Holden Monaro concept (Monica)

The Holden Monaro concept codenamed Monica was a two-door coupe shown at the 1998 Sydney Motor Show, twenty years after the last Monaro coupe. It was based on the VT series Holden Commodore, which in turn used a modified platform of the European Opel Omega B. Journalists quickly christened it the Monaro and orders came flooding in, which encouraged Holden to put the car into production. The production model, the third generation Monaro known as the V2 series, was eventually launched in 2001, by then based on the VX Commodore. The Monica is one of several Monaro concepts, alongside the Marilyn convertible of 2004 and the Coupe 60 of 2008.