I promise to never do an Aussie accent again. What's your favorite Holden model?

As an Australian, I'd like to thank whoever did the subtitles 😂

Last time I was this early, SAAB was the only car company I was crying for. Born from jets.

Love is great, love is golden, most Aussie kids were made in a Holden.

As an Aussie I've been a Ford man all my life. The demise of Holden saddens me greatly. In Oz, Ford, Mopar and Holden people put shit on each other all the time, but if anyone of us break down it's always the Holden guy helping the Ford guy or Mopar guy helping the Holden guy etc. Aussies love performance V8 cars. Yes we are loyal to our brand, but we are street machine supporters first. We relate more with the U.S than Europe. Call it a colony thing.

As an Australian, and someone who lived near the plant, and talked to a number of the people there (from the floor, to upper management), I'd have to say that this video is about 30% of the story, and about 1/2 correct. There's so much more that happened, but I don't expect you guys to know any of it. Thanks for bringing at least some of this story to America, I really appreciate it. Some of the 5,000_ people who called the Holden plant their lives would thank you too. Even as someone who's more in to Hondas than Holdens, I would have fought tooth and nail to keep that factory there, employing Australians and producing unique and useful vehicles til my dying days. Those people deserved to be there, and GM had no fucking idea what the Australian market wanted, which was proven after they axed the Elizabeth plant and started importing the Opel Insignia, calling it the "New Holden Commodore". Imagine if GM axed the Camaro and imported some random European sedan, and rebadged it "Camaro" and then expected every American to welcome it with open arms. That's what happened to us in Australia. It doesn't even matter than the car was more powerful, or fuel efficient, or had the same towing capacity. The Commodore wasn't a spec sheet, it was an Australian designed and manufactured vehicle, made by and bought by Australians. To feed us some Euro car with the same name was just rude. Even Ford had the decency to axe the 'Falcon' namebadge after they stopped making the car in Australia. It really makes you realise how poorly managed GM is, and how the faster they fold and pull out entirely, or just completely bin their management and rehire, restarting from the ground up, the better America, and the world will be.

Whoever was responsible for the aussie subtitles is a genius.

"remaining 25 workers" I was working there when the last car come off the line there was still a couple hundred of us working there Also the last car off the line was a SSV redline

GM: The Electronic Arts of cars.

as an aussie i can confirm i did shed a tear when i found out holden shut down

GM really knows how to kill a car company

Holden died because of what GM lacks: Competent management.

Wow..Pontiac, Saturn, Holden---GM sure knows how to help destroy things.

Gonna be honest, at the end of the video I actually started tearing up, I’m really glad tho that an American did a video about Holden, it means so much mate I really hope you know that. Loved the “I will remember Maloo” at the end as well, love ya for that bro

The last Holden made in Australia, a VF series II SS V Redline, completed late morning of the 19th of October 2017 was sold to the public at an auction for $750,000 and a HSV GTSR W1 Maloo sold at the auction also in a private bid amongst HSV’s inner circle board members for $1,050,000 3 days ago. 30th January 2021

U know you’re a true Aussie when you watch stuff like this.

Everyone outside Australia: Who's gonna buy a racing sedan pickup? The Australian market: Holden my beer, mate

Lol they went all out with the Aussie subtitles Rip Holden

Yesterday I saw a Holden VL Turbo doing burnouts in the street. I love Australia

Me as an aussie truly miss the Holdens. It was a sad day when they closed;(

I like whoever put in the "aussie" subtitles. Makes for an interesting read haha

The guy that did the Closed Captions, is an absolute legend! 10/10

Not only Aussies, As an immigrant i will also miss Holden❤️

The man can't spell doughnut or pronounce the letter z but he knows his Holden history very well. Well done

As an American I apologize to all Aussies for the loss of their iconic brand.

Short answer: GM Long answer: General Motors

As a South Australian, I can remember driving past the Holden factory in Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a northern suburb of Adelaide. I am sad that Holden shut down because they were Australians who made Australian cars in my home state of South Australia. Great video! :D

They were the absolute best subtitles I have ever seen on a video, bar none. That was beautiful.

Appreciate the shoutout to my old Scottys Garage video. At least you guys give credit - Hoonigans don't give you nothing.

So GM basically are automotive industry version of EA

As an Australian, the subtitles greatly helped make this video understandable.

Despite being a Ford fan in Australia, Holden had a special place in Australian automotive history. There is definately a market for powerful sedans and Ute's

school: closed donut: heres your history lesson

YO everybody check out the captions, I think they had Ozzy man do it for them

i love the subtitles in this, my god. 10/10

You guys did a really good job on this, as an Aussie I can attest that this is accurate. The prices of HSVs has gone nuts ever since they stopped making them, their a real flex these days.

The last generation GTO and SS are probably the most underrated cars out there. Blast to drive and will likely be collectors items in a few years. Go git you one of dem’!

As an Australian I will miss Holden Deeply especially Commodore's 😭

If you haven’t watched this with captions on you are missing out . To the cheeky bastard that did it, you’re a bloody legend !

I could tell when Holden was on its way out, it's when they started bringing in a rebadged version of the Chevy Equinoxs and the Acadia which Holden had never done meaning something was going down

Adelaide gets a mention, Me - becomes incredibly patriotic

Me being an Australian watching this makes me sad 😭

I've owned a lot of Holdens over the years, but by far my favourite was my 1977 Hatchback Torana V8! Absolute classic that I never stop regretting selling.

Screw GM! I hope an Aussie resurrects the brand once the name's copyright lapses & brings back the Holden. I'd do it if I had the millions needed.

OMG, turn on CC for the "Australian" translation! It's a riot!

On behalf on all of Australians, I thank you guys for covering this for all of us down unda. You guys are killing it. Thank you guys so much

This has to be watched with BOTH the audio playing, AND (while) you keep your eyes on the closed-caption text going by. Hysterical!

As an Aussie Holden is like a part of us it's so sad it closing down

When he was talking about a W1 they put in footage of a ssv 😅😅

The "Last Car" pictured is an SSV Redline Commodore, not a W1

i just wanted to thank whoever put the subtitles on LMFAO

Who ever did the editing for the subtitles, your a legend mate 😌😌

GM is probably one of the most poorly run, disappointing car companies, with the exception of Chevrolet, they make awful cars, their days of glory are long behind them and they just kill off or sell great brands as they slowly shrivel up and die.

I think you mean "Party at the front, business at the back."

Appreciate the Holden Efigy ❤

It’s sad too see Holden now gone 😢 It was the only Australian car brand made in Australia

GM ruins literally everything they touch

Whoever changed the subtitles to Aussie slang is amazing.

Thanks so much for the post. I have a 2007 HOLDEN CALAIS HSVi VE V V8 ... lots of letters, I know. I purchased mine on special order and it is a one-off. It is badged in the engine bay [HOLDEN SPECIAL VEHICLE INDIVIDUAL]. It cost me $75,000.00 brand new and I have never ever had any trouble with it. My model also won the prestigious Australian car award in 2006, WHEELS CAR OF THE YEAR. Your post, and many other reviewer's posts on the demise of HOLDEN, makes me angry every time I see what GM in the USA had done to our national icon. It took away around 200,000 jobs from Australians and as you stated, now there are no cars at all being built in Australia. There are so many Australian billionaires in this country that I have no idea why they just all couldn't get together and save HOLDEN and give GM "the flick". I look forward to the day when HOLDEN will come back. My own car was serviced today, I spoke to the staff about this issue and one Lady told me that HOLDEN had been in her family for over 70 years. Her Father worked for HOLDEN for over 40 years, she's been working for HOLDEN for over 20 years. She has 2 HOLDEN's and now all they are really doing at my local dealership is servicing Australian made HOLDENs, they are hardly selling any of the American and German imported and re-badged HOLDENS. Australians do not want other country's cars calling themselves HOLDENS. I think that this is a great "kick in the teeth" to GM in the USA. Mess with Aussies ... we'll show our disgust by not buying any of your re-badged cars! My car has now increased in price as it is not only rare, but also a one-off. I will never sell my HOLDEN. Again, thanks for the post mate. DM

Cheers mate for the ozzy cc translations.

I love how non-Australians can look at a holden and then say it's beautiful, but if you ask just about any Australian the first descriptive word that comes to mind is "bogan".

2:12 (CC) "Aussies were crackin' fats" Yes. Yes we were.

I got an '08 G8 I bought in 2010! Still kicking, but cosmetically starting to go. Headliners sagging, broken interior door handle, window buttons loose. Only engine issue I got is a Timing Chain issue. All these issues started in late 2021. I got a 123+K on it. I plan on taking care of these issues and keeping it as long as I can. I love this car!

11/10 for the closed captions / subtitles. This was amazeballs on multi levels

I come from a “Holden family”, dad always had a commodore growing up. He had a gold LJ Torana XU-1 before I was born too. I’m still driving a 2014 VF, and it’s gonna be hard to say goodbye. In addition to the A9X, the SLR 5000, the HDT VK group C, and of course the later Walkinshaw cars, I love the fact that in 2016 you could still get an SS-V wagon. Ideal rig.

Nolan: "when did things start going... *wrong* ?" Close Caption: "tits up" Me: are we playing angel/devil?

So sad to see it go, completed my panel beating apprenticeship at Fishermans Bend Plant 3 Experimental. Started in 1956 when the FJ was still in production and the FE hand-built test cars were running around the Langlang testing ground. As apprentices we were lucky enough to have 1 day each at the facility and a ride around the track. My boss and head engineer Bill Hubbard had a lot to do with the amazing success of the First Holden. Bill was a British WW1 Air Ace with 10 victories and survived being shot down behind enemy lines. Sadly, he died in a car accident in Melbourne after retiring. Fairwell GMH, so many memories.

Being a Aussie and a owned my share of Holden’s, I can tell you that to me Holden started its slump when in 1979 it ceased product of 2 iconic lines. The Holden Torana and the mighty Holden Kingswood, here in Australia there was a tv show show called Kingswood country, the Torana was the launch platform for a few Aussie race driver. One of biggest was a guy named Peter Brock or as sometimes referred to as Peter Perfect. The Torana was a mid size car which could be purchased with a range of motors, from 4 cylinder to the 5litre V8, I owned a Torana for 12 years and wish I could of kept it, so for me GM decline started in 79.

As a g8 owner, I love Holden, so sad to see it go.

"Should GM bring back Holden if viable? I think so. I'm just not Holden my breath" I hope they do, but is more probable some bloke buys the rights and resurrects it.

If you got a Commodore or a Maloo for your first car in Australia, you instantly become one of the coolest kids around.

for a more authentic aussie experience, read the subtitles

Glad I own a 2016 Chevy SS. I plan on swapping out the Chevy badges for the Holden ones.

Day 107 of asking James to do an Up to speed on his Dad *Watching this video as he cries in Australian*

Mate those captions were bloody brilliant

Watching this w subtitled oml🤣🤣🤣

The amount of Holden content lately is what’s getting me through this quarantine

The captions though...

I've thought about this, and I think one of the biggest factors of Holden going out of business was that for many years, they were a one car company - the Commodore company. Sure they pretended to have cars in other categories like the Barina, Astra and Colorado. But it was obvious to anyone who cared that those cars weren't real Holdens. Did people think the Land Cruiser wasn't a real Toyota? Of course not. Did people think the Territory wasn't a real Ford? No. But nothing Holden made that wasn't a Commodore was ever really given the same kind of respect as they were just other cars rebadged (though at least the Captiva had a real Holden Alloytec V6 engine in certain models - kudos for that). Holden didn't do anything about this for years because Commodore was king and while it was paying the bills, the rest of the line-up was just a distraction. But in my opinion, Holden should have been using those good years to create some decent real Holdens in other categories. E.g. An Australian made hatch that took on the Corolla or Golf. Or an SUV that took on the CX-8 or Sorento. Then in the future when Australian car buying tastes changed, they would have been able to pivot. But what happened was the large sedan / wagon category fell out of favour for SUVs and Dual Cab Utes. What could the Commodore car company do? Tell Australia they were wrong and to please come back? I know there were plenty of other factors at play, and probably the biggest killer of all for Holden was their lackluster export market. But even if all that was in top shape, the lack of diversification would have got them in the end.

For those who don't know, the downfall of aussie cars essentially came from 1990s Labor because they removed the tariffs, citing "there being too many car manufacturers in Australia" as a reason. If the tariffs weren't reduced into the ground then we could still have those awesome cars and a good economy.

Nolan Sykes: "Likes to wear wet socks" My guess your next title is Nolan Sykes: "Wears toeless shoes"

Everybody read the captions. They offer a whole new meaning to everything he says. Put on captions, especially if you are from australia

I'm loving the subtitles haha

It's mentioned that all the other car makers in Australia closed up before Holden, and while it's technically true that the Holden production line was the last to shut down, Toyota was actually the last to announce their closure after Holden said they would be closing the Elizabeth plant. Toyota didn't actually want to close their plant, but without the Holden and Ford plants also operating to keep enough volume for all the parts suppliers in the supply chain, it just wasn't possible for Toyota to stay open. The death of Holden overall was when Opel (and by extension Vauxhall) was sold off - Opel/Vauxhall were the main supplier of the right-hand-drive cars Holden needed for the Australian market (because the UK is also RHD and a larger market). No RHD GM cars to sell = No Holden.

This is how mad max starts! We are all going to start fighting to get parts for our vt's haha

Do an Up To Speed on the Ford Falcon! Y’know, Australia’s other national sports car that ALSO recently got discontinued

The SSV was also available as wagon (estate), I think that was my favourite version, I owned one for a few years and genuinely regret selling it. (Sold it before I knew Holden was on its last legs, used value sky-rocketed afterwards).

Owned 3 Holdens over the years. A V8 VH was my first car when I got my license, a VL HDT about 6 years later, and eventually a VE 6.0 Calais. I'm not a car head by any measure, I'm objectively a nerd working as a weapon systems engineer for the MoD now, but there was something about Holden cars that was just epic and I never imagined while growing up in Oz that the Holden badge would be a thing of the past. Unfortunately I don't own a Holden now as I'm living in Europe, so an M3 was dirt cheap over here and I couldn't go past it for the price, but they're quite similar to top spec Holden's in many ways. I'll miss my old bombadoors, I got a lot of stick at uni from my other nerdy mates who drove their cheap and economic Asian cars, but not a single one of them got out of my VL without a big sh!t eating grin on their face. Holden were never meant to be world beaters, they were just meant to be good old Aussie hoon mobiles and they delivered in spades.

I've got my two V8 Holden's that i bought new and they are staying with me till death!

Day 5 of asking up to speed on the ford falcon

The subtitles are mint. 👌

50 year old Australian Holden man here... My favourite Holden is the A9X / SLR5000 Torana! It would have to be THE MOST aesthetically pleasing car -------- in the world!!!

One thing: Don’t sell your company to GM!!

Ahhh yes, the ve/vz commodore. Australia’s favourite lawn ornament to the local crack house

i swear to you, this is the best subtitles ive seen on any video ever. coming from an aussie

Whoever did the subtitles is top notch mate

bruh this felt like an up to speed on holden, but rip holden either way :(

Couple of minor inaccuracies, but thanks soo much mate for doing a vid on this, love the subtitles.

I love my Pontiac G8 GT (Holden Commodore SSV), she’s always a good conversation starter when I go to car shows, having a nice lopy can helps, too. These are great cars, thank you to the Australians who built mine.

Aussie here; you didn't mention it, but they re-released the Monaro in the 2000's and sold it in the states as the Pontiac GTO