If you baulk at the asking price of the Vauxhall-badged version you see here, the Maloo VXR8 LSA, perhaps remembering ... piloting a supercharged V8 Aussie ute on British roads.

Not long after our Vauxhall arrived last May I took it to an open day at Walkinshaw Performance, British branch office of Holden Special Vehicles (the Aussie firm that builds the VXR8) and ...

By that standard, the VXR8 was a shocker: the vehicle is rated (on the European cycle) at 21 miles per gallon, but with Top Gear online editor Chris Mooney behind the wheel and Vauxhall's own ...