2007 Holden VE Omega Ute review
December 9, 2007 by Karl Peskett
2007 Holden VE Omega Ute review
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Recommended Retail Price: $30,990 with aircon (and who wouldn’t option aircon?)
Options Fitted: Metallic Paint – $400
- by Karl Peskett
“Oh my goodness!” he said.
“What is it?” I replied.
“That is amazing.”
“What is?”
“I can’t believe it.”
Frustrated, I implored my passenger. “Could you just tell me what you’re on about?!?”
“I can’t believe I can stretch out like this.” Okay then. Finally we get to the bottom of it. But the reason it was such a surprise for him, is his height. You see, Ian is 192cm tall. His seating position normally is so far back he drives from the rear seat. Well, almost. But his comment is a common thread when people jump into the VE ute.
Just about everyone has driven in a ute. And just about everyone realises that there’s only so far back you can go with your seat. Then, of course, there’s no room behind the seats for anything except a couple of post-it notes. Folded in half. And even that’s pushing it.
But this time, the VE has been designed to have room and Holden’s designers have been very successful. Succesful to the point that my passenger could not shut up about the space. So, what’s the trade-off? Surely it can’t be all sweetness and light.
Do you mean the one where two mates took their dirt bikes out, one bike wouldn’t start so he jumped in the RTV and went around the track?
I liked that ad ;-)
thats it where the bike rider falls of the bike in the water and says, “Flooded it mate?” Yes, It was funny.
Yeah, that’s the one :-D
Car ads usually have to be funny to make an impression on me. I’m indifferent to Toyota but I liked those “bugger” ads.
very nice car..
The 2nd picture on the 2nd page doesnt look like its from the omega.
Joe Says:
December 19th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
“Go KIA!”
Yes…………….that was VERY random comment there Joe! :)
Hey Uteopia, the egas Xr6 is a real show pony bud, what with ur 156kw!! please why have the looks if you dont have the power. for the record I have a Egas sedan XT (bog standard) and an SS VE ute with real power u battler. Its laughable that you call yourself a ‘real’ ute driver, oh dear…
funny thing, i had this old 2002 XT BA, 215000ks on clock, and it bet my work colleagues VZ wagon and a VE Omega 2008 by 4 car lengths! and its the very 1st BA XT 4.0L 182kW/380Nm, or regular RON91 of course, using higher octane gives ya around 191-192kW/402Nm roughly!