In an announcement that held no great surprises to anyone paying attention, General Motors today announced that Holden would “transition to a national sales company in Australia and New Zealand”. Which means goodbye to the venerable Commodore. Holden will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing and “significantly reduce” its engineering operations by the end of 2017, […]
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“A massive improvement” would be the best way to describe the revised Colorado ute and Colorado 7 SUV. And it was an improvement that needed to happen too. When it was launched the Colorado was, well, underwhelming. Holden had taken aim at the venerable Toyota Hilux and while it had made a better ute than […]
The Top Ten finalists for the overall AA/NZ Motoring Writers’ Guild New Zealand New Zealand Car of the Year have been announced. They are, in no particular order: Subaru BRZ, Ford Kuga, Lexus IS, Holden Volt, Hyundai Santa Fe, Volkswagen Golf, Subaru Forester, Holden Commodore VF, Mazda6 and Volvo V40. The finalists will now be voted on by members of the NZ Motoring Writers’ […]
Bogan-tastic! With the release of a new Commodore comes the inevitable V8-powered SS version! And with the addition of the FE3 sports suspension-equipped Redline model to the permanent line up, things would appear to be very promising indeed for Aussie performance fans. Except… they have made it VERY quiet indeed. With the bogan in us […]
It’s a new Commodore, but is the world interested in any way? Well, the sales figures suggest that at least a few are, but nowhere near as many as there used to be. That is a shame because the VF is undoubtedly the best car that has ever come out of Australia. Packed with cutting […]
Is the Holden Volt the way of the future or a technological dead-end that will be quickly made obsolete? Hell, we don’t know! What we DO know though, is that the Volt is here now and it represents a major change in the way we are going to have to look at our cars in […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Holden Barina CDX It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes a version of a car comes along that changes your original perception of it. The CDX version of the Holden Barina actually seems to be one of those cars… Originally, I didn’t like the Barina very much. It looked great, but was […]
OVERSTEER ROAD TEST: Holden Colorado 7 Okay, so the Colorado ute missed the target somewhat, but how about the seven-seat SUV version? It’s got a more sophisticated rear suspensions set up for a start, so it shouldn’t be as crap, right? Turns out that actually IS right! We take the Holden Colorado 7 for a […]
Good news for everyone out there who looked at the top-spec Cruze CDX, admired the leather interior, high level of specification and chrome bits, but thought “Hmm… I just wish it was a bit noisier…” Well now it is, because Holden has made the CDX available with the 2-litre common-rail diesel engine, previously only available […]
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