Following Holden's successful application for a A $ 149 million government grant to build a localised version of the Chevrolet Cruze in Australia from 2011, Holden in 2009 announced that it would initially import the small car unchanged from South Korea as the Holden Cruze.

The Holden Caprice # VS | VS Statesman / Caprice of 1995, represented a mild facelift of the Holden VR Caprice | VR, which was in turn an update of the 1990 Holden VQ Statesman | VQ — Holden's long-wheelbase version of the Holden VN Commodore | VN Commodore series.

By acquiring Holden's, Monsanto became the biggest American producer of foundation corn, the parent seed from which hybrids are made.

Much to Holden's annoyance, he makes Holden read aloud from his history examination paper, in which Holden wrote a note to Mr Spencer so that his teacher would not feel badly about failing him in the subject.

A number of Holden's early designs were for hospitals, which Adams ' practice specialised in.

Holden's six-cylinder engine, which was carried over from the Kingswood, could trace its roots back to 1963 and was no longer competitive.

Awkward packaging under the low bonnet coupled with Holden's decision to utilise a cross-flow radiator ( as opposed to the up-down flow radiator installed to the equivalent Nissan Skyline ) meant the six-cylinder engine was especially susceptible to cracked cylinder heads, a problem not displayed on the Nissan Skyline with which it shares the RB30E engine.

Jeremy Jackson, the actor who played David Hasselhoff's son on Baywatch, was signed to Mark Holden's production company and had two hits in Europe including ' You Can Run ' which was Top 5 in Holland.

It successfully replaced the V8 Monaro GTS 350 as Holden's frontline track race car in 1970, winning many touring car and rally events, but for the famed Bathurst race which Ford won in 1970 and 1971 with its XW Phase Two and XY Phase Three Falcon GT-HOs respectively.

The Holden models, which were built locally, had different front, rear and interior treatments, with local drivetrain options, including Holden's 3. 3 Inline 6 cyl, 4. 2 Litre and 5. 0 Litre V8 engine options.

The Bathurst-bound Monaro GTS 327 had a 327 cubic inch Chevrolet-sourced V8 ( as the ' GTS 327 ' name implies ) which enabled the new hi-po coupe ' to outperform the updated yet comparatively smaller-engined 302 cubic inch Falcon GTs, and in the process the Monaro claimed a popular maiden victory on its debut as well as Holden's first ever Bathurst win.

GM instead utilised the then forthcoming 1977 Opel Rekord, which was significantly re-engineered and released as the Commodore in 1978 with Holden's own powertrains.

Until the late 1960s, the Kingswood and Premier were sold in South Africa as Holdens, before the demise of Canadian-sourced Chevrolet Impala and Chevelle, which led to the introduction of the Chevrolet Kommando and Chevrolet Constantia, which were based on the HG, and later HQ Kingswoods using either Holden's six, V8 or Chevrolet six.

The Holden Brougham is a large, luxury automobile which was produced by General Motors – Holden's in Australia between July 1968 and 1971.

He lives for three things: his beloved chair in front of the TV, his unsuccessful racing greyhounds Repco Lad & Gae Akubra and his worshipped Holden Kingswood car ( late in the show's run Ted traded-in the Kingswood, which had gone out of production around the time the series began, for Holden's replacement mid-range family car, the Commodore ).

In the 1998 film adaption, Holden's character was portrayed by Kathy Bates, a role which earned Bates an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Writer Bruce Brooks held that Holden's attitude remains unchanged at story's end, implying no maturation, thus differentiating the novel from young adult fiction.

Each Caulfield child has literary talent: D. B. writes screenplays in Hollywood ; Holden also reveres D. B. for his writing skill ( Holden's own best subject ), but he also despises Hollywood industry-based movies, considering them the ultimate in " phony " as the writer has no space for his own imagination, and describes D.

Later, during lunch with Jay and Silent Bob ( Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith ), Silent Bob reveals that he was once in a relationship similar to Holden's.

After Holden's approval rating steadily dropped during the second half of his term, McCaskill defeated Holden in the Democratic primary, marking the first primary loss for a sitting governor in nearly two decades.

Holden's father was an engineer ; his grandfather found fortune with a company that procured boots for soldiers during World War I

This was increased to 50. 9 percent in 2005, but when GM further increased its stake to 70. 1 percent around the time of its 2009 Chapter 11 reorganisation, Holden's interest was relinquished and transferred to another ( undisclosed ) part of GM.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

This involved compromise with GM, as Holden's managing director, Laurence Hartnett, favoured development of a local design, while GM preferred to see an American design as the basis for " Australia's Own Car ".

Less expensive four-cylinder cars did not offer Holden's ability to deal with rugged rural areas.

1957 saw Holden's export markets grow to 17 countries, with new additions including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Fiji, Sudan, the East Africa region and South Africa.

The EK of 1960 was Holden's response to the Ford Falcon ( Australia ) | Ford Falcon, with the availability of automatic transmission.

Holden offered the LC, a Torana with new styling, in 1969 with the availability of Holden's six-cylinder engine.

Holden's association with the manufacture of Chevrolets and Pontiacs ended in 1968, coinciding with the year of Holden's next major new model, the HK.

Holden's Holden HX | HX ( pictured ), was an evolution of the record-selling Holden HQ | HQ, with more than 480, 000 units shifted throughout the car's lifetime.

Holden updated the Holden Commodore | Commodore with the Holden VE Commodore | VE series in 2006, Holden's first " clean-sheet " design since 1971.

Released in January 1955, The New Yorker wrote of Kelly and Holden's unbridled on-screen chemistry, taking note of Kelly's performance of the part " with quiet confidence.

" Time also liked Holden's performance, describing it as his best since Stalag 17 ( a 1953 film that earned Holden an Oscar ), said Robert Ryan gave " the screen performance of his career " and concluded that " The Wild Bunch contains faults and mistakes " ( such as flashbacks " introduced with surprising clumsiness "), but " its accomplishments are more than sufficient to confirm that Peckinpah, along with Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Penn, belongs with the best of the newer generation of American film makers.

This film centers around Holden's romantic relationship with Alyssa Jones ( Joey Lauren Adams ), a self-identified lesbian.

Silent Bob explains, in his longest speech to date, that much like in Holden's relationship with Alyssa, he became disturbed at the revelation of Amy's sexual past, specifically that she had engaged in a threesome.

A snippet of a cue from Williams ’ score to Cinderella Liberty titled ' Maggie Shoots Pool ' is heard in a scene when William Holden's character converses on the phone with Paul Newman's character.

Holden's association with Blue Cheer was quite brief ; his only recorded output with the band is three tracks on New!

Pratt put the trademark in former Blue Cheer guitarist Randy Holden's possession after Dickie Peterson said he was finished with Blue Cheer and wanted nothing to do with it ever again, with his sole future interest in his new band, ' Mother Ocean '".

Valiant and Regal sedans also benefited from the 1978 introduction of Radial Tuned Suspension ( code-named ME II ) in response to Holden's having marketed their suspension as particularly suited to radial tyres.

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, felt that the character was " used so perfunctorily since her introduction " that her appearances added little to the episodes she featured in, describing her as a " bad parody " of the earlier characters Deep Throat and X. Debra Warlick, writing for Cinefantastique, felt that Holden's acting in " One Son " was " heart breaking ", but found that she had " unfortunately " been used simply to convey a plot point to other characters.

Holden founded a new company in 1919, Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd ( HMBB ) specialising in car bodies and utilising a facility on King William Street in Adelaide.

Holden's Holden FC | FC series was the first to be tested at the Lang Lang, Victoria | Lang Lang proving ground.

Late in HT production, use of the new Tri-Matic automatic transmission, first seen in the LC Torana was phased in as Powerglide stock was exhausted, but Holden's official line was that the HG of 1971 was the first full-size Holden to receive it .< ref > Bebbington ( 1998 ), p. 36.

The UC, Holden's final iteration of the Holden Torana | Torana was replaced by an interim four-cylinder version of the Holden Commodore | Commodore until Holden Camira | Camira launched in 1982.

The Holden Commodore | Commodore premiering in 1978 followed the success of its Holden Kingswood | Kingswood forebear, becoming Holden's bestselling vehicle to date.

After a good start, sales of the Holden Camira | Camira, Holden's version of the global GM J platform | " J-car " platform slumped significantly.

This involved the splitting of Holden into Holden's Motor Company ( HMC ) and Holden's Engine Company ( HEC ).

The 1998 Holden Astra continued Holden's trend of sourcing its mid-size car | mid-size and smaller model lines from Opel in Europe.

This new development worsens the tension between Holden and Banky, who dislikes and distrusts Alyssa and is bothered by her and Holden's relationship.