What Happened to Australia's Car?
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And now, Holden is officially closing down
We knew it was coming as soon as they launched the Insignia/"Commodore".
They just gave up.
because holden took away our commodore. and left the v8 and rwd behind
😥Sad.
Holden was nothing any way FORD is way better
a mate has always said that fords are better than holdens
Looks like Japan was able to successful invade Australia after all.
chinas doing a better job at it though
Anthony Suarez China’s invasion has been more successful, look how much power they hold over industries in Australia
You mean China
at least japan has made better cars, chinas just trying to fuck us over
Japan has invaded the car industry
China owns everything else
The British car industry was huge and that went down the drain around the same time.
We still have some factories but they make foreign cars.
Only thing left from our own back garden is Rolls Royce, and that's probably owned by Germans or something...
The funny thing is, Rolls Royce is actually owned by Germans, it isn't even a joke to say that.
@@plainplane7580 maybe after germany implode themselves in 20 years or so, we'll have another shot at it.
@Lord Farquaad and we've bailed the European ship so when she does go down blighty won't be going down with her
The british car industry was much sadder in its demise though, as it was initiated by the actual government. Now Sunderland Nissan is closing because of Brexit...
@@jamessamways8237 Sunderland Nissan proves why foreign owned manufacturers are not good, just as Holden does, and TATA steel. Also it wasn't the government who initiated the collapse of the British Motor industry, it was many factors all together and some of them were external like joining the EEC in 1973.
Apologies for the wait.
Between taking a holiday and the hot summer finding every way to impede my work here's a Featurette I had been tinkering with over the months.
A longer video has already been in the work and shouldn't be too far away.
It’s ok I liked this video a lot
Something wrong, I hold my head, commodore gone , our nigga dead
Good ford logo imitation
Don’t worry mate, everybody should take a break from it all from time to time. Big fan from Brazil over here 😄
@Feature History
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More Australian content please! As a Texan who wont shut up about my home I love to hear more from people with a passion for theirs.
Australians were basically the Texans of the British Empire.
Dutch Messiah
Oi mate, we still are considered the Texans of the Commonwealth. True Blue Aussie spirit and Texan Courage are one in the same.
@@dutchpangermanist5673 I've been hearing we're more Florida than Texas.
Florida is Perth
stfu settler
Another feature history video, and it's not been a year! We are lucky on this day
Billy Alton the feature gods’ gifts sure have been plentiful
Just a correction, no Japanese brand car, low cost or premium was ever manufactured in Korea. This is because of a strong rivalry between Korea and Japan as the most developed and Industrialized in Asia. The market was dominated by Hyundai, Daewoo, and KIA, which were also primary competitors of Toyota at the time so it would not make sense for them to do that. Japanese cars were primarily manufactured overseas in Thailand, Philippines, and China which also was the manufacturing ground for Korean auto makers.
A British man visits Australia. The border officer asks, "Do you have a criminal record?"
The British man replies, "I thought you didn't need one to get into Australia anymore."
Border officer?
You mean the coast guard lol
Byush m is Australia not an island continent?
Brit get his ass handed it to himself.
And then they made Tony Abbott Prime Minister and he wrecked the car industry because that’s why the IPA paid him to do.
@@dangerouslytalented Australia is a productive country, cars just happened to be too expensive if manufactured there. If it wasn't the case, then the auto industry wouldn't have crashed. It's better to live in reality. You guys are jerking off looking European style subsidies, look at how the labour policies ran the Australian economy tit he ground in the early 80s.
“Travelling in a fried out Kombi....”
actually the combi referenced on the song is a volkswagen type 2 minibus. Still a nice comment!
Lassi Forsman I know, it’s still an Aussie motoring Icon. Always wondered however, why were they called a Kombi van?
Average Joe I did some digging and found out that a combi/kombi is a South African term for a minibus. That could be the source, not sure though. If someone knows, please enlighten me!
Kombi is also used in Europe for the VW Transporters, mainly the dual purpose cargo and passanger van version.
Lassi Forsman Sam thing in Brazil, we call the VW mininusses “Combi”
RIP Holdens - the V8s will never be the same.
Considering they used LS engines, they will probably still be the same.
nzyne 186, 202, 253 and the 308 are all Australian motors 😂
@@Calais05 two of those aren't even V8s. For the last 20 years, all Holden's V8s were LS motors.
Kind of prophetic. With GM closing Holden brand a couple of days later. Also would have been good to highlight Mitsubishi shutting down factory in Tonsley in 2007. That really started the downhill as they built the magna and 380 were larger cars. The small and SUV cars were starting to gain more momentum
now we're buying american made EV's lol
Thank you Australia for the UTE, the unibody/monocoque pickup is the greatest car layout ever made. I've lived in New Zealand for a bit and the coolest cars there were the Australian made ones, I wish I could have brought a XR6 Turbo Ute back with me in my backpack.
Long live the Barra.
To be honest, even as an American I'd love to get my mitts on something like a Holden Ute, especially the HQ generation, but I reckon those, especially the performance versions are waaaaaaay out of my budget at the moment and likely the foreseeable future unfortunately
Ryan Jacobson I’m sure they’ll be around for a while as long as there’s someone willing to preserve them
Same here i love to get my hands on a ford falcon xa gt.
Just blow a small block into an el Camino you’ll have more fun.
@@chrisgonzalez5883 . 2dr or 4?
I've had both but not GT's
@@TheLexiconDevils either one will do just fine. I really like to get my hands on a ford falcon xa gt rpo83.
7:01 [Angry Friendlyjordies Noises]
I've owned a few falcons over the years, they were fantastic vehicles. A little thirsty for fuel, but reliable and so comfortable for long trips. Not the fastest, but the big 6 cylinders had so much torque they towed effortlessly, and even loaded up with people and luggage it performed well. It was truly a sad day when the last falcon rolled off the assembly line.
I never owned a Commodore, I was always a Ford man, partly because I knew people who worked at the Broady Ford plant, and partly because I preferred the design of the Falcon 6 over the Holden 6, and it's better torque output.
I have fond memories of going on long trips, my XF Falcon with LTD interior and 4 speed manual climbing hills without me needing to shift down out of 4th gear, that reliable 6 burbling away as it ate up the kilometers... Or later, my EF towing another car on a car trailer without any drama, again on a long trip... Built with pride, they certainly seemed to be, and I was proud to own them, and now wish I hadn't got rid of them... But hey, we were all young and dumb once upon a time, right?
I can second the reliability of the Falcon BF (Mk2). I have one, and it came from a fleet of taxis that ran around Brisbane. The first BF I had, had 820,000 km on the speedo and the second BF I owned had over 730,000 km. My dad was telling me (since he was a mechanic for this taxi company) that the same vehicles in this same fleet were running up to and above 1,000,000 km.
I like my BF, and especially the Barra engine in it. It's a nice ride, a bit rough. But it's still running.
I want to keep mine running for as long as I can since parts for most of the car are not hard to find, so running costs are manageable. In fact, for someone who is not a mechanic, I enjoy fiddling around with parts and replacing some of the old shit in it (should have seen the overflow tank - full of muck and I don't think it has been changed since its taxi days).
For me, the Falcon has special place in my heart as my first car, as my dad's first car (XY Falcon paddock bomb).
Turbo. Barra. Ute.
@@TheLexiconDevils
The lack of a turbo barra wagon is one of history's great injustices.
The biggest loss of Ford closing down in Australia is that there is no more new production turbo Barra engines, which will make it increasingly harder to #BarraTheWorld
“The sauce on the pie”
*COUGH COUGH*
HE HAS CORONA, DRINK!
Wait so you guys don't just drive impractical gas guzzlers across the desert?
Oh we do - it's just they're made in Japan first
More like drive over-sized gas-guzzling Toyota Landcruisers on the school run and to the shops.
@@FeatureHistory in the meanwhile when someone outside Australia thinks about Australian cars, the first thing that comes to mind is " v8 interceptor - the last of it's kind " 😁
Only around Gastown, Australia.
@@Deathmastertx well said
The large Holden production line machine tools are now in South Africa and having been set up and used properly are now achieving remarkably high quality production.
Good to know.
Making what?
@@sutherlandA1Very high quality Automobiles of course, that's what they were designed to do if set up and maintained properly.
Australia needs some of our Pyeonghwa cars
Brilliant W124 knockoffs
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He's back! I can't wait for the video on the Mormon Wars. The 1838 one, the Illinois one, and the Utah one. I'm not Mormon, but they're very interesting.
I’m from Utah(non Mormon) and they take up much of our school’s history classes, lol.
Im from the Netherlands. All i know about Mormons is from south park, so didnt took em for war mongers. Let alone in 2 states, thank you boys for giving me something to look into.
Saw a thing on youtube about some mormon/mexican cartel link with a thumbnail of Mitt Romney (i think, im propably wrong).
Didnt click on it though, but saw in my feed 3 times or so
Julius Raben that one is about Mormons in Mexico it’s from 2012, and about their fight against the cartels. Some of the people there are related to Mitt Romney, because his family moved there as missionaries.
Im somewhat related to John D. Lee who committed the Mountain Meadows Massacre interesting time
The FX designation for the first Holden was never officially used, it was actually named the 48-215
That maybe so, but no-one ever ever said “oh look there goes a 48-215!” It was my era, it was FX.
@@jamesgovett2501 to fit in with Holden's nomenclature of the time it should have been designated the GC Holden, each letter aligned with a number to determine model year releases
“My soul floated into the bloody UTE Morty! I’m UTE Barry!”
Warrcoww reference funny
Australia shafted their own industry tho and the stupid micromanagement of GM.
GM basically ruined Holden much like how they ruined Saab with their stupid rebadging habits and what-not.
Holden had the biggest slice of the pie in the 70s and 80s with cars like the Monaro, Torana, Kingswood and Commodore. Those are amazing stuff the Australians had and watching the A9X Torana cutting everything on Barthurst was superbly amazing even 40 odd years ago till now. However, once GM micromanages and used the rebadging system, the self-created element is gone and as you mentioned, everything else was nothing but a rebadged item which, lets be frank, are most junks. Items like the Zafira, Spark, Caprice, Calibra, Insignia, Cruze etc etc are all either Chevys, Opels, Daewoos or other sub branches within GM. Sure, GM reused Holdens into other things too like when they took the C8 Monaro as the Vauxhall Monaro but then again these Australian rebadge had such poor presentations in their exported country that GM basically tanked the sales of these cars and instantly declared that the Australian branches must fold due to "lack of financial posibilities" when its GM themselves fucking themselves over... Hard.
Ford had it better but still, their focus on "Australian cars for Australia" also saw them tanking their sales as even if they can make cars for Australia alone, they won't survive if they don't branch out and that's the problem with Ford AUS.
Er the only problem with Ford Australia is no turbo barra Ranger ...
You know this is funny, becasue in this time making cars is super expensive, and ozzie land is just to small market, so sorry but you want me to believe that Australians would buy car that is 2x more expensive just becasue its made for Australia?
If you look on which cars sold best in Au its all global models ;)
Holden was always a puppet to Detroit when Holden was in it’s heyday & raking the money in, they loosened the leash, when sales and profits tightened, Detroit tightened the leash. When things got dire after the end of the locally made Commodore, they just did a cut & run... Just like they exited the Vietnam war!
swietoslaw we took pride in having locally developed cars (even if some weren’t completely engineered in Australia). It’s not just the cost of the cars ( The Toyota Camry was locally built since 1987 and always sold well) . There was the Button plan to reduce import tariffs from the mid 80’s every year until 2003 ( I think). In the early 2000’s , Novated Leasing allowed the employee to choose their car, instead of the narrow choice of Falcon/Commodore/Camry/ Magna. SUV’s gained popularity, as most were now 2wd , not 4wd and more compact (like the RAV4). Australia roughly sells 1Million new cars a year, with about 30-33% being company cars. Poland just sells over half as many new cars in one year as Australia does , which has a population 25 Mil , compared to your 39 Mil.
@@swietoslaw yes people did buy Australian made cars because they were made in Australia and guess what happened to Holden when they stop making cars in Australia lots of people stopped buying Holden's. Holden's sales drop so much they had to close down the brand.
I mean everyone loves the romance of domestic car manufacturing, but at the end of the day the industry was only propped up by taxpayer funded subsidies to private corporations.
So are fossil fuels yet here we are.
@@119Elias119 I mean technically yes, but it's hardly a fair comparison. One directly subsidises production (cars), the other indirectly. The mining industry for example certainly isn't being propped up by the government.
Most of the subsidies the fossil fuel industry gets is fuel tax credits. Which you could argue that if they don't use public roads they shouldn't have to pay the tax.
Now, personally I think the fuel tax should be more than a road usage charge and thus apply in some part to miners etc.
@@119Elias119 But there is not large scale alternative to fossil fuels YET. It is said though Australian organisation pioneered many parts of the modern BEV as a child of the World Solar Challenge. One of the world's best CCS DC Fast chargers are built in Brisbane by Tritium. The Bolt EV was also designed in Port Melbourne Holden Design House. Then we also have the Raw Materials for Batteries like Lithium, Nickle, Aluminium. In a utopian dream world, Australia be a major player in the EV industry. The lack of knowledge and ambition is sad.
Luke Newman I think you will find those subsides were clawed back by the government through income and business tax of related car industries such as aftermarket parts. The government actually used to get more money back than what they subsidised in the first place. The liberals wanted to give that money to mining companies instead. Thats why they stopped subsidising the car industry.
To me Tariffs and subsidies are the best proof that businesses are scared of truly free markets
I always liked the Ford Falcon. It has a nice history not only in Australia, but also in another southern country (Argentina). In both places the car was popular enough to be in production for decades. However, while Australia's Falcon was initially resisted and was changed over the years, the one in Argentina changed very little, as consumers tended to resist substantial changes to the design of the car. Great job with this one.
I was bloody waiting for this video Matey. Fantastic stuff.
"i'll be looking at rusty Falcon's on Gumtree"
why look when you can have one of mine, i've got an 83 XE and a 04 BA XR6 Turbo for ya, take your pick ;)
2:16 The first Holden was known as the 48-215. The year it was introduced and the size of the engine in cubic inches. The term FX was originally a reference to the later made 48-215s with different suspension. It was in the 1950s that the term FX was used to refer to all 48-215s.
No, the 48-215 did not have a 215 cubic inch engine (3.5 litre).
It had a 2.15 litre engine (132 cubic inch).
missed Chrysler being brought out by Mitsubishi, and the Magna's fuic holders
The Holden vs Ford rivalry will never be the same and I'm from NZ
I owned a Falcon AU Ute, somtimes I still have nightmares about it...
Couldn't handle the mighty AU could you?
Seriously everyone jokes 20 years later but the AU was fucking garbage 😂 At release time I was running an XH ute and we got an AU at work. It was atrocious to drive no guts bits fell off and it looked gayer than 2 dicks touching. Mother of god I couldn’t give a Ford dealer my money quick enough when the BA turpo ute came out though 😮😮😮
@@TheLexiconDevils I almost cried with relief when a dealer took my AU, I couldn't handle paying for all the replacement parts
Still better than pushing a Commodore
@@minskhanly1988 I had an AU for 15 years and didn't replace anything other than consumable parts.
You're not in the middle of nowhere. You're just too cool, and every other continent is too scared to approach you.
In other words, the total sales volume of the Australian car market could never make local manufacturing and development a profitable venture. Australian made cars were effectively money pits for their parent companies. As popular as the Falcon and Commodore were, their sales volume barely crested 100,000 units per year. And with limited exports this was simply too low to justify continuing production.
It wasn't just cheap imports. Ford and Holden started making more European inspired cars that were less reliable and not suited to the Australian lifestyle. People just started buying cars that didn't break down and were larger than the smaller European inspired cars.
Holy shit the timing on this... RIP Holden 😭😭😭
Couple of things to add:
Chrysler - that should have been at least mentioned. Huge contribution to the industry and eventually became Mitsubishi.
Ford - manufacture of trucks in Brisbane, and small cars in Sydney. With a smattering of small plants in other cities.
AMI: who were a contract manufacturer who assembled knockdown kits on behalf of a number of European manufacturers from VW, Volvo to Merc but also started Toyota assembly in Australia.
Nissan, who made cars up until the early 90s but still have a factory in Australia making bash plates bullbars and the like.
Government subsidies are also done in other countries around the world. But to a higher extent per capita than they did in Australia.
Feature history confirmed bogan for looking online for a rusty falcon
You forgot to mention Land Rovers which were used in northern and rural australia since 1949 and were manufactured here in 1958. It was during the 70s when Landcrusers began overtook Land Rovers as a work ute.
In a word, "Detroit".
If you think Detroits decline is bad you should look at Coventry
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 Decisions for Australia's car industry were made in Detroit by Ford and GM board rooms.
@@ng3027 because Australias car industry wasn't a real car industry, it wasn't self sufficient, it wasn't a large exporter and for most of its life it produced foreign designs adapted for the domestic market.
@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 yeah nah I agree, i'm just trying to interpret what John said
@@ng3027 yeah I kinda misinterpreted what he was on about 🤣
Australia's Own Car 1948-2017 😔🇦🇺
David Bottin we do have one last one, but it’s not sold here, but built yes. The brabham BT62, 2019-the near future
Well it lasted for 69 years so that’s a plus 😉
Love automotive content. One story I never see on UA-cam that I feel deserves to be told is that of Louie Mattar and his fabulous Cadillac. Not really content you could do, but if you like cars, I figured you could get a kick out of that story.
The Australian auto industry can be described in 3 words.
"Would've, Could've, Should've"
been telling people for a few years now, buy a old holden, VL, VP it doesnt matter. keep it in good condition and you can watch them rise in price.
no one listens, holden closes, they all skyrocket.
i wish i wasnt broke
@Dave Goldspink yeah mate vn Commodores were everywhere till they became the car of choice for p platers. They then became spare parts and twisted metal.
Surprised you did an Aussie car video about Holden and Ford w/o Max's Falcon Interceptor. God damn that's a dope car.
P.S. would love a Holden Commodore V8 UTE in the US
I believe a company called Left Hand Utes export holdens to the US
@@tasty8186 they do, however a donor Pontiac G8 is required, and the federalization process is expensive. They're sadly going to remain a rich mans only toy until they're 25
Literally just saw this after Holden announced they're shutting shop. :( Talk about timing :( time to grab an old commo now since they're gone for good
Theyve been 'gone' for almost 3 years
Now I feel bad my current old commo is trashed. Been joking im driving it till it dies for years but now I don't want it to.
Crazy you posted this and now GM is officially shutting down the Holden brand just days later
Damn well General Motors have just axed Holden just 4 days after this video came out
Yeah, right after they pull out of Europe as well. Isn't Africa, Middle East, South America, and China the only foreign markets they're in now?
What an insane Thumbnail. A pick up truck with a herd bumper freaking Kenworth T909 Road Trains use.
The very first 48-215 ( FX) was designed and prototype built in Detroit, then sent here for testing and evaluation.
And on the 17th of Feb 2020 GM announced that it is killing the Holden brand. If only you pushed the upload date a bit later.
Oh but there were so many other brands and car factories in Australia than just Holden, Ford and Toyota. Nissan made cars in Melbourne at a former Volkswagen factory. Chrysler had 2 plants in Adelaide before selling them to Mitsubishi. Leyland made local models of British designs in Australian factories and cars like Renault, Peugeot and a heap of others were locally assembled too. All depended on tariffs and/or government subsidies, so from making half a million cars in 1970, they're all gone except for truck makers.
man i miss the Mitsubishi 380, IMO the best of the Australian Large cars that never got the chance to stretch its legs, so many folks forget that the Australia only cars weren't just the Falcon and Commodore, but included the Territory, the 380, the Magna to list Australian Exclusive cars since 2000, and even more made here.
the real shot in the foot is that the decisions were made when the Australian dollar was at historical record highs, and was treated as a permanent reality. if the dollar hadn't of shot up so much Australian Manufacturing would of likely continued, Toyota was using the Melbourne plant to suppliment productions of parts for the US due to the pricing making it an affordable option over Japanese manufacturing for example, and Holden was starting to expand into the Export trade again with the likes of the Chevvy SS and the vauxall VXR8, but out strong dollar made these cars to expensive overseas for the propsective consumer at the time, if available now with the new market they would be able to be competitive on pricing.
Now they are gone taking the local manufacturing jobs with them.Sooner or later we are all going to regret allowing this conservative government too cut the subsidies that supported the car industry that we lost in October 2017 and before all the alright neo cons say the subsidies had to go all countries that have a car manufacturing industry subsidize that industry in one way or another.Also as Dave Sisson pointed out in the comments section we had other companies based in Australia other than Holden and Ford.In Australia we once had a viverent car industry that people were once proud of now we just bend over and allow this government and their rich backers to rip us all off sooner or later the shutdown of manufacturing in our country is going hit us very hard in fact it is starting to show now the imported replacements are more expensive so much for the governments idea that imported cars would be cheaper soon we are likely to head into a nasty recession with all the related social problems such as unemployment over 10 percent etc and this grubby PM scomo will try and destroy what is left of the social security safety net.This government and their wealthy backers need to be stopped beware of the near future if scomo and neo con mates are in power.
@@christophera556 I don't think getting party political about the subject does anything except create division. Actually the video refers to Labor's Button Plan which was the start of the changes, but the Libs and Nats contributed to the decline too. Ultimately it came down to how much we wanted to subsidise the factories from taxes and how high we wanted to force the cost of imported cars through high tariffs.
I own a Datsun that was built in Clayton, Vic - back in the days when such a thing even happened
Industries shouldn’t be propped up. You need to stand on your own feet. It’s a shame the auto-plants and workers couldn’t find a compromise to keep the factories open but it’s not like they didn’t try. I wish there was something we could build that was worth a monza and could afford high wages.
I forgot this channel existed ngl
Didn't even know Australia had Holden. So nowadays Holden is another rebadge of Opel, just like Vauxhall. Looks like Anglosphere countries (USA, UK and Australia at least) love their rebadges and don't want to embrace Opel :D
" do you want some speed, yeah you heard me " lmao best segway
Holden closed down completely today.
It was pretty much on life support with the decision to use the Opel/Vauxhall Insignia B for the new generation of the Commodore years ago. It basically turned Holden into nothing more than a badge engineering brand.
GM's decision to bring the German-engineered Opel/Vauxhall Insignia B to Australia as the new Commodore spelled the beginning of the end for Holden. This was Holden in name only and it was only a matter of time for GM to pull the plug entirely.
Israel too had its own auto manufacturer and no longer does. It was kept alive by protectionist laws in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but it was simply not economical for every country to produce its own cars, even if it’s a source of nostalgia.
Im driving a '97 holden jackaroo, its basically an when it comes to the mechanics but still a nice and spacious car with lots of pretty neat shit for the time
Isuzu?
Pontian G8 and Chevrolet SS (both rebadged Holden Commodores) were so damn cool
3:06 we had one in Geelong too, which has now been shut down unfortunately
I didn't buy a Japanese car because it was cheaper, I bought a Japanese car because the ignition barrel wouldn't fail after 10 years ( thanks ford), I bought a Japanese car, because the engines were modern, reliable, and fuel efficient while making good power ( thanks GM). I'll say this, at least Ford innovated with the Barra engine development, while GM just kept trying to resell the same old 3rd gen small block Chevy lel
Chrysler ap5 and ap6 valiants were pretty sweet. The 'ap' stands for Australian production. There were Chryslers imported before these models. Also some weird cross over Chrysler lancer later on.
3:37 engine puns, nice
You didnt mention that for a long time most holden cars were re-branded opels ;)
Like last commodore was just opel insignia, in fact made in my country Poland.
And fall of Ozzie cars is simple its too small distance market to make special cars just for it.
@Maxx Damage LOL you are delusional, best selling car in AU in 2018 sold only 47000 unit which is nothing looking how high work cost make it cars for sale abroad is just not viable.
And the number let say 50k units of best seling car a year.
This is 4167 unis a week, its 596 cars a day so its small factory, but to if you want more models you need more tooling and assembly lines, which are expensive and you just cant scale up production.
I still get sad that we lost this important industry
Would love to see a video about the Nicaragua revolution 1979-1990, keep up the work 👌🏻👍🏻
Australia does have the best trucks though the 1980 Toyota Pickup all over Australia impossible to find in America
Let's get the beer issue straight. No one drinks XXXX except Banana benders. VB, on the other hand everyone drinks because it's the best.
I don't think Japanese cars are manufactured in Korea. The domestic is almost entirely home grown and I don't think the Korean autmotive industry (that has enough power to get a complete domestic monopoly) would even allow Japanese cars to be manufactured for export in Korea.
Toyota don't make their cars locally anymore
Honesty been wondering about this topic for a while now, the more you know!
RIP Holden.
When Feature History became a feature cars channel
There was never an FX Holden. It was called the 48/215.
you did cut out vast swathes of history between Ford & Holden but still pretty damn accurate!
The video reminded me the story of the Greek auto industry, some dudes make their first try to build a Greek made car in the 1920s ww2 breaks out and afterward some other dudes are starting to build trucks out of abounded military bikes and kubelwagens and jeeps
Those dudes made enough money to build assembly plants and started to assemble vehicles, in some point mostly Japanese since there was buld in European soil there was considered typically European,( this way the Japanese firm was avoiding the import taxes making their cars cheaper,) then in some point they started building their own thing, super light utility cars and one made even exports as " citroen pony "
And then in 1986 liberal reforms killed of the industry in a single year
Liberals are individuals that convince you that if you lose your job, you'll get cheaper products....until it doesn't
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 that's quite what happen in the Greek case of the Greek car industry, the reforms made used imports cheaper than those made in Greece, technically killing the industry,for a while some could take a loan to buy a new imported car but nowadays after the 08 meltdown for most people is impossible to by a new car
@@Pavlos_Charalambous Well that's what happens everytime a liberal goverment takes place in any place in weaker economies like mine, Argentina, the things that gives jobs suffer. While the smallest cheapest and most restrictive bussiness thrives at the expense of everyone
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 I'm always referring to "financial liberalism " that usually- at least in Europe is applied by conservative politicians like Margaret Thatcher or Emanuel Macron for example..
"Political liberalism " is a different story, some of it's aspects can be seen in social-Democrat parties, but isn't really represented as a political party like the Democrats in the states for example 😉
@@Pavlos_Charalambous
Yeah but the thing of "politcal liberalism" is that since the turn of the century it has been seen by many media as the "progress" of society. And for that reason many are tolerant of the financial part like if policies were credit cards
In 1996 I drove around in Australia for almost three months. As far as I can remember approx. 90 % of the cars were Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores (all Australian built). The tariff on cars was 100 % back then. What was the motivation of Australian politicians to change to free trade?
The motivation for politicians here in Australia to switch to free trade was like everywhere else basically greed they bent over to the big corporations in return the pollies got the top end of town on side with pollies getting a kick back from the corporate arsoles while factories here in Australia 🇦🇺 like everywhere else in the developed world closed down and moved overseas to where the labour is cheap.The pollies say we had no choice well it sounds bullshit they just wanted one thing a big bonus from the corporate crooks and approval from Ruport Murdoch so that gulival people would vote the bastards back in its almost the same throughout every western country.
Nobody:
Me: *sees another video on cars by Feature History* "Ah yes the negotiator"
you missed Valiant/Chrysler Australia, Mitsubishi plant in SA and fords plant in Geelong
Sitting in New Zealand (which was a massive contributor to both Ford and Holden) watching this in my BA XR6T, my other half is a Holden service manager and wondering where it all went so wrong. I'll be continuing on in my big over powered turbo gas guzzler keeping V8 Holdens (and most other things) in my rearview for a while yet. But Holden has been stuffed for a while, Craptiva, Cruise, Colorado, ZB, Trax etc.. how stupid did they think the buying public are.
Ya missed Valiants mate......
Yeah got nothing to do with Holden and ford paying workers so much more then what they deserve. Janitors and cleaners in the factories where paid over 1200 a week. Sounds good for the worker but not now the factories are gone and out of cash
Great video mate
Hell yeah! Finally a good video on Ozzy cars!
Haha looking for rusting falcons! Love it mate!!!!!
you forgot to mention that we had component manufacturing here too...
And now Holdens completely shut shop. This video has both good and bad timing
After this it was either the US or NZ's car.I really wanna know since when the US fall in love with SUV's and pic-up trucks and the NZ's love for JDM and other Japanese cars
Chrysler Australia and Mitsubishi motors as builders of cars in Australia.
Nice... but missed the entire 70s. XA - XC falcons, kingswoods, toranas, etc
What about Chrysler, Mitsubishi, Magna, BMC, P76. Ya Peanut.
Great bloody vid mate.
You should make it a trend to talk about cars a lot, like how Wendover does with planes.
In the US our peak in the car industry was the mid 60s until 72. Then came regulations and the gasoline crisis. Fuel economy was bad but you could fill your tank with a couple of dollars. Today, though cars are faster and more efficient, they are cheaply made and can be near impossible to work on. With that, car culture among men had dwindled. Just to change my headlight the other day, I had to remove panels and parts around just to get to it! Thank God for you tubers to show me how!
I’m happy I lived to experience Holden the people in the feature will only see it in history books or well phones
even at one point in the late 1980's, they were rebadging Suzuki sierras as Holden Drovers.
We need more feature fittings
You know man the history I get from u I get from nowhere else
Mate if only you'd waited 5 days. Holden is no more as of yesterday.
Something I never knew existed. The story of Holden looks like a more sucessful Gurgel.