New Holden Torano
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
GM’s brand new rear-drive Zeta will made its debut in Australia in April 2006 with the launch of the all-new Holden Commodore sedan and Monaro coupe. The adaptable Zeta, which will be built in long-wheelbase form for Holden’s upscale Statesman and also with all-wheel drive for its crossover and pickup models also is scheduled to create many more of American GM cars besides the new GTO.
In addition, GM is said to be working on a smaller rear-drive platform that fits between Kappa and Zeta. The genesis behind this new platform is a concept car, called the Torana TT36, designed and developed in Australia by Holden.
Developed under the codename XP54, scale clay models of the car were shown to GM product czar Bob Lutz, design chief Ed Wellburn, and North American engineering VP Jim Queen in February 2004. Holden boss Denny Mooney pushed the idea of what Holden sources call a “unique lower dominant structure” designed to “expand the GM parts bin.”
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