Hi from the UK :)

[VECVXRUK]

Hi, I'm Chris,

I'm 26 and from Yorkshire, England, and i work at a Suzuki (Car) Dealer over here.

I'm quite interested in what you guys over there do with your cars in terms of modifying etc.

I have a 2006 Vauxhall Vectra VXR 2.8T in Arden Blue, which i presume is an Opel Vectra OPC over there?

Mine is the (classed as) 255bhp model, over here in the UK they made 1001, but only later models had the 280bhp
engines, would be good to know if they did the lower bhp models over there?

There are a few pics of mine here:
http://www.vvoc.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430502

Hopefully can learn a bit about the Australian Opel, Vauxhall, Holden car scene

Regards

Chris

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[guy 27]

Welcome to oa

[sooty]

Welcome, we never got the vectra VXR here, just the Astra VXR. So we never had the 2.8t unfortunately, our quickest vectra C was the 3.2L v6

[Nurb608]

Welcome to the site mate. As said, only ever got the 3.2 and 2.2 prefacelift unfortunately

[VECVXRUK]

thanks for the welcome

so what vxr models did you get over there? here we have:

Corsa VXR (1.6t -180bhp)(current model)
Astra VXR (2.0t - 240bhp)
Astra GTC VXR (2.0t - 280bhp) (current model)
Monaro VXR (5.7 - 349bhp & 6.0 - 397bhp)
Meriva VXR (1.6t - 180bhp)
Zafira VXR (2.0t - 236bhp)
Vectra VXR (2.8t - 255bhp & 280bhp)
VXR220 (2.0t - 200bhp)
VXR8 (6.0 - 411bhp & 6.2 - 431bhp) (current model)
Insignia VXR (2.8t - 321bhp) (current model)

They do Nurburg, Artic and Blue Editions in the Corsa and Astra and they do a
Bathurst S Edition of the VXR8 aswel i think.

tbh i'd love one of the V8 models, but running costs are bad enough with the V6 lol,
what sort of mods are popular with your cars ?

Chris

[Shortstuff]

Hi! Welcome to the site.

We only got the Astra VXR here, badged as a HSV VXR. The VXR8 is the HSV Clubsport R8 out here (but no factory supercharged model), and we got heaps of Monaros, just never a 6 litre version like the Monaro VXR in the UK.

I think everyone is hoping we get the new Astra and Insignia OPCs!

[poita]

Welcome to the forum mate.

The only OPC/XVR we have gotten so far is the Astra H VXR/VXR/Nurburg and the Astra J OPC (lands here March/April)

[ChrisMaz]

Welcome along!

Would love an VXR Vectra.... Good choice of colour

Only Vectra's we got were the GSi/SRi 3.2 V6 (CDXi/CDX) and SXi 2.2 4 pot petrol (CD)

[VECVXRUK]

fingers crossed for the astra and insignias for you guys!

is HSV Holden? what is the difference (if any) of the Opel and Holden models?

[faneca]

HSV is basically the same for Holden as VXR or OPC is for Vauxhall and Opel.

Welcome aboard btw!
And between models like the Opel astra and Holden astra, exact same cars just Holden had the rebadged to sell as holdens rather than opels. Like the monaro and vxr8 were rebadged as vauxhalls to sell in the UK.