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Holden is an old Australian car manufacturer who were bought by GM in the 1940’s. They basically assemble local homologations suited to tough Australian road conditions from the GM parts bin. Kind of like Saab and Jaguar, but cheap and sturdy. This particular model is the “commodore” utility. They also sell saloon and coupe versions, which incidentally are pushed along by the same monstrous engine as the current Chev Corvette. I prefer French cars myself.
Its an Australian company now owned by GM. Remember the new GTO from a few years ago? That was a rebranded Holden.
That was a cool commercial.
I am always want a Ute.. saw nice ones when I was downunder earlier in the year
I stink that we have another 10 years before we rehash the el camino
is there supposed to be a video or pic with this post???
Ditto Joshua. I see whiteness. Lots of it…
Actually GM is bringing the Holden Commodore Ute over to the states and selling it as a Pontiac G8. About time!
http://tinyurl.com/2wvvgt
BTW… speaking of cool Aussie Ute TV ads. Ford Falcon Ute competes head-to-head with Holden Commodore Ute in Australia. The Ford ads for their XR6 and XR8 Utes are awesome too.
I love the ad but IMO the truck is ugly as sin. Cool green color though!
NOT a truck, over here we call it a Ute, not the same at all. We also have GM ‘Pickups’ (branded Holden) & Ford (F series) ‘trucks’, soooo not the same.
It’s basically a sedan with the rear end (from the front door posts usually, though some are making utes with 4 doors now called twin cabs) replaced with a tray and sides.
The two what?
The two utes.
What’s a Ute?
Volkswagen also sold one of these in the States a while back:
Also sold in the States in the 80’s: Dodge Rampage.
[Sorry, accidentally lost your URL while trying to post photo. – ed.]
This is an aussie ute (utility), translated for our American guests means, does 2 things. A casual car during the weekend and a work horse during the week. A couple of facts about these utes..
1/. Both Ford and Holden (GM affiliate) produce these utes, they range from base models to high end performance models.
2/. The fastest ute in the world is the Maloo, a high performance Holden ute, made by a high performance company called HSV. This is a very cool ute and very very fast, good for about 185mph depending on options.
This is one hot vehicle, http://www.hsv.com.au
It has the Guiness record for the fastest ute in the world.
more info is on http://www.holden.com.au & http://www.ford.com.au
Gee, if GM owns this company why have they not brought this to the US?
Are they stupid? No let’s keep building tons of 4×4 pickups that nobody can afford the gas for.
I dare not take a guess at GM’s motives, but I have heard the rumor that when Holden was bought the deal said that GM could only take outside the country what holden lets them take out of the country, dunno if it is true or not (considering almost everything is taken out and rebranded) but according to GM, Americans want ‘gas guzzlers’ and us Australians want ones that don’t chew so much fuel.
and please, if anyone in the car companies reads this, we don’t need your SUV’s over here, you can’t maneuver them, they chew tons of money and they feel like a F**ing tank. No one I know drives a tank. Period.
Cheers
M
#15 – John S
“Gee, if GM owns this company why have they not brought this to the US?
Are they stupid? No let’s keep building tons of 4×4 pickups that nobody can afford the gas for.”
There’s a very good (for them) reason; pickups are the least labor-intensive + lowest parts count = most profitable vehicles they make.