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Sorry Holden: GM cancels VE Sportwagon for US market

by John Neff (RSS feed) on Jan 17th, 2008 at 10:58AM

click above for more high-res images of the Holden VE SportwagonHolden wasn't sure if it was going to build a new VE Commodore Wagon when developing its new line of rear-wheel-drive Zeta-based sedans. Wagons are fleet darlings in Australia, and the new one from Holden was for some reason switched from the long-wheelbase Caprice and Statesman platform to the shorter Commodore platform. That reduced the wagon's cargo capacity, which in turn threatened its very existence. But after hearing that its parent company, General Motors, was interested in importing the VE Sportwagon as a Pontiac G8... Read More

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