a coldie during The Great Race You know what's not aces? When you're just trying to drink a little amber fluid and watch the Bathurst 1000 and the man treats you like a total bogan. What business is it of his how many coldies you drink when it's time to hit the turps? This makes us so mad we could eat a trough lolly!...
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AutoTribute (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Like most its fans, GM figured that the Holden Commodore-based Pontiac G8 was to good to go to waste. As a result, the struggling automaker has decided to revive the Chevy Caprice (essentially the same as a Pontiac G8) as a police patrol car for the North American market. We think the Patrol car would look better if a Pontiac G8 was used, but that's just us. The Chevy Caprice police car will initially...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
We revealed the new Chevy Caprice police car late last night to bravos for the car, but lukewarm reaction to styling. GM's responded with shots of the Corvette-powered, RWD Aussie-built law enforcement-only Chevy Caprice police car wearing its dress blacks. The one issue we had with the new Caprice was that it looked rather pedestrian — especially when compared to the menacing front end of a...
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
As expected, General Motors has unveiled a new, rear-wheel drive police cruiser at the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in Denver, Colorado. The vehicle is based on the Australian-market Holden Commodore, sold through 2009 as the Pontiac G8 in the United States and Canada. Officially dubbed the Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle [...]
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South Sea Republic (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
by cam It looks like Holden have managed to sell the Commodore into another niche market since Pontiac was axed. This time it is being sold as a fleet vehicle to the Police Forces in the United States as a Chevrolet Caprice fleet car. Rather than the Commodore it is the long wheel base version. Reply to this article .
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Filed under: Sedan , Chevrolet , GM , Holden , Police/Emergency Chevrolet Caprice PPV - Click above for high-res image gallery. Well, it's official. GM has resurrected the Australian-built Zeta sedan for North America, only this time around, it's just for the cops. Set to arrive in your local muni's police fleet in 2011 is the Chevrolet Caprice police patrol vehicle (PPV). First thing's first: it...
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habser | 10/04/2009
If you’re already missing Pontiac, you only have to take a look at the new Holden Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition models as they’re Pontiac G8s in everything but name. Now we already know that Holden’s HSV E-series 2 may have used some Pontiac G8 parts.
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
General Motors will present its first rear-wheel-drive sedan police cruiser to American police on Monday at the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in Denver, Colorado. The vehicle is expected to be based on the Australian-market Holden Commodore, sold through 2009 as the Pontiac G8 in the United States and Canada. Several weeks ago, we [...]
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The Pontiac G8 sedan and Ute will live on as the Holden Commodore SS V-Series in Australia with the trademark Pontiac grille. Oh, and there's a wagon. Photos of the badgeless beasts below. We're not sure what hurts the most: the existence of the Pontiac G8 we're never going to get, the Sportwagon we'd have killed for, or the fact that these are all essentially GXP-spec vehicles. Prices range from...
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
This isn’t quite the reborn Pontiac G8 most Americans had in mind: Confirming last month’s rumors, Holden, General Motors’ Australian subsidiary, has announced a new special edition version of its Commodore sedan built using leftover Pontiac G8 body panels. The new Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition will be available in sedan, wagon and pickup [...]
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habser | 10/04/2009
If you’re already missing Pontiac, you only have to take a look at the new Holden Commodore SS V-Series Special Edition models as they’re Pontiac G8s in everything but name. Now we already know that Holden’s HSV E-series 2 may have used some Pontiac G8 parts.
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habser | 09/13/2009
Not many could have predicted that Holden’s plan to use leftover Pontiac G8 hoods for a special edition car would come out this wild. While Holden’s Senator and Grange models sport a different look, Holden’s E Series 2 models built off the Holden Commodore — the G8’s base. The HSV stylists did an admirable job.
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habser | 09/13/2009
Not many could have predicted that Holden’s plan to use leftover Pontiac G8 hoods for a special edition car would come out this wild. While Holden’s Senator and Grange models sport a different look, Holden’s E Series 2 models built off the Holden Commodore — the G8’s base. The HSV stylists did an admirable job.
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