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Holden HR

motor vehicle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1624350 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Holden HR is an automobile manufactured by Holden in Australia from April 1966 until January 1968.

Introduction

The Holden HR range was released in April 1966, replacing the Holden HD series which had been in production since 1965. In addition to a revised grille, the HR featured a reworked roofline and larger rear window (on the sedans), revised rear lights (on sedans and wagons) and changes to almost all exterior body panels.

Other changes included revised ball joint front suspension, widened track, improved interior trim and woodgrain interior finish for the Premier models. Six months after the launch of the HR, all models were given a safety upgrade with the addition of front safety belts, windscreen washers, reversing lights, padded sun visors and a shatterproof interior rearview mirror.

Model range

The Holden HR passenger vehicle range offered four-door sedan and five-door station wagon body styles in three trim levels with the six models marketed as follows:

Holden Standard Sedan (HR 215)

Holden Standard Station Sedan (HR 219)

Holden Special Sedan (HR 225)

Holden Special Station Sedan (HR 229)

Holden Premier Sedan (HR 235)

Holden Premier Station Sedan (HR 239)

The HR commercial vehicle range was offered in two-door coupe utility and two-door panel van variants, marketed as follows:

Holden Utility (HR 2106)

Holden Panel Van (HR 2104)

Engines and transmissions

The two versions of the inline, six-cylinder Holden Red motor were carried across from the HD series, both with increased engine capacity and a higher compression ratio of 9.2:1. The 114 bhp, 161 cu in (2.6 L) six was standard in all models except the Premiers. A 126 bhp 186 cu in (3.0 L) six was standard on Premiers and optional on all other models. The 145 bhp twin carburettor "X2" version of the "186" was initially available as an option on all models. The "X2" was replaced by the 145 bhp "186S" in June 1967 after Holden exhausted the remaining X2 intake manifolds; the new version was fitted with a single, two-barrel carburettor.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Holden HR” as motor vehicle. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1966, 1968, 1965, 1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Holden, motor and vehicle can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as motor vehicle. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1624350. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1968, 1965 and 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “Holden HR” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.