This is Holden's last homegrown Commodore
Final Commodore off the Holden line will be a red SS-V Redline sedanThis red Holden Commodore SS V-Series Redline sedan will be the last vehicle to be produced in Australia.
The confirmation comes not from Holden but the unofficial Facebook page of its Elizabeth factory workers, Farewell to Holden Manufacturing in Australia.
According to the group, the car will actually be completed tomorrow (October 18), when general assembly produces its final vehicle, before the final Holdens are ceremoniously driven off the South Australian production line on Friday (October 20).
No actual shifts will take place on the final day in the life of the Holden Vehicle Operations, which has been the sole source of Australian-made Holden vehicles since 1994.
Instead, after the private factory ceremony, workers will be bused to an off-site location to celebrate the end of 69 years of Holden production in Australia.
In fact, Holden’s manufacturing closure began much earlier than this Friday, when 950 staff will lose their jobs, with 800 already gone and both the stamping plant and body shop closed earlier this month.
Holden is in the final stage of a six-month process to sell off its Elizabeth manufacturing site in the north of Adelaide, which will become a “master-planned innovative business park”.
About 25,000 fans attended the Holden Dream Cruise in Adelaide – the spiritual home of the company, which began as a saddlery in 1856 – last Sunday.
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