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I was just looking at these on Holdens website and the specs are pretty good. 147kw in 1282kg makes for a pretty rapid little car. Not sure how much modifying potential its got but its certainly refreshing to see now that both the blue oval and GM have finally recognised the demand for turbocharged vehicles in Australia.

More of it, i say!

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Yeah definitely a good thing for the Australian car industry. I think Aussie cars are bad-mouthed a bit too much. We are a country of only 19million so i think we do well for ourselves.

The XR6T is a quality machine - 240kw/450Nm stock. $2200 for a hi-flow cat and chip ups the ante to 295Kw/550Nm (from memory) through APS that equates to 0-100km/h in 5.39s and 13.6s for the 400m sprint. No bad for a 1700kg machine.

Australians have proved over the years they know how to tune Turbo cars with awesome results

* The Sammit Brothers (300ZX from early 90s)

* Gibson Motorsport (R32 GTR, Bathurst etc)

* PAC Performance (7.66s Rotary)

etc

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i agree with nismoman,

the Astra Turbo is actually the Opel turbo, just like the Calibra Turbo releasd in the 90s which is simply a badge-change. no holden design genius there...

on the other hand...

XR6T - excellent piece of machinery and really puts australia on the map. imagine if Ford got fair dinkum and make a 2-door lightened version of the XR6T that is sports tuned rather than just a fmaily car with a big engine! now that i might actually consider!

Waz.

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Holden actually does a fair bit of suspension tuning on most of the cars that come from Opel, particularly the vectra, to make them handle more the way we like them.

Several reviewers bagged the new Vectra's handling when it came out in Europe, but say it's a totally different beast here.

Dunno specifically about the Astra SRi turbo, but I wouldn't mind a fang in one.

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Boxhead, it clearly says on the specifications page "turbocharged with intercooler".

I wasnt ever claiming that it was an "aussie" car just that its nice to see manufacturers now realising that people over here WANT turbo cars. I dont care where theyre made :D As long as we get more of em! hehehe

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I was thinking about that the other day and started to wonder...

Now that Oz companies are coming out with Turbo cars... what are insurance prices gonna do?

Come down because of the amount of T cars that will be on the road or go higher because of 'increased risk'

I also heard the SRi-t has a good torque figure that holds from 3-6 grand or something? That would be nice IMO

But the XR6t is a nice car... but if you do modify for more power... i think it will be like most Oz built cars.

It will fall apart if you give it more power than what it came out of the factory with. Not like a Jap car that can have a LOT more throw at it's factory bits'n pieces

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My guess is insurance up! just coz more of them are out there won't drive them down - there's just more likely to be more, high profile claims.

Look at cars with "GTi" badge - plenty of manufacturers had one, but insurance prices just rose for all of them!

The insurers just make very superficial links between models, ie wrx, astra t, xr6t, skyline must all be same high risk coz of the "t"

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i think insurance costs will rise to be honest, just because they know they can.. Insurance costs have never actually decreased as far as I know other than attributable to lower market value, etc.

I remember my flatmate wingeing because they classified his lancer as a "sportscar" (hardly at 1.8L) because they told him it had 2doors rather than 4. Any excuse and they will take it.

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