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 with Colorado was a whole [...]
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 is a much smaller vehicle. [...]
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 for purpose. A week [...]
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 was four year old Maggie [...]
Holden has confirmed it will expand its SUV portfolio with the launch of an all-new small sport utility vehicle, the Holden Trax, in 2013. With room for five passengers, plenty of cargo space and class-leading technology, Trax is a global car that will be sold in more than 140 markets around the world. Executive Director of Sales, [...]
Holden has today announced it has joined the Victorian Government’s Electric Vehicle Trial with its internal fleet of extended-range electric Volt vehicles. The announcement has been made during its national Energy and Environment Week, and as part of the partnership, Holden will supply recharge data collected from its internal fleet before Volt goes on sale later this year. [...]
Holden has announced a new export program, confirming today that Commodore will return to North America in late 2013 as the new Chevrolet SS performance sedan. The limited production derivative of the yet to be launched VF Commodore will arrive in North American showrooms late next year. It will be the first time in 17 years that [...]
We recently had the luxury version of Honda’s shiny new hybrid sports car, the CR-Z and we liked it. Its handling was sharp with steering that actual road feel to spite its electric steering. The nice Honda people said that if we liked the CVT version, we’d go potty for the manual CR-Z. It has to be said that [...]
Seventy Holden cars with latest automotive technology provided Twenty-one teams taking part in over 60 road rescue scenariosHolden has donated 70 cars to the Australasian Road Rescue Organisation (ARRO) to help hone the emergency response skills of hundreds of road rescue workers from around the world taking part in the annual training event.The vehicles, previously used by Holden for [...]
Holden signed an historic agreement today with Shanghai General Motors (SGM) and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) to develop new vehicles for SGM and its affiliates in the growing Chinese market. PATAC is a 50-50 joint venture between GM and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC). It provides automotive engineering services including design, development, testing and validation of [...]
