Holden has a long and illustrious history in Australia and Australia deserves to be able to keep its automotive culture alive regardless of the feelings of its, much younger, parent company. Holden, unlike other current manufacturers/sellers, has had a continuous manufacturing and or sales presence in Australian sales and or manufacturing since 1856 (and has a longer history in Australia than Buick (1899), Cadillac (1903), Chevrolet (1911), GMC (1911) have in the USA).

As a business Holden is older than any other General Motors brand and is core a part of Australian culture. Vehicles like the Holden Special, Premier, Kingswood, Belmont, Statesman Deville and Caprice, Commodore (and variants like Berlina, Calais etc), and Torana were designed (some reenginnered) and built for Australian drivers and conditions and exported all over the world.

In Australian motorsport the Monaro, Torana, and Commodore all won races in Australia with the Torana and Commodore (running the Holden, not Chevrolet, V8 until 1993 in racing), and the Commodore with the Holden V8 also winning internationally at World Touring Car Championship race Monza Italy in 1987 ahead of the best the rest of the world could muster.

Holden cars like the 48-215/FJ, EH, HR, HT, HQ, VK, WB, VN, VE (which the chassis the current Camaro is designed from) and variants of these like the GTS, SS, Sandman are a part of Australian folklore and the Australian people deserve the right to be able to maintain their automotive culture and extend its reach to future generations. Replacing "Holden" with Chevrolet will fail more than calling Opel built and PSA owned vehicles "Holden".

To the members of the General Motors executive, and all groups listed for this petition, you need to rethink your decision about retiring the Holden brand name. If you don't want it anymore that's fine, you should GIVE it back to the Australian people who are the traditional custodians of the name and business. General Motors you were only ever caretakers of the name and all associated (Australian-New Zealand) names, furthermore you accepted billions of dollars from the Australian tax payer up to 2013, when you announced you were closing manufacturing in Australia, to keep your presence in Australia and New Zealand alive making the Australian taxpayer a business partner with you. Holden collapsed in Australia because you chose to close manufacturing, the Australian people felt betrayed by this so they stopped buying the inferior (European) product you foisted on us. You should stop making bad decisions and reverse the decision to retire the Holden brand name. Do the right thing and give the brand name Holden back to the Australian people, who were your business partners, without any caveats so that we may rebuild part of our automotive cultural heritage which you have chosen to relegate to the annals of automotive history.