GM closes Holden factory as Australia's car industry runs out of road

Adelaide

AS thousands of people attended a car rally in Australia's blue-collar heartland on Sunday, many knew it was also a funeral procession for the nation's car industry.

General Motors closed its Holden factory in the South Australian suburb of Elizabeth on Friday, ending more than a century of car manufacturing in the country. Hundreds of workers were left jobless, just weeks after Toyota shut its plant in neighboring Victoria state, where Ford closed two sites last year.