Holden take "the long march"

[bathurst77]

Commodores to china.

I give you the Buick Park Avenue
http://www.jalopnik.com/photogallery...echina/1714419

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/10/b...enue-in-china/

[Redrum]

Heard rumors next Holden model to be made in China.....

[Road_Warrior]

Statesman has been going to China for a while now badged as a Buick Royaum. I saw one there when I was there in Nov 05

On a related note, given all of the luxury additions in that car over and above the domestic Caprice, could we expect to see a high-spec Caprice later this year?

Caprice V?
Brougham?

[bathurst77]

The Park Avenue, like the GM Daewoo L4X introduced last week in Seoul, is a rebadged Holden WM Caprice/Statesman, and as such, it shares the big Aussie sedan's 3,009 mm wheelbase. As we've seen in other upscale GM China products, the new Park Avenue is equipped for maximum luxury, with seat massagers installed for all four passengers, a navigation system, in-car entertainment pumped to LCD displays, and available Bluetooth integration. The only image available at post time is the one you see above, which shows the familiar Holden profile. We expect to see the car's full-tilt introduction take place next week at the Shanghai Motor Show.

[bathurst77]

Yeh I was wondering that too, R W. There's some really tasty looking luxo in these. Makes the Fairlane/LTD look even lamer....

[bathurst77]

Here's the Korean one..
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/07/s...off-l4x-sedan/

http://news.taume.com/World-Business...Daewoo-L4X-889

more like our statos with a big grill

[bathurst77]

Holden means a great deal to China.
Daewoo means a great deal to Australia

[buddyforu]

Holden means a great deal to New Zealand
Holden means a great deal to South Korea
Holden means a great deal to South Africa
Holden means a great deal to the United States
Holden means a great deal to the Middle East
Holden means a great deal to Brazil
Holden means a great deal to Thailand
Holden means a great deal to the United Kingdom

Ford Australia means a great deal to....ummm...actually i dont know...South Africa? New Zealand?

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[Dr Smith]

At the moment Holden is exporting cars and Ford Oz is exporting R&D, eg. Fiesta sold in India was R&D'd here and elements taken into the updated European model as well, R&D for the next all-new Ranger (old Courier) with sales of 400,000+ and who knows what will come from Orion and also potentially LWB models...so it's not as "sexy" as cars loading onto boats but it could actually earn more dollars, especially as the $Aust keeps rising making our exports more expensive if you haven't protected/hedged the currency fluctuations or set prices in US dollars.

[zetec]

Currently Ford exports Territories to New Zealand, South Africa and Thailand. They Export Falcons and Falcon Utes to New Zealand and they export Falcon Hearse Wagons to the UK.

[Jayden]

We also export most of our talent.