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Old 11-08-2011, 02:40 PM
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Ive been looking at these and wonderd if anyone had any experience of them? Ive noticed you can get a 6.0vxr for about 10k now
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Yes.

Mate has an early Monaro, 5.7 LS1, goes very well indeed and makes a lovely noise. He might be tempted to sell it for the right price. Total performance bargains IMO, cracking engines and very tuneable.

Another mate has a VXR8, goes like hell, sounds fantastic and is surprisingly agile for the size of it.
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I was passenger in a VXR a few years ago, doesn't feel special on the inside but they're such a laugh, sound great and really tail-happy.

Lots of kit too, certainly a lot of car for the money.
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my next door neighbour had one. Looked amazing sounded amazing and was very very quick
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Originally Posted by plynchy
Yes.

Mate has an early Monaro, 5.7 LS1, goes very well indeed and makes a lovely noise. He might be tempted to sell it for the right price. Total performance bargains IMO, cracking engines and very tuneable.

Another mate has a VXR8, goes like hell, sounds fantastic and is surprisingly agile for the size of it.
driven one of the ls1 Monaro's and loved it ! then we pulled it apart to turn it into a race car
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My mate had a black VXR, awsume machine, :he couldn't drive it for sh!t though
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my pals dad has a black one, he says they go pretty well ,,, the sound of them is just lovely especially with an upgraded exhaust, pretty cool cars id say.
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10k for a 6.0??

Really...

8+ for 5.7
12+ for a 6.0

That seems to be about where they are....

They've come down about 2k in the last few months............ awesome bits of kit... so tempted...
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Driven and worked on all the varients inc tuned vxr8's when i worked for vauxhall....enjoyed them all and I'd have one given the chance
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ive been in the back of one being driven like a cunt lol

barton the ex editor of total vauxhall mag had a demo car and took a few of us for a ride - sideways everywhere and they can do pretty awesome rolling burnouts

id have one if i didnt want an exige lol
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been a passenger in one. if you can get past the interior which when you consider the shit in most 90s fords many on here drive is perfectly smart and decent (even if behind compared to equivilent cars in the 00's when they came out), then they seem a great car.

youd have to get some holden badges for it just to get rid of vauxhalls shit rebadging attempt at "ownership".
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Awesome cars, been in several. That V8 is a simple, beautiful work of engineering art Big lazy grunt, I love it.

Try and get a 5.7VXR as the fuel tank is lower down and doesn't take all the boot space.
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cracking car, ugly as hell tho
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