Origins of new solstice motor
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Origins of new solstice motor
http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vx/vxr/ontheroad/astramore.do
Yet again, GM has kept this one out of the country, Vauxhall is over in Europe, however, the car looks sick, the interior is nice, has cross drilled and slotted brakes, oh yeah and a 6 speed..... sweet, prolly something we will never see on the ss/sc however it looks like a nice motor, nice numbers, i dont know what it is running for boost though, 8.8:1 compression, looks like a lot of room for play as far as how much boost you can run with, should be interesting to see what happens in the future.... id really like the 6 speed though, we would get great gas mileage
Yet again, GM has kept this one out of the country, Vauxhall is over in Europe, however, the car looks sick, the interior is nice, has cross drilled and slotted brakes, oh yeah and a 6 speed..... sweet, prolly something we will never see on the ss/sc however it looks like a nice motor, nice numbers, i dont know what it is running for boost though, 8.8:1 compression, looks like a lot of room for play as far as how much boost you can run with, should be interesting to see what happens in the future.... id really like the 6 speed though, we would get great gas mileage
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They are sick aren't they? My brother and I have been wanting to import a Vauxhall for years. We liked the older VX220 better than the VXR's though. It looked more like a baby Corvette. GM needs more styling like that here.
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the vx220 was the small coupe right? that thing was hot, open made one called the speedster, both na and turbo models, i believe the turbo model had around 270hp, damn thing wieghed next to nothing though....... gm needs to start bringing their foriegn designs over here, we did however get the GTO from Holden, i really like the new coupe 4 that HSV has comming out, LS2, 6 speed, and best part yet, its all wheel drive, i bet that locks up like a bitch off the line.... i guess we will have to wait and see
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