I was lucky enough to be invited to the Holden/Car Advice drive day at Lang Lang yesterday. We were able to put the new ZB commodore through its paces ranging from the base model 2.0T through to the VXR and the Country Tourer.
A small highlight of the day was being in the car with Rob Trubiani ( him if you dont know who he is) at full flight in a VXR. Anyone who says you cannot drift an AWD car is just not trying hard enough. Whilst not as fast in a straight line as an SS, show it a twisty road and i highly doubt an SS would keep pace with the VXR, especially if the road was a bit damp

The day started with a slalom course with 50% of it wet. The grip of the awd system is very impressive and it was amazing how fast you could hussle these things. They inspired confidence when pushing on.

Next we drove a road loop in 3 cars, an opel insignia (pre holden tuning), a 2.0T with holden tuning & V6 with holden tuning. The differences were amazing. At the pace we were travelling I actually felt nausia in the opel. It was so floaty and just all over the road. The Holden tuned cars were well planted, easy to place and much more sorted. The difference was huge.
The 2.0T really shown here and has some serious grunt for a base model.
The 9spd auto was also very smooth and highly impressive.

Last was some light off roading in the Calais Country Tourer. If i was looking to buy this would be the pick, as much as i like the cars on the day i still find the styling of the liftback a bit awkward.

The Holden engineers went through some of the features never seen before on a holden with the most impressive being the new headlights. As someone who has done a lot of country driving and cleaned up both a kangaroo and wombat, these headights will be amazing.

Overall it was a fantastic day thanks to the Holden Engineers and Car Advice
Special mention goes to Mel Ong for inviting me a long
Photos from the day to come.