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VX_KN079 said:Never said a production car used it in the US or Europe. All I said was that it has been used in both Europe and the US.
You did say or imply first though and also these comments:
Wrong. The VE is based on the GM Zeta platform which hasn't been designed or engineered in Australia at all...........Wrong
Zeta has been in European cars for years...........Wrong
Plus unecessary defamatory comments added in your posts.
VE Commodore will be the first production car to use the Zeta Platform anywhere.
Concepts and Prototypes, well a modified VZ body fitted to the platform and tested by Holden in July/Aug/Sept 2003 is then the first full car to use it.
Test mules using the platform were being tested in early 2003. Holden set up the final tooling for the platform in Sept 2004.
The only European car to use the platform was the Prototype Opel Insignia.
Holden shipped a platform to Germany where Opel fitted a handbuilt Insignia body to it. This body cost $3million to produce and was the first public showing of a car with the Zeta platform in September 2004. Motoring Journalists were able to test drive the car but it was speed limited to just 40km/h.
The Insignia has now been shelved indefinitely.
No other European brand has used the platform at all.
The Camaro concept car was also handbuilt and fitted to a platform shipped from Australia in early 2005. The car was able to move under it's own power but could not truly be driven as such. Bob Lutz idled it on to stage in January 2006 at the Detroit motor show.
These are documented details from many sources including directly from GM North America and Holden. This "****" is easy to locate.
So the real answer is the VZ Commodore was the first complete car to use the Zeta Platform under VX_KN079's rules , hopefully ending this debate.
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