What's wrong with VF V8 Calais V's?

[hademall]

Fitted with LSD aren’t they?
Our VE Calais V is LSD.

… say that ten times fast. Bloody mouthful.

It would be if you have a nose full of LSD!

 

[Forg]

It would be if you have a nose full of LSD!

Doesn’t LSD come in tablets or as sticky blobs on pieces of paper?
Are you telling me Stephen King didn’t give me accurate information?!

 

[hademall]

Doesn’t LSD come in tablets or as sticky blobs on pieces of paper?
Are you telling me Stephen King didn’t give me accurate information?!

Damn, no wonder I suffer ‘INSOMNIA’, sometimes I feel like I’m in ‘THE DEAD ZONE,’ it’s well after ‘FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT’ and I just want someone to ‘CARRIE’ me off and put me out of my ‘MISERY.’ I think in pure ‘DESPERATION’ I may have to go and see ‘DOCTOR SLEEP’ before the men in white coats take me to ‘THE INSTITUTE’ where I may have to walk ‘THE GREEN MILE’ which could end up being ‘THE LONG WALK’ that goes for miles and miles, and I might end up like a ‘BAG OF BONES’ if I don’t become one of those ‘SLEEPING BEAUTIES’ soon. I could just slash a wrist and ‘IF IT BLEEDS’ so be ‘IT’ I’d rather that, than to be mauled to death by a rabid dog named ‘CUJO’ then dragged off to a ‘PET CEMETERY’ which could be haunted by ‘THE TOMMYKNOCKERS’ or ‘THE SKELETON CREW’, or I could just bore myself to death by reading ‘THE STAND’!
No, I think I’d be better off doing what I’ve always done, drop another tab and do another ‘NIGHT SHIFT’.

 

[J_D 2.0]

I had a bit of a Google out of interest … your assessment is astonishingly & depressingly accurate.
It’s like Calais was only available in Fleet Cardigan Metallic White.

“The cream, the bone, the off-white, the white, the ivory or the beige”

“Yep, sounds great love, thanks”.

 

[Forg]

Actual white is somewhat nicer than taxi fleet metallic white (also sold as "silver" I think) ... and also rarer, in Calais, apparently.

 

[mpower]

their both equally valid choices, Commodores with luxo and go fast bits.

 

[KING46Calais V]

So did holden get it right with the director?
Much less chrome, but is the amount of chrome not the only problem?
I have a black calais and love it. It was exactly what I wanted when I found out Holden were finishing up.
I wanted to swap the grille out to a director version to tone it down a bit but when I showed people photos, they all preferred the chrome. (Car and non car enthusiasts)

 

[KING46Calais V]

That would be a 'Director'.

Not quite...

 

[Forg]

So did holden get it right with the director?
Much less chrome, but is the amount of chrome not the only problem?
I have a black calais and love it. It was exactly what I wanted when I found out Holden were finishing up.
I wanted to swap the grille out to a director version to tone it down a bit but when I showed people photos, they all preferred the chrome. (Car and non car enthusiasts)

You're asking for personal preferences, everyone's going to be different!

However I prefer the reduced-chrome option. Except for the red, notsomuch a fan of the red highlight.

 

[Ginger Beer]

If I was to do it again I would go Calais over SS for sure

Maybe even a low km Statesman over the SS

In the end I'm using it a a fun modified street car that has had nearly every handling and performance part changed anyway

As for ride height, I don't have issues at FE2 height, even with big tube 4:1 headers

Compliance on rough roads is spring rate and valving, alot of people use spring rates that are way to height and the damper valving is mismatched

In the end dampers (shocks) are a consumable item anyway, so "factory suspension" only lasts so long