New car ordered

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Heya guys , I am a new member for the Holden Hoon club after ordering a new VXR8 GTS at the weekend.

I have gone for a Perfect Blue model which means I get to jump the build queue as Bellingers has one on order for stock that should arrive early December and everyone else is going for the boring colours of Red/Black/White

Looks like you lot have some good meets so hope to join in on these soon. (BTW, I think I might be a lot younger than the rest of you )

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HSV Keith said:

Welcome to the mad house don't forget pictures when you pick it up

Cheers mate, does seem to be some good banter in here

I am sure you will get sick of the amount of photos I will be putting up

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Haha, not quite that young but all the previous oldies owning these big V8's have certainly helped the insurance profile. Insurance is only about £100 more than for my 320cd bimmer! (errrr, did I just own up to owning a BMW in here? Whoops! )

Definitely going for the loud and proud approach to this car, need to get in touch with WP and see what magic they can do and then go and remortgage the house to afford it

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Yeah, Edward @ Bellingers did say that there was a massive difference in profile of owners for this new model compared to previous generations of VXR8.

23 and owning a new one of these! Blimey, I thought at 30 getting one was a fair achievement.

To be fair to Betty (my beemer), she has done what was needed of her as I was an IT consultant so clocking up the miles, now I commute into London, her time is up and I need a toy for the weekends

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SturdyHSV said:

It certainly is, sorry I should have been clearer I just meant as in owning any of the cars, new or used. Forgive my confusion, you see we don't often talk money / finance packages / options levels / resale colours over here, that stuff's for the German marque forums

Look forward to pictures of the car, I'm over in Aylesbury so you're not far away

Gotcha! Don't worry, I am being a bit special today (just today?)

Option levels? Colour, Auto, Sunroof. Blue, no, no

Yeah, looking forward to seeing the colour myself. Have test driven both cars Bellingers have had in (the VX press car and their new demonstrator) and they have both been red! Such an unoriginal colour

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007 VXR said:

And not the fastest

Nope, that would be Blue

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007 VXR said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoXJL2hL6kI

So true!

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ARAF said:

Welcome to our little corner of Pistonheads.

Congratulations on the purchase, and from the conversation so far, I think you will fit right in.

Can you come along to Surry Rolling Road next month for the social, even if you don't have your car?

Cheers buddy

I might be driving over to Switzerland on the 18th, but may be able to persuade the wife to postpone departure by a day

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r-kid said:

If before you get yours you are ever up in Yorkshire give me a shout as mine is perfect blue. So you can have a look at the colour in the flesh.

Thank you very much mate. You are the one who got the tourer aren't you? A lovely motor that. I think the closest to Yorkshire I will be is the Peak District the first weekend of December, which I may be really lucky and have picked the car up by then!

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ARAF said:

B5ELF said:

ARAF said:

Welcome to our little corner of Pistonheads.

Congratulations on the purchase, and from the conversation so far, I think you will fit right in.

Can you come along to Surry Rolling Road next month for the social, even if you don't have your car?

Cheers buddy

I might be driving over to Switzerland on the 18th, but may be able to persuade the wife to postpone departure by a day

There will be other times. Let her know that you have given up a social for time with her, and it will earn you brownie points for goodies for the car.

meh, I bought her flowers yesterday, I'm good for a few months yet It is a 2 week holiday on an off the cuff basis so not really going to affect plans too much anyway.

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TheLostProphet said:

Hello and welcome to our little corner of the Internet

And such a wonderfully loud corner of dem interwebs

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Tattooboy said:

Welcome to the nut house, great purchase OP, enjoy.

Hopefully Sarge 4x4 will chime in shortly, in the next few days anyway, think he's in France at the mo? He's had his Gen F breathed on by Walkinshaw, he can let you know what was done and what they achieved

IIRC 700+ fwbhp and 650ish rwbhp. Am also on vxro, just thought it was a bit more mature in here and more owners

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Dave3166 said:

The red car and the blue car had a race...

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007 VXR said:

B5ELF said:

The red car and the blue car had a race...

You will wake up singing that song tomorrow

And it will make me smile. Might even make it my alarm ring tone

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Dave3166 said:

B5ELF said:

The red car and the blue car had a race...

Awesome 400th post.

You know blue is best!

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007 VXR said:

B5ELF said:

Tattooboy said:

Welcome to the nut house, great purchase OP, enjoy.

Hopefully Sarge 4x4 will chime in shortly, in the next few days anyway, think he's in France at the mo? He's had his Gen F breathed on by Walkinshaw, he can let you know what was done and what they achieved

IIRC 700+ fwbhp and 650ish rwbhp. Am also on vxro, just thought it was a bit more mature in here and more owners

MAth not right there ? 700 fly + 550 rw...

Going blind in your old age?

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Just checked, he had 761 fly, no figure on wheel that I can see.

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007 VXR said:

B5ELF said:

Just checked, he had 761 fly, no figure on wheel that I can see.

Would be around 600rwhp Nice

Yeah, earlier figures were what someone else said, went back to see what sarge said himself. Forgot how much transmission loss these buggers have.

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ARAF said:

B5ELF said:

007 VXR said:

B5ELF said:

Just checked, he had 761 fly, no figure on wheel that I can see.

Would be around 600rwhp Nice

Yeah, earlier figures were what someone else said, went back to see what sarge said himself. Forgot how much transmission loss these buggers have.

Hey, there's more than enough to go around, For splitting steering and power, it's worth it.

And the s\c is massive drain as well.

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007 VXR said:

B5ELF said:

ARAF said:

B5ELF said:

007 VXR said:

B5ELF said:

Just checked, he had 761 fly, no figure on wheel that I can see.

Would be around 600rwhp Nice

Yeah, earlier figures were what someone else said, went back to see what sarge said himself. Forgot how much transmission loss these buggers have.

Hey, there's more than enough to go around, For splitting steering and power, it's worth it.

And the s\c is massive drain as well.

Bur, bloody great fun

Cannot deny that!