by "pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
Published 10/18/2017 at 07:23
by "pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
Published 10/18/2017 at 07:23
Tags: holden
; closing down
; closing
; gmh
STARS: 3
apologies for the depressing posts.
but history doesn’t wait i’m afraid.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
10/18/2017 at 07:39, STARS: 0
Stop it. You are making this really hard to not apply for an AUS tourist visa and go to Adelaide.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/18/2017 at 11:14, STARS: 0
Really, dude, please stop. Going to the Holden plant and headquarters has always been a dream of mine, but now it’ll just be the headquarters for a company carrying rebadged Chevys.
"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
10/18/2017 at 17:54, STARS: 0
If you’ve every been to Elizabeth Shopping Centre then you are unlikely to ever go back...
"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
10/18/2017 at 17:55, STARS: 0
Mostly Opels and GMCs actually.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/18/2017 at 18:53, STARS: 0
What ever, I mean almost all of the small cars, CUVs, and light trucks are global badge engineering crap.
"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
10/18/2017 at 19:54, STARS: 0
Yep...they call that Progress.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/18/2017 at 20:09, STARS: 0
When the only V8 cars you make are the Corvette, Camaro, and CTS-V then you are doing something very wrong. There is nothing fun and family man oriented there.
Pls the rest of those badges things are crap.
"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei)
10/18/2017 at 21:04, STARS: 0
Go once, and then you don’t have to go back :)
"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
10/18/2017 at 23:15, STARS: 1
We get neither the Corvette, Camaro or the CTS-V. And even if we did, none of them would be affordable to the average family man.
Same goes for pretty much any Holden or Ford V8 in the last five years...but especially the hi-po ones. One of the major reasons these things died is that Australians stopped buying them - there were cheaper and seemingly more practical alternatives.
I don’t mourn the demise of the Commodore, Falcon or even the Australian assembled Camry and Aurion. They were not cars I was ever really taken with. I do mourn the loss of engineering and manufacturing capability that their demise represents.
There is still a car industry here. It just doesn’t make cars. It designs and engineers vehicles for manufacture elsewhere. It designs and manufactures components and aftermarket products. It modifies and engineers world group vehicle platforms and chassis dynamics for Australian conditions. And it designs and manufactures vehicles for off road applications (mine sites etc.).
Tomorrow is a sad day. But, like the death of a beloved pet, it was inevitable. And we will quickly move on to another pet.
"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
10/19/2017 at 11:03, STARS: 1
"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
10/20/2017 at 06:09, STARS: 1
I give you one star because that’s all I can give.