here's a reason i chose Redline, cream interiors make me physically ill. Blacked out all the way.
You really won't like my orange MY14 Redline then. lol The black interior is fine, but then again, almost everything sold in Australia is black with highlights of dark grey finished in black. I figured I would get one of the few Australian cars post 2000's that actually broke that unwritten law. My old Ford Territory had an interior finished in that gum grey colour and I think it helped it age much better. Anyway, in hindsight I'm surprised GMH were brave enough to persevere with the light coloured roof lining on the VF Commodore, especially on the SS's. I also remember the tremendous push back GMH got at the launch of the VF for the boot lid spoiler. I came from a Mazda 6 MPS, so I was cool with it, but most of the sales staff at the Holden dealer I ordered my early build VF from were aghast. My salesman even apologised the car had one of the new design. Kind of forgotten now, but a lot of VE owners were in shock when they saw that too. It was like their favourite car had been turned into a sporty Calais and they didn't know what to do about it. Actually that was the entire point if you saw the dealer literature at the time. The Calais V was luxury sports and the Redline was sports luxury. Even the seats on the Redline used a much higher quality foam on early models, although that was cost cut out of the car within a few months of production starting and gradually many of the small details were omitted. Anyway, the cars were supposed to be two interpretations of the same thing, just with different emphasis. Even the HSV range went for a more upmarket, subtle look at the VF launch. They were hoping to find a new buyer for Commodore. Holden was trying to move the car away from the bogan image the earlier Commodores had gotten.
