Brand: Holden

The last two nights have seen the charge achieve only a 50k limit or thereabouts in the Holden Volt.

The aim this week is to use the Volt as a primary mode of transport as it might be used by the average couple. This will demonstrate how the electric car does in the real world and so far it has done very well. It conveyed us to a luxury top-end Danish audio maker, Bang…

`Hey Hey Hey guess what? The shiny Volt we collected yesterday from Holden’s top secret Sydney bunker

  On the left hand side of the boot is the charging unit you’ll be using at home The Above units are the kind you’ll find in public charging stations.   PPSSSST I picked up the shiny new Holden Volt today and thought I’d share first impressions with you. Nice on the road. Decent acceleration.…

    Holden’s new long range electric car, the Holden Volt has been given the Green Innovation Award in the Drive Car of the Year Awards. Already an award-winning car around the globe, Volt was the unanimous winner of the award, as judged by Drive’s panel of motoring experts. Dubbed the long range electric car,…

  Holden car dealers in  New South Wales are among the first in Australia to take delivery of the all new Volt long range electric car this week. Nine specialist dealers will add a Volt to their demonstration fleets and can begin delivering cars to their first customers in coming days.  Holden Executive Director –…

Note the folding  jump seat. Close the storage bin and lower seat and buckle in! Above are the suicide rear doors missed on our test. Holden Colorado: A Gay Tradies Wet Dream I know what you’re thinking: Commercial/industrial vehicle, it’s going to be awful beyond description. You would be dead wrong because the week spent…

           I spent the last week revisiting Holden’s Caprice, which as you know, I have always had a soft spot for. Its graceful lines accentuate the huge wheels but make its bulk appear smaller. Both the front and the back curve gently inwards to deceive the eye into thinking the Caprice…

This week has been spent in the Captiva 7 V6 petrol. We drove the diesel some time ago and thought it not a bad package for the money. We buy cars for many reasons: some make us look better, some make us feel better and some are just transport but they all must be fit…

We often get asked what we do to test our cars and I always tell people that we use them as you do. In other words we do with a car what you do with a car. This week we have had the captive 7 with the 190KW 3.)L petrol V6. It’s proved surprisingly comfy…

UPDATE to our earlier drive of this very car late last year. Full pictures and review HERE:- I heard this car was being retired from the press fleet with almost 13,000 k’s on the clock. It would have been remiss of me not to take her around the block for one final victory lap. I…

    Holden V8 Supercar driver and Leukaemia Foundation Ambassador Garth Tander made a special appearance at the Coates Hire Ipswich 300 today in a striking liveried black and blue Holden Commodore to mark the donation of a fleet of 17 VE Commodores to the Leukaemia Foundation’s Patient Transport Program. Also at the race track…