In its car-manufacturing heyday, Australia made Citroëns, Minis and Mercedes-Benzes

When the final Commodore SS-V rumbled off Holden’s Elizabeth production line in South Australia on October 20, 2017, it closed the book on 120 years of large-scale auto manufacturing in Australia.

The story of the Aussie-made car was most famously headlined by such celebrated names as Monaro,…