Wish list of factory options for the 1970's Sandman.

[Innuendo]

... just imagine that Sandman continued into WB, and that WB was updated into WD or WE or WF or whatever. By mid 1988 only just over 3 years after the end of WB we would have seen an injected 5 litre and 4L60 in a proper Holden.

Thank god that never happened. The UC infected WB was bad enough! Had they released "WD or WE or WF or whatever" that would have tarnished the great '70's machines even further. There wasn't a Holden built after HZ for the next 20 years that had any decent styling and just about no commercials. A VN/VS fronted WB Van or Ute - the mind boggles with the ugliness. '87 -'97 is just an embarrassing time for Holden and the automotive manufacturing industry in general, especially in styling.

[HK1837]

Thank god that never happened. The UC infected WB was bad enough! Had they released "WD or WE or WF or whatever" that would have tarnished the great '70's machines even further. There wasn't a Holden built after HZ for the next 20 years that had any decent styling and just about no commercials. A VN/VS fronted WB Van or Ute - the mind boggles with the ugliness. '87 -'97 is just an embarrassing time for Holden and the automotive manufacturing industry in general, especially in styling.

UC styling was based on WA which was based on what Europe were doing with whatever the VB was based upon, not the other way around.
I agree that a VN fronted W commercial would have been awful but at least they'd have built a commercial between 1985-1991.