Holden dealers in certain Australian States — including New South Whales, Queensland, and Western Australia — have begun receiving the very first units of the Holden Volt electric vehicle this week — which means that they can begin delivering cars to their very first customers in the coming days.
To properly launch the Volt into the country, Holden has established specialist dealers that will add a Volt to their demo fleets, allowing customers to experience the car and its unique technology firsthand.
As part of the commitment to become a Volt specialist dealer, each Holden Volt dealer has invested in training its staff while equipping its facilities with dedicated Volt charging stations — both in sales and service areas. Dealers have also committed to achieving environmental accreditation.
Specialist Holden Volt dealers include:
Volt Dealer Locations In New South Wales
- Muirs Holden – Ashfield
- Paul Wakeling Holden – Campbelltown
- Hunter Holden – Ryde
- Northside Holden – Chatswood
- Suttons City – Rosebery
- Sutherland Holden – Sutherland
- Castle Hill Holden – Castle Hill
- Kelly Holden – Cardiff
- Geoff King Holden – Coffs Harbour
Volt Dealer Locations In Queensland
- Eagers Holden – Windsor
- Zupps Mt Gravatt – Mt Gravatt
- Surfers City Holden – Southport
- Beecham Holden – Caboolture
- Oldfield Holden – Capalaba
- Coming Soon – Irelands – Cairns
- Motorama City Holden – Moorooka
- Tony Ireland Holden – Townsville
- Ross Gray Holden – Bundaberg
- Sunco Holden – Maroochydore
Volt Dealer Locations In Western Australia
- Brian Gardner Holden – Cannington
- Phoenix Holden – Waneroo
- City Motors – Perth
- Melville Holden – Melville
- Rockingham Holden – Rockingham
- Shacks Holden – Fremantle
- Bunbury Holden – Bunbury
Aside from the obvious badging differences, the Holden Volt is identical to the Chevrolet Volt, but with the steering wheel on the right hand side of the vehicle. The Holden Volt is manufactured at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant in Michigan and exported to Australia.
The GM Authority Take
The more world-wide presence (and subsequent sales) for the Volt, the better for GM and the future of the Voltec program…. because at this point, ramping scale is very important.
Comments
Great car, but I wish GM would have spend just a little extra time on the Holden badge. The term, “it’s the same car, just with a Holden logo slapped on” seems modest, considering one can still see the outline of a chevy badge. It’s just a little bug in an otherwise great car, but it would look a lot better if it was fixed.
Wait a minute. They can build Volts in Detroit with right drive and ship them all the way to Australia, but they can’t import Cruze hatch/wagons , Utes or Commodore wagons and import any of them to the US? Who’s kidding who.
Pontiac before they went out of business was importing re-badged Holdens to the US remember the last GTO? That was a Holden and also the G8 also a Holden, They were actually considering bringing the Maloo over for a Pontiac along with a wagon version. But alas Pontiac is dead along with most of our hopes of those cars coming over died with it. The good news is the new Chevrolet SS is also a Holden, The Maloo would make an excellent new El Camino (Chevy are you listening?) And other Holdens would also make for a nice Chevelle
So we may yet see some more Holdens imported in the US. One can only wish right?
My apologies I must correct myself it was the re-badged Holden UTE not the Maloo Pontiac was going to release as the G8 ST in 2010 if they still existed.
A Pontiac variant of the VE Commodore Sportwagon called the G8 sport wagon was under serious consideration but was never announced for production.
Still a El Camino /Maloo would be kick A$$
TheHofinator’s observations are spot on. All are very low volume products, with the Cruze hatch probably being the highest-volume. I guess the Volt is a much bigger priority in the grand scheme of things for GM.
Thehofinator, I understand the observation, but there is more to the situation than meets the eye. In theory, GM could import/ domestically produce every car they make globally, but that takes money. Modifying cars to fit US regulations can be expensive, and if the market isnt right, they wont sell. Obviously GM thought the Volt would be good enough for Australia that it was worth the money to make it AU spec, considering they had to do it for Vauxhall anyway (right hand steering wheel).
Kevin, I understand your point but, why does every other company, domestic and foreign, see the market for hatchbacks? Today’s article about the Caddy ATS being engineered to best a German car, tested at German race track and sold to Americans. Yet the same German Co. sells wagons and hatches to Americans everyday. If you want to copy the Germans, copy them all the way. That’s what the American Co.s used to say about Toyota and Datsun 30-40 years ago.
“Yet the same German Co. sells wagons and hatches to Americans everyday.”
Yea all 2 dozen of them. Where are all these BMW wagons and hatches? Is it different in other parts of the country? Rarely do I see a BMW/Mercedes wagon much less any wagon.
And I am not sure but what BMW hatch are you talking about?
Wagons do not sell here. Toyota used to sell a Camry wagon. When was the last time anyone saw one of those?
I just saw a gold Camry wagon at Wendy’s just 10 minutes ago….it was kinda beat up…..
Not too long ago actually.
It was a Venza in a parking lot.
I’m positive it was a Camry… I can tell the difference.. a 1994 Camry LE if memory serves
The Northeast has plenty of German and foreign wagons. VW and Mercedes are noticeable. Subarus are everywhere! Only calling as I see ’em.
Do they still make subarus? Seriously, I cannot remember the last time I saw one.
That Camry wagon is a collectable. Not many left!
Just looked it up. Subarus outsell Buick, Lexus, and Mercedes. I am truly amazed because there are really none around here. And I live in a very upscale area with plenty of bmws Mercedes and Audis.
If I had to guess subarus and those wagons that you say are everywhere are probably primarily sold in Democratic states on the coasts. In republican states we have the larger CUVs. Just a theory.
It’s possible.
The CBC ran a story just before your election on D’s and R’s data mining systems. The cars you buy/own can gauge what you feel about poltically and who you’re likely to vote for.
Both parties know of those kinds of metrics and it isn’t exactly new stuff. Heck, it isn’t even limited to just cars.
Subaru is mainstream, especially compared to those luxury brands — so the fact that it outsells them shouldn’t come as a surprise. However, Subaru sales volume is significantly below those of popular mainstream brands such as Chevy, Ford, Toyota, etc.
Venza? Why are you bringing up a CUV? At least that is what Toyota thinks it is.
Of course if you want to consider it a wagon we can go with that. Toyota probably does not want the stigma of a wagon on it. And the volume is pretty pitiful. It is selling at 30% of the rav4 volume. Niche market volumes for a low cost vehicle.
Unless sales pick up venza will not be around much longer.
http://m.wardsauto.com/north-america/toyota-re-launch-venza-cuv-again
But here’s the cool thing about the Venza: it’s Camry-based and thus doesn’t need to sell that many units to be financially feasible for Toyota. That, and it attempts to bridge the (size?) gap between the compact RAV4 and midsize Highlander. So any Venza sales is like gravy on the already very profitable Camry platform.
But even more so was the Camry wagon.
My point is that even trying to hide the midsize “wagon” camry as a CUV is not getting enough sales to come close to any “normal” CUV. Again, another wagon that is a niche segment, not a volume vehicle like CUV’s. And if the volume does not go up with this latest rendition it will be dropped.
I am not saying that wagons will not sell. Only that it is a niche player compared to the CUV’s. And I would rather GM use its marketing and development money on improving the volume models.
Alex, why can’t Chevy make some “gravy” with a Cruze hatch?
No idea, hofinator. It was in the cards at first, but something must’ve changed.
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