VE Commodore is Holden's billion-dollar gamble on the Australian automotive industry. Bigger, heavier, more powerful and no more aerodynamic, it's therefore a minor miracle that fuel consumption actually drops at base level, in the Omega sedan. Holden's pin-sharp new pricing policy - and a pair of new more upmarket, V-badged SS and Calais variants - is an attempt by Holden to attract more individual buyers to Commodore, only around a quarter of which currently find private homes. But as the cheapest new VE variant, Omega picks up where the VZ Executive left off, and as such is the most important plank in the success of Holden's fourth-generation Commodore. DOes it have the goods?