The sun was shining, so my introduction to the beefy Aussie coupe with the Vauxhall badges was ideal. Careful VXR branding dictates that your Monaro will be either silver, red or black ...

Greens are building VXR 500s to order, the first three having gone to Vauxhall’s press fleet. At £35,995 – that’s £1000 less than the price of a standard Monaro VXR – the VXR 500 is ...

Of the 600 cars initially imported, Vauxhall had sold the lot within three months, all for less than thirty grand a piece. Cue Monaro 2, this time as a halo car for the recently created VXR ...