It's because Richard isn't from Northern England. If you're from Southern England you pronounce "Bath" as "barth" whereas northerners don't add an 'R'. Passport/Parsport; Laff/Larf, Glass/Glarse, Path/Parth and so on.'
@@Linusgump no it was axed in 2020 and they stopped making cars here on October 20th 2017, however the writing was on the wall then because Holden were gonna build a whole bunch of cars on the Zeta platform that underpinned the Commodore however GFC hit and there was no money left from GM to use and no matter how much the Australian government threw at it after GFC they were leaking like crazy.
Rod , while Australia is a member of the Commonwealth you have security of an alliance , without it . . . 280 million Indonesian's eyeing off your land ( they're already taking your fish ! ) , then there's China 🇨🇳 whom are trying to populate Australia by stealth .
Hammond is a very lucky boy. That car is the only car I would buy if I could afford any car, 6,2 v8 supercharged, 0-60 in 4,0sec and close to 200mph. And with a manual gearbox. The perfect car. And now u can get one for £35000.
Kristian better get in quick a friend of mine paid $100,000 for one of the last off the line and prices are going to go through the roof if people get tempted to cash in their investment. Million bucks in a couple of years but it’s still just a car.
Had the 2012 SSV series II 6 litre V8 ute but had to sell it over Covid to make ends meet. Damn we made good cars here. RIP Holden. Going to pre order a 2023 raptor now that I’m working again. As a footnote I’d like to add that these aren’t a businessman car. They’re a cashed-up bogan vehicle, and we love them lol
I love that supercharger whine! It sounds epic. The car is amazing. It’s a fast four door salon in the Jaguar XJR, BMW M5 and Maserati Quattroportre mould. Sadly, I think it is no longer available in the U.K. I don’t think we’ll ever get a new model of it, as it is now the days of turbo charging, smaller engines and hybrids.
Holden as a whole unfortunately no longer exists. A couple of years after GM closed down the factory they wound up the whole operation sadly. The new car market here in Australia is boring as Hell now, just an endless sea of soulless SUVs and dual cab utes.
My hz 202 made that noise. It was the power house stromberg carbie falling off the inlet manifold. The studs had striped so it was tied down with wire for about 100000ks. It sounded so real we made a sticker for the rear window “ supercharger equiped” in the same look as the old “ hollie equiped” stickers. Was a great conversation starter. That beautiful car was quick. Zero to 100 in 5. Minutes.
The Australian manufacturing industry was likened to an old friend; gave everyone a job and kept people employed and looked after our manufacturing sector. Shat on by politicians. A bloody disgrace
There were junior factory floor workers at Holden on more money than American foreman with 20+ years of experience. Australian workers priced themselves out of the manufacturing industry, not the politicians. Aussies like to blame everyone but themselves, but your monetary greediness lost you your jobs...
Barthhurst sounds like a little town in the north of England, not our famous BATHURST race at Mount Panorama Australia. Get it right RichHARD..............
Every holden I see them gawk at, it's nothing but smiles and laughter, and it's wonderful. I have an '04 GTO now and let me tell you. These cars were amazing.
I don’t understand why GM and Ford can’t make great sedan designs for the whole world when Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen can do it so easily, they prefer to make one design for the US and a completely unrelated one for Australia and then ship some of those to Europe and the US.
Anyone in Britain lucky enough to have one of these today, check the value. In Australia, after Holden closed, you would have thought secondhand values would plummet. The opposite is happening. There are fewer cars on the market then people wanting them, so prices keep climbing.
With a speed limit in Australia Of 110 km per hour And laws that impound your vehicle for spinning wheels And fuel prices that go up 50 cents in one day One would question the motives of those that make the rules
Despite the atrocious pronunciation of Bathurst all through this story I Loved a fast Holden, regardless of what badge it was wearing. BTW its not Barth-herst its Bath as in Cath and it finishes with an est so Bathest . I should know, It was my local hoon stomping ground for 59 years.
The final generation literally showed you your oversteer angle and time, so yeah, I would say it was good at going from oversteer to oh deer we've just crashed.
I love the sound of the Bathurst. It sounds amazing. I love the Vauxhall VXR8. It reminds me of the Lotus Carlton. This should have been nominated for car of the year 2009. Whether it's the normal Vauxhall VXR8, the Bathurst or any other model of Vauxhall VXR8, I'd have it over the BMW M5 any day.
Loved my rebadged Holden Commodore (G8). Oh if I had that beautiful sounding supercharger. But I did drop an LS3 6.2 C6 crate engine in it. Miss it dearly.
Australian English is far truer than American English. You can't even write/type colour, aluminium, grey, armour or even yoghurt correctly. Don't try to correct Australians on an Australian location and the way its pronounced by its native people, in its native land.
Richard Harrold What are you talking about? Northern,London, Geordie, Brummey, Cockney, what English accent? There is no English accent, there are many.
they were basiclly the last of the v8s for us in oz GM used all our home grown tech in their cadillacs and nascar has adopted the suspension setups. These cars and their lesser brothers are absolutely world class vehicles its just scales of economy and greedy coorperate parent companies that doomed us
Jezza bagged it anyway, I remember him slagging us off on Top Gear say. aaaaah ‘what has Australia-ever invented ?’ While his phone was going off in his pocket , all the while connected to WI-Fi that Australia’s CSIRO invented , hilarious.
There were junior factory floor workers at Holden on more money than American foreman with 20+ years of experience. Australian workers priced themselves out of the manufacturing industry, not the politicians. Aussies like to blame everyone but themselves, but your monetary greediness lost you your jobs...
Who the fuck are u champ? Where do u get ur information from? So American manufacturing has never gone over to China or anywhere else in the last couple decades??! Pfft. Fucken yank I bet u are. Workers don't set the price champ we are paid by industry standards
Just to clear up for ozzy handbag brigade, he's not deliberately pronouncing it wrong, when English folk down south say "bath" it naturally sounds like "barth"..
whats wrong with roots blowers? Their total efficiency is lower than a centrifugal supercharger but they have other advantages like constant boost pressure whereas a centrifugal blower builds boost in relation to turbine speed like a turbo would. They are also cheaper, simpler and more reliable.
+Joshua Watts its a sooped up version of the extinct Pontiac G8, same EXACT platform, but the bathurst edition got the supercharger. The car currently in this configuration, available now in the USA is the Chevrolet SS, though it still isnt supercharged, it does make 415 HP.
holden = vauxhall , vauxhall=basically brittish opel (even pontiac would probably have made this if they still existed) , why doesnt opel make those cars in ''left steering europe? '' that car is awesome
The closest beach has sand on it?? bahahaha, fuck me, stupid is stupid, what the fuck do you think a beach is you Pommy Knob. England does not have sand as we Australians know it, you Pommy Knob!
The car is named after a race circuit, Bathurst Mount Panorama. Common pronunciation of the town in NSW is Ba-thurst with the short A. Not Baaa-thurst with a long A. 'Straya, mate!
As an Aussie who has been to Bathurst for 20 years when I saw this Episode back in the Day I remember screaming at the Tele saying it's not "BATHURST" (As in I'm taking a BATH) Hamster it's "BATHURST" (As in BAThurst). Gah I still can't stand it (LOL)!
sadly General Motors closed Holden down and sold off Opel and Vauxhall to another Auto maker Imagine if an Auto manufacturer called H.O.V had evolved making hot 4cylinder hatches and V 8 super cars ....we can only dream
Something to do with European emmissions laws I would imagine. They aren't limited when they are built to stay in Australia. Only the ones we export get the limiter
They are built in South Australia at the Holden Elizabeth plant, i know i worked there for 12 months or so building an average 300 commodores a day. It's just a VE Holden Commodore rebadged and exported to the UK and US, Holden is a sister company in Australia of General Motors. Do some research on Holdens and you will find they have been around for years and just look at the previous commodore models and you can see they havent changed all that much over 20 years... In Australia we have our own local built Ford Falcons too
My old vs commodore made that noise, just a power steering pump
😅🤣
Factory option post VL era 🤣
@@phizzle24 my VE SSV has a slight whine. Really noticeble on cold starts
@@mickeydee3595 had it on my VXII R8 and my VYII SS 🙃
@@phizzle24 yeah I think its just a GM thing haha
Remember, in Australia, we couldn't get this spec from the local HSV Dealer: we had to go to Walkinshaw and spend even more money on it.
we did get the LSA's in the VF HSV's though. But yeah not on the VE
Walkinshaw UK built them here for Vauxhall.
Yeah. You had to go with bath hurst full of money.
Ours weren't standard spec. We had to pay a lot for this.
In the US we also had to go through Walkinshaw. It was called the G8 SLP Firehawk over here.
I live in Bathurst and I love top gear but I'm a little affendead of the way they say Bathurst
GREYVROZGA 63 when you go to England you don't visit Barth... You visit Bath you muppet!
Same
@Ocatavian But it isn't the "Bath". It's the Bathurst. It isn't prounced barth-urst. It's Baf-hurst
I'm a little offended by the way you spell offended.
It's because Richard isn't from Northern England. If you're from Southern England you pronounce "Bath" as "barth" whereas northerners don't add an 'R'. Passport/Parsport; Laff/Larf, Glass/Glarse, Path/Parth and so on.'
0:35 best description of the Bathurst 1000 I’ve ever heard
real haha
RIP - Australia Holden.
Good memories of riding my VY commodore around a suburban steel on a Friday night with 4 girls in the car
😪
Fuck GM
When was Holden axed, in the crash/restructuring of ‘08-‘09?
@@Linusgump no it was axed in 2020 and they stopped making cars here on October 20th 2017, however the writing was on the wall then because Holden were gonna build a whole bunch of cars on the Zeta platform that underpinned the Commodore however GFC hit and there was no money left from GM to use and no matter how much the Australian government threw at it after GFC they were leaking like crazy.
Love that supercharger sound. I think I might have one in my car because I can hear it If I go fast enough in my civic in reverse
No Surrender not sure if this is a joke but that’s the straight cut gears
Or the sound of a worn diff.
@@1953beetle only sound i know is flogged gearbox, hole car shudders and then it grinds as it grabs lmao
@@bigcazza5260 😂
still more teeth than a collingwood supporter
I love watching Bath-Thirst with all its Vauxhall Commodores
called bathurst and they're holden commodores
@@Alex-rm4qc i know, im australian. I was joking.
@Cameron Heidelauf I know, the point of the comment was to trigger people trigger people.
Love a bar thurst
@@splatman1150 The Poms don't have a sense of humour, they're all freezing cold, they need thawing out in our lovely climate.........
Took me a while to realise the bar thirst was actually bathurst
Yes😂😂😂
Lol
Your comment saved me time. Cheers.
Prefer the supercharger whine over a whining pom!!😎
Oh, shit son.
BOOM 🇦🇺
Oo yer
Rod , while Australia is a member of the Commonwealth you have security of an alliance , without it . . . 280 million Indonesian's eyeing off your land ( they're already taking your fish ! ) , then there's China 🇨🇳 whom are trying to populate Australia by stealth .
@@johnniethepom7545 lol the indos arent shit. we have to give them billions each year so half of em dont starve
Hammond is a very lucky boy. That car is the only car I would buy if I could afford any car, 6,2 v8 supercharged, 0-60 in 4,0sec and close to 200mph. And with a manual gearbox. The perfect car. And now u can get one for £35000.
Good luck trying to get one for that now 😭
Aussie Aussie probably £40000 now.
0-60 in 2.8 seconds with stickys on the rear
Kristian better get in quick a friend of mine paid $100,000 for one of the last off the line and prices are going to go through the roof if people get tempted to cash in their investment. Million bucks in a couple of years but it’s still just a car.
@@oceanblue3050
No.
Had the 2012 SSV series II 6 litre V8 ute but had to sell it over Covid to make ends meet. Damn we made good cars here. RIP Holden. Going to pre order a 2023 raptor now that I’m working again.
As a footnote I’d like to add that these aren’t a businessman car. They’re a cashed-up bogan vehicle, and we love them lol
"You got the tenor of the supercharger and then the bass of the V8" ~ Richard Hammond.
Sir Brellin he plays bass guitar so its safe to say hes got a good music ear. Just search top gear red light spells danger
No EV will ever be this much fun to drive
The original hellcat
Yup lol
well:
-relability of vauxhall
-speed of m5
-very good noise
-good mpg
-fast 0-60
-lots of hp
the perfect car
+ᶍᶎɵᏝtᏋϙ© #PayItFoward I wouldn't say good mpg. Plus it is Australian.
Occa Drumma yeah ur right, it does 22l/100km xd
+Occa Drumma does it being Australian make it bad?
Im a Kiwi so yeah Kiwi vs Aussie banter :), Na I love the VXR8 that super charger whine though :)
Yea bro I am a Ford guy myself but Holdens are great :)
Stunningly gorgeous, and makes all the best noises. I give it an 11 out of 1 -10 scale.
I love that supercharger whine! It sounds epic. The car is amazing. It’s a fast four door salon in the Jaguar XJR, BMW M5 and Maserati Quattroportre mould. Sadly, I think it is no longer available in the U.K. I don’t think we’ll ever get a new model of it, as it is now the days of turbo charging, smaller engines and hybrids.
alphabetaxenonzzzcat no it’s actually cause the commodore has been killed off
Yeah, that and Australia no longer makes their own cars.
Holden as a whole unfortunately no longer exists. A couple of years after GM closed down the factory they wound up the whole operation sadly. The new car market here in Australia is boring as Hell now, just an endless sea of soulless SUVs and dual cab utes.
My hz 202 made that noise. It was the power house stromberg carbie falling off the inlet manifold. The studs had striped so it was tied down with wire for about 100000ks. It sounded so real we made a sticker for the rear window “ supercharger equiped” in the same look as the old “ hollie equiped” stickers. Was a great conversation starter.
That beautiful car was quick. Zero to 100 in 5. Minutes.
That supercharger whine sounds so good
I keep coming back to this video just for this line: 2:04
Goddamn I miss the old top gear
The Australian manufacturing industry was likened to an old friend; gave everyone a job and kept people employed and looked after our manufacturing sector. Shat on by politicians. A bloody disgrace
There were junior factory floor workers at Holden on more money than American foreman with 20+ years of experience. Australian workers priced themselves out of the manufacturing industry, not the politicians. Aussies like to blame everyone but themselves, but your monetary greediness lost you your jobs...
@@Funkteon spot on.
@@Funkteon the price can only be high in comparison to what you allow to become the alternative in my opinion
Im proud to own a VE wagon, the HSV E series and E2/E3 are some of the best looking cars in my eyes
the VE be looking kinda cute tho O.O
Yeah, but not in wagon form.
@@larjkok1184 Wagon's look better than the sedans both in VE and VF I think, also much more room in the back to carry stuff
@@tobiasjames6949fuckin ugly n box bruh
Barthhurst sounds like a little town in the north of England, not our famous BATHURST race at Mount Panorama Australia. Get it right RichHARD..............
Every holden I see them gawk at, it's nothing but smiles and laughter, and it's wonderful.
I have an '04 GTO now and let me tell you. These cars were amazing.
Best description of Bathurst I've ever heard
I don’t understand why GM and Ford can’t make great sedan designs for the whole world when Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen can do it so easily, they prefer to make one design for the US and a completely unrelated one for Australia and then ship some of those to Europe and the US.
2:50 if this was shot in aus all he’d have to say is “drug dealers and p plate hoons”
Been looking for this for a year. I have finally found it!
Fist ever Top Gear video I saw, more than 12 years ago. Hooked ever since.
Anyone in Britain lucky enough to have one of these today, check the value. In Australia, after Holden closed, you would have thought secondhand values would plummet. The opposite is happening. There are fewer cars on the market then people wanting them, so prices keep climbing.
With a speed limit in Australia
Of
110 km per hour
And laws that impound your vehicle for spinning wheels
And fuel prices that go up 50 cents in one day
One would question the motives of those that make the rules
Should go to Northern Territory where speed limits don't exist........
but if your lucky enough to be driving one who cares about such things
Love the sound of the supercharger.
Holden, beautiful one day, replaced by boring Korean SUV's the next.
Despite the atrocious pronunciation of Bathurst all through this story I Loved a fast Holden, regardless of what badge it was wearing.
BTW its not Barth-herst its Bath as in Cath and it finishes with an est so Bathest . I should know, It was my local hoon stomping ground for 59 years.
The final generation literally showed you your oversteer angle and time, so yeah, I would say it was good at going from oversteer to oh deer we've just crashed.
My Closed Captioning calls this the Bar First edition and that’s probably the most accurate CC ever..
A place as famous as Bathurst and yet you call it Buthurst or even Barthurst. It's BATHURST with an "A".
And it's a bloody HOLDEN.
I remember watching top gear when Jeremy was taking the Mick out of the vauxhalls, I don't think he would do that on this occasion 😄
I love the sound of the Bathurst. It sounds amazing. I love the Vauxhall VXR8. It reminds me of the Lotus Carlton. This should have been nominated for car of the year 2009. Whether it's the normal Vauxhall VXR8, the Bathurst or any other model of Vauxhall VXR8, I'd have it over the BMW M5 any day.
Loved my rebadged Holden Commodore (G8). Oh if I had that beautiful sounding supercharger. But I did drop an LS3 6.2 C6 crate engine in it. Miss it dearly.
This car looks like over the top, ridiculous fun. And the noise!
Pommy can't pronounce Bathurst. "Baaaaath... Hurst..." Someone should have corrected him before filming..
amercans say Beeythrst...lol!!!
You mean you convicts can't pronounce English words.
Australian English is far truer than American English. You can't even write/type colour, aluminium, grey, armour or even yoghurt correctly. Don't try to correct Australians on an Australian location and the way its pronounced by its native people, in its native land.
Aerrowflex
I agree, but any non-English accent sounds horrendous to me! =P
Richard Harrold What are you talking about? Northern,London, Geordie, Brummey, Cockney, what English accent? There is no English accent, there are many.
The Australian police use these as there high speed units. Yep.
Nah, standard SS's. But alas BMW's now. Holden V8's GONE. No production is Australia any more
And ive even seen vw passat wagons as undercover cars
Comadore fans must be exponentially pissed by the XR8 featured in the name of the car, as it most notably belonged to their rival the Ford falcon
@@deathnights-bane3301 vx /r8
@@kristianspencer1978 still close enough
Here in the U.S. this car was sold as Pontiac G8. Not many Americans know about, or ever heard of Holden and Vauxhall.
That's coz Americans don't know there's the rest of the world out here haha think they are it and abit, bit closed off to the rest of the world ;)
I hate it how it's pronounced Barthurst, it's Bathurst, bastard!
It's a hsv gts isn't it
Calm down princess.
How dare people have different accents..
@didgeree It's prounced Baf-hurst
Wank
Basically an up to date Mad Max ride.
they were basiclly the last of the v8s for us in oz GM used all our home grown tech in their cadillacs and nascar has adopted the suspension setups. These cars and their lesser brothers are absolutely world class vehicles its just scales of economy and greedy coorperate parent companies that doomed us
Build like no other HOLDEN BATHURST HSV
the irony that car lovers love the whine of a supercharger, but hate the whine of an electric motor..... they sound near the same
Damn, that supercharger makes some sweeet noise! ❤️
0:01 That's what a car should sound like :D
Also Rip Holden completely. Maybe Ford will be First On Race Day for once.
Jezza bagged it anyway, I remember him slagging us off on Top Gear say. aaaaah ‘what has Australia-ever invented ?’ While his phone was going off in his pocket , all the while connected to WI-Fi that Australia’s CSIRO invented , hilarious.
This is the car you'd see 5 of parked in the front yard of the Mcmansion bought by the family of westies that just won Lotto.
There were junior factory floor workers at Holden on more money than American foreman with 20+ years of experience. Australian workers priced themselves out of the manufacturing industry, not the politicians. Aussies like to blame everyone but themselves, but your monetary greediness lost you your jobs...
Who the fuck are u champ? Where do u get ur information from? So American manufacturing has never gone over to China or anywhere else in the last couple decades??! Pfft. Fucken yank I bet u are. Workers don't set the price champ we are paid by industry standards
Imagine driving that through London at 3 am
Sideways around the roundabouts LOL
@@432htz3 theres another way to take a roundabout?
@@1mNotoriousTG Yes, drifting sideways with smoke pouring off the tyres and going around it a dozen times ..........at 3am.
Love these car comments especially if it’s about Holden. Car Enthusiasts unite.
I live in Bathurst as well, and The way he says Bathurst makes me cringe
Ah yes, the boganmobile itself.
Youre wrong, its originally a holden hsv clubsport supercharged by walkinshaw performance, or holden "Super Clubby"
what a posh way how he says Bathurst lol it is so wrong
There's a reason the hsv slogan is "I just want one". Miss holden
“Barth-hurst”. Hilarious.
So sad Aussie Holden is gone but they brought it upon themselves with decades of woeful decisions.
Had one of these bad boys roar past me scared the shit out of me
Take the speed governor off 👌🏻🇦🇺
The "Bath" bit of Bathurst rhymes with "math".
Just to clear up for ozzy handbag brigade, he's not deliberately pronouncing it wrong, when English folk down south say "bath" it naturally sounds like "barth"..
depends if you give a fuck about pommy bollucks
Australians say bath like that too but Bathurst is Bathurst lol
Bath? Isn’t that something the poms do once a month, if they need it or not?
Yes we pronounce “bath” the same, but in Bathurst it’s pronounced with a sharp A, like it sounds in the word “at”.
Shouldn't it be like Baa.
It's 'Bathurst'....as in bad, not bard. It's got nothing to do with 'having a bath'. Get it right Brits!
That supercharger tho!!!!!!
'The Bath-Hurst' LOL 😂
I have one of these, absolutely love it. ❤️
whats wrong with roots blowers? Their total efficiency is lower than a centrifugal supercharger but they have other advantages like constant boost pressure whereas a centrifugal blower builds boost in relation to turbine speed like a turbo would. They are also cheaper, simpler and more reliable.
Those pommy knobs should not be allowed to sit in a Holden.
Barth-urst?
BRING THIS TO AMERICA ALREADY!!!
+Joshua Watts its a sooped up version of the extinct Pontiac G8, same EXACT platform, but the bathurst edition got the supercharger. The car currently in this configuration, available now in the USA is the Chevrolet SS, though it still isnt supercharged, it does make 415 HP.
Supercharged LSA-engined SS is also available in the US.
You have the charger hellcat
Joshua Watts you wouldn’t be able to.
An American couldn't drive it, the steering wheel is on the right side as opposed to the left side being the wrong side of the car
coming from the poms, that's a bit rich, with their generational reliability failures, by a jag, better by two, to get around
Someone needs to teach the fridge magnet how to pronounce Bathurst correctly! 😂
Never seen falcon on topgear try f6 thyphoon
??????? Because ford never exported a car to the uk and gm exported hsv’s there so that’s why
put an Opel badge and make the haters stare :)))
Reminds me of the sound of Mad Max's Interceptor.
Mad Max had a supercharger on that absolute beast of a Falcon also.
Hoooo boy, don't say that out loud down here...Max had a Ford.
@@tonybrowne7220 it was a fake blower actually
600 bhp at the wheels and nitrous. Monster of a car.
BAR THIRST !!!!! GOTTA HAVE A V8 MATE 😁
Australia’s favourite cashed up bogan car😂
holden = vauxhall , vauxhall=basically brittish opel (even pontiac would probably have made this if they still existed) , why doesnt opel make those cars in ''left steering europe? '' that car is awesome
Too Fun for Germans Perhaps... ;)
brugesboy 1997 Vauxhall same as Opel ,Holden,Pontiac and Chevrolet.
..Thats a 1 billion dollar , Aussie designed , Aussie built brute
Nothing about this car is Vauxhall
Its not Barth hurst, it's pronounced Bathurst you pommy knob!
That's nice, but I don't really care at all.
The closest beach has sand on it?? bahahaha, fuck me, stupid is stupid, what the fuck do you think a beach is you Pommy Knob.
England does not have sand as we Australians know it, you Pommy Knob!
Leave the man alone. His commentary was spot on. Abit annoying though.
Patrick Jenner, No, its pronounced Bathhurst, not Baothhuirst you sweaty french tart.
The car is named after a race circuit, Bathurst Mount Panorama. Common pronunciation of the town in NSW is Ba-thurst with the short A. Not Baaa-thurst with a long A.
'Straya, mate!
As an Aussie who has been to Bathurst for 20 years when I saw this Episode back in the Day I remember screaming at the Tele saying it's not "BATHURST" (As in I'm taking a BATH) Hamster it's "BATHURST" (As in BAThurst). Gah I still can't stand it (LOL)!
Well, to tell you. It's a Centrifugal Supercharger, probably one of the best sounding turbo chargers out there. ;)
And the Top Gear guys never met the 427 version of these . 7.0 litres . mwahahahahahaha . 427 Monaro made McLarens and Ferraris look SLOW .
Have not drove it yet need to save $70000
The way you say Bathurst kills my life
sadly General Motors closed Holden down and sold off Opel and Vauxhall to another Auto maker
Imagine if an Auto manufacturer called H.O.V had evolved making hot 4cylinder hatches and V 8 super cars ....we can only dream
hes saying Bathurst wrong and its triggering me
All the aussies watching this feel a certain amount of cringe the way Hammond is pronouncing "Bathurst"
If you can get Ur hands on a wilkonshaw do it. They are worth it.
Also that vxr8 has a cousin the Vauxhall Carlton (Lotus Carlton
How come both the VXR8 Bathurst and Maloo are limited to 155mph? Even the 316bhp FK8 Civic Type R has a higher top speed than both of them!
Something to do with European emmissions laws I would imagine. They aren't limited when they are built to stay in Australia. Only the ones we export get the limiter
200 without it.??
Promise to make sure you are really looking forward for your analysis
When the car world used to be about fun, not accounting.
d tuned english version of a real road god check out tekno performance version its nuts
Ohh that walkinshaw sounds soo good
Where’s the bit where he does the Ute afterwards? Oh never mind, I’ll just watch it on my DVR 😎 🤪
and anyone saying its a Holden not a Vauxhall, there both from GM lol its just rebranding a car which is justifiably both companies
your pic is a bathurst
so it is Bathurst S but still a Vauxhall none the less
They are built in South Australia at the Holden Elizabeth plant, i know i worked there for 12 months or so building an average 300 commodores a day. It's just a VE Holden Commodore rebadged and exported to the UK and US, Holden is a sister company in Australia of General Motors. Do some research on Holdens and you will find they have been around for years and just look at the previous commodore models and you can see they havent changed all that much over 20 years... In Australia we have our own local built Ford Falcons too
*****
Yes i know that ;)
nope the Holden Commadore is coming back in 2017 for the GTS and GTS-R W1 i believe its called look it up there is a concept going