You are saying from VB-VZ that the cars shared nothing besides a roofline? Peter Hannenberger pushed Holden ahead with this car when introduced, yes changes over the years have been made but essentially the cars are same chassis and share a lot of the components. It was a no brainer that we needed a different engine & suspension package and it was done.

I've driven a VT Omega with a 2.2 ecotec across Southern Ireland. it shared same IRS suspension (which is an almost identical large scale of early 80's BMWs), parts of interior, doors and looking under the bonnet was similar. How can you say that the components at both sides of the worlds disposal were unable to be utilised?