I can only read with envy everyone on here with VL Turbos or Calais - the majority of us with company cars were relegated to the base models. The three Commodores I had were a VC, VH and VL. The VL was the best of them, but as far as I was concerned, all of them stood up to the pounding only a company car can take. I don't remember any major faults with any of them, with just under 100,000 kms up on each within 3 or 4 years. Yes, the fit and finish of the VL wasn't quite up to scratch, but the same could be said for the equivalent Falcons we had on the fleet. Ampol being a proudly Australian company meant the choice of car had to be (or appear to be) Australian. Most company cars that I was involved with stretched from VB to VN and XD to EA. It was the VN and EA that caused most problems, but by then the company was changing from the standard fleet Holden or Falcon to an employee package, where they could choose what they wanted within a certain price group. Six cylinder Magnas and Camrys started to appear, followed by Honda Accords and Nissan Skylines. I'm neither Holden or Ford biassed - I can see the good and bad in all of them; I simply chose the smaller Commodore as I didn't have a family and felt the VC was (slightly) more sophisticated than the XD.