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10-15-2009, 07:56 PM
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Vauxhall VXR8 Review by Fifth Gear
In case peeps didn't see this in the Regal thread...
Fifth Gear recently put up a video review of the Vauxhall Insignia VXR. They compared it to the BMW 335 and Audi S4. The car review starts at a little past the 8 min mark. http://fwd.five.tv/fifth-gear/videos...-vxr-ken-block Last edited by Ghrankenstein : 10-15-2009 at 09:42 PM. Reason: link didn't work right |
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10-15-2009, 10:40 PM
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Re: Vauxhall VXR Review by Fifth Gear
Vicki does a great job as always, it seems as though she was not that impressed with the Insignia. She seemed to love the VXR8 – wonder why ;-)
Even better was the comparison she did with the VXR8 to the old Lotus Carlton:
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10-15-2009, 10:44 PM
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Re: Vauxhall VXR Review by Fifth Gear
^^^ That was a great video.
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10-15-2009, 11:07 PM
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Re: Vauxhall VXR Review by Fifth Gear
A modern GM 4-door 'saloon' taking on an older (then owned by GM) Lotus 4-door 'saloon'... marvelous... simply marvelous! Too bad Lotus didn't put the ZR1 motor that they had a hand in engineering in the 90's...
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10-16-2009, 12:07 AM
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Re: Vauxhall VXR8 Review by Fifth Gear
I watched the Insigna VXR one...pretty good, but my goodness GM Europe needs to show GM North America what real sports seats look like.
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10-16-2009, 09:03 AM
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Re: Vauxhall VXR8 Review by Fifth Gear
The Vauxhall Carlton, sadly would beat almost everything in GM's US lineup and probably give the Camaro a run for the money. Pretty sad.
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10-16-2009, 07:32 PM
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10-22-2009, 05:32 PM
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Re: Vauxhall VXR8 Review by Fifth Gear
So they rebadge it as a vauxhall and they did take the effort to make it LHD as a Pontiac, but they don't do the favour for Opel... too bad.
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10-22-2009, 06:05 PM
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10-22-2009, 06:10 PM
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10-23-2009, 04:41 AM
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