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Australian car-making ends with last GM plant closing

By HONS | Thursday, October 19, 2017, 5:58 p.m.

In this Sept. 19, 2017 photo provided by General Motors Holden, cars are assembled on the production line in Adelaide, Australia. The last mass-produced car designed and built in Australia rolled off General Motors Co.’s production line in the industrial city of Adelaide on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, as the nation reluctantly bid farewell to its auto manufacturing industry. GM Holden Ltd., an Australian subsidiary of the of a U.S. automotive giant, built its last car almost 70 years after it created Australia’s first, the FX Holden, in 1948. (General Motors Holden via AP)

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