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Old 23-12-2011, 06:02 PM   #21
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Default Re: Unique Cars Win a Torana GTR XU-1

Any true car nut should just be happy that at a stage in our motoring history, cars like this were built at all.
They mightn't have the best brakes, the best steering, be as powerful as some modern four cylinder cars (OK, a lot of new four cylinder cars...), are a bit rough around the edges, but what they have in spades is character.

New GT's, FPV's, and HSV's are all just a Falcon or Commodore with a few flash bits. They go hard, the handle magnificently and ride in comfort...but there's little that will make someone in thirty years look back wistfully at them and line up a shows to see one.
However, the Falcon, Monaro, Torana, and Charger special models from the early seventies were built with one thing in mind: getting special parts homologated for racing, and the road versions usually showed it by being worse to live with than a standard model of the same car...harsher handling, abysmal "economy", rougher ride...but that's what gives them thier charisma today. As I said, one ride in a hard-driven GTR-XU1 will have you thinking "is this thing even legal to be on the road...?", and it's this very thing that we love about them.

Let's hope thier next build up giveaway car is an E49 copy!!!
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