58shark wrote: I had a couple of Toranas and a few Holdens over the years. Best I had was either the HK 186 Ute - spent most of its life in the Kimberlys and was indestructible. Or it was my 97 VS Commodore. Used to go like the clappers and never cost me a cracker outside of running costs.
We had a discussion at work today. A couple of blokes reckon everyone will be ditching Holdens now - no spares, but I think that they will hang on to the good ones as collector vehicles. What do you think?
Judging by past experiences of car companies folding or pulling out it doesn't augur well, they only have to support cars for 10 years, after that its gone, and in the past most haven't even honored the 10 year requirements, things will get scarce and spare parts become a real issue, so like all old models will rely on wreckers.
Don't forget this is an off shore company by next year all local operations will be gone and moved to the USA. So they will be out of reach of local consumer laws.
Basically anything Holden will become a lemon locally, unless you are a die hard collector, most people wont touch them now.
They will have fire-sales at the dealers to off load the last few and other people will start trading or selling those they have pretty quick.
I remember when Leyland closed down here anything Leyland people ran a mile from (the P76 later became a bit of a odd ball collectors item) but not the Marina, and when Mitusbushi closed here, overnight the Magna became a lemon no one wanted, more recently SAAB went bust, who were a nightmare even before repair and pare parts wise, you hardly see any on the road now. Chrysler was another one that packed up and left, the Chargers suddenly began to lose appeal.
Makes it worse that GM are totally walking away from RHD globally and the Aus market.
