Vauxhall give the VXR8 a Supercharger.

[F Body]

As if the VXR8 muscle car didn't offer enough power with 419bhp for its £35,105 list price, Vauxhall has released a supercharger upgrade which, as a £6,995 extra, will put a massive 540 horses under your right foot



For a total outlay of £42,100, it's the cheapest production car to top 500bhp and is sure to melt rear tyres across the land. The upgrade gets you 30% more torque than the standard car, comes with a three year warranty and can be fitted retrospectively if you've already got a VXR8.

I'm starting to like these

[Shifty]

For peoples information there is already a s'charged versoin of this car that is on sale in australia, we just never saw it over here.

Personaly i think this is a marketing ploy by Vauxhall to pass the car off as their own with their VXR badge on the side where as it was origionaly designed in Australia and has been around for quite a while now.

Was also a lot cheaper to, although it "only" had 502BHP and that was back in 2002.

[F Body]

Quoting: Shifty

Was also a lot cheaper to, although it "only" had 502BHP and that was back in 2002.

Yes was called the Monaro
The VXR8 is just a rebadged Holden Comodore which was launched in May 2007 and will shortly become the Pontiac GR8 in the States

[Big Mouse]

I'd still have one - they could call it the Goose Turd as far as I'm concerned; if it comes with 540bhp who cares what the name is

[Titsy]

Quoting: Big Mouse

I'd still have one - they could call it the Goose Turd as far as I'm concerned; if it comes with 540bhp who cares what the name is

[HardRockCamaro]

I'd prefer a Cadillac CTS-V.
Same platform, same engine but a better badge (I ain't paying £43k for any Vauxhall no matter what just like I don't see the sense in people parting with over £80k for a VW Phaeton no matter how good it may be).

I wouldn't buy one in the UK as they want 43K for it sans supercharger but in the USA it's £24k for a new one or £14k for a 3 year old one with low miles and over 400BHP.

Get Moore to slap a blower on it to give a 40% increase in power for less than £4k.  That's 18K.  Ship it over here and pay your taxes and you have change out of 24K.

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(or less than £38k if you must have a new one but I wouldn't bother).

[Shifty]

Comodore which was launched in May 2007

The comadore has also been around for years to, they have been running these in the V8 supercar series for years now, and I'm pretty sure they made a blown version of it as well.

The reason I pipe up about this is that for many years now Vauxhall have been punting the Monaro (and now the Comodore) as one of there own where as in fact they did absolutely nothing other than change the badges on the front and back.

What really gets me though is that HSV do a much better job of tuning these cars and are the original tuners of both of these vehicles yet they never get mentioned.

just my

[Big Mouse]

Its all GM whether its called a Vauxhall, Holden, Chevrolet etc I doubt anyone really believes they're seperate companies in terms of development

[philoldsmobile]

Quoting: F Body

Pontiac GR8

as in great?


as in.....

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[F Body]

Quoting: philoldsmobile

as in.....

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I won't ask how you knew where to find that one

[ianjpage]

Quoting: philoldsmobile

Quoting: F Body
Pontiac GR8


as in great?


as in.....

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[philoldsmobile]

its never gonna die....

morrissey auditioned for it too!
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