Originally posted by Bob Loblaw:
Originally posted by Kokopellian:
Originally posted by Bob Loblaw:
Gee, I wonder how the hi-po Monaros are doing down under. I bet those Aussies see the GTO and chuckle a little since they have had the thing for many years before (more HP too!)

I'd take the "GTO" and turn it into a Holden Monaro. They look better, too.



Monaro has more hp than 400?



305Kw= ~410HP

Have you seen their intake???



They have ever-so-slightly more power now, but they haven't been running around at 400+hp for "many years before". And the power loss is from the added environmental crap.

They didn't break 325hp until 2004 with the VZ Monaro CV-8 which had the same LS1 with the same output as the LS1 GTO that we got in the States the same year. The 400hp+ version didn't come out until 2005, at the same time that we got the 400hp LS2 GTO.

They can "sit and chuckle" if they want. Fact is, the Monaro wouldn't have even seen the LS2 for at least 3 more years if not for the GTO.

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