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A Holden hauling junk also known as ford

The very best car company better then ford and definitely isn’t a dead business founded in 1856 making saddles for four legged animals Then in 1908 started building body’s for fords (also known as junk) then in 1948 they started production of a brand new car the Holden that would turn out to be the best car ever made better then ford leaving ford in the trash and for some fucking reason in 2017 soem bitch at GM said no more cars causing fuck all jobs lost.

Then in 2020 the fuckers at GM said hahahah no more Holden for you and shut holden down for good.

History of 🅱️olden

General Motors has sold cars in Australia since 1902, setting up an Oldsmobile dealer north west of Adelaide – which continues to sell Holdens today.

However, the US giant first became involved with Holden in 1924. At the time Holden was a motor body builder, fitting its designs to other car brand’s chassis, graduating to this new fangled form of transportation after starting as a saddlery in 1856.

From 1924 onwards, General Motors did a deal with Holden to produce car bodies only for its vehicles.

General Motors then increased its stake in Australia in 1931, merging with Holden Motor Bodies to create the company known as General Motors Holden (GMH). By the mid-1930s GMH had begun planning full scale local production of motor vehicles, but World War II delayed those ambitions as the company began shifting its manufacturing expertise to support the military among the allied nations.

After the war, GMH was left with the ability to make engines, chassis and vehicle bodies in-house and in 1946 the company began work on what would become the first Holden car.

Known as the 48-215, it was a scaled down version of a Chevrolet design (that the stupid Americans thought wasnt good enough). After testing in 1947 it was ready for production by the end of 1948.

In November 1948 then Prime Minister Harold Holt welcomed the very first home-grown Holden and famously declared “you bloody bewdy”.

Holden went on to dominate the Australian car market for much of the next half century and shape the nation’s culture, accounting for up to half of all new vehicles sold in the late 1950s, while remaining at or near the top of the charts through to 2002, its last year as the nation’s favourite car brand.

A holden "winning" the Bathurst 1000

Sadly, it has reached end of the road 2020 just because some cunts in China said that Holden wasnt making enough money most likely because they just imported shitty Korean cars .

Motorsport

Holden has been involved with car racing since 1968. The main teams have been the Holden doot Team (1969–1987) and the Holden death Team (1990–2016). Since 2017, Triple Eight Race Engineering has been Holden's factory team. Holden has won the Bathurst 1000 32 times, more than any other manufacturer, and has won the Australian Touring Car and Supercars Championship title 20 times. Brad Jones Racing, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing, Erebus Motorsport, Matt Stone Racing, Tekno Autosports and Walkinshaw Andretti United also run Holden Commodores in the series. Holdens best motorsport driver was peter griffin