Vauxhall VXR8 | High Mile Club

First things first: by the standards of High Mile Club, this Vauxhall VXR8 isn’t anything special. Just 103,000 miles ought to be nothing for a car with a relatively unstressed 6.0-litre Chevy small block motoring it along. Secondly, this is PH, and what this community doesn’t know about Monaros and VXR8s isn’t worth knowing. So there may well be a lot written here you already know…

Still, if there’s an iconic V8 performance car worth revisiting, the VXR8 is it. The four-door saloon replaced the two-door Monaro in 2007, albeit with much the same recipe as before: honking great V8 up front, standard manual gearbox, a nicely balanced rear drive chassis and an alluringly cheap RRP. Nothing feels quite as 2007, quite so pre-meltdown-that-never-really-went-away, as the £35k V8 Vauxhall supersaloon.

The VXR8 proved popular with UK buyers, just as the Monaro did, and evolved to keep their interest. Normally that would be evolved to stay competitive, but it was hard to know what the VXR8 rivalled, costing little more than 335i money for something 5 Series sized. With a 6.0-litre V8. That initial LS2-engined model was replaced by a more powerful, 6.2-litre LS3 in 2008, after which came the mighty Bathurst supercharged model.

As has been discussed at length already, the future for relatively humble and gloriously over-engined performance cars looks uncertain. For the moment, however,much for such a hunk of lovable V8 thunder saloon. Once upon a time the VXR8 was being compared to the E39 BMW M5, such was its combination of talents and similarity in feel; £16k doesn’t get and awful lot of old M5 nowadays.

And while the big Vaux is unlikely to ever have the reputation of an M car legend, it’s always going to be loved by a dedicated bunch of enthusiasts. If you aren’t one already, this might just be the time to do the convincing…

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