Vauxhall VXR8 Supercharged

�Posted: 12.41pm, 16 October 2007

So Vauxhall reckons the VXR8 isn’t fast enough?You got it in one. Vauxhall’s UK performance arm VXR (sister division to the Continentals’ OPC Opel brand) is becoming seemingly more power-crazed by the day. It’s all very out of keeping with the caring, sharing zeitgeist - think tarmac-rubbing spoilers, lairy exhausts and horsepower adulation.

VXR’s staple diet is the hot hatchback, and it already produces warmed-over Corsa, Meriva, Astra, Vectra and Zafira models. Now they’re being supplemented by a genuine cut-price alternative to super-saloons such as the BMW M5.

Yes, they’ve gone and bolted a whopping great supercharger to the VXR8.

Come back to CAR Online tomorrow for video of the VXR8 Supercharged in action

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