Official Holden VK Commodore Range including Calais Promotional Information DiscoVision 

Great Video, had a VK 5Litre, Loved the commodore overtaking the Falcon!!

It's a pity Holden didn't source a GM 4-speed automatic for the VK. That, with the EFI six, would have been a knockout combination.

Had a 1984 Calais, absolutely loved that car.

Soo cool your a legend mate for getting these videos 👍

The VK commodore when it changed to Bosch fuel injection had issues with super petrol clogging the injectors.

Because I had an injury mine did over 300000km, before the engine showed no sign of giving up.Quality was similar to any car at the time, people just loved talking down local products. Mine was a 5 speed Berlin’sa, a ripper of a car at the time . It accelerated well responsive had good brakes and handled well.Toyota evidently had better quality. I never saw it. Just a great car for the type of driving I did.

Wow. 7l/100. Its was a robust little engine but the ancient 202 DRANK fuel like there was no tomorrow. And gutless to boot. It wouldn't get that figure going down hill with a tailwind. This is the most flagrantly stretched car advertising I've ever seen. While the "acclaimed" trimatic was tired and old and nothing to get excited about. The new AM/FM radio was crap and couldn't pick up a thing in country areas. But hey at least it finally had FM. The headlights were useless after dark. They look tired and plain and ugly now but at the time we all thought these looked amazing. And they did ride quite well although the 14" wheels and skinny tires slid out easily when pushed. Ah nostalgia. Its all gone now.

Wish i still had my 333 matching numbers calais, they are fetching a fortune now!

Do you have one of these videos for the vt commodore range?

Commodore comes with the 3 speed Traumatic transmission! 😅

Gotta love those computer graphics, ford used the same software to showcase it's watts linkage coil rear suspension

When you're using plastic moulding and window trims as selling points, boy you're in trouble.

Wow. My berlina hasn't looked like that in years. Mine was a 3.3 efi trimatic.

If only our American market cars were this nice.

I had an injected vk, it was very ordinary. Crap fuel economy, crap performance. 7.3 l/p100km, well nearly double that and thats taking it easy. I traded up to a VL v8 which got better economy and by the time l tweaked it a bit and converted it to a 5 speed manual, easily got under 10 l/p 100 km. Sorry GMH the 202 was clearly disposed of for a very good reason, it never received the capital investment required to cut it with the competition and to a lesser degree l think you could apply that train of thought to the v8. Putting the RB30 in the vl was a bit better and those turbos could be rockets with a bit of a fiddle. The vn may not have been anything special but it was a vast improvement.

See one of these today and you think it’s an old banger. That 80’s squared-off look has not aged well...

Unfortunately the VK Commodore had the worst build quality. Just look at the headlight surround in the video and you will notice the front left guard panel does not line up with the headlight. And thats for starters. I bought a new one (VK Calais in 84) and there were so many issues including mechanical. It was worst than buying a secondhand one :(

3:30 Why is that commodore sitting so lop sided?

That engine had no business being in an executive class car in 1984 - it was underdeveloped even for 1971...so much penny pinching.

I think 12.3 litres/100 kilometres for city driving & 7.6 litres per 100 kilometres is a load of rubbish if anyone is speaking about the old 202 cubic inch Holden six, that's coming from a Holden such as myself - 202 = fuel guzzler. They got 20 kilowatts more power (86 kilowatts) out of the black 202 cubic inch Holden six over the red 202 engine (66 kilowatts) but the fuel consumption was pretty much still the same. The EFI engine had a whopping 40 kilowatt power increase (106 kilowatts) over red carby 202 engine but the fuel consumption was basically the same as in the HQ Kingswood which was fitted with the red 202 cubic inch Holden six but the power increase was a massive achievement back in 1984. They dropped both the 173 cubic inch Holden six from the lineup which was an economical engine which my dad used to get 28 miles per U.K. gallon out of when he bolted one into his old HQ Kingswood wagon. People have claimed to get 11.5 litres per 100 kilometres (about 25 miles per U.K. gallon) out of the black Carby 202 engine in the VK Commodore which must've been Holdens reasoning for dropping the 173 cubic inch engine, the power output out of the black Carby motor was about the same as the single exhaust 253 cubic inch Holden V8 engine in the Previous model VH Commodore. The black EFI Holden six put out more power than the 100 kilowatt twin (French) exhaust 253 cubic inch V8 engine did in the VH Commodore SL/E & SL/X models. From what I gather,the 202 cubic inch Holden six in any form is a fuel guzzler,try about an average of 18 miles per U.K. gallon or on a good day 20 miles per U.K. gallon,the very best my father got was 21 Miles per U.K. gallon when driving on the highway for 600 kilometres. I knew someone who used to thrash his red 202 cubic inch Holden six powered HZ Holden Kingswood (1978-1979 model) sedan which was out of tune & it had exhaust leaks,he got down to 12 miles per U.K. gallon out of the 66 kilowatt engine - that's terrible. You may as well have bought the 308/304 cubic inch Holden V8 back then if you had the money as their fuel economy was about the same as what the 202 cubic inch Holden sixes was !

A pity there was no turbo injected model, I did one years ago as a custom deal and it spanked a 5.0L, trimatic upgraded to V8 internals and shift kitted with an early Wolf computer it got 30+ mpg drove unbelievably well, was a Berlina would not have taken Holden much of production change but I guess someone thought a Nissan motor was the way to go,and held out until VL model face lift, i think a 2850 turbo (173) model would have been the go next to 2850 na model and let the 3.3 fade away

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Crappy plastic dash, worst dash lighting then any car I have owned, the VC Commodores were better

These bullshit ad agencies have not changed since television. One would think they were selling poon!

The start of Holden's down fall...while other Manufacturers were going Twin Cam, Fuel injection and Turbo charging...Holdens best effort was a dirty old "Black Motor" Holden thought people would just keep buying their ONE model car...they couldn't have got it any more wrong...Holdens biggest market ended up being Westie Bogans buying years old "Second Hand" Commodores....Not good when your business is selling NEW CARS

god the 80's and 90's commodores was terrible. the design and build quality mostly!