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Do you honestly think Holden would still be here if they hadnt imported cars in the past? The turn away from local manufacturing, and dropping a small volume seller from the lineup wasnt done on a whim.
And keeping the Commodore name will anger some, but it's just a name that has come to signify their large 4 door family sedan. Why risk people being confused as to what the Holden Insignia or whatever they would have chosen to call it actually is? Much like when Nissan introduced the Tiida.....and then went back to selling it as the Pulsar. Brand name recognition is worth more than a few grumpy people.
The news release sounds like something written by a bunch of lesbian feminists.
How this reads:You're not wrong. This whole trendy/hipster/gay direction that Holden is taking is just wrong on so many levels and evokes such anger in me that it makes me feel like selling my Redline, burning all my memorabilia in a bonfire and completely disassociating myself from what is quickly becoming a joke and disgrace of a company.
And this is coming from somebody who has lived and breathed Holden for their whole life.
If Holden wants to salvage what little is left of their image in Australia they need to weed out and immediately sack those responsible for implementing and pushing this gay/hipster image within the company and start from scratch, because their campaingns of late have made Holden a laughing stock and is nothing more than a one way path to self destruction. So many people would be turning in their graves if they could see what a joke Holden has become of late.