Addicted to Cars: All hail the mighty VN! | Unique Cars Magazine 

Lovely example of the VN Calais V8! Still remember as a kid being taken to Geoff Brady Holden and being blown away by these!! My uncle had a rare Calais V6 Manual.

I got the 5ltr Berlina wagon VN .....love it

I sold my 1990 S pack yesterday. Always loved the VN and will cherish the time I had with her. Great cars.

Love the VN, especially the SS Atlas Grey.

I love to see these 100% original examples still around. My dad had the exact same one (model, colour and engine), that I learned to drive in. Very fond memories!

Still got my vs ss with the 5.0 lt engine.

I remember my neighbour back in 1990 buying a VN SS with the 304 engine & the same colour as Glen's Calais. That 304 put a smile to my dial when I took it for a drive!

Bought my original 5 speed VN V6 wagon end of 2020 as an 18 year old for my second car, absolutely love it and have been spending a bit too much making it the best it can be since then, V6 is super reliable and goes pretty well with a manual behind it but wouldn't mind a manual 5l in it someday, these are the oldest affordable 'classic' Holdens you can get and with some work they can be pretty comfortable

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Awesome car. I've owned my Phoenix red VN executive 5 spd manual v6 for 15 years. I laugh at the haters who say they are a shitbox , I laugh because my VN hasn't given me any problems. Still on original drive train at 460k on the clock.

Love the VN.. it was a leap forward for Holden

Man this brought back memories. Had a Calais exactly like this one. 89 model, same colour, 5 litre with a little cam, factory velour interior and factory sunroof. Other then my vh sle's it was easily one of the best cars I've had

The Vn was the 1st decent sized commodore , an what impressive stance it had in its debut

I had this exact same car except the V6 version with a 2.5" exhaust. Loved that car! ❤

Lovely car Glenn, the sound of that V8 is addictive.

Need to do one of the VP range and the VR to VT 5.0 to mark the end of the iron lion

From memory, the front doors on the VN could be straight swapped with the Opel Senator (Opel version of the VN anyways)

I was of driving age when the VN came into production , yeah as a 17 year old at the time I knew I would never own one. But as the years progressed I did own a very knew VS then a VT which I just didn't like. But two weeks ago I brought a 2001 VX equipe in almost ammaculate condition for seven thousand dollars. But the kicker is , it's only got 88,000 on the clock. I'm just saying if I went after the VN back in the day , I might not have ended with the vx I have now.

had one here in nz love cars from australia

The car that put Holden back on the map. As much as people like to bag the VN, the truth is that if the VN wasn't every bit as great as it was, there'd be no VT, no VE/VF, no export programs, no new Monaro, etc, and HSV would've been but a very short footnote in Australian automotive history. I remember I was about 4 when I first saw a VN for the first time, I believe not long after they first came out, one day when we were shopping. I already liked cars, and specifically Commodores (I loved my grandfather's VL), but the VN was the first car that I saw at such a young age that made me really think, "That is COOL." I knew it was a Holden, like our WB, and a Commodore like my grandfather's VL, but this was something new, and something really cool. Finally got one back in 2018, I remember having never driven a VN before, I was a tad nervous about driving one for the first time, "don't meet your heroes" and all. Luckily, its every bit as great as I'd dreamed.