If you are a purveyor of Aussie classic cars then the place to be come July 20 is Melbourne’s Flemington Racecourse where the fourth annual Shannon’s Classic Australian Car Show will be underway.

If you like a bit of muscle with your classic then you will most likely find the Muscle Car Coral the place to [...]

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When we saw Holden’s stunning Coupe 60 concept at the Melbourne Motor Show in February, the first thought that came to mind was ‘New Monaro’. As it turns out, Holden have not shown a lot of interest in confirming a possible return of the Monaro, preferring to take the line that the Coupe 60 was [...]

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If Holden do one thing well, it has to be upstaging the competition at Australian Motor Shows. Remember the Monaro…then the Monaro convertible and of course the stunning Efigy concept? Well, rumour has it that they are up to their old tricks again and will be taking the wraps of a new concept at this [...]

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At last weeks Detroit Auto Show, Bob Lutz put the kibosh on any chance of their being a Pontiac Sportwagon based on Holden’s upcoming VE Commodore Sportwagon, as wagons just aren’t fashionable in the States…but that’s not the only cat that the GM General let out of the bag.

Lutz, while having a chat with GoAuto [...]

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It seems number plate are more sought after then classic aussie muscle cars if the Australian International Motor Show auction presented by Shannons is anything to go by.

With over $AU2.64 million being spent on the tin plate metal number plates, which incidentally is double what was spent on the car auctions, numberplates stole the [...]

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It puts things in a weird kind of perspective when you leave the Lamborghini stand with its million dollar black Murcielago and you wander around to the Shannons Auction House display to see a 1970’s Falcon GTHO with an expected selling range of $650-800k…drum brakes and black vinyl interior included. Holden muscle from the same [...]

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As they did with the previous Monaro VXR, the folks at Vauxhall in the UK will be adding a supercharger option to the VXR8 menu next month. The supercharger kit is expected to increase the standard 6.0-litre LS2 Chev’s output from 307kW/412hp to a whopping 402kW/540hp.

We all know that the Vauxhall VXR8 is really our [...]

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Will the new VE Ute become the next Chevy El Camino? Apparently not, according to the chaps over at GM Inside News. They appear to have the ear of one Bob Lutz and the cigar chomping, jet flying boss of all things GM said that there will be no Chevrolet version of the VE Ute.

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GM Holden’s departing General Manager Denny Mooney recently made it known that Holden engineers are involved with the testing of the new 2008 Chevrolet Camaro. In fact he commented that one of the benefits of Holden being part of the global GM empire is that the local workforce will be ensured of greater stability.

In this [...]

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HSV’s latest E-series Clubsport R8 is being exported to the UK. Vauxhall, GM’s UK subsidiary is expected to take around 300 Clubsport R8’s a year. They will be re-badged and sold as the Vauxhall VXR8.

The VXR8 will replace the old VZ series Monaro which Vauxhall sold as the Monaro VXR. Obviously William in Vauxhall’s ‘Corporate [...]

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