It’s been a long time coming. Holden’s VE Commodore has finally landed and after an arduous wait, I sat my rear end in their performance flagship – the almighty SS. Holden’s advertising campaign claimed that the new VE would leave its competitors in the Stone Age. They’re pretty bold claims, so with an open mind intact, I turned the 6.0-litre V8 over and fled with every intent to test the SS at its limits.

After many hours of testing in various Aussie conditions, the SS is claimed to be the best it has ever been. I was also finally relieved to be steering a manual version of Holden’s 6.0-litre V8. Thus far I had only driven the 6-speed auto Caprice and Senator V8s, and suffice to say, I was keen for some real driving.
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http://www.caradvice.com.au/1461/ve-holden-commodore-ss-road-test/

Great write-up and hopefully those interior quality issues will be solved before Pontiac brings it in. If the gaps and loose items are present in production vehicles, the Auto Mags will disparage this thing in a big way and tell GM to go back to the drawing board.

Those faults are pretty minor: 20 minutes with a dealer would fix them. And they do assume they are production faults, and not damage caused by one of the (many) journos who's driven the car.

don't the Aussies do any performance testing to report? WTF, here in the states if you don't includes times and traps, we don't need it....where are the numbers?