Find Reviews by Make:
23 Comments on “What’s Wrong With This Picture: Holden on to the Good Times Edition...”
Read all comments
Latest Car Reviews view all
Latest Product Reviews view all
Recent Comments
- Lou_BC: @Carlson Fan – My ’68 has 2.75:1 rear end. It buries the speedo needle. It came stock with the...
- theflyersfan: Inside the Chicago Loop and up Lakeshore Drive rivals any great city in the world. The beauty of the...
- A Scientist: When I was a teenager in the mid 90’s you could have one of these rolling s-boxes for a case of...
- Mike Beranek: You should expand your knowledge base, clearly it’s insufficient. The race isn’t in...
- Mike Beranek: ^^THIS^^ Chicago is FOX’s whipping boy because it makes Illinois a progressive bastion in the...
Car Reviews By Make view all
New Car Research
Who We Are
- Tim Healey
Managing Editor - Matt Posky
News and Social Media Contributor - Timothy Cain
Sales Analyst - Murilee Martin
Junkyard Finds Author - Matthew Guy
Contributor - Chris Tonn
Contributor
- Adam Tonge
- Bozi Tatarevic
- Corey Lewis
- Jo Borras
- Mark Baruth
- Ronnie Schreiber
My guess is the badge. It’s a Holden when it should be a Chevrolet.
As in a Chevrolet Volt…..?
Which makes little sense since Bob Lutz (remember him?) said the reason they chose the Chevrolet marque for the Volt was because this was to be a global car and Chevrolet is a global marque.
The Volt would fit neatly between the Aveo and Lacetti line up, wouldn’t it…..?
It looks like GM’s infamous rebadging is now spanning the globe. I guess this is a Holden “Watt” or something………
The Chevrolet brand has not been used in Australia since the 1970s. All the Daewoo-Chevrolets are sold here as Holdens.
They probably figure it would cost too much to relaunch Chevrolet when they could just sell it as a Holden instead.
Branding (and all its insanity) aside, what’s this? A $40K car that doesn’t exist (and will not be sold for profit), shipped and sold all the way out in Australia (for even less, if any, profit)? Jeez, if it were that easy to trade product with the down under, I wonder why we don’t have more G8’s…
Surely this gives me faith in GM and their viability plans.
Ditto to the previous comments…the Chevy-esque grille on this Holden makes it look as though GM is (finally) positioning itself globally for some commonality among products, and perhaps branding.
Kind of like giving an aspirin as rigor mortis sets in…
Ummm, I have checked Holden site before and now, and the car featured there shows the bowtie logo. I check it regularly. Same with Ford Oz.
What’s the big deal, if Holden is the brand that sells down there, I don’t see the point in using Chevy. I mean, what’s the point of introducing Chevy again and make the whole GM mess if the Holden brand is already stablished.
Cruze has been launched now, and in their site they’re mentioning something about a new car to be developed in the Delta platform.
The Holden Volt.
HOLDEN VOLT PROVIDES GLIMPSE OF AUSTRALIA’S DRIVING FUTURE
GM Holden has released the first images of the highly anticipated Volt extended range electric vehicle as it will appear on Australian roads.
The images, which show a right-hand-drive version of Volt sporting Holden badges on its aerodynamic front and rear, were released as part of Holden’s presentation at the Melbourne International Motor Show.
It is a local take on the vehicle that has won widespread acclaim for its ability to travel up to 64 kilometres on electricity before using petrol or producing exhaust pipe emissions.
GM Holden Chairman and Managing Director Mark Reuss said the company had been overwhelmed by public interest in Volt since announcing it would launch in Australia in 2012.
“We think Volt has the potential to change the game in Australian motoring,” Mr Reuss said.
“Since we announced our plans to introduce Volt to Australia, we have been overwhelmed by public interest in the car and the technology that makes it work.
“There is no doubt that Volt’s advanced propulsion systems represent some of the most exciting alternative fuel developments in motoring.
“At Holden, we believe Volt will play an incredibly important role in our efforts to make motoring better for the environment,” he said.
General Motors estimates that compared to similar sized petrol-powered vehicles, Volt will save motorists up to 1892 litres of fuel a year. This is based on US research that identifies 75 per cent of commuters travel an average daily distance of less than 40 miles (64 kilometres).
When Volt’s battery energy is depleted, a small petrol engine generates enough electricity to power the vehicle for hundreds of additional kilometres.
GM also calculates that charging the vehicle at night through a standard power outlet will use less electricity annually than an average household refrigerator.
Volt is planned for manufacture at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly and is scheduled for launch in the US in late 2010. The right-hand-drive version will launch later.
Volt – How The Technology Works
Volt is an Extended-Range Electric Vehicle (E-REV). In a significant advance from conventional hybrids , it uses electricity to move its wheels at all times and speeds.
For trips of up to 64 kilometres, Volt is powered solely by the electricity stored in its battery without using petrol or producing exhaust pipe emissions.
When the battery’s energy is depleted, a small petrol-powered engine generates electric power for the vehicle to travel hundreds of additional kilometres .
Advanced technology enables the vehicle’s battery to be charged in less than three hours on a standard 240v power outlet. Charge times are reduced if the battery has not been fully depleted.
GM estimates that compared to petrol-powered vehicles that average 7.8 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres, Volt will save motorists up to 1892 litres of fuel a year.
Volt – Vehicle Details
The design of the Volt production car has evolved from an original concept that was unveiled at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
General Motors created an energy efficient design for the production vehicle, resulting in one of the most aerodynamic cars in the company’s history.
Many of the design cues from the concept car have been carried over in the production Volt, including the closed front grille, athletic stance and rear design graphics.
Inside, Volt will offer the space, comfort, convenience and safety features that customers expect in a four-passenger sedan.
Volt – Battery Details
GM will establish the first lithium-ion battery pack manufacturing facility operated by a major automaker in the United States to produce the Volt’s battery pack system.
It consists of lithium-ion cells that are grouped into modules, along with other key battery components.
The plant will be located in Michigan, subject to negotiations with state and local government authorities. Facility preparation will begin in early 2009, with production tooling to be installed mid-year and output starting in 2010.
I’ll have an Australian made Camry Hybrid thanks.
(If it ever happens I guess).
This’ll look good in the bush, so to speak.
I’m guessing they ran out of Saab badges.
The turn signals built into the side mirrors look a bit like laser gun turrets. That may be an effective option for reducing one’s odds of being cut off on the freeway…
There isn’t a pickup truck bed in the back.
It’ll be a $40k car that’ll be released in a time of 15% unemployment.
My God – My God – My God I hope I’m wrong.
Actually, it looks a good bit like an Acura TL, the previous one, not the current buck-toothed edition.
Not sure about this one – is it really badge engineering if a brand is not used in a particular country?
For example, we have Vauxhalls here which are the equivalent Opel in Europe. But I don’t really see that as badge engineering per se (there may be a case for unifying into one global brand, but that’s another story.)
Badge engineering to my mind is things like Dodge Nitro/Jeep Liberty… where they’re competing with each other, sold alongside each other and pictured on the same roads as each other.
Remember:
A Volt in the hand
is worth two in the bush.
GM’s estimate for fuel savings amounts to $1000/year, not counting the electrical cost for nightly recharging.
Hardly seems worth it for a $40,000 economy car.
Well nobody else has said it yet so here is what’s actually wrong with this picture.
The steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.
Which means this nothing more than a 2 minute Photoshop job of a picture of the Chevy Volt. Nice effort GM.
looks like a Honda Civic
Good grief! It’s not even in production and they’ve already badge engineered it.
How would Sir like his Commodore, V8, V8 with displacement on demand, V6, Turbo v6, Turbo 4 or Batteries?. Try and find a workshop between Broken Hill and Albury that’ll fix this thing! Or when you are on the Nullabor between Ceduna and Eucla, trying to get parts of the the nearest wreck aint gonna work.
@petrolhead
It would have taken another 20 seconds to flip the picture mirror image to get the steering wheel on the correct side.
On the other hand, I can’t imagine GM going to the trouble to get the steering wheel on the correct side of the car for the 500-1000 Volts a year they might allot to Australia.
That is, of course, assuming the whole Volt project isn’t a vaporware prototype they have no means of mass-producing a powertrain for.
It’s missing a roo-bar.