Official - holden to stop 2017

Thanks, GM....orphans have just been created all over the world!

It'll make the union bosses at UAW & CAW happy--and we know how important that is.

So, does this mean...what? If GM is pulling Chevrolet out of Europe, will GM even bother to offer product in Australia after Holden closes--and where will these cars be built?

I'd be inclined to think that Australians won't be too pleased with either Ford or GM/Holden for their 2016-2017 plans to cease manufacturing in Oz, so their sales efforts may be for naught, no matter how good the products may be.

Maybe Holden should come up with a plan to buy itself away from GM and continue to build really cool cars.....

GM/Holden press release

http://media.gm.com/content/media/u...nt/Pages/news/us/en/2013/Dec/1210-holden.html

Devereux live now - someone pass the tissue's to wipe the crap comoing out of his hole......

Navy Lifer said:

Thanks, GM....orphans have just been created all over the world!

It'll make the union bosses at UAW & CAW happy.

So, does this mean...what? If GM is pulling Chevrolet out of Europe, will GM even bother to offer product in Australia after Holden closes--and where will these cars be built?

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Holden will sell imported cars only.
Design studio to stay........

I am absolutely devastated over this. I'm going to have to figure out how to come up with the dough to get an SS. Last of the great Holdens.

Always thought some of the coolest cars came from Holden roots. Now what. What is it going to do to the price of 2004-2006 GTO and G8 parts and availability. Parts are already unbelievably expensive and scarce. Where will replacement parts for the SS come from? Alot of questions.

And a lot of GOOD questions at that! Welcome Raress9596!

Holden will still build cars, they will just be built somewhere other than Australia. This is a huge blow to the Australian economy, but honestly propping up the Australian manufacturing industry would just prolong the inevitable. I wonder what the Aus government will do in reaction. Lots of people will be out of a job.

Just read on The Car Connection site that Toyota may also pull out of Australia. None of this is going to be easy for anyone to handle. And the parts situation??? Like has been mentioned, they will be very expensive, if you can get them. We know they have to make parts for ten years but what after that??

This will be bad for their economy in the short term, people losing jobs, etc.