Holden VF Commodore Production

[@zorlacskaterfreak]

The greatest job, greatest people and greatest Company I ever worked with - So so sad

[@hamzawiblue3157]

Thanks for your service brother

[@joelewis3634]

Wow A beautiful orange SSV I still get excited. Thank you so much Holden !!

[@viscious82]

Great job. I love my ss. It definitely feels like a quality built car. Good luck to all you. It is a shame.

[@thefamily8964]

its just sad to here holdens have closed down i worked in plant 2 on doorline for 5yrs its now just memories

[@howardcroft3748]

I absolutely love my VF SV6 six speed manual. I bought it new and it's the last car I will ever own because nobody, I mean nobody builds a car like it anymore.

[@beagle7622]

It would hard to describe how angry I was watching Joe Hockey basically laughing about shutting this plant down .The media has to,take some responsibility no debate, every writer just mirroring the stuff released by politicians and the productivity commission, both companies had just spent and committed Over a Billion dollars each. into our economy. Toyota had just opened a new engine plant and both were introducing new models and Mark Reuss who is GM’s Vice President of product stated in GM Today News at the time ( check it out), that he favoured keeping the Commodore car in production, that would have been 3 cars built in Elizabeth. With all the taxes,wages etc paid by GM Toyota to the Government ,simple arithmetic shows that the government just flushed it away Also The PM’s comments about people’s future were stupid to say the least. Why, the unions? Arrogance, who knows! Also if these companies took the advice of the then Industries minister and built small cars, they would have been sitting on a pile of unwanted cars now . It is worth noting that the Commodore was always in the top ten sellers and only dropped out of the top 6, 12 months before its demise. Do I.own a Commodore, yes a Calais V , a fantastic car by any measure. Also get sick of the “crap”argument, Look at how many parts from component manufacturers are shared with so called good cars, whatever brand they are.

[@peterlaustra2892]

Are there any auto engineers and designers still living in this country? IF so,why isn't anybody thinking about designing an upscale and 21st century Zeta,a truly native Australian brand,not owned by GM Ford or Mitsubishi and not reliant on any government money?

[@jwood299]

All those jobs, now gone, yeah cheers for that Turnbull...

[@nath-wp7xp]

Yeah, blame Turnbull instead of the many Australian economic factors that make the production of cars unsustainable and unappealing to car manufacturers along with the shifting consumer demands and tastes that further accelerated the demise of local manufacturing.

[@SugmaDick]

I believe it was Abbot that caused it, because he withheld funding to holden in 2013

[@garyrielly1955]

Yes it was Abbott and his Treasurer Joe Hockey, they put a stop to subsidising the auto industry in Australia and the fact they cut huge Tariffs off Imported Cars which in turn made the Australian made cars way too expensive. In other countries like Germany and the United States the governments there heavily subsidise their auto manufacturing industry. The Czech Republic with a population of just over 10.1 million produce the Skoda car range and export the brand, so how come with a population of over 25 million Australia cannot even manufacture a bloody razor blade..... disgusting!

[@time2kickarse]

@@garyrielly1955 Joe hockey was and is part of the young global leaders of Klaus Schwab and the World economic forum. Unfortunately Australia is still on the downward spiral today in 2022 thanks to useless self serving politicians and public servants.

[@perpetualgrin5804]

And the Australian public who bought other cars.

[@7071t6]

Brought myself a VF SSV redline series one, the last of the series one's 2015.:) also i put on rear brembos and DPE rear mufflers and now people think its a series twom even through i did not know that the series two' shad the rear bremo's. :) Only 30K on the clock and 3 years old, :) Also my car is only a few which were owned by a worker, ie: manager of the Elisabeth plant in south australia, most holden car owners manuals will have the previous owners name and address if brought 2nd, but mine has a holden white sticker with owner clearly stated Holden Motor corporation, elizabeth manufacturing plant south australia and the Vin, number, engine number and stock number and ticked Capped price serving. :) thank you all the workers for holden and i hope most of them have found new jobs and i hope holden bring out a twin turbo version of the ZB holden AWD and around 350KW at the engine or a supercharged version with about the same HP figures :) I was going to buy a FG XR8, but when i seen them for the first time in 2015, the outside was basically the same IE Rear end and front end changed as far as the looks, but inside the same old dash and seats shape, leather etc etc, also herd that the diff bushes have to be done on all the fords that came out if its a FG and the turbo versions the turbo's have to be done around the 40K mark, depending on how you drive it as well, but turbo's engines especially the bara should be able to take it, like that upload of 10 secound FG F6 in 10 days, yet the top end of the engine was stuffed and basically had to rebuild the engine to handle all that power including the auto and the diff etc, cant get my head around how much the people who own the FB XR8's from 2015 onwards are asking for them yet they have nothing on the new VFR even the first series, ie: 2013 models ?

[@wonkychikn]

7071t6, your VF would be an EX employee lease vehicle...I leased 6 new VEs in a row when when I worked there!... I took a redundancy at the end of 2012 just after the first run of MVB pilot pre production VFs had been built . I worked at Elizabeth plant for 10 years ,and was very proud to do so !. Regardless of what some people think ,there was very strict controls on quality ,and a huge amount of testing and engineering went into VE and VF... People who think that the are not a good vehicle don't realise that in every overseas market that we exported to that these vehicles were highly regarded...many people in America believe the VF SS ( Chevrolet spec export version) is the best sedan GM have ever offered for sale in America!

[@kopetz071]

cant wait to get my black edition SV6 in a weeks time i get the lowest kilometere done one and only one of a kind in the whole of australia and it still looks brand new god bless these workers who made my car

[@bigsohc]

Ha. Loser

[@rabbit73au]

MDS they had to stop making Falcons earlier than they planned to because of law of sales

[@glennmk5167]

Only a 6🤣😉 there rubbish

[@kopetz071]

@@glennmk5167 excuse me u can modify them to make the sound like a v8 I don't know what u talking about

[@glennmk5167]

@@kopetz071 plz there 6 are gutless junk, sounding like a V8 and going like a V8 2 different things😂🤣 especially quad exhaust 6 cylinders 😂🤣makes me laugh all the time

[@hamishpym101]

Love the ‘out of space’ background background noise of the factory.

[@peterraco9193]

Wow same colour has my ssv vf could be mine so sad they finished up

[@marcsee4072]

you can see the love they putting into it

[@johno9507]

Marc see. The very final stage of building is a lady that kisses each car as it comes off the line.

[@Redpatc_208]

I wish they still made cars😥

[@lorimerneil67]

awesome, sorry for all these tallented people.

[@jonasgrumby1093]

My favorite color

[@alexmillenbach443]

Not us watching the Holden team build a car that probably got wrecked the week it left the store

[@johno9507]

What...no energy polarizer!?

[@spiritlevelstudios]

haha

[@7071t6]

@ the 6:46 mark you can clearly see the external trans cooler fitted on that car ,which is a cop car full stop, even if you ordered a new VF series one or two with a tow pack, even the largest tow pack from holden, they do not put a external trans cooler at all, i asked the spare parts guys at my local holden dealership and trust me the part number for that external transcoder is for VF HSV auto and Statesman, and Police packs only, you could put one on a holden Oe which is part number HF04A780, BUT HAS A TOTAL OF 20 DIFFERENT SEPERATE PART NUMBERS AND YOU ONLY REQUIRE A COUPLE TO HAVE THE THING FITTED TO YOUR VF IF YOU WANT ONE ,BUT CHECK WITH AFTER MARKET ONES AS WELL, LIKE PWR PRODUCTS ETC, Cheers :) Sorry about the CAPS ?

[@wonkychikn]

If you stop the video at 10:15 you can read the broadcast ( build) sheet .. This vehicle is a SSV Model Year 2014 MVB S which means manufacturing validation build saleable .So this car is infact a pre production pilot vehicle,but a very close to regular production model , hence the S for saleable...early MVB (pilot) vehicles are not saleable , evaluation only ,and pilot vehicles sometimes have different equipment to regular production versions!

[@tomnewham1269]

wonkychikn I’m guessing it became a press car but I could be wrong.

[@wonkychikn]

@@tomnewham1269 ,It is possible ,but some validation vehicles also get extra items fitted to them as part of the engineering evaluation process.Once GM have finished with these vehicles they generally got on sold to dealers as ex GMH vehicles,but only pilot pre production vehicles with the code MVB S were on sold ,as earlier pilot vehicles didn't get a proper vin tag only a pilot tag and would basically get destroyed at the proving ground,or end up as run around " hacks" for use inside the ground of the assembly plant....some also get donated to various TAFE facilities and to emergency services to cut up for rescue training!

[@tomnewham1269]

wonkychikn thanks for your comprehensive reply.

[@wonkychikn]

@@tomnewham1269 , you're welcome mate!

[@URN-A55]

Sensational 👌

[@vsboy2577]

More hands on assembly then the German brands.

[@jonasgrumby1093]

Where will GM get all their performance cars from now that they shafted Holden

[@donthaveonedonthaveone5901]

are they really getting rid of the limited slip diff? (what a shame!) (-_+)

[@donthaveonedonthaveone5901]

great job guys! (-_=)

[@ronandlyn1]

That could be my car. Same colour and model

[@suhailahmed1512]

What happened to all this employee when they close the factory

[@slmiano]

I love this colour, does any one know the code for this orange??

[@KennyHall06]

Seb Miano google will have your awnser. Holden VF paint codes. Will find it

[@WorksOnMyComputer]

Fantale Orange. I've got a SS-V Redline in this colour.

[@mitebcool]

They always have to make people work that little bit faster than a comfortable speed don't they. Rush rush rush

[@beagle7622]

Don Derply No they don’t do the guys in that film look rushed. GM had and I believe still do have standard time for each part of an operation . Yes they looked for efficiency but they were being told by the company and also the Productivity Commission & government to be more efficient.I have worked on one of these lines when I was young at university, constant pace yes but certainly not rushed.Also you were given opportunities if you wanted to widen your skill, many people just wanted to learn 1 job.

[@John-vk4gs]

We made stuff !!!!!!! Just sad.....

[@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE]

Seriously used a machine to install the battery? I know they’re heavy n all that but still

[@corvetteZ3r]

You do that 2 or 300 times each day and you will get worn out very quickly

[@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE]

@@corvetteZ3r I hadn't considered that

[@corvetteZ3r]

@@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE yea I work in automotive production and I put rav 4 hatches on by hand for awhile because the process was hard to learn, after while my right shoulder would kill me daily. Also that combined with another simple process not even lifting heavy objects made it hurt worse too. Lifting a battery hundreds of times would destroy a person lol

[@ozzzzzzziiii]

ist's a Opel insignia.

[@rabbit73au]

That is a VF the one after is a Opel insignia this is still in Australia

[@ozzzzzzziiii]

@@rabbit73au Holden it's History.....

[@rabbit73au]

@@ozzzzzzziiii may be history but apparently there are still 18 million Holden’s still registered in Australia not bad considering we only have a population of around 24 million and a few years ago the Holden motor show got the record for most amount of a single manufacturer at the one show

[@priseene]

RIP

[@andrynofianto7729]

i have torana

[@darrylstem6426]

thank the unions as well,go overboard with entitlements

[@peterpace2463]

If it wasn’t for our greedy over paid Australians working in our vehicle plants, then perhaps GM Australia would still be operational today!!

[@johnboy557]

sorry but no!!our country could never compete with low paid asian countries!!

[@tofyne]

Look...it's the chevy reject shop

[@DansModelBench]

That was sad - on your part.

[@rinunculartoo3006]

Not a cool comment bud

[@glennmk5167]

@@rinunculartoo3006 funny and true 😁

[@bobolulu7615]

What a lot of shit you talk. Have a look under a Chevy Camaro and you will see an all Aussie designed platform.

[@time2kickarse]

Well they sold well in America for the people that knew about them. Today in 2022 still fetch good money in the states. The ute would have been a popular had it introduced rather than been setup for failure in the overseas markets.