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The thing to remember about these Holdens is that they're family cars in Australia. The Commodore is the equivalent to an Impala or Malibu (yes I know the Holden Malibu is on the way). The difference is that Australians refuse to give up RWD sedans, and because of that, you can cook up some pretty decent performing cars out of mom's daily driver. The entire HSV tuning arm is basically dedicated to doing that.

The consequence is that the cars aren't nearly as aggressively designed as say, a Dodge Charger, which was conceived from the get-go as a performance-oriented car.