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7px);}.cta{padding:32px 20px;}}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n <header class=\"hero\">\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <span class=\"eyebrow\">Week 2 \u00b7 Holden vs Ford<\/span>\r\n <h1>Why the Rivalry Still Matters in 2026<\/h1>\r\n <div class=\"meta\">The Legend Outlived the Factories <span>\u00b7<\/span> Gold Coast<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/header>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"wrap\">\r\n <article>\r\n <p class=\"lead\">Here's the strange thing about the greatest rivalry in Australian motoring: both sides have stopped building cars here. Ford ended local manufacturing, and the Holden badge has been retired altogether. So why does the argument still burn as fiercely as ever?<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"specs\">\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Auctions<\/span><span class=\"l\">Record Prices<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Car Clubs<\/span><span class=\"l\">Still Thriving<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Heritage<\/span><span class=\"l\">Passed Down<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Museums<\/span><span class=\"l\">Keeping It Alive<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <p>The factories may be gone, but the passion never left. If anything, the end of local manufacturing made these cars matter <strong>more<\/strong>. Genuine GT-HOs and Monaros now change hands for prices that would have been unthinkable when they were new. What were once affordable street cars are today blue-chip pieces of Australian history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <h2>A Living Culture<\/h2>\r\n <p>Walk into any car show, club meet or cars-and-coffee morning and you'll see the rivalry alive and well. Owners still fly their colours. Families still pass the loyalty down to the next generation. The cars have become a way of holding onto an era when Australia designed, built and raced some of the best performance machines in the world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pull\">\"The factories closed. The badges faded. The rivalry didn't even blink.\"<\/div>\r\n\r\n <h2>Why It Endures<\/h2>\r\n <p>Ultimately, the rivalry survives because it was never really about the companies. It was about national pride, craftsmanship, and the shared memory of cars our fathers and grandfathers built and drove. That's something a boardroom decision can't switch off \u2014 and it's exactly what we're here to preserve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"cta\">\r\n <h3>Keep the Legend Alive<\/h3>\r\n <p>Stand among the cars that started it all, kept running on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"tickets\">\r\n <div class=\"ticket\"><div class=\"t\">Adult<\/div><div class=\"p\">$20<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ticket\"><div class=\"t\">Couple<\/div><div class=\"p\">$35<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ticket\"><div class=\"t\">Family<\/div><div class=\"p\">$40<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/product-category\/tickets\/\">Book Your Tickets<\/a>\r\n <div class=\"fine\">76 Bundall Road, Bundall QLD 4217 \u00b7 Open on the Gold Coast<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/article>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <footer>\r\n <div class=\"brand\">Muscle Car Museum<\/div>\r\n <div>A Tribute to Aussie Horsepower \u00b7 Gold Coast<\/div>\r\n <div style=\"margin-top:10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/\">musclecarmuseum.com.au<\/a><\/div>\r\n <\/footer>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Holden vs Ford Rivalry Still Matters in 2026 | Muscle Car Museum Week 2 \u00b7 Holden vs Ford Why the Rivalry Still Matters in 2026 The Legend Outlived the Factories \u00b7 Gold Coast Here’s the strange thing about the greatest rivalry in Australian motoring: both sides have stopped building cars here. Ford ended …<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/why-the-rivalry-still-matters-in-2026\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the Rivalry Still Matters in 2026<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_canvas","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-2-holden-vs-ford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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Ford ended local manufacturing, and the Holden badge has been retired altogether. So why does the argument still burn as fiercely as ever?<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"specs\">\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Auctions<\/span><span class=\"l\">Record Prices<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Car Clubs<\/span><span class=\"l\">Still Thriving<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Heritage<\/span><span class=\"l\">Passed Down<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"spec\"><span class=\"n\">Museums<\/span><span class=\"l\">Keeping It Alive<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <p>The factories may be gone, but the passion never left. If anything, the end of local manufacturing made these cars matter <strong>more<\/strong>. Genuine GT-HOs and Monaros now change hands for prices that would have been unthinkable when they were new. What were once affordable street cars are today blue-chip pieces of Australian history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <h2>A Living Culture<\/h2>\r\n <p>Walk into any car show, club meet or cars-and-coffee morning and you'll see the rivalry alive and well. Owners still fly their colours. Families still pass the loyalty down to the next generation. The cars have become a way of holding onto an era when Australia designed, built and raced some of the best performance machines in the world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pull\">\"The factories closed. The badges faded. The rivalry didn't even blink.\"<\/div>\r\n\r\n <h2>Why It Endures<\/h2>\r\n <p>Ultimately, the rivalry survives because it was never really about the companies. It was about national pride, craftsmanship, and the shared memory of cars our fathers and grandfathers built and drove. That's something a boardroom decision can't switch off \u2014 and it's exactly what we're here to preserve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"cta\">\r\n <h3>Keep the Legend Alive<\/h3>\r\n <p>Stand among the cars that started it all, kept running on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"tickets\">\r\n <div class=\"ticket\"><div class=\"t\">Adult<\/div><div class=\"p\">$20<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ticket\"><div class=\"t\">Couple<\/div><div class=\"p\">$35<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ticket\"><div class=\"t\">Family<\/div><div class=\"p\">$40<\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/index.php\/product-category\/tickets\/\">Book Your Tickets<\/a>\r\n <div class=\"fine\">76 Bundall Road, Bundall QLD 4217 \u00b7 Open on the Gold Coast<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/article>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <footer>\r\n <div class=\"brand\">Muscle Car Museum<\/div>\r\n <div>A Tribute to Aussie Horsepower \u00b7 Gold Coast<\/div>\r\n <div style=\"margin-top:10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/musclecarmuseum.com.au\/\">musclecarmuseum.com.au<\/a><\/div>\r\n <\/footer>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Holden vs Ford Rivalry Still Matters in 2026 | Muscle Car Museum Week 2 \u00b7 Holden vs Ford Why the Rivalry Still Matters in 2026 The Legend Outlived the Factories \u00b7 Gold Coast Here’s the strange thing about the greatest rivalry in Australian motoring: both sides have stopped building cars here. 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