Comments on: 2007 E-series HSV GTS Road Test

By: Duane

Duane — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:48:50 +0000

Hi has any one had problems with the rear end with tyers scrubbing out and at max ajustment. April 2008 GTS
Hi Zoli just change your exhast and air intake 70Kw more

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:18:25 +0000

Andrew M said:
“…but anyway when someone test drives a VE do you hear them say “wow i can feel how rigid the chassis is”? NO
they say it handles well and if the only way holden could make it handle was to make a rigid chassis it doesnt mean thats the way a car has to be to handle well ”

Interesting comment Andrew, one which pretty much every automotive engineer would disagree with. You cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. The chassis is the foundation of the handling of a car!
Lotus, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche…do you think any of their doors creak (like the VN-VS did) when they drive one wheel up a kerbed driveway?

Oz said:
“Robert, 415KW? – THAT’S NOTHING FOR A TUNED CAR!

Have you herd the F6 Typhoon can exeed 1000HP? So I can have the 1000HP FPV and you have your 415KW HSV.”

Isn’t that completely academic since the gearbox and diff would explode after a week?

By: Bavarian Missile (.)(.)

Bavarian Missile (.)(.) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:38:14 +0000

Try chatting to the guys at

http://www.ls1.com/forums/

Good luck and enjoy your new drive.

By: Bavarian Missile (.)(.)

Bavarian Missile (.)(.) — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:35:07 +0000

Not sure ………….but I guess like the FPV stuff look at the exhaust and chipping it ?

By: zoli

zoli — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:15:37 +0000

hi all,
just bought a E series GTS. was wondering on some hints of getting more power for less cash
any takers???

By: meady

meady — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:28:09 +0000

for those who asked y the auto in the hsv is faster because the auto shifts faster. Havent u seen the drag cars most of the faster ones are autos and in a manual the clutch slows it down. And in the commodores the auto is slower because they havent put that much thought into straight line speed, just fuel econemy and drivability. But saying that manuals are much quicker on the track because with all the corners and stuff the auto shits itself

By: Duck

Duck — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:59:13 +0000

mmmm……..I like WA a far bit too! It’s my 2nd favourite state in Australia.

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:46:00 +0000

Duck not everyone lives this great state…………sucks to be them!hehehe

Andrew resides in QLD,poor boy,Im still waiting to pick him up at the airport.

Wheelnut has seen the light and moved to where all the money and action now is!

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:40:54 +0000

Reliability of a particular model of car is similar to the results of the ANCrAP tests.

As I have said previously ANCRAP don’t test the safety of a particular mode of car they test the safety oftest 5 randomly selected cars of a particular model

Which when you consider the total number of cars of that particular model are sold over the life of that car its such a low percentage that it its really insigfnificant..

Even more so when you consider that ANCrAP don’t take into account various other factors such as weather conditions road surface and driver reactions etc….
no two crashes are exactly the same.

I mean the car they used in the ANCrAP test may have failed however your car of the exact same model may have passed, However ANCrAP and the Media manipulte and exptrapolate the results to make it sound as though every car of that Model would be the same

In the same way that just because you have heard about a number of V? Commodores that have had some sort of problem doesn’t necessarily mean that all V? will have the same problem..its more likely that a batch of a few 100 cars have the same problem – so the overall percentage can’t be that great otherwise people would have stopped buying commodores all together wouldn’t they?
[same thing applies to the Falcon]

Commodores and Falcons have both been around for over 30 years giving the Average Australian a practical safe well built RWD family sedan [on a budget] that is designed engineered and built in Australia to deal with the Australian environment etc..

They are also reliable proven by the fact there are so many of them that are over 10-15 years old still on our roads some have been turned into “street machines” however there are a considerable number of them in “factory” form.

By: Duck

Duck — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:43:37 +0000

Sorry Andrew M, I thought you lived in WA, like Wheelnut does.

What all ten (VS Commodore’s) have bad quality or/and relaibility issues? If so could you name the issues they have or had.

Im not doughting that there is nobody that has reliability problems/issues with VS’s, I’m just saying I know a few people who have reliable VS Commodore. One bloke I know drives his VS Commodore, over 100km one way to work and another 100km back again everyday and no problems. The only problem his had so far reliability wise is that the headlights went. But there fixed now.

I believe that the Holden Commodore definitely has better reliability and quality under the bonnet (mechanically) than it does with interior quality which I think everybody agrees. But saying that the Holden Commodore’s interior is definitley not the best quality but it’s nowhere near the worst.

P.S. Just wondering Andrew M, what car do you drive daily?