Key Points

  • GM will “wind down” its sales, design and engineering operations in Australia and New Zealand and discontinue its Holden brand in the region by 2021.
  • The automaker also announced plans to exit Thailand, including withdrawing Chevrolet by the end of this year and selling a plant to Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors.
  • GM CEO Mary Barra said the actions are part of the automaker’s global restructuring, which was initially announced in 2015, to concentrate on profitable markets.


General Motors (GM) retreats from Australia, New Zealand and Thailand

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Ant had a link to the story as well.

Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
And that's all she wrote:

Death of Holden: End of iconic car brand in NZ - NZ Herald

Kinda sad in a way since I grew up with the marque but then if you're not making cars that people actually want that's what happens I suppose. I drove one of the 'new' (and now last) Commodore wagons on recent trip in NZ and it was, to not point too fine a point on it, utter shit. An under-powered front-wheel drive turd.