Autocar review of Walkinshaw S/C VXR8
Discussion
Good review I guess. £48K set up....Nice big torque figs be interesting to see how much comes on tap, when and how long it delivers max for.
www.autocar.co.uk/CarReviews/FirstDrives/Vauxhall-VXR8-6.0-V8-Supercharged/229388/
www.autocar.co.uk/CarReviews/FirstDrives/Vauxhall-VXR8-6.0-V8-Supercharged/229388/
£3k for 5% more wheel diameter. Diminishing returns? Presumably you get to keep/sell on the 19s...?
Sat nav @ £1500 is a bit silly too, when you can get GPS on a phone now.
You wouldn't want the S/C without the exhaust, so it's basically an 8k package.
60-100mph in around 6.2s, compared to 5s for an M5 (Autocar 2005 0-100-0 Test). Still, it was damp
Maybe it's the M5s 7spd SMG - I can't believe the S/C VXR8 loses on poke/weight.
Presumably Walkinshaw will fit to used cars and preserve remaining warranty? Andy's £29k VXR8 + S/C = £36k, barely more than a new stock one.
John
Sat nav @ £1500 is a bit silly too, when you can get GPS on a phone now.
You wouldn't want the S/C without the exhaust, so it's basically an 8k package.
60-100mph in around 6.2s, compared to 5s for an M5 (Autocar 2005 0-100-0 Test). Still, it was damp
Maybe it's the M5s 7spd SMG - I can't believe the S/C VXR8 loses on poke/weight.Presumably Walkinshaw will fit to used cars and preserve remaining warranty? Andy's £29k VXR8 + S/C = £36k, barely more than a new stock one.
John
LathamJohnP said:
£3k for 5% more wheel diameter. Diminishing returns? Presumably you get to keep/sell on the 19s...?
Sat nav @ £1500 is a bit silly too, when you can get GPS on a phone now.
You wouldn't want the S/C without the exhaust, so it's basically an 8k package.
John
Sat nav @ £1500 is a bit silly too, when you can get GPS on a phone now.
You wouldn't want the S/C without the exhaust, so it's basically an 8k package.
John
I'd really like to know what makes the Sat Nav so expensive. In the past, sat nav used to be so high due to the majority of base models not having a TFT LCD screen. Now the VXR8 has a nice TFT screen as standard so it can't be that.
Surely all that is left is:
1) GPS Receiver
2) Software
The receiver can't be more than a couple hundered and even then that is expensive. You can get a decent bluetooth GPS unit for under a hundred and even cheaper if a wired unit.
So that leaves the software... Can it really be the case that the software is around £1000???
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