High-tech All-new Commodore Ready To Take Australia By Storm

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Originally Posted by commodorenutt

To be fair, at the time the world was reeling from the oil price shocks they'd recently endured, and economy was high on the list of priorities.

But at least all the early V8 commodores got full instruments (6 gauges - speed,tach, fuel, temp, oil press, volts)- even in 1978 - even base models.
The mid-level 6s got the same except for the tach being swapped out for the vac. gauge, but by VK all models had the full compliment, with the exception of the base model 6s having the vac gauge. A far cry from competitors who had very little in the lower spec models of the era.

Even under moderate acceleration it was in the red zone.

Then we had the Starfire four cylinder in response to the oil price shocks.