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Tony de Wonderful

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the sound of the blower on that thing makes dead men cream

jus sayin..

Yeah but it's a Vauxhall...probably the most unglamorous car maker in the UK...a real boner killer.

Fcuk you could get a Porsche Boxter for that price. :happy:

Neuroglider Mentor

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it's holdens mainly, they sell it off to vauxhaul and the used to be pontiac in the US lol

btw

the new ve series 2 hsv's...look like ricers lol not to mention a few notes taken from the R8

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V8's are an OZ thing? What are you talking about.... Aussie make the worst, most unsophisticated V8's

Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaguar, BMW, Audi, Mercedes can all produce a V8 capable of 100's more horse power than crappy Falcoons and Commonwhores.

F1 cars are all now 700-780hp 2.4L V8's

pffft!

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V8's are an OZ thing? What are you talking about.... Aussie make the worst, most unsophisticated V8's

Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaguar, BMW, Audi, Mercedes can all produce a V8 capable of 100's more horse power than crappy Falcoons and Commonwhores.

F1 cars are all now 700-780hp 2.4L V8's

pffft!

$250,000 vs $80,000

you'd hope you got a bit more power for that sort of a price difference!

watch that video I posted, Austin martin db9 went around the track the same time as the maloo and the bathurst did it in the same time as a bmw M5

thats not something to just shrug off. More power and "better handling" didnt do them much good did it? you pretty much pay over 100 grand extra for a nice badge and cosmetics

put $100k into an R8 or similar and youre going to have a car that wont be beaten by much!

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Don't know if you guys are hit by the same token but, at last australians are at least getting recognised as... humans?

I'd take an XB GT over an aston martin db6, just like i'd take a walky-charged R8 over an aston martin.

else, i'd take aston, flog the f**k out of it, sell it, then buy lots of FT-86's when they come out.

erm... yeah. something like that.

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Why don't they sell the supercharged version here??? are Holden straylia too piss weak??

I noticed that Car has one of those adjustable flap valve things on the exhaust to control the exhuast noise, isn't that a instant defect sticker if a cop pulls you over?

Tony de Wonderful Veteran

Tony de Wonderful

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I noticed that Car has one of those adjustable flap valve things on the exhaust to control the exhuast noise, isn't that a instant defect sticker if a cop pulls you over?

Not in the UK is would seem.

They're ghey anyway.

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V8's are an OZ thing? What are you talking about.... Aussie make the worst, most unsophisticated V8's

Ferrari, Aston Martin, Jaguar, BMW, Audi, Mercedes can all produce a V8 capable of 100's more horse power than crappy Falcoons and Commonwhores.

F1 cars are all now 700-780hp 2.4L V8's

pffft!

You can't compare F1 cars to road cars. Those motors rev to 18,000RPM andonly last 1000km's.

And just for the record, in the late 80's the F1 motors, especially the BMW motors, were a 1.5L 4cyl turbocharged running up to 60Psi boost pressure, and those motors were making over 1500hp....

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I noticed that Car has one of those adjustable flap valve things on the exhaust to control the exhuast noise, isn't that a instant defect sticker if a cop pulls you over?

My 323Ci has one of those flaps in the left exhaust pipe from factory? Easy to remove though...

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Weren't they forced to cease production of the Monaro as the volume of exports was getting too high? I was under the impression that if they kept exporting then manufacturing of the Monaros would have had to shift to the US.

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