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No, it wasn't the turbo engine but the N/A one (turbo may have been an option). If not for the exchange rate with the Japanese yen turning sour the VN may well have been powered by the Nissan donk. Holden ran two engineering & costing programs simultaneously - one with the Nissan straight 6 and one with the Buick V6. It wasn't a last minute decision to go with the Buick but it certainly wasn't an early call either. Apart from the higher cost, one of the deciding factors was that Nissan weren't prepared to increase the capacity of the engine, and up against the 3.9L Falcon at the time it would have been a tough marketing sell with just a 3.0 (the bigger is better approach was still the thinking back then).madsav said:did you know that the orignal motors that was going to to put into the vn`s was the vl turboed motor.
Demons1964 said:No, it wasn't the turbo engine but the N/A one (turbo may have been an option). If not for the exchange rate with the Japanese yen turning sour the VN may well have been powered by the Nissan donk. Holden ran two engineering & costing programs simultaneously - one with the Nissan straight 6 and one with the Buick V6. It wasn't a last minute decision to go with the Buick but it certainly wasn't an early call either. Apart from the higher cost, one of the deciding factors was that Nissan weren't prepared to increase the capacity of the engine, and up against the 3.9L Falcon at the time it would have been a tough marketing sell with just a 3.0 (the bigger is better approach was still the thinking back then).