Manufacturers by Region Australian

Holden Concept Racer Has Four Electric Motors and 1,341 Hp

Concept cars are aspirational at the best of times, but Holden’s taking it to another level with the Time Attack concept. Less concept car than concept concept, Holden’s latest creation exists entirely within the digital ether and is said to preview the post-auto show world.

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New Brabham Supercar to Make 710 HP Per Tonne From 5.4L V8

Brabham Automotive, the former racecar manufacturer founded by Australian F1 driver Sir Jack Brabham, has teased its upcoming new supercar with an image showing the vehicle’s rear end.

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Chevrolet Camaro and Silverado Are Heading to Australia

Holden Special Vehicles has announced that two of America’s most iconic nameplates are heading to Australia.

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In Australia, SUVs Are More Popular Than Babies!

Looks like Australians love their SUVs more than they love their babies.

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10 Cars Discontinued in the Past 10 Years That Need a Comeback

Cars, like friends, come and go. But that doesn’t make it any easier to suffer through yet another year with so many voids in the market — and our hearts.

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2016 Toyota Land Cruiser Review

The amazing machines I’ve been lucky enough to test have brought me to some extreme places.

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Is GM Readying Its Own Hellcat Fighter?

GM could be bidding farewell to the Holden Commodore in style with a Hellcat fighter.

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Which Automakers Own Which Car Brands?

At times the auto industry can feel overwhelming, with all the different products, brands and stories to keep straight. There’s always something going on in this business, from breaking news to vehicle reviews.

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2015 HSV GTS Maloo Thunders Out From Under Cover

Every day that passes is another where Holden draws closer to shuttering its Australian factories, but the company isn’t prepared to do that without releasing a few more of the thunderous products its customers love.

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Tesla Receives $1.3 Billion Tax Break From Nevada

The world’s largest lithium-ion battery factory just received a massive tax break.

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Holden Set to Build Fastest Ute as Swan Song

Holden shut down its Australian manufacturing operation in 2017, but not before going out with a bang.

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HSV to Continue Tuning Cars in Australia After 2017

Despite GM’s plan to end end Australian production in 2017, tuning partner HSV will likely remain in business to create manic versions of Holden-badged products beyond that point.

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Holden Gets Trio of Opel Nameplates

Despite its decision to shutter Australian auto manufacturing in 2017, General Motors’ Holden subsidiary will continue to engineer, test and develop vehicles in the country.

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Holden Tuner HSV Might Move Business to US

General Motors’ choice to stop manufacturing Holden vehicles in Australia could have some entertaining consequences for driving enthusiasts in the U.S.

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GM CEO to Oversee Review of Ignition Switch Recall

General Motors CEO Mary Barra has issued out a statement concerning the recent ignition-switch recall that ultimately affected 1.6-million vehicles.

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Toyota Australian Manufacturing to End by 2017

Toyota said today that it plans to shutter its Australian auto manufacturing operation by 2017.

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Holden's Exit May Put Australian Auto Industry in Peril

GM and Holden’s announcement yesterday that they’ll cease their Australian operations in 2017 could put the Australian automotive industry in jeopardy.

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Holden to Cease Operations in 2017

General Motors’  Holden unit has confirmed that it will cease its Australian manufacturing operations in 2017.

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General Motors to Cancel Australian Production: Report

General Motors might have already come to a final decision about the future of its vehicle manufacturing operation in Australia.

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Chevrolet SS Production Threatened by Subsidy Spat

Production of the Holden Commodore-based Chevrolet SS began last month, but the production run could be interrupted soon.

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HSV Gen-F GTS is a Supercharged Holden Commodore With 577 HP – Video

Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) has revealed its Gen-F model lineup, based on the VF Commodore but packing plenty more power under the hood.

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Holden HSV GTS is a ZL1-Powered Chevy SS

Take a look at Australia’s most powerful car: a 575-hp Holden HSV GTS powered by the same supercharged V8 from the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.

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2014 Chevrolet SS Previewed by Holden Commodore SS V

Holden, General Motors’ Australian subsidiary, unveiled another version of its new Commodore sedan that previews the upcoming Chevrolet SS performance sedan more than ever.

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2014 Chevrolet SS Sedan Previewed With Holden VF Commodore – Video

Holden has revealed its all-new VF Commodore, giving Americans a preview of the Chevrolet SS Sports Sedan that will be imported from Australia.

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Chevrolet SS Headed to Las Vegas in Race Trim

Chevrolet will show its SS wearing racing trim in Las Vegas on November 29.

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Where Did The Compact Pickups Go?

Bigger isn’t always better, although domestic automakers are pretending not to hear you when it comes to compact pickups. Why?

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Top 10 Cars We Wish Were Sold in America

We might have some fancy cars over here in the USA, but there are quite a few vehicles overseas that we can’t help but think are desperately missing from our shores. More than a few are niche market models perfect for auto-enthusiasts, while others are more stylish or practical than what’s currently available in the US. And some are both.

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Holden Commodore Expected to Be Announced for US Soon

The latest rumblings from Down Under are suggesting that GM subsidiary Holden will soon announce its plan to export the V8 Commodore to the American market as the Chevrolet SS Performance sedan.

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Chevrolet SS Will Cost More Than It's Worth

A Holden-sourced hotrod for the U.S. has all but been confirmed by GM after an OnStar slipup and the resulting media storm, but official details are still just out of reach. Even without that information, there’s a reasonable argument to be made that the rear-drive Chevrolet SS will be less than prolific. 

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Chevrolet SS Might Be Delayed Due to Franchising Laws

We found out recently that the 2014 Chevrolet SS Performance Sedan is likely  coming in 2014. We also speculated that this car is likely a re-release of the old Pontiac G8, which is based on the Holden Commodore (seen above)

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Australia Issues Subsidy to Extend Local GM Production

Not long ago, we reported that General Motors was possibly looking to move Commodore production out of Australia, which would have resulted in the loss of some 12,000 jobs at Holden and affected numerous other positions in directly.

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New Mad Max Movie Car "Gigahorse" Found On Set

When it comes to hero cars, Batman and his bat mobiles or James Bond and his Aston Martins don’t have anything on Mad Max and the devilish rides he and the lawless motor tribes drive.

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Nissan GT-R Returns To Australian V8 Supercar Series

An old nemesis is making a return to Australia’s V8 Supercar series. From 1990 through 1992, the Nissan Skyline GT-R dominated the Australian Touring Car Championship series, running rings around Holden and Ford V8’s. During the 1991 Bathurst 1000, the GT-R even set a top-speed record that could not be matched for nine years. Finally, in 1992, Australia’s racing body charged a weight penalty and a boost pressure reduction in an attempt to level the playing field. However, that failed to slow the GT-R down as it continued to dominate its last season before new rules that required V8 powerplants banned the GT-R’s entry.

After a decade, the Nissan GT-R once again returns to the stage under the the Supercar V8’s Car of the Future program, a new project encouraging a wider variety of automakers to join the series. What’s more, Mark Skaife, the man behind the Car of the Future program, was a former GT-R racer that won many of Nissan’s victories in Australia during the early ’90s.

In order to meet the current V8 Supercar regulations, Nissan’s race car will be forced to use a generic rear-wheel-drive, V8 drivetrain. Despite the fact that it will not be an authentic GT-R racing alongside the fire breathing Aussie V8s, we do look forward to seeing more and more automakers following Nissan’s example to freshen up the Bathurst grid. So far, four GT-R’s under Kelly Racing will be participating in the 2013 season.

Watch video of the announcement below:

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Holden Commodore Production May Leave Australia

Between 250 and 300 engineering jobs in Australia may disappear in the next two years if Holden stops producing its Commodore at home.

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Holden's Original Car Of The Future, Revitalized For The Present

In Australia, few concept cars are as revered as the Holden Hurricane, which originally debuted at the 1969 Melbourne Motor Show.

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Ohio Man One of the First Civilian Owners of a Chevy Caprice

The Chevy Caprice has been on sale in America for about a year now, but only if you’ve got a badge, and only as a special PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle) model. Or at least that’s what GM is trying to enforce.

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Ford FPV Falcon GT Black Gets Green Light For Production

Ford’s Australian high performance FPV division Black Concept sedan has been given the green light for production after their a concept version was unveiled last month at the 2011 Australian Auto Show.

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Joss JP1 Set To Be Officially Unveiled Later This Year

So far known as the JP1 (official model name will be announced at the cars launch), this 2200-lbs supercar will feature a 6.8-liter V8, producing about 500-hp. Power will be fed to the rear wheels by a Albins Zero-Shift automated manual gearbox, which should see it accelerate from 0-60 mph in a claimed sub-3.0 second range, and onto a guesstimate top-speed of 224 mph. Sounds impressive and we hope it can actually back those claims with real world numbers.

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Ford FPV Falcon GT Black Unveiled at Melbourne Auto Show With a Supercharged 5.0

This is why Australians are cool! Not only is the FPV Black Concept a sinister looking sedan, but it’s powered by a supercharged Ford 5.0-liter V8 making 449-hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. Sure our Boss 302 makes similar numbers without a supercharger, but you can be sure the torque levels at low rpm in this mean sedan are unreal. Plus, it also makes for an easily tuneable platform.

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Australian V8 Supercars Might Be Headed To America

Over the last decade, this Aussie racing series has expanded beyond its island home, having staged races in China, New Zealand and the Middle-East. Now it is looking at the United States to stage a race, and it will probably be at the new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. This circuit is being built especially to host Formula-One races in the coming years, and since the Australian V8 Supercars are an FIA sanctioned race series, it makes sense to race at this new circuit.

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Australia's V8 Supercar Series Coming To America?

The famous Australian V8 Supercars series may be making the Trans-Pacific voyage to North America. Many world-renowned racing drivers like Dario Franchitti, Helio Castroneves, Jacques Villenueve and Sebatian Bourdais have moved to compete in the V8 racing. Furthermore, the international coverage of the series has grown immensely, prompting many international companies to invest in the series.

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Chevrolet Caprice Spied In Los Angeles

Rumors of Holden vehicles, specifically the rear-drive Commodore, coming to the U.S. have always been a fixture of the automotive media, and with the Holden-based Pontiac G8’s demise a few years ago, some of them have seemed to be more wishful thinking than anything of substance.

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Future Mad Max Interceptor Concept, Prepared By Ford And Top Gear Australia

The movie is full of high speed chases and destruction in typical 1980’s fashion. You’d either love this movie or think it is one of the biggest time wasters ever invented.

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Pontiac G8 Successor Set to Launch in 2013

Easily the best thing to come out of the now-defunct Pontiac brand in recent memory was the G8 sports sedan – based on the Australian Commodore. Not only was it an impressive performance machine, but it gave North America a taste of just how good a job Holden is doing down under.

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Chevrolet Cruze SS Being Developed By Holden

With the Chevrolet Cobalt SS being a critical (if not commercial) success, General Motors has been pushing for an SS version of their new Chevrolet Cruze small car, and the program looks like it’s a go, with much of the work being done by their Australian Holden division.

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Chevrolet To Introduce New Camaro-Based Car At Chicago Auto Show, New Caprice Almost Certain

During our drive of the Chevrolet Camaro Convertible, we chatted with one engineer about GM’s Zeta platform, which underpins rear-drive full size cars. Among remarking how much we adored the Pontiac G8 sedan and how we longed for a revival of the car, the engineer broke into a broad grin and said “well, these things have a way of happening.”

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Ford Falcon Won't See U.S. Shores, But Its Supercharged 5.0L V8 Might

Contrary to a rather exciting recent report that’s been circulating, Ford won’t be bringing the Falcon to U.S. shores, meaning we won’t get to appreciate some Ford of Australia engineered RWD V8 sedan goodness unless we book a day long flight to down under. Original plans to bring the Falcon to the U.S. (requiring Ford of Australia to engineer a new left-hand drive version of the car) were reportedly canned in 2008 and have not been revived.

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2011 Vauxhall VXR8 Makes Us Weep For Pontiac G8

Although the good Lord chose to take the Pontiac G8 from us far too early in its life, other countries can still enjoy GM’s Zeta platform superstar in all it’s Holden Commodore-based goodness.

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2011 Ford Territory Sketch Released

The Ford Territory is the enthusiasts idea of a dream SUV; based on a rear-drive car platform, the Territory is available with turbo six cylinder or V8 powerplants and was widely received by both private owners and government agencies looking for a rugged utility vehicle.

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Tom Walkinshaw Dies At Age 64

Race car magnate Tom Walkinshaw has died at age 64 after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Walkinshaw began his career as a driver, and then established legendary firm Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) in 1976, and contested European and Australian motor racing, with his team winning the Bathurst 1000 endurance race in 1985.

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Australian Hoons Perform Burnout In Hearse, Police Investigation Commences

Police in Australia are investigating a burnout performed by a hearse during a funeral service for a youth who died in a motorcycle accident.

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Report: Next Holden Commodore To Switch To Front-Wheel Drive

Today’s shocking bit of news comes from a Motor Trend article on the future of Cadillac. While discussing future plans for the big rear-drive Zeta platform, MT claimed that the next generation Holden Commodore would switch to the Epsilon II platform that currently underpins cars like the Chevrolet Malibu and Buick Lacrosse.

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Ford Engineers Hoping New Supercharged V8 Comes To North America

Ford‘s Australian division tends to get a lot of awesome product that we’re not privy to, like the rear-drive, V8 powered Falcon. The newest Falcon GT will get a supercharged version of the 5.0 Coyote V8 featured in the upcoming 2012 Boss 302 Mustang, which puts out 440 horsepower in naturally aspirated form.

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Jeep Reveals New Fiat Based Crossover

Jeep fans who were up in arms about the Compass and Patriot crossovers will have a no reason to get aggravated; a new video that purports to go inside Jeep’s design studios apparently show a new crossover based on a C-segment Fiat.

Aside from the illustration, we can also see a clay model in the video, suggesting that the car is still pretty early on in the design stage.  Truthfully, it doesn’t look bad but we can almost hear the cries from hardcore Wrangler owners and internet pundits who will forever treat this Jeep as an unwanted stepchild.

[Source: Jeep]

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GM To Launch Opel In World Markets, Possible Conflict With Buick Looming In China?

General Motors is hoping to expand their Opel nameplate beyond its traditional European markets to places like China, Australia, South America and other unspecified Asian countries.

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Report: Chevrolet Cruze Hatchback To Debut At Paris Auto Show

General Motors is hoping that their Chevrolet Cruze compact car will increase sales in Europe, where Chevrolets have previously been re-branded versions of cheap Daewoos.

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Ford To Develop New Body-On-Frame SUV, North Americans Likely Won't Get It

Take a look at the Ford Territory SUV pictured above. It looks just like our now-dead North American market Ford Taurus X, right? Underneath, the two cars couldn’t be different. The Taurus X is based on the last generation Taurus, a heavy, lumbering, underpowered behemoth, while the Territory is based on the rear-drive Falcon, and is available with an Inline 6 turbo or a V8.

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Report: 46% Of Australia's Impounded Cars Are Holdens

General Motors’ Australian Holden brand remains the choice of hooligans down under, as police in the Australian state of Victoria announced that 46% of cars impounded under their “ hoon” laws. Ford is the second most popular with 16.7% of the impound share, while Nissan is third with 7.8%.

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No Chevy Caprice for North America Say Holden Sources

We recently reported on rumors that Chevrolet is planning to bring back the Caprice full-sized sedan, based on the RWD Holden Statesman. This, however, is being denied by the folks at Holden, with Emily Perry, the Australian automaker’s communications director, commenting that “We have no plans to export that vehicle as a civilian car at this stage.”

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Report: 2011 Chevrolet Caprice To Be Sold To The Public

Chevrolet‘s fleet-only Caprice will likely be sold to the General Public after a tide of interest forced General Motors to re-consider their plans to restrict sales to fleets.

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