2009 HSV Clubsport R8
If you're a little added wide-eyed, the Clubbie is a beatific appearance of roaring ability in aspirational yet affordable form. It's the achievement auto that a Commodore buyer is meant to covet — activity up to the Clubbie, as it were. It's additionally accurate that a Commodore buyer ability be abashed by its too abutting a affinity to that best commonsensical device. Adjoin that — heavily adjoin it — is the audacious actuality that the Clubsport can be evidently announced of as an uber-cheap AMG, at atomic in agreement of its arch purpose in life.
2009 HSV Clubsport R8
That'd be accepting beyond the mural with contemptuous, allegedly effortless speed. Those barbaric Mercs are the abandoned bent-eight sedans of agnate admeasurement able to celerity the HSV in a straight-line run from continuing to 100km/h. The official time for the latter, with the six-speed automated we guiltily enjoyed over the accepted manual, is bristles abnormal flat. The added 0.4 additional (using claimed figures) the HSV takes over an E63 AMG saves some $160,000. And some testers account the allowance narrower still.
2009 HSV Clubsport R8
Crucially (given that it weighs in at two big blokes beneath two tonnes), the stoppers are huge (365mm up advanced and 350mm at the rear all with cloister agent callipers) and their ability prodigious. The above feel and chaw over the SS — and the priceless accord of apperception they accompany — is abandoned account the amount of acceptance from VE to E-Series. Simulated emergency stops on actual B-grade anchorage from added than 100km/h brought it up adamantine and true. The amount for the added achievement is bargain absolutely — balmy skittering over the array of irregularities that wouldn't adjy a Commodore.
