What's next.. Four and Twenty?

Holden missed the boat with this beauty.

Feast your eyes on this thing. Are you looking at the new BMW Commodore? Wouldn't this be one for the history books. They did it with the mighty Mini, why not?

Seventy two years of the government propping up Holden to have General Motors (US) wipe it away with the swish of a finger. Well that's business I suppose, it's a harsh dog eat dog world we live in.
Of course the departure of a brand has thrown Supercars into turmoil. Fans are taking the demise of Holden as if they hadn't seen it coming, shock horror. Life long Holden fans where Holden has been in their families for generations. Lifeline 13 11 14.

Supercars should of been onto a replacement when GM shut down local manufacturing and we saw the last Holden Commodore roll off the assembly line in 2017. Roland Dane (Triple Eight) seems to think Supercars will survive, it all sounds a bit Harry Potter to me. In the motorsport forums the race fans all have the answers. The only one anywhere near a solution suggested was to have a generic chassis with a clip on nose suggesting a brand NASCAR style. Well I'd take it one step further and forget the branding. Resurrect the V8 in the Supercars name, identical noisy cars, designed for Australian tracks and go racing. The car manufactures have shown little interest in V8 racing for years after Volvo, Nissan, Mercedes all had a dabble and gave up. Ford only got excited after the introduction (hype) of the Mustang and then the car had to be mutated into something raceable. We're in a situation worse than NBN where the uncertainty of bigtime motorsport has been going on tooo long. There has been tooo many stupid attempts and crazy stuff tried since we lost of Brocky. We now have over-engineered cars, costs through the roof where only the top (well sponsored) teams get a look in, useless promotion that think the after-race entertainment is more important. They 'still' can't get the rules right. Free To Air TV coverage is unwatchable. We have had several CEO's come and go that have gotten away with far tooo much without question and it just keeps keeping on.
I keep watching and following Supercars because I'm hoping to see good racing between great drivers. I like watching the grunty fast cars over the Turbo 4's and I couldn't give a toot to the brands or the sponsors. If it's sponsorship then the teams can plaster their cars in Shell, Pennzoil, or Boost Mobile stickers, I'm not fussed. No stickers with big numbers would do me but that won't happen. Can't we have racing cars like the sprintcars, affordable, fit in a box, go fast, there is no homologation BS required. After all, the only branding in Formula One are the stickers. The cars are just mega expensive hot-rods.
Let's all just hope for good competitive racing, forget about the old and dated 'Race on Sunday's, Buy on Monday' and the 'Ford v's Holden' stuff. Been there done that, it was great at the time. Cars aren't like fashion, we won't be seeing the Datsun 180b come around again any day soon.