There it is
The very end of Australian car manufacturing
"The final Commodore-based model has rolled off HSV’s assembly facility in Clayton, Victoria, drawing to a close 30 years of the company"
The last 300 special edition W1's used a dry sump supercharged LS9 mated to a 6 speed manual (only) and many more high end performance bits including V8 supercar inspired suspension and massive brembo brakes
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Why is Holden dying off? Seems like they made way better cars than chevy
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Becauee GM owned them and didnt see the point in keeping a small satelite company open even though the South Australian plant was one of GM's top 3 most profitable plants in the world
That just seems stupid though, if they were making money why would they consider it a good decision to close it? It’s not like holdens weren’t selling or anything, hell the SS became quickly sought after as soon as it came over here.
Has it been around the nuremberg ring?
no but it has gone to Burger King, or for ozs Hungry Jacks
they tried to get the government to give them more money by writing everything they could off as a Holden Loss
example, they bought daewoo through holden, then holden gave the company to GM, and GM wrote it off as holden losing a pile of money
they played chicken with the Australian government by claiming the factory made no money and they needed government funding, and the gov called their bluff. basically every car manufacturer gets government payouts to support their factories
imagine being GM and some little minor factory made consistently better cars than your main companies? the Holden commodores were comparable to BMWs more than they were to malibus or whatever gay shit GM was selling
>not selling
every single HSV made in 2017 was sold before it was off the production line, same goes for most of the SS commodores and SS-V commodores.
easy to make the sales figures look bad when they are not producing as many cars...