Motor – 2003 Celebrating 25 Years of Hot Commodores

Great Commodores
• HSV Clubsport R8
For bang for your buck, this is the best they ever built
• HSV GTS v CSV Mondo
Sex, power, passion - the fastest Commodores go head to head
• HDT Group A SS
Hot V8 Commodores got a head start under HDT. The Group A led
• The SS list
Details on every SS Commodore, from the first VH to now
• V8 Supercar stripped
Get a mechanic's eye view inside a brutal race car
• VL Turbo
Out of left field, out of the ordinary and straight into cult status
• Saved by the VN
Flawed, bored but broad, the VN was a pivotal Commodore
• The HSV list
How many? Heaps! We chart every model HSV has made since '88
• VB into VK goes hard
A humble VB shows why street machiners love the Commodore
• VL's Gen III grunt
Slot a 5.7-litre V8 into a VL and perfection ain't far away
• Supercharged V6
A true V8 killer? We found the truth by drag racing the test car
• The VT revolution
The VT kicked the Commodore into overdrive and utter dominance
• Monaro magic
No car completed the Commodore line like the fast and slinky coupe
• HDT's hot list
Here they are - the best that Brock built, and beyond

Features
• Brock and the HDT story
A match made in heaven produced brilliant cars, then fell apart
• The V8s, mate
The story of the great V8 engines, and details on all the others, too
• Glory days
Winners are grinners and the Commodore is laughing
• Rise and rise of HSV
Holden Special Vehicles has ultimate bragging rights
• GTS rocks Germany
We took the GTS to Germany and showed BMW and Mercedes Benz how it's done
• Telling tales
Embarrassment, defeat, disaster - we tell the tales they've kept hidden
• The best driver, ever
Brock? Skaife? Murph? Perkins? We may be lynched for this, but...
• Bargain buys
How to buy yourself the best used Commodores for the right money
• Hawley's howl
Jonathon Hawley's been living the Commodore way since dad's VB