When will the last Holden sell

[BLACK-VE]

Worthless cars
Imagine the depreciation
Nobody would want it second hand

good for business buyers perhaps but why would you want a dying brand car when there are soooo many good options out there from brands that are very stable and certainly more reliable...

Mate bought a opel a week before they announced there closure he wasn't a happy camper

 

[Forg]

They may end up suffering the stigma the Mitsubishi Magna did.

Is that stigma known as the Mitstubishi Stigma?

 

[tml678]

They may end up suffering the stigma the Mitsubishi Magna did.

Genuinely one of the most underrated and under appreciated Australian made cars ever.

 

[ciggo]

It has already been stated in the press “that GMSV, formally known as HSV, will do RHD conversions”...

The only “wondering” will be whether the process will be successful after adding $20k conversion cost to an overinflated import base price.

If I recall correctly the media were speculating HSV will take on the new GM import brand (which is what they basically are now anyway). Nothing has been confirmed though.

 

[White Swan]

Genuinely one of the most underrated and under appreciated Australian made cars ever.

Yes we were having beer last night and talking about that exact same thing.

The Magna was a great car for its time and yet the public shunned it like it was diseased.

Makes me wonder if the Commodores currently on dealership lots will suffer the same fate.

 

[Forg]

The Magna was a great car for its time and yet the public shunned it like it was diseased.

The Australian buying public has a long memory, when it's been burned.
I knew people, during Nissan's heyday of the early 90's, that wouldn't buy a Nissan because they'd owned something like a 120Y or 180B or 200B.

The Astron II Magnas all had disaster auto transmissions, and given that probably 90% of them sold were autos, that means plenty of people were burned on those.
Then with the SOHC V6 models were introduced, those were dog engines that ... I don't actually know what went wrong with them, whatever it was always lead to them burning oil in a great plume of blue smoke even when only a few years old.

By the time the TE was released after 10yrs of awful junk Magnas (both 4cyl & DOHC V6 were decent), a lot of people weren't game to go back for more punishment!

 

[vc commodore]

I've seen figures of $2 to $10k discount in the media. Yeah nah.

The figures I saw today were between 10 and 17K.....So at least both our media sources are close....The actual discounts will be interesting to see in person

 

[Clintix]

The figures I saw today were between 10 and 17K.....So at least both our media sources are close....The actual discounts will be interesting to see in person

Yes car sales doesn't really show much sadly, but nothing that reflects the big discounts

 

[VS 5.0]

but nothing that reflects the big discounts

They aren't going to be published until March.

 

[wetwork65]

My bets are on that this demo barina from 2018 with 661klms on the clock will be the last holden

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2018-holden-barina-ls-tm-auto-my18/OAG-AD-18341063/

Must be a highly sought after model to justify the pricing on a 2 year old car. $16k.
Could be like the last Redlines and sold out Limited Editions that held prices above list long after end of production.