Holden will be axed in Australia at the end of 2020 – just three years after the end of local manufacturing and the lowest monthly sales since it was established in 1948 – as US car giant General Motors gets out of right-hand-drive markets globally.
Although Holden had been posting record low sales – which led to the end of the Commodore and the Astra models late last year – the announcement has still come as a shock to industry veterans now the brand has lost its final lifeline.