VXR8 top gear this week?
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hsvgtscoupe said:
Jace & I were there today as was slackalice with his VXR Munro. Looks like Sunday will be a great show - was damp so the lap from the VXR8 is not very flash - usual JC review - got to be basic cos it's Australian - but I LOVE IT! wont spoil the rest of the show for everyone but it looks like a goodn
J
I assume they'll have tested a standard car, or were there any tweaks ?J
Erm.. my point is... even if Toyota had a car designed and built entirely in the UK it would still be Japanese because its a Toyota, because Toyota is Japanese.
Holden is General Motors, which is American.
Not arguing that the Holden is designed and built down under, but like I said, its not Home Grown.
If GM thought they could sell as many cars without various different names around the world, they would......
Holden is General Motors, which is American.
Not arguing that the Holden is designed and built down under, but like I said, its not Home Grown.
If GM thought they could sell as many cars without various different names around the world, they would......
It's ok Jez, i am up to speed with you, what J.C. said was it was an American engine, and therefore that precluded it from being an aussie car. Silly comment really, as a large number of the worlds engines come from South America these days, or from another part of the world where the workers work for peanuts.
ozonejunky said:
hsvgtscoupe said:
Jace & I were there today as was slackalice with his VXR Munro. Looks like Sunday will be a great show - was damp so the lap from the VXR8 is not very flash - usual JC review - got to be basic cos it's Australian - but I LOVE IT! wont spoil the rest of the show for everyone but it looks like a goodn
J
J
I assume they'll have tested a standard car, or were there any tweaks ?
As far as I could tell it was std VXR8 unles any VXR officianados on here who may have prep'd the car for TG can say otherwise? Oh... it only had undercoat though, a nice blue shade. Maybe they wanted to keep the weight down a bit so didnt put the black on top of that one?
crisisjez said:
Erm.. my point is... even if Toyota had a car designed and built entirely in the UK it would still be Japanese because its a Toyota, because Toyota is Japanese.
Holden is General Motors, which is American.
Not arguing that the Holden is designed and built down under, but like I said, its not Home Grown.
If GM thought they could sell as many cars without various different names around the world, they would......
Holden is General Motors, which is American.
Not arguing that the Holden is designed and built down under, but like I said, its not Home Grown.
If GM thought they could sell as many cars without various different names around the world, they would......
With technology platforms and car manufacturing spread almost randomly aound the world, I don't think you can really bring the "nationality" of a car brand into question. Whilst all part of GM., Holden is certainly Australian just as Vauxhall is English & Opel is Euro. Skoda Bugatti Lambo are all owned by VW but it doesnt make the German cars.
Monaro (god rest her soul) and the good old Aussie ute in it's various forms are iconic Aussie cars, designed from the ground up in Australia and exported globally - sure most of them use Seppo engines and no doubt many other components sourced from far & wide but they are an Aussie car - end of.
gober9183 said:
It was the standard car that he test drove, I happened to drive it the day of the test. It was supposed to be a piece on JC convincing 6 members of the public to buy something different to a BMW, merc or Audi in the £35K bracket.
Sadly the piece was canned
I don,t think so !!!!!! just watch the programme this Sunday.Sadly the piece was canned
phrich said:
I think the latest commodore was the first car designed from scratch.
The previous was an enlarged Omega
The previous was an enlarged Omega
VB - same external sheet metal and interior as Opel, but mechanically a very different.
VN - borrowed exterior styling themes and door skins from Opel, but looked different in detail and mechanically was a very different car.
VT - borrowed exterior styling themes from Opel, but shared no common parts other than things like door handles. Again, mechanically a very different car.
Other (earlier) full size Holdens were mostly either unique Holden designs or leveraged styling and aspects of their design from GMNA.
Edited by FFD on Friday 30th November 09:04
slackalice said:
gober9183 said:
It was the standard car that he test drove, I happened to drive it the day of the test. It was supposed to be a piece on JC convincing 6 members of the public to buy something different to a BMW, merc or Audi in the £35K bracket.
Sadly the piece was canned
Sadly the piece was canned
I don,t think so !!!!!! just watch the programme this Sunday.
Bit of confusion here... gober is talkin about the full article they filmed with 6 regular jo's driving diff 35K cars - most of that is dropped from the show; the VXR8 review is certainly in as we saw on Wednesday & the only bit from the regular Jo comparo is the drag race and the fact that he opens the show with a 35K Beema, shows the drag race to see what a remarkable difference the VXR8 is and then its straight to JC doing what he likes most, drifting around his track in high powered RWD cars!
hsvgtscoupe said:
slackalice said:
gober9183 said:
Sadly the piece was canned
I don,t think so !!!!!! just watch the programme this Sunday.
Hey nice photo's by the way.
Ooo - definately not standard.
Looks like the walkingshaw exhaust and the sport suspension.
I think also the 20" wheels but not sure.
1.31 in the wet isn't bad for a powerful RWD car. Notice it was basically the same time as the 996 911 Turbo also in the wet? I'm quite happy with that - esp as the Dunsfold track favours light cars.
Looks like the walkingshaw exhaust and the sport suspension.
I think also the 20" wheels but not sure.
1.31 in the wet isn't bad for a powerful RWD car. Notice it was basically the same time as the 996 911 Turbo also in the wet? I'm quite happy with that - esp as the Dunsfold track favours light cars.
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