Now coming down the line

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 10/17/2017 at 19:13 • Filed to: Holden, closing down

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https://www.motoring.com.au/this-is-holdens-last-homegrown-commodore-109424/

Last Holden

CaptDale - is secretly British > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 19:18

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No, fuck you. You’re crying!

ranwhenparked > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 19:22

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Yeah, this really sucks. I’m sure entire thick books will be written about everything the automakers themselves and the government could have done differently to prevent this, but its all pointless now, the damage is already done.

XJDano > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 19:39

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Them empty carts behind are also sad looking.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 20:06

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This is probably one of the saddest pictures from a GM factory ever taken.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 21:43

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Doomed before it’s even fully born to become merely a museum exhibit. That’s no way to treat a car...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ranwhenparked 10/17/2017 at 21:46

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Could’ve/might’ve/should’ve/maybe/didn’t/doesn’t matter/move on...

ranwhenparked > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 10/17/2017 at 21:47

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People love could’ve/might’ve/should’ve/maybe/didn’t speculation though, that crap sells by the bucket load.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ranwhenparked 10/17/2017 at 22:00

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I prefer to know what actually happened and then some informed speculation about what’s next.

Local production at Holden, Ford and Toyota was doomed even back in the late 90s...you could see it was inevitable based on the tiny scale (and therefore cost) of production, lack of export potential for the product, age of the production facilities and the wide open retail market.

The only hope was a return to CKD based assembly but the rise of world wide platforms and the family SUV pretty much killed that.

AfromanGTO > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 22:11

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I am sad.... :(

Part of me is glad it is a Red Hot 2, because mine is the same color. The last GTO produced was also red.

I wonder how much it will go for at whatever charity auction they eventually sell it at.

pip bip - choose Corrour > AfromanGTO 10/17/2017 at 22:20

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Holden are keeping the last Caprice, Ute, wagon and sedan

404 - User No Longer Available > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/17/2017 at 22:43

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We should start a Kickstarter to buy the tooling off GM and restart Zeta production in maybe China.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > 404 - User No Longer Available 10/18/2017 at 07:27

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Does GM Canada still have the old Zeta tooling at Oshawa?

404 - User No Longer Available > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 10/18/2017 at 08:25

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For the Camaro? Maybe, but they haven’t been producing the Camaro for almost 2 years now. Besides even though both Zeta, I would assume Camaro tooling to be significantly different than Commodores.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > 404 - User No Longer Available 10/18/2017 at 10:18

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Just have to lengthen a few pieces for the Commodore or Statesman/Caprice. I mean, beyond that it’s just non-structural sheet metal differences :)

AfromanGTO > pip bip - choose Corrour 10/19/2017 at 12:38

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GM sells their last cars of their production line every foreclosure auction. Maybe in a few years they will be for sale.