G'Day Holden

[RPM 26322]

Holden brand to be axed after General Motors announces it will exit Australian market

The Holden brand will be axed by the end of 2020 after the US car giant General Motors announced it would no longer design cars for the Australian market.

Three years after it ceased production in Australia, GM said on Monday that it would exit the “highly fragmented right-hand-drive market” and “retire” the Holden brand by 2021.

The company announced in December that it would pull the Commodore brand from showrooms after 42 years.

In a statement, GM said it would cease sales, design and engineering operations in Australia and New Zealand and retire the Holden brand by 2021.

 

[TwiceHorn 31495]

Damn.

I stumbled across some mid-2000s GTOs the other day that had Holden nameplates inside the door.

[Okie State 3821]

Doesn't bode well for replacement parts availability.

[G650 14263]

Damn is right

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

And here I thought this was gonna be an Aussie come to life Holden Caulfield thread.......

[CooterBrown 18014]

23 minutes ago, Okie State said:

Doesn't bode well for replacement parts availability.

Read an article that said they'll guarantee 10 years of availability. Then you're on your own.  

Does make you wonder what'll happen to all those Holdens sitting on car lots right now. Some may sell to car collectors but the average buyer isn't going near them.

[Hawndoh 2386]

They'll mark them way down and people will buy them anyway. Get 4-5 years out of them and then move on.

Spare part supplies should last a while. 

[Braff Zacklin 13616]

And g'day to you, too, sir.

[Parliament 14260]

Damn.
I stumbled across some mid-2000s GTOs the other day that had Holden nameplates inside the door.

That body platform, GTO, G8, Chevy SS is the best-kept secret. SO many cool things you can do with one of those.

[Okie State 3821]

The platform is great. It's the one off unique parts like power steering or windshield or other stupid shit that worry me about long-term ownership. I had planned on keeping mine forever, but we'll see.

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2652]

Woah, that sucks. They were historically some great, if not interesting cars. 
 

fucking GM. 

[Paper_jam 831]

I really liked my 2004 GTO. At the time, they were letting them go cheap because the US market didn't accept the car as a "real" Pontiac GTO. But it was a damn nice car, especially compared to the other stuff coming out of GM at the time.

 

 

[KaiserSoze 998]

I'm interested to see what the Bogans eventually embrace as its successor.