Start with what the Holden HG is: a 4-door sedan / 5-door station wagon / 2-door coupé / 2-door coupé utility / 2-door panel van with 3.2L 'Chevrolet 130' I6, built from 1970 to 1971, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Joe Schemansky.
How it came about
The Holden HG is an automobile which was produced by Holden in Australia between 1970 and 1971. It was marketed under Belmont, Kingswood, Premier, Brougham and Monaro model names.
The hardware
The engine is 3.2L 'Chevrolet 130' I6; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 2814 . Drive goes through a 3spd manual / 4spd manual / 2spd "Powerglide" automatic / 3spd "Tri-Matic" automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 111.0 inches (2819 mm). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Holden line-up the Holden HG has a clear place: it replaced the Holden HT; it handed the line to the Holden HQ. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin, the Chevrolet Impala, the Suzuki Jimny. Its Holden stablemates include the Holden 48-215 and the Holden Adventra.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Holden HG — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.