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Revving Up For Milestones
Steve Colquhoun & Ian Porter
30 April 2008
www.smh.com.au
Toyota has celebrated the production of 2.5 million cars in Australia but, despite its increasing dominance in the sales race, still can't match GM Holden for sheer production capacity.
One among only three remaining local volume producers of cars in Australia, GM Holden expects to wheel the seven-millionth car off its Fishermans Bend production line in the next few months, having taken seven years to clock up its latest million.
Toyota has taken four years to add 500,000 cars to the 2 million milestone it clocked in 2004.
Neither figure stacks up to GM Holden's best performance, when it took just five years to produce a million cars between 1969 and 1974, anchored by almost half a million HQ Holdens manufactured in just three years from 1971-74.
It has taken Toyota a total of 45 years to reach the 2.5 million milestone with a white Toyota Camry Grande that rolled off its Altona production line last week.
GM Holden has produced almost 7 million cars in the 60 years since the first Holden 48/215 was built in 1948.
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Holden celebrates its one millionth closed bodied type car in 1957
Steve Colquhoun & Ian Porter
30 April 2008
www.smh.com.au
Toyota has celebrated the production of 2.5 million cars in Australia but, despite its increasing dominance in the sales race, still can't match GM Holden for sheer production capacity.
One among only three remaining local volume producers of cars in Australia, GM Holden expects to wheel the seven-millionth car off its Fishermans Bend production line in the next few months, having taken seven years to clock up its latest million.
Toyota has taken four years to add 500,000 cars to the 2 million milestone it clocked in 2004.
Neither figure stacks up to GM Holden's best performance, when it took just five years to produce a million cars between 1969 and 1974, anchored by almost half a million HQ Holdens manufactured in just three years from 1971-74.
It has taken Toyota a total of 45 years to reach the 2.5 million milestone with a white Toyota Camry Grande that rolled off its Altona production line last week.
GM Holden has produced almost 7 million cars in the 60 years since the first Holden 48/215 was built in 1948.
Click here to continue article

Holden celebrates its one millionth closed bodied type car in 1957