RELATED: The wild and unusual Holden Commodore you never ... it was a mash-up of ‘ute’ and ‘roadster’. Under the bonnet, GM’s heroic Gen III 5.7-litre V8 pumping out 225kW was matched ...

Brock crashed the ute late on day three of the Safari ... While power was never publicly disclosed, the V8 – borrowed from the Holden Commodore SS of the era, and modified to produce more ...

Mark Skaife driving a HSV Maloo set a new world speed record for utes and pick-up trucks. It hasn’t been broken since.

One big reason is that it was always going to be the next Commodore, even before Holden decided ... get a whole heap of ute stuff and a stacked safety list, but we’ll come back to all that in a second ...

Holden executives were secretly hatching a plan to save the brand by teaming up with the Chinese car maker behind MG and LDV.