HOLDEN’S Commodore would have muscled into the top five best-selling vehicles in March – if you include the biggest jump in US sales the car has ever encountered.

Chevrolet SS sales skyrocket in the US
Chevrolet SS sales skyrocket in the US

Order books close on Holden’s US export Commodore

Previously, SS sales in the US have bumped around the low hundreds, and even into double digits, with the previous peak coming in April last year when the brand sold almost 600 of the LS3-engined left-hand-drive Commodores in that month.

Chevrolet SS sales skyrocket in the US

2018 Holden Commodore Tourer revealed

Chevrolet SS sales skyrocket in the US
Chevrolet SS sales skyrocket in the US

Holden announced last year that it had received an order for an extra 1000 Chevrolet-badged Commodores that would help the carmaker meet an anticipated ramp-up in US demand for the rear-drive, four door sports car as buyers realised that come October, they won’t be made any more.

The carmaker had planned to sell about 3000 Chev-badged Commodores in the US as it worked up to the October 20 deadline that will mark the end of almost 70 years of Australian manufacturing, and the end of the industry as a whole.

It has already sold more than 1500 cars in the US in the first three months of this year.