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Written by Vijay Pattni
Vauxhall has just announced its most powerful car in the company"s long, 114-year history. It is called the Vauxhall VXR8 GTS-R, and it"s a ripper.It"s a run-out special to mark the end of VXR8 production, and Vauxhall has decided quite correctly to send the ol" girl out in a blaze of tyre-smoking glory. It"s based on the Holden Commodore, which itself will cease production in Australia this October.The 6.2-litre supercharged V8 doing mighty service in the current VXR8 has been uprated from 568bhp to 587bhp, along with 546lb ft of torque. The gain comes from a remap of the ECU, and a high-flow air filter. Interestingly, it"s still not as powerful as Holden"s last-of-the-line Commodore GTS-R W1, which gets a 635bhp ZR1 engine for good measure.Drive is to the rear wheels, naturally, via a limited slip diff, and there"s also the GTS"s torque vectoring system on board too. Vauxhall has upgraded the brakes to a six-piston, monoblock caliper setup with whopping 410mm discs up front, hiding underneath 20in forged alloy rims measuring ten inches wide at the back, and nine inches wide up front. Trying to unstick those monsters we suspect, will be a lot of fun.
Date written: 2 Jun 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
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Vauxhall has just announced its most powerful car in the company"s long, 114-year history. It is called the Vauxhall VXR8 GTS-R, and it"s a ripper.It"s a run-out special to mark the end of VXR8 production, and Vauxhall has decided quite correctly to send the ol" girl out in a blaze of tyre-smoking glory. It"s based on the Holden Commodore, which itself will cease production in Australia this October.The 6.2-litre supercharged V8 doing mighty service in the current VXR8 has been uprated from 568bhp to 587bhp, along with 546lb ft of torque. The gain comes from a remap of the ECU, and a high-flow air filter. Interestingly, it"s still not as powerful as Holden"s last-of-the-line Commodore GTS-R W1, which gets a 635bhp ZR1 engine for good measure.Drive is to the rear wheels, naturally, via a limited slip diff, and there"s also the GTS"s torque vectoring system on board too. Vauxhall has upgraded the brakes to a six-piston, monoblock caliper setup with whopping 410mm discs up front, hiding underneath 20in forged alloy rims measuring ten inches wide at the back, and nine inches wide up front. Trying to unstick those monsters we suspect, will be a lot of fun.
Date written: 2 Jun 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8010
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