Kind of on topic, I found a few quotes from TT36 days that shows that Denny Mooney as actively seeking approval to develop Torana's platform.
This article from 2007:
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Smaller than the Zeta-based Holden Commodore, the TT36 was built using hardware from the Pontiac Solstice's Kappa architecture. Holden boss Denny Mooney has made it quite clear a production version could be developed using Kappa components: "We were looking at that hardware as a potential base," he told the Sydney Morning Herald last year, "...to do a sedan off that. That's fundamentally what we'd do."
Scale clay models of the Torana TT36 concept, which was developed under the codename XP54, were shown to GM product czar Bob Lutz, design chief Ed Welburn and then North American engineering vice-president Jim Queen (now vp of global engineering) in February 2004. Mooney wanted GM to okay development of the TT36's "unique lower dominant structure" (i.e. platform), but the program was reportedly put on ice while the company diverted resources to rushing the GMT900 trucks and SUVs into production. Now it appears to have been given the green light.
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