HSV W427 heading to the UK
10 Apr, 2008
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For those of you disappointed with the Vauxhall VXR8’s performance against the Euro super-saloons in the video posted yesterday, AutoExpress reports that the 7.0-litre W427 which made its debut at the Melbourne Motor Show is heading over to the UK to settle the score.
Reports suggest it will be based on the W427, which means it is very possible it could sport an all-new look when it arrives in the UK in September.
Engineered by Tom Walkinshaw Racing, it is expected to retain the W427 namesake and will carry a price tag of around AUD$117,000 or £55,000 in the local money.
A bespoke suspension setup is also anticipated to suit UK roads, which may include the Magnetic Ride Control system featured on the HSV Clubsport GTS which is currently unavailable in the UK with the VXR8.
With the LS7 V8 engine churning out 370kW and 640Nm, 0-100km/h performance is expected to drop to just 4.5 seconds.
With these figures, the W427 is well and truly a competitor for the Audi RS6, BMW M5 and Mercedes C63 AMG - although this time the price tag does match.
Source: AutoExpress
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April 10th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
*****************PRIMO***********************
(i beat Frugal One)
Faster than heaps of european competitors! Go HSV!
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April 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
HSV plains to build 80-90 a year! (Hand-built). They want four each week!
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April 10th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
HSV dont have enough demand in australia to cover the costs so they ship it over to europe in the hope itll stand a chance against their better engineered cars.
For the same amount of cash, wouldnt you prefer something a bit classier??
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April 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Interesting.
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April 10th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Didn’t someone say, if you can’t beat them just add more cubes. I hope it does well, but I think it will be a collectors car not a drivers car. We might get some in Australia as well, but again I can’t see it competing with the new FPV F6. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the new FPV F6 in England. I’m sure FPV, which is a pommy company is aware of the type of quarter mile times needed to impress in England and the sort of money people will spend to buy a rocket from overseas.
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April 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
OMG…7L engine with 370kW?
Why don’t HSV build a 4L V8 with twin turbo? I recon it would perform same/better and cost the same as the current 7L, but with less fuel consumption.
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April 10th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Don’t tell me the poms get this car cheaper than we do,not again
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April 10th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
0-100km/h performance is expected to drop to just 4.5 seconds.hmmm the fg xr6 turbo is 5.1sec its not really that fast for the price
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April 10th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Ivan: I doubt that, why? because your suggestion is the way of the future, small capacity engines (although 4 litres is not really small) with twin turbos.
Phill: I h ope your wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
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April 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Matthew: remember that’s an FG XR6 not the new FPV F6. I believe the FPV will do sub 5’s to 100kph.
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April 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Ivan: No matter how many cylinders or litres you’ve got, you make power, you drink fuel. Ask anybody that has ever owned a high-powered four!
A turbo pushes more air into the combustion chamber, so then more fuel is needed. It’s just a way of ‘virtually’ increasing an engines displacement. Don’t believe me? Check the fuel consumption figures of an XR6T Vs. XR8 and SS.
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April 10th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Matthew,
Keep in mind the W427 also costs 3 times the price of an FG XR6…
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April 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
lol pommies would love this all they get are shitty hatchbacks.
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April 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I am in the middle of buying a C63 or Lexus IS-F
Not even interested in the holden as it might be fast its 10years behind in engineering these cars have, and quality.
When you fork out $150000 you want pride and quality not a commodore for a $130000.
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
In the actual article from auto express it says the car will have 570 BHP which is 427KW maybe they think the 427 stands KW’S rather than cubic inches.The price is $55,000 pounds which is $116,000 thousand australian. Expect the car to cost 120-130 thousand here. It would expect HSV as they havent realeased the actual figures of ther W427, but i would expect 377 or 387 or 397 or posiibly 400 like CSv in the wheels magazine.
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April 10th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
In the actual article from auto express it says the car will have 570 BHP which is 427KW maybe they think the 427 stands KW’S rather than cubic inches.The price is $55,000 pounds which is $116,000 thousand australian. Expect the car to cost 120-130 thousand here. It would expect HSV as they havent realeased the actual figures of ther W427, but i would expect 377 or 387 or 397 or posiibly 400 like CSV GTS in the wheels magazine.
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April 10th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Matthew,
the XR6T isnt fast for its price? WTF
this W427 costs 3 times the price. and then there is the bigger brother F6 to come that is still half the price.
and how accurate are holdens claimed figures?
has anyone been able to replicate holdens GTS’s time of 4.9 secs?
take your “holdens claimed time” and add .3 or .4 sec and then it may be accurate.
for the time being the XR6T has been named “the fastest australian performance car”
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April 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Great car. No matter what you say theres no subsitute for cubic inches. If you can afford the $117,000 for the car, then you can afford the fuel bill that comes with it. I must say it just seems wrong to be putting Vauxhall badges on these HSVs, I dont know why, maybe its because when I hear the word Vauxhall the words gutless pommy slush box come to my head, something that HSVs certainly are not.
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
i dunno its using a 7lt engine wish is 427ci….. “im looking at a lincion with a 460…..”
england-ers are really going to just love a 7lt engine with there ..$3 a litre fuel cost
they already get fantastic euro “hell and even US” perforance cars real cheap… this “vauxhaul” is gona have a real tough time , remember to that vauxhaul are laughed at mostly in the UK.. especially! its “performance” devision
bmw m3…..
cookie
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
damm spelling “lincoln”
and its right about ther performance engine eats petrol no matter what. but its about getting the most of your power out, and usable… that the europeans are dominating in… the HSV has a tractor for a gearbox. its gona soak up power madly
cookie…again
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April 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
HSV have been able to get away with Bang For Your Buck claims in the past which as been true but when you ask for $150 000 odd dollars then the W427 must be crafted and across all facets of engineering that rival the prestiage characteristics of the performance cars from Audi, BMW, Merc and Lexus.
If HSV wants to elevate the W427 into the same price bracket then the car will be directly judged accordingly without the ability of claiming Bank For Your Buck when it dramatically falls short as i expect it to do.
Personally - i believe HSV are a bunch of fools and will come unstuck in a very embarrassing manner with the huge asking price for what is essentially nothing more then a dated tech 7.0l HSV.
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
in all honest $130000 is a waste of money cause a xr6t is wat $45000new then u take it to nizpro n for $30000 u got 600kw plus n oh look it only cost $75000 n i can buy another xr6t and still have $5000 left over so i personally dont see the greatness of this new W427
oh n did any one n o that the first xr6t produced had 300kw but ford decided to dumb it down because they knew if they had of brought it out at 300kw the boss 260 n 290 would be dead
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April 10th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Maybe buy the 427 and wait 10yrs or so and you can sell it for 1million dollars plus as a collector lol, doubt u can do it with a XR6T.
As said before theres nothing like displacement in muscle cars, adding a turbo kinda defeats the N/A V8 raw power.
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April 10th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
N/A cars dont need to be HUGE for power… case in point… V8 F1 engines… jsut getting reving silly high!!… like.. maybe twice as much as usual. and then some for good measure
this car is out of its leauge for that price. if they went wit hthe LS9 option it owuld hav been more power. less cost
but well
who knows
cookie
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April 11th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Holden must try to get this car into UK with Holden Badge, not with vauxhaull(i dont know how they spell it) i mean not many monaro owners know in UK that they are driving Holden with corvette engine. they thought its just another vauxhaul.
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April 11th, 2008 at 6:04 am
um no.. people in the UK arnt that stupid. they know its a holden. they badge it vauxhaul for money reasons. it would be to expensive and confusing having ANOTHER gm brand in the UK…its the same in australia. should our astra be an opel.
in that regaurd the UAE should sell their commos as holdens and not chevys
its all marketing and money
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April 11th, 2008 at 8:41 am
It doesn’t mater how much kilowatts you have, what counts is how many newton meters you have at low revs. The 427 has most of their Nm at about 3000-3500rpm. This is why most of the stock HSV cars bog down and wheel spin when they take of. The Ford FPV F6, to come, has ALL of its Nm at 2000-2500rpm. At least 1000rpm before the 427 HSV. So it doesn’t mater what the figures say and how big the numbers are unless you can control the power at the right revs all you have is a wheel spinning petrol gussling HSV. Great on a track, useless on the roads of England. Like I said prevously, this car will be for the collectors.
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April 11th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Whe it gets to the UK they will bolt a Supercharger to it they did with the Monaro and VXR8 before it. And Vauxhall will have the foresight to endorse it.
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April 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
mistertwo: Toshay
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April 12th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
To gibbo - you put HSV on our VXR Astra. Whats the difference? I don’t know who would buy this car over something slightly smaller but with status, prestige, better build quality and much much more.
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April 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Being from Scotland and my dad hearing news of this new on e with bigger engine, is putting is buying of VXR8 on hold! He’s a bit confused now but I reckon he is better buying the VXR8 and put on that supercharger conversion.
Britian I feel is mainly a 4×4 big car group so it will have to struggle with Range Rover (Good) Porshes chaynne (crap, especially in winter, my 1.2l corsa does better).
I do however have a soft spot for big V8! Thank you Australia for taking American engines and making cars that actually go round corners, compared to what America can do!
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April 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Baloo, GM said they will make an option on the Vauxhall VXR8 (ClubSport R8 here) and offer a supercharger kit. It will take power up to 397kW from 307kW. That will make 0-100km time is 4.9 secs! Your lucky because i dont think Australia will get it.
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April 14th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I wonder if they will use a supercharged VXR8 when they make Mad Max X. Of course it will be running on bull tish.
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April 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Tony M, a VXR8 for Mad Max?
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April 27th, 2008 at 5:21 am
People you are forgetting something important.
When you spend big dollars on a car, Last thing you give a shit about is fuel prices!.
If you did you would spend $17,000 on a Yaris.
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April 27th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Who cares HARRY get over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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June 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
They should supercharge this, would be awsome
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
“xr6t is wat $45000new then u take it to nizpro n for $30000 u got 600kw”
Yeah but thats not the point. Get a VX for $20k and put $40k under the hood and your looking at 700kw+, but thats not a stock car.
Take the W427, add a twin turbo and you’d be looking at 800kw+…
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