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Vauxhall is doing its best to shake off its "boring" image - with an uprated 404 bhp Monaro VX-R.
The new car will go on sale in March, fitted with a 6.0 litre V8 from the Chevrolet Corvette. Performance will be predictably awesome: 180 mph top speed and 0-62 mph in under five seconds. The price is expected to be under £40,000, which will make it untouchable in terms of mph per pound. However, the Australian-built Monaro (actually a distant cousin of the old Vauxhall Omega) is not exactly a cut-price BMW M5 - it "thinks Australian" in the words of the advert. It is about powerful, no-nonsense muscle; sophistication it leaves to the Europeans.
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