The next Holden Commodore would have been the global ZB-generation model, based on GM’s international E2 architecture rather than the old local rear- drive platform. That meant a shift toward four- and six-cylinder engines, front- and all-wheel drive , and a body shared with Opel Insignia, not a new Australian-built V8 sedan.

What that meant

  • Holden began planning the replacement around 2010 and chose the global route in 2011.
  • The original intention was to build it at Elizabeth in Adelaide, but Holden later ended local manufacturing and the car became an imported model from Germany.
  • So the “next Commodore” was not going to be a traditional Aussie rear-drive V8 in the old sense, even though that is what many fans expected.

The broader picture

There were also earlier concepts that never became the next Commodore, including a Commodore-based SUV project Holden studied in the mid-2000s, but that program was cancelled before production. In practical terms, the real successor to the VF Commodore was the ZB Commodore, and that was the model Holden actually planned and launched as the final Commodore generation.

In one line

If you mean the model Holden was developing after the VF, it would have been the ZB Commodore: a global, front/all-wheel-drive successor based on Opel/GM architecture.