By Jake Williams
Publication Date: 2025-11-15 05:42:00
Holden’s death as a homegrown automaker in 2021 is still causing pain across Australia and has had a major impact on the local car market. While many of its former customers have moved on, there is certainly a Holden-sized gap for car buyers, particularly when it comes to affordable performance cars such as V8-powered family sedans.
So we tasked AI with imagining what Holden’s potential offering would look like in 2025. We’ve added electric vehicles, hybrids and even taken a page from its older models to create a virtual Holden showroom for 2025. Take a look:
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With the Cruze (the Astra sedan when it was last sold in Australia) no longer in production, Holden may have had to get creative in sourcing a small car. Since a hybrid powertrain is a must for NVES compliance, why not turn to one of the best manufacturers of this type of vehicle in the world and recreate an old engineering situation: the Holden Nova, based on the Toyota Corolla?
The E90 and E100 generation Corollas have been badged and…
