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.............................. Holden
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Holden, officially GM Holden Ltd, is an Australian automaker based in Port Melbourne, Victoria, originally independent but now a subsidiary of General Motors (GM). The Holden automotive marque is one of GM's "alpha" brands. Holden has taken charge of vehicle operations for General Motors in Australasia and holds partial ownership of GM Daewoo in South Korea on behalf of GM. Over the years, Holden has offered a broad range of locally produced vehicles, with supplementary models imported from various parts of the GM empire. In the past, Holden has offered rebadged Nissan and Toyota models in sharing arrangements.
Holden cars are manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, while engines are produced at Port Melbourne, Victoria. Historically, production or assembly plants were operated in all mainland states of Australia: Acacia Ridge, Queensland, Dandenong, Victoria, Mosman Park, Western Australia, Pagewood, New South Wales, and Woodville, South Australia (body production only). Untill 1990, Holden New Zealand also operarated a plant based in Petone. Consolidation of car production at Elizabeth, South Australia, was completed in 1988, although some assembly operations continued at Dandenong until the mid-1990s.
Operations at Holden are currently headed by chairman and managing director Chris Gubbey. Executives of secondary departments include William Lesner, Alison Terry, Ian McCleave, Tony Hyde, Tony Stolfo, Alan Batey, Rodney Keane, Scott Sandefur, Pierre Matthee, Gene Stefanyshyn, Raymundo Garza, Mark Bernhard, and Fiona Harden. Vehicles are sold countrywide through the Holden Dealer Network (310 authorised stores and 12 service centres), which employs more than 13,500 people.
Since the 1960s, Holdens have been a staple of domestic touring car racing, and the quasi-factory Holden Racing Team (HRT) has successfully participated in V8 Supercar racing. In 1987, Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) was formed in partnership with Tom Walkinshaw, who primarily manufactures modified, high-performance Commodore variants. To further reinforce the brand, HSV introduced the Toll HSV Dealer Team into the V8 Supercar fold in 2005 under the naming rights of HSV Toll Racing.
The logo or "Holden lion and stone" as it is known, has played a vital role in establishing Holden's identity with roots tracing back to 1928. It was then when George Raynor Hof was appointed by Holden’s Motor Body Builders to design the emblem. The fable behind the logo dates back to prehistoric times when observations were made of lions rolling stones, leading to the invention of the wheel. With the 1948 launch of the 48-215, Holden revised its logo and commissioned yet another redesign in 1972 to better represent the company. The emblem was reworked once more in 1994.
The Holden Commodore is just as popular in New Zealand, where it has hit the number-one slot in the sales charts from time to time, and is often used as a police car. Commodores are also sold in Brunei, Fiji, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and parts of the Middle East badged as Chevrolet Luminas. In Brazil badge-engineered Commodores are sold as the Chevrolet Omega,[1] and both V6 and V8 versions of the Commodore will be exported to the United States as the Pontiac G8 starting in 2008.[81] Holden's exports of the Commodore were the first left-hand drive cars built since the 1960s, when Holden sold cars in Hawaii.
A modified version of the Holden Monaro, in turn a modified Commodore has been sold in the United States as the Pontiac GTO and under the Monaro name through Vauxhall dealerships in the United Kingdom. Since the desmise of the Monaro, Vauxhall has commenced sales of the HSV Clubsport R8, badged as the Vauxhall VXR8. Since the late 1990s, Holden has exported its luxury Statesman sedan to the Middle East as the Chevrolet Caprice and to South Korea as the Daewoo Statesman. The Statesman is also sold in China where it was sold as the Buick Royaum, before being replaced by the Park Avenue.
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