monaro

[General Baxter]

anybody just see it on top gear the aussi vauxhall?

i think iv found my car for when i 'grow up' ;)

http://www.maximum-cars.com/Cars/Holden/2003-Monaro-CV8-R-1.jpg

[Nick]

aye, it's just a new calibra you can tell by the design !

coming to the uk soon, im sure i read it's csomething like a 350hp V8 ?

been knocking around in other countries for a bit now.

[General Baxter]

only ?30k aswell :)

[Fester]

only ?30k aswell :)

I'll take two!

Seriously though they do look awesome, although they will be ultra cheap is 2 years' time...

[Nick]

yep hope they don't do a "calibra"

the front grill setup on the front bumper is virtually identical to the calibra, so is the cockpit line, back lights too. jst all slightly modernised versions !

does loook good tho, i really like the wheels it had on top gear, look better than the ones on the pic above !

fester, did i drive past u the other day, but it looked a bit more of a greeny colour than yours, on caton road heading out of caton towards kirkby ?

[nova ian]

i saw it on top gear, i think its well nice, and those rims it had on T.G did look better than the ones in the pic above

[Nick]

they look like the rims on my car a bit,

[burgo]

they are gorgous and the interior is awsome, i want one

p.s. they are already out over here, one drove past me house any way sounded gorgous

[retrosi]

yep they're smart on the outside....but yet the nova is less 80's than the monaro's interior. You also need to pull the handbrake to your ear to get to hold. But yes the VXR version is an amazing addition to the vaux range. Probably one of the best since the lotus carlton

[Dpnova]

awsome car :D

[Stuart]

hmm ill wait for them to plumet in value as people wont want them for tax reasons lol

and then buy one :-)

[benji]

they are awsome cars

[Philsutton]

i wasnt that impressed byn them at pv the ones i saw, but after watching top gear last night i want one really bad

[Dpnova]

what times did the 2 at pv run i cant remember :(

[CP]

For anyone whose got sky they run them in the aussie V8 supercar series. They beat most stuff most of the time. Made me laugh Clarkson wittering on about how powerful the jag is - there's plenty more to be had out of the monaro! :wink:

Me and MC are gonna try and blag a test drive :lol: I got my saga insurance policy to show them haha!

[Col_Mk1]

i want 1 :P

[Fergie_sfc]

my friends dad has got a Vauxhall Monaro 'VXR' on the way. its loads quicker than the origional monaro. cant wait to go for a cruise in the 'VXR'

he's got his number plate too................. V8 VXR.

look out for it around hampshire, he works all over the place so if your on the road around bournemouth, so'ton and basingstoke your bound to see it.

its red b.t.w.

Fergie.

[DrivingSpanner]

well all i know is that it makes a crap race car its been in british GT most of the year with one of the drivers that i won a decent championship with last year and hes bloody good but the car is too big (lots of drag) too heavy (400 kg over what it should be) and unreliable with it!!!

[Jules]

Oh yeah the Monaro does rubbish in the Aussie Touring Car series doesn't it.................
:roll: :lol:

[DrivingSpanner]

That is a different car, I think you will find that is the Holden Commodor ( 4 door version) and it is an out and out race car - double dajustable wishbones front and rear with propper pickup points etc, which the road car doesnt have. They cant do that in the british GT's because the regs dont allow it.

[krobinson]

They are really nice car's from what i gather.

Guy on our local forum has one ordered, VXR in Red.

Keith

[DrivingSpanner]

yeah i agree as a road car they seem to be bloody good... just not such a great racecar.

[Phil_G]

heh

try watching the v8 supercars from australia and see them lapping faster than porsche racers etc.. then come back and tell me they a bad track racer


phil

[te17@novasgonemad]

my local vauxhall got two in both special order one was std and the other was a custom built vxr fooking huge anthricite wheels on the thing and bag loads of power, anywayz the std was written off two weeks after buying due to the owner not realising just how powerful it was ie lots of wheel spin over a round about and into a tree :), and the custom vxr had an extra 20,000 spent on engine tuning buy a company similar to amg, been out in it due to it coming back to the shop because the bloke didnt like the paint job so it was getting completely resprayed by vaux headquaters due to a big scratch, and these cars kick ass

[peester]

http://www.hsv.com.au/index_new.html

[Al Wilson]

I just love the beach in Wales that they use to do those 'tests' 8)