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Contigo
1,802 posts
78 months
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GTiFrank said: hmmn Bathurst S is 10.7 to 100mph. This weighing 1800ish Kg with another 50bhp - High 9's perhaps? I was referring to the Standard VXR8 not the bathurst but yes I cannot at all see a 8 second 0-100 time, we are into GT2 and Supercar territory with those sort of figures.
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ARAF
11,568 posts
92 months
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S800VXR said: Nice seeing one without the rear spoiler, even more stealth. I'd suggest you stick to Walki's or Monkfish though as LS V8 Power are very poor in comparison regarding quality and workmanship. I was talking to Gary about the map last night. Charlie has dyno'd it since the map was done, and it's exactly as Mark said it would be, so credit where credit's due.
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Gary H 2008
2,270 posts
58 months
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Thanks all for the comments. That's the last time I take stats off an American website for an U.S-Engined Australian car fettled by A Scotsman in Oxford  Performance-wise (gear-changes withstanding) I think high 9's is entirely plausible considering an M6 is 'officially' clocked at 9.6 It's a brutal rush regardless.
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ellisd82
594 posts
77 months
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StripeyMiata said: I for one am horrified by what I just read.
"Why I bought it:
With the imminent arrival of our first child, I was on the look-out for a four-door saloon."
So Mr Handa is about to have his first child. And what does he buy, a rebadged Vauxhall built in Australia. A nation that is known so much for the high quality of it's cars that they get exported all over the world. Not.
Not only does he buy something built by a few alcoholics married to someone called Sheila he buys a model with over 500HP with RWD, how dangerous is that going to be on a greasy road in the Autumn with some leaves just dropped from England's finest trees? And I bet that thing hasn't been NCAP tested either.
And then there is Global Warming, while Mr Handa is writing how smug he feels with the Prius drivers truth be told he is murdering Polar Bears who are drowning today because of the selfish people like Mr Handa. You should be ashamed of yourself Mr Handa, you have baby Polar Bear blood on your hands, try and hide it if you like with those gloves but it will never wash off from your conscience.
OK, I get the whole cool Dad thing, I've done my fast driving and track days in the past but when I first child I chopped my Westfield SEi for a Toyota Auris Hybrid and I havn't looked back and it has 5 NCAPS unlike that Waltzing Matilda bag of nuts you have.
10 years from now unless you mend your ways Mr Handa you'll be in a refugee camp on Snowdon Mountain watching the waters caused by the melting ice caps heading for your feet. Your child will look at you with tears in his eyes asking “Daddy, Daddy why is the world covered in water?” and it will be all your fault.
Damn you Gary Handa, damn you to hell.
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Wardy5
29 posts
75 months
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My favourite Carpool so far I reckon. Hats off to you; great choice.
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Conrod Straight
10 posts
14 months
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"A nation that is known so much for the high quality of it's cars that they get exported all over the world. Not." Except say the export program to the US (where Commodore is also replacing the Crown Vic for Police duties), Middle East, China, NZ... As an ex-pat in Aus, I wish I'd got one before I started to appreciate the reputation they have. These are so often driven by bogan boofheads, anyone in construction and people with their own steel fabrication firms. They almost all live in the Western Suburbs of Sydney (think Dagenham)and Melbourne and are otherwise known as Bogan Chariots. Ironically enough, people here don't want the Holden badges either, so they get Chevrolet ones instead. I wonder if the Chev owners put Vauxhall badges on....no perhaps not. Check this out from the now defunct Top Gear Australia. Shows a supercharged HSV (VXR) lapping the track on different wheels and the effect on handling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYczUsb1A_I&fea...
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Ftumpch
160 posts
27 months
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Nice work choosing this over a C63  There's very little point getting a ridiculously fast car with a nice badge if you just end up looking like a girl when you drive it. Aston Vantage owners equally take note!
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Shipper
34 posts
14 months
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StripeyMiata said: I for one am horrified by what I just read.
"Why I bought it:
With the imminent arrival of our first child, I was on the look-out for a four-door saloon."
So Mr Handa is about to have his first child. And what does he buy, a rebadged Vauxhall built in Australia. A nation that is known so much for the high quality of it's cars that they get exported all over the world. Not.
Not only does he buy something built by a few alcoholics married to someone called Sheila he buys a model with over 500HP with RWD, how dangerous is that going to be on a greasy road in the Autumn with some leaves just dropped from England's finest trees? And I bet that thing hasn't been NCAP tested either.
And then there is Global Warming, while Mr Handa is writing how smug he feels with the Prius drivers truth be told he is murdering Polar Bears who are drowning today because of the selfish people like Mr Handa. You should be ashamed of yourself Mr Handa, you have baby Polar Bear blood on your hands, try and hide it if you like with those gloves but it will never wash off from your conscience.
OK, I get the whole cool Dad thing, I've done my fast driving and track days in the past but when I first child I chopped my Westfield SEi for a Toyota Auris Hybrid and I havn't looked back and it has 5 NCAPS unlike that Waltzing Matilda bag of nuts you have.
10 years from now unless you mend your ways Mr Handa you'll be in a refugee camp on Snowdon Mountain watching the waters caused by the melting ice caps heading for your feet. Your child will look at you with tears in his eyes asking “Daddy, Daddy why is the world covered in water?” and it will be all your fault.
Damn you Gary Handa, damn you to hell.
StripeyMaita, Gary Handa may be damned to hell, but not because he bought an Australian V8 with pure racing pedigree built on the backbone of touring car racing that included Walkinshaw Bathurst 1000 challenges, but because he did not hit that smug prius driver square in the nose! A Land Rover Discovery V8 produces less green house gasses in a 20 year life cycle than a prius produces during its fabrication alone. Then you burn brown coal to power your power stations to produce non green energy to charge the prius. Then at the end of its battery life you need to find some way of discarding highly toxic batteries and then, produce more (while adding to the green house affect). He should have hit you in the nose for being a racist pig. My wife is not called Sheila, she’s called Yesdear. Wait…. You have a hybid? One that produced untold quantities of greenhouse gasses just to fabricate it? Then he should have hit you in the nose again. Not once damned, not twice damned but thrice damned. Wait wait, you already had your track day period in your life and now you are denying others, to save a Polar Bear? If I knew what came after Thrice you would be damned to that number as well!!! Finally, the NCAP rating of a holdern commodore is 5! Here’s the link Mr. “I make out with Polar Bears”, http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.as... which is a damn site better than my Land Rover Discovery II, which can only make a wheezily 3! Quite honestly I’ve run out of exclamation marks to explain just how many times you Sir (and I use that term as loosely as possible) are damned!!!!!!!............ crap..
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dorme
142 posts
50 months
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Shipper said: StripeyMaita, Gary Handa may be damned to hell, but not because he bought an Australian V8 with pure racing pedigree built on the backbone of touring car racing that included Walkinshaw Bathurst 1000 challenges, but because he did not hit that smug prius driver square in the nose! A Land Rover Discovery V8 produces less green house gasses in a 20 year life cycle than a prius produces during its fabrication alone. Then you burn brown coal to power your power stations to produce non green energy to charge the prius. Then at the end of its battery life you need to find some way of discarding highly toxic batteries and then, produce more (while adding to the green house affect). He should have hit you in the nose for being a racist pig. My wife is not called Sheila, she’s called Yesdear. Wait…. You have a hybid? One that produced untold quantities of greenhouse gasses just to fabricate it? Then he should have hit you in the nose again. Not once damned, not twice damned but thrice damned. Wait wait, you already had your track day period in your life and now you are denying others, to save a Polar Bear? If I knew what came after Thrice you would be damned to that number as well!!! Finally, the NCAP rating of a holdern commodore is 5! Here’s the link Mr. “I make out with Polar Bears”, http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.as... which is a damn site better than my Land Rover Discovery II, which can only make a wheezily 3! Quite honestly I’ve run out of exclamation marks to explain just how many times you Sir (and I use that term as loosely as possible) are damned!!!!!!!............ crap.. the guy was blatantly joking mate, chill out!
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dod
598 posts
129 months
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Fairly sure you'll have the standard T-56 box in that, so if it goes pop again, replace it with the T-56 Magnum (TR-6060) instead. You can spec the close ratio version at the same time.
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FWDRacer
2,842 posts
93 months
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howardhughes said: doesn't tick any boxes for me. Sorry. What about if you use your driving gloved hands to change the badges?
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OzNick
1 posts
28 months
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Pig Iron?????? Mmmmm the LS series Chevy engines are all alloy.
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StefanVXR8
2,340 posts
67 months
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StripeyMiata said: I for one am horrified by what I just read.
"Why I bought it:
With the imminent arrival of our first child, I was on the look-out for a four-door saloon."
So Mr Handa is about to have his first child. And what does he buy, a rebadged Vauxhall built in Australia. A nation that is known so much for the high quality of it's cars that they get exported all over the world. Not.
Not only does he buy something built by a few alcoholics married to someone called Sheila he buys a model with over 500HP with RWD, how dangerous is that going to be on a greasy road in the Autumn with some leaves just dropped from England's finest trees? And I bet that thing hasn't been NCAP tested either.
And then there is Global Warming, while Mr Handa is writing how smug he feels with the Prius drivers truth be told he is murdering Polar Bears who are drowning today because of the selfish people like Mr Handa. You should be ashamed of yourself Mr Handa, you have baby Polar Bear blood on your hands, try and hide it if you like with those gloves but it will never wash off from your conscience.
OK, I get the whole cool Dad thing, I've done my fast driving and track days in the past but when I first child I chopped my Westfield SEi for a Toyota Auris Hybrid and I havn't looked back and it has 5 NCAPS unlike that Waltzing Matilda bag of nuts you have.
10 years from now unless you mend your ways Mr Handa you'll be in a refugee camp on Snowdon Mountain watching the waters caused by the melting ice caps heading for your feet. Your child will look at you with tears in his eyes asking “Daddy, Daddy why is the world covered in water?” and it will be all your fault.
Damn you Gary Handa, damn you to hell.
Oh, I do believe you may have typed "Knit one, pearl one, head" in to Google and mistakenly got re-directed to this site by accident. Let me help you along your way.............. www.knit_one_pearl_one_head.com Stef "Hybrids, PistonHeads would gladly give a XXXX for anything else"
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s m
8,110 posts
72 months
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Conrod Straight said: Good post that! I expected it to be quicker on the smaller wheels but not by that magnitude! I've come to the same conclusion of the sports saloons I've had - they're usually quicker on close to factory sizes ( and feel nicer to drive ) - the only advantage the bigger wheels seems to offer mostly is the opportunity for bigger brakes/more performance orientated tyre choice. Anyway enjoyed watching that - I wonder if the V8 Mercs would have been quicker there with an old fashioned manual shift?
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sjc
6,716 posts
139 months
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rob.e
2,476 posts
147 months
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Excellent article and a lovely vehicle. The only negative as far as I can see is that it makes my tweaked vRS wagon look like a very "sensible" choice as a kiddie lugger.  Need to try harder..
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Limpet
336 posts
30 months
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Fantastic car. I've had a passenger ride in a well driven standard VXR8 and it made me smile for hours afterwards. From the passenger seat at least, it felt sharp, tight, nicely balanced and seriously quick. This must take it to a whole new level. I love VXR8s. Big cube, pushrod engined, RWD fun. Somehow seems to take itself less seriously than an M5, and none the worse for that. One of the few modern cars with character. Congratulations, and enjoy it.
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jakesmith
380 posts
40 months
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GTiFrank said: hmmn Bathurst S is 10.7 to 100mph. This weighing 1800ish Kg with another 50bhp - High 9's perhaps? Jag XKR 5.0 is 9.4s 0-100 I don't see the point in spending that much modding one of these cars but I'm sure I'd get it if I was taken out in one
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Madmatt74
259 posts
26 months
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Strawman said: GingerNinja said: "It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black." Brake calipers? He needs a black tax disc holder too! 
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Fastdruid
1,218 posts
21 months
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While our car is not quite up to the standard of this it is gratifying to park something quick amongst the MPV's, hybrids and sheds in the Parent and Child spaces.
Somewhat of a shame sometimes the MPS is rather subtle, although amusing when visiting anywhere with 'younger' petrol heads as you get comments such as "Wow, an MPS, that's as quick as an M3" (it's not but thanks).
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