Vauxhall VXR8: The last all-Aussie VXR8 is the most powerful yet. But is it the best?

摘要

So here it is: the UK's cheapest ticket into the exclusive 500bhp-plus club; the most powerful car you can buy for less than ￡60k. The new VXR8 GTS qualifies just as well for either pitch, and by paragraph three of last year's press release, Vauxhall had gorged itself on both. Who can blame it? Previous generations of the brand's low-volume rebadged HSV models have prepped us well for such extravagance, but '577bhp for ￡54,499' is such an unlikely collision of excess and affordability that it's worth coming at it from all angles.