I'll answer the below question for him, most Aussie's don't know what they've got 'till it's gone.
True but most of them don't care apparently.
I does not matter how good your product is if insufficient people will not to buy it and in an annual Australian new car market of over a million new vehicles very few buyers want to purchase a Commodore of any description.
Sales of new Commodores over the past 6 years to 2015 in Aust ---------
45,956 -------2010
40,617...... 2011
30,532 .......2012
27,766 ........2013
30,203 .........2014
27,770..... 2015
In the mid 1960s Holden sold 257,000 EH model Holdens(the 1964 Holden) in two or so years. In 1998 Holden sold nearly 95,000 Commodores.
You cannot continue to manufacture a vehicle here with such low annual Commodore sales as we have now (because your unit cost are too high) and you can thank the new car buying public for that. The buyers killed manufacturing here because they largely wanted to buy imports instead.
For all those who are wringing their hands over the demise of the Australian built Commodore, I would ask how many NEW Commodores have you bought over the past 10-12 years because if the answer is none then you have done stuff all for local manufacturing and your decision not to buy a NEW Commodore has contributed to the demise of the industry. (No - buying a second hand unit counts for nothing because the guy that bought the Commodore new did all the heavy lifting, not you).
If Holden were able to sell 100,000 Commodores a year (not a huge ask) instead of the pitiful sales volumes that have been achieved over the last decade, I very much doubt they would not continue to build them here. They cannot because, sadly, most of the Aust buyers don't want them.