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What Happened To Sedans?

image Half a century ago car buyers were able to buy a station wagon or a sedan. The word sedan has its origins, in the wheeled automotive sense, in 1912. It goes back further than that with a form of human transport called a litter. Think Cleopatra being carried around in a box covered in cloth, with poles at either end lifted by humans. [More]

C8 Corvette

image Chevrolet changed the automotive world in 1953. A front engine, open topped, gorgeous looking car was launched. Called Corvette, after the fast and nimble warships of a decade before, it quickly because super popular and would become the car of choice for astronauts in the late 1960s. [More]

Biden’s Corvette - Presidential Wheels

image There are times when politics gets put to one side and all can agree on one thing: a good looking car is a good looking car. General Motors found the magic formula some decades ago and the Chevrolet Corvette, from the original through to the 1970s and perhaps 1980s, is arguably a damned good looking car. The astronauts certainly had an eye for class and drove Corvettes in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. [More]

HSV Rebranding to GMSV

image Jo Stogiannis is the Director of GMSV, or General Motors Special Vehicles. She has an extensive background with Holden that has her starting on the ground floor in a customer service role before moving through areas such as Export and CRM, Customer Relations Management. She has also worked in the Holden Fleet Management area. [More]

Holden’s Last Hurrah

image 2020 will be in the history books as a year to remember for all of the wrong reasons. In a motorsport sense and for fans of the Red Lion in Australia’s premier tintop series, it’ll be the year that Holden, as a brand, officially fielded its last cars. [More]

COVID Roads

image 2020 has been, it’s fair to say, an absolute charley of a year. Bushfires, Covid, and floods in some areas as the year wound down, have stopped a lot of what we Aussies like to do and kept us housebound. [More]