4 July 2012
I was looking at the Holden Web Site, and they are offering the Commodore in SV6 form, sporty, 280bhp V6, manual box for $35,000, thats just £23,000. And the exchange rate is awful right now.
http://www.holden.com.au/latestoffers
Now i know we get the VXR8, the highly tuned V8 HSV version, but it costs double. I would have thought this would fit very nicely into the Vauxhall line up. They also do an LPG version so it would cost less to run that a diesel. Is there really no call for this sort of thing here?
Are there other foreign gems that dont make it here?
27 July 2010
In the States we have the M5 with optional 6spd manual. I just got my Road and Track for this month and they tested it against the CTS-V. The Caddy got blitzed on performance but drew almost level on all kinds of subjectives, and was much cheaper. Anyway, here's the acceleration penalty they experienced for a manual on the M5:
0-60 4.1 vs. 3.6
0-100 9.0 vs. 8.4
1-120 13.0 vs. 12.0
19 December 2008
In the States we have the M5 with optional 6spd manual. I just got my Road and Track for this month and they tested it against the CTS-V. The Caddy got blitzed on performance but drew almost level on all kinds of subjectives, and was much cheaper. Anyway, here's the acceleration penalty they experienced for a manual on the M5:
0-60 4.1 vs. 3.6
0-100 9.0 vs. 8.4
1-120 13.0 vs. 12.0
You will probably get the next M3 with a manual too, whilst we are stuck with an auto.
30 October 2007
I was looking at the Holden Web Site, and they are offering the Commodore in SV6 form, sporty, 280bhp V6, manual box for $35,000, thats just £23,000. And the exchange rate is awful right now.
http://www.holden.com.au/latestoffers
Now i know we get the VXR8, the highly tuned V8 HSV version, but it costs double. I would have thought this would fit very nicely into the Vauxhall line up. They also do an LPG version so it would cost less to run that a diesel. Is there really no call for this sort of thing here?
Are there other foreign gems that dont make it here?
And yet according to this, sales of the Commodore have hit a 34-year low...
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/commodore-sales-worst-in-34-years/story-e6frf7kx-1226417217117
You either accept a Morgan as you accept the Himalayas or you go on to more splendid things, say, butterfly collecting. A Morgan merely is and that should be enough.
19 December 2008
I was looking at the Holden Web Site, and they are offering the Commodore in SV6 form, sporty, 280bhp V6, manual box for $35,000, thats just £23,000. And the exchange rate is awful right now.
http://www.holden.com.au/latestoffers
Now i know we get the VXR8, the highly tuned V8 HSV version, but it costs double. I would have thought this would fit very nicely into the Vauxhall line up. They also do an LPG version so it would cost less to run that a diesel. Is there really no call for this sort of thing here?
Are there other foreign gems that dont make it here?
And yet according to this, sales of the Commodore have hit a 34-year low...
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/commodore-sales-worst-in-34-years/story-e6frf7kx-1226417217117
well, if the Australians wont buy them, even more reason to send some over here
21 January 2010
We don't get the Nissan Tiida (thankfully) but there are loads of them running round the central belt of Scotland...
Audi A3 2.0TDi Sportback / Subaru Legacy Tourer
8 November 2008
I think the Tiida was very popular in Ireland and one of the big Scottish dealer networks - Arnold Clark, perhaps, bought up a lot of unsold stock to sell to people who couldn't bring themselves to trade up from the rather staid Almera to the funky Qashqai.
"There's a fine line between wrong and visionary. Unfortunately, you have to be a visionary to see it." - Dr Sheldon Cooper
3 July 2012
We don't get the Nissan Tiida (thankfully) but there are loads of them running round the central belt of Scotland...
Don't speak too soon, it's successor may be coming here to plug the gap between Juke and Qashqai.
11 November 2009
I don't get Vauxhalls,any of them, no matter if it's a restyled Elise or a perfectly good family car, I just don't get them at all! The opposition always seems a better option.
Back by popular demand, asking the questions others dare not ask, its Nelson Moderno and his imaginatively titled, award winning Nelsons Column!
Three cheers for the forum Sealord...
9 March 2012
Petrol/deisel renault fluence
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