Holden will always be a part of my life regardless of there being a current day badged vehicle.
The closure doesn't really effect me in any real way, apart from it being a sad day for the marque, the Australian industry and the people it indirectly or directly employed.

At the end of the day and I'm not dismissing how proud we are/were of the Australian built cars for Australian conditions it was in reality a GM US owned and backed product.
Unfortunately for GM it has cost themselves a place in Australia/New Zealand I would say forever more. This purely comes down to dumb decisions and mismanagement.

So GM has a plan to restructure and go electric for 2023. Will this work? not likely (on a world stage anyway) as they have burnt so many people/customers and employees worldwide why would anybody want to buy from them?
They won't be the world's best at making them and have shown they have no interest in catering for the right hand drive market at all.

They were rescued by the US government. Shut down Pontiac, Saturn and SAAB. Sold Opel in Germany (a company they had own for the exact amount of time as Holden) to Peugeot/Chitgroën of France. Sold Vauxhall in the UK also to PSA (Peugeot Société Anonyme). Sold their Thailand assembly plant (Think Colorado and Zafira) to Great Wall of China. Now Holden Australia and New Zealand are gone along with the Export market Australian cars and engines were sold to.

I see PSA has turned both Opel and Vauxhall around from GM losing millions to PSA making millions with the same reduced range.

Even the Yanks don't support their current range outside of Silverado, Equinox SUV and sports models the Camaro and Corvette.
They are on a slippery slope and Holden might not be the only name/marque lost to history.