Top Gear's Richard Hammond throws the Maloo around.

TWO OF AUSTRALIA’S greatest performance offerings, exported to the UK for sale as the Vauxhall VXR8 and the Vauxhall Maloo, were the stars of this week’s Top Gear UK.

The VXR8 - sold locally as the popular HSV Clubsport R8 - is the special Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst Edition. This [...]

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THE IDEA of a performance wagon is not a new one. The practice of combining performance and family practicality has been a concept that European manufacturers have turned into an art form.

Take the BMW 335i Estate that we recently tested. It was hard to fault: close to perfect, even. But then, for $112,000, it would [...]

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Auto shifter into sport mode, ease off the brake, right Blundstone to the floor and… WOOOOOF!

Yes, HSV’s fourth-gen LS3 has the grunt to turn even the most stubborn of non-believers into cubic inch converts. It’s one hell of a mill.

And if you get a chance to stretch it out behind the wheel of the Clubsport [...]

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