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OPEL boss Karl-Thomas Neumann has all but confirmed the 2018 Commodore will be based on the Opel Insignia that was recently sprung undergoing development testing.
Neumann said at the 2015 Frankfurt motor show that Holden would have an input into the car, which he said “would very nicely fit in the Australian market”.
“You can be sure we are very proud if an Opel car is elected – and we don’t do that, Holden does that – to become a Holden car,” said Neumann.
“We give Holden the flexibility, we are not telling them ‘keep it like it is and put a badge on it’. We are supporting them, we are working with them … to make this a car which becomes a Holden car.”
Speaking broadly about Opel models going to Australia, he said: “It will be retargeted for the Australian market. There will be engineering work done on them to fulfil the specific expectations which the Australian customers have and which fits to the Holden brand, so we will fine tune the drive and feel of the car … and the feature selection of the car.”
Holden announced it would cease local manufacturing of the Commodore by the end of 2017 but that it would continue the nameplate that first appeared in 1978 on an imported car.
The final update to the locally produced Commodore, the VF Series II, was revealed this week – complete with the most powerful V8 engine ever fitted to a regular Holden Commodore.
