Overdrive: Cars, Transport And Culture

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that practices what it preaches, most of the time, on the subject of cars and transport. This week we concentrate on Holden, that famous Australia car brand that will soon cease to exist. In the news 1. From Craft to economies of scale (1:22) 2. General Motors did the holden name well (2:32) 3. Was the first Holden that good (3:37) 4. Button plan (4:32) 5. Did Holden build the wrong type of cars (5:39) 6. And we hear from a range of people whose families owned holdens from the first model. • Fred Brain and 1969 350 Monaro (6:52) • Terry Thompson owning old Holden (15:53) • Alan Finlay – racing and EH (21:02) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 22 February 2020