2 of my favourite forms of motorsports are the V8 utes and V8 supercars. Particularly the utes (wilder, with more crashes and contact!), but unfortunately, probably because of the winding down of production, this year the amount of utes at each race has been much smaller, boo!. Unlike the V8 supercars, which has a variety of manufacturers (as well as Ford and Holden), the utes only have Ford and Holden.

Australia has too many boring cars now.

Commodore was 5th best seller in September. Ranger and Hi-Lux, 1st and 2nd.

Toyota didn't throw in the towel.

Toyoya threw in the towel of assemebly in Austraila not sales

From www.wheelsmag.com.au/news/industry/1710/holden-end...a

Holden, the world’s second-oldest transportation company, had almost made it to seven decades, but fell tantalisingly short after announcing three years ago – largely in response to intense government pressure – that it would follow in Ford’s footsteps and quit local manufacturing. The first Holden rolled off the line on November 27, 1948 in a sawtooth-roofed factory a few hundred metres away from where the national sales office now sits; the last one more than 1000 kilometres away on October 20, 2017.

Why did government want the factory closed. Or have I miss read?

The writing seemed to be on the wall back in 2013, when the Australian government ditched its"ageing" fleet of Holden Caprices in favour of imported BMWs. This came two years after the New Zealand government did exactly the same thing.(See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_state_car for more pub quiz trivia!)

Edited by Bilboman on 24/10/2017 at 23:49