Last Commodore VZ Rolls Off The Line
September 10, 2007 by George Skentzos
With the VE Commodore finally in full swing, and production having started on the VE Ute, the last VZ Commodore – a white wagon, rolled off the production line on the 6th of September marking the end of an era.
In total, over 1.2 million VT series derivatives (including Commodore, Ute, Monaro, Pontiac GTO and long wheel base models) were built at GM Holden’s Elizabeth vehicle assembly plant in South Australia.
The VT Commodore helped pave the way for many of the features we see in the current VE and WM models of today. The VT featured many Australian ‘firsts’ such as traction control, a feature now included as standard on all of Holden’s Australian-made cars as well as electronic stability program (ESP) which was standard on all VZ Commodore Acclaim and Calais models.
Rod Keane, Executive Director – Manufacturing, GM Holden says that today was not so much the end of an era, but more a sign of a new beginning for Holden’s Vehicle Operations.
Since the launch of VT Commodore in 1997, the Commodore has remained the best selling passenger vehicle in Australia and is currently on track to retain that title for the twelfth consecutive year.
Holden expects by mid 2008, half of all the cars built at Elizabeth will be exported under a total of five GM brand names including Pontiac, Chevrolet, Vauxhall, Daewoo and of course, Holden.
Print it: 
I’ll have the last wagon!
Duck,
Why?
hahaha……..yep? Its not like the last Monaro!
Thats right..
The last Monaro got auctioned off and I believe was bought for approx 200K buy a Queensland businessman.. all proceeds went to charity.
The car was painted in a unique colour and came with datadots bearing Mike Simcoes [the designers] autograph.
All other special cars like the Mambo Van; Monaro Cabrio; the HRT Maloo or the 1 millionth Holden are stored either at Holdens HQ in VIC or at the National Motor Museum in SA
Not just because it is the last VZ Wagon ever made, because our family has bought commodore wagons over the years and they have been a great car, but id rather wait next year to get the new VE wagon.
LONG LIVE THE COMMODORE WAGON!
And HSV are doing a version of the new Sportwagon (but it looks like a fat VZ).
Really Bret? If thats true, well cool! But id have to see pics of it to make any further comments though.
Duck,
why?
i mean your history of posting first and knowing second would be ruined if you didnt pass judgement firstly and then explore it later
What the hell Andrew M! Im just saying it sounds cool, but it might come out as a cotastrophy! geeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Is cotastrophy spelt right?
THE VZ WAS A ENGINEERING AND DESIGN FLOP, EVERY TIME SEE ONE, I VOMIT….
sorry duck,
it wasnt only related to the HSV wagon possibility, you missed my point so ill let it go.
and no you didnt spell it right. (2 wrong letters)
No it wasnt Ford G series
Ford G series, are you the same bloke as AC COBRA? Because i have not seen him for a while and you sound like him.
keep up the vomiting ford g your the only one hurting champ
Thats good to know Ford G now you know how we feel every time ford bring out a new model.
I like the styling of the VZ. But the VE is a better all round car. I’ve actually got a VZ
freg
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