Commodore SS info

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So the Commodore SS came up on the used car list and grabbed it. After reading the info I noticed this...

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Can someone explain what this highway tour around Australia is.. Cause I'm pretty sure our highways a liiiiitle bit longer than 15k's...
 
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The picture is upside down because you're in Australia right? :lol: Just joking, but seriously it's going to be difficult to read for other people.
 
It hurts my head to read upside down.. Perhaps if you weren't "down under" hehe :lol:

Honestly I have no idea? I would think yes you do have more than 15k of roads? :confused:

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I (blameAuntJemima) he tree'ed my joke..:lol:
 
Hmm.. Must be me down under cause its upright for me haha.. Or using the iPhone for these forums is trickier than I thought
 
Or a typo and it should say 15000km....


Being as smart as I am, and the fact I travelled Australia, highway 1 is something like 15800 km long.
 
I can't find any trace of the mentioned race.. I highly doubt Australia would allow for a race to take part on their entire highway system though..

If it did happen, I imagine they meant upwards of 15,000. But I spent the past quarter of an hour looking through records, pages documenting holdens history and I can't find even one mention of such an event..
 
I just put the highway race, the figures 15.0 and Australia's highway together.

As unrealistic as it sounds. Who knows! But it didnt take them 6 days to race 15km lol that's why I said it must have been the whole 15000. Maybe it's an unofficial race they participated in.
 
I imagine PD would be professional enough to not list an unofficial event that as far as I've found has no evidence of its existence :lol:

But they say it "Broke a record" and street racers don't normally have official records or anything like that.

Normally, I could be wrong. Just seems weird.
 
:lol: Nice find.

I believe that it's supposed to be the Highway 1 length, which is 14,500 km (9,000 mi).
To cover this distance (depending on traffic conditions) in 6.5 days is pretty impressive.

On that note though I didn't do the write up for the SS so I'm just taking a guess.
 
Doing a search myself, I found that the Urban Dictionary lists the name of the car as being used as derogatory slang in Oz. I wonder if someone put that in as a joke placeholder in the game and someone forgot to replace it.

Even if the decimal is in the wrong place, 150 km would, hopefully, take less than 6 days, and 1,500 would take a grandmother (driving at normal highway speeds) less than 16 hours. lol

I could find no info on a race around the continent, either, like those who commented above. I'm kinda leaning towards this being a practical joke.

Edit: The description in my game for the car says "15,000-km".
 
IvanOffalich
Doing a search myself, I found that the Urban Dictionary lists the name of the car as being used as derogatory slang in Oz.
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The name "Commodore" is more a play on words. The Commodore is the flagship of Holden and flag ships of naval fleets have a familiar called a Commodore.

Don't know if that's absolutely true but it is how I always thought of it, I guess only the marketing team knows because they've never made it public to my knowledge

I could beat that holden by walking if it took 6 days to do 150km and with sleep and sight seeing 1500 sounds vaguely possible. But given it's a race 15,000 is the most logical (Added to the fact that it references a highway)
 
There was (not 100% if still run recently) a race from Darwin to Alice Springscalled the Cannonball Run that is basically across Australia, from top to bottom and back which would be roughly 4,000km. http://www.cannonballrun.info/. It could be a result from that.
 
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parabulla
I first started here: http://www.classicholdencars.com/holden-cars/

Where I read something that caught my eye, leading me here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Australia_Trial

So, I'm guessing the "Round Australia Trial" is the race listed there.
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Neither of the winners listed there are SS commodores and they stopped holding the event before the SS was in production. (The VR listed is a totally different car. My family are massive Holden nuts because they're such a massive part of our culture in NZ, so I'd be hung at dawn if I didn't know this stuff :lol:)
 
I wonder where the dev. team got the info for that description. It's really strange that none of us can find anything on this race and the Com SS setting a record time for it.
 
jagenigma
Is the commodore the same as the vauxhall vxr monaro?
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The vauxhall monaro is the same as the holden monaro. The monaro is a HSV (Holden Special Vehicle) so it's pretty much a power enhanced model, with a few little extra add-ons too.
 
ShaZZa
The vauxhall monaro is the same as the holden monaro. The monaro is a HSV (Holden Special Vehicle) so it's pretty much a power enhanced model, with a few little extra add-ons too.
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That's not accurate either. The Vauxhall Monaro has more torque and BHP.
 
ShaZZa
Any way you look at it it was originally a HOLDEN Monaro.

I was just stating that the SS is different from the monaro.
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No you didn't. You stated that the two Monaros are the same, which they're not.

You said nothing about the Commodore.
 
So PD has started fabricating history now? It was bad enough I had to live with their made-up 'RUF' fleet even though they were obviously Porsches without the serial numbers, but blatantly planting falsehoods into the minds of their consumers? That's it, I'm done with GT, there's no hope for racing simulators on consoles.
 
PlainBlandMan
So PD has started fabricating history now? It was bad enough I had to live with their made-up 'RUF' fleet even though they were obviously Porsches without the serial numbers, but blatantly planting falsehoods into the minds of their consumers? That's it, I'm done with GT, there's no hope for racing simulators on consoles.
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UrieHusky
Neither of the winners listed there are SS commodores and they stopped holding the event before the SS was in production. (The VR listed is a totally different car. My family are massive Holden nuts because they're such a massive part of our culture in NZ, so I'd be hung at dawn if I didn't know this stuff :lol:)
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The first SS commodore was made in 1982

jagenigma
Is the commodore the same as the vauxhall vxr monaro?
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The (post 2000) monaro is basically a 2 door commodore. The original commodore (1978) was basically a progression from the first and second generations of monaro (1968 - 1977)

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Monaro
 
I guarantee that despite there being no information about the race at all available on the web, that it certainly wasn't made up. The average speed to cover 15000k's in six and a half days is about 96 kph, which should be doable with a team of 2 drivers, our 110kph speed limit an fuel stops.

Maybe it's not an event but Holden just decided to do it for marketing... Something like "The new Commodore SS can circle Australia in six and a half days.. What have you done this week?" It certainly goes with the normal SS marketing style.

IvanOffalich
Doing a search myself, I found that the Urban Dictionary lists the name of the car as being used as derogatory slang in Oz. I wonder if someone put that in as a joke placeholder in the game and someone forgot to replace it.
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To my knowledge Commodore isn't derogatory slang, it's more that the young people who drive "Commy's" have a bad name as hoon drivers. Being urban dictionary, i bet someone put that there just to have a laugh at their 17 year old school mate.
 
MrDinosaw94
To my knowledge Commodore isn't derogatory slang, it's more that the young people who drive "Commy's" have a bad name as hoon drivers. Being urban dictionary, i bet someone put that there just to have a laugh at their 17 year old school mate.
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That's probably true. There are two entries that are negative and one that was positive, so it was likely people trying to throw a little mud at each other.

Depending on where you live in the world there are always cars that the 🤬 (fill in your favorite name for them) kids seem to buy. It's not really the car's fault, but for some reason the 🤬 kids always seem to be attracted to them more than others.

When I saw that together with the 15 km in the pic (which is incorrect compared to what it says in my in-game description), I thought maybe someone was playing a joke.

It's a shame we can't contact someone at PD and actually get a response. This has me curious now.
 
IvanOffalich
Depending on where you live in the world there are always cars that the 🤬 (fill in your favorite name for them) kids seem to buy. It's not really the car's fault, but for some reason the 🤬 kids always seem to be attracted to them more than others.
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The reasons that base model Commodores (and Ford Falcons) are such popular first cars are actually pretty simple. They're cheap, easily available, well equipped, six cylinder, simply modified, rear wheel drive, four door and pretty decent on fuel. Everything a teenager could want either comes standard or is easily bolted on, so why would a young fella spend more money for a hatchback when all his mates have either a Commodore or Falcon?

It's worth noting the SS model, which has been around through many series' of Commodore (not just the VZ of Gran Turismo) are illegal to drive until the age of 19 due to V8's requiring a full license to drive.
 

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