Aussies run their big V8 engines hard at Calder Park. While street-style drag racing has gotten huge in the United States, it’s become a bit slower to catch on elsewhere. Maybe most countries’ arcane motoring laws have something to do with that, since they tend to make it hard to build crazy street cars that […] More »

Modded LS1 GTO does long burnout for the Mustang Drivers out there. The Holden Monaro-turned-Pontiac GTO for the North American market seems like it was only on sale for a few weeks. These curvy Aussie muscle cars have become relatively rare on US streets with just shy of 41,000 units sold over 3 model years. […] More »

Look at how the modern Pontiac GTO was advertised in its home market. The odds are good that most of the people reading this are familiar with the car shown in the image above as the Pontiac GTO. However, this car was first introduced in Australia as the Holden Monaro. A few years before the LS1 […] More »

The Vauxhall Maloo VXR8 LSA Is An Extraordinarily Fast Truck In The Hands Of Tiff Needel When you hand a brand new Ute truck with nearly 600 supercharged horsepower, rear-wheel drive, and a manual transmission to a hot shoe racing driver/presenter like Tiff Needel, you can rest assured that it is going to get a […] More »

It’s a bittersweet day indeed for Holden, General Motor’s Australian division. The Holden brand is ending production in their native Australia this year. That means it is the end of the road for the beloved Holden Commodore, the rear-wheel drive super sedan that no one ever bought. The Commodore, and indeed it’s Zeta platform, where the […] More »

Today’s burnout video of choice features a Holden Commodore fitted with a monster blown LS1 going insane on the burnout pad. This LS1 burnot video comes to us from Australia, where they seem to approach burnout contests very differently than we do here in the USA. Where American burnout competitions generally have a car or truck […] More »

The American badass sedan, the Chevy SS, and the Australian Holden Commodore seem to have their days numbered.