The Vauxhall Heritage Collection’s Firenza Droopsnoot was taken down to the bare metal and completely rebuilt in 1983, when it was only eight years old. A second rebuild took place when it ...

Hill and Hazlewood loved brawny American V8 engines, ... while fighting with Gerry Marshall’s Dealer Team Vauxhall Firenza. Hill added massively to his win tally, meanwhile, ...

Vauxhall might also have sold a few more examples of this, the Firenza HP, or Droopsnoot as it is affectionately known. As it happened, however, the oil crisis did intervene and Vauxhall shifted ...

VAUXHALL will launch a four-seater, rear-wheel drive muscle car next year with a 328bhp 5.7-litre V8 engine that can reach 60mph in just over six seconds and hit a top speed of 160mph.

With both the Pontiac G8 GXP and Holden Commodore HSV range already being offered with GM’s new LS3 V8 engine, it was only a matter of time until their European cousin, the Vauxhall VXR8, got ...

Australia will be saying farewell to Holden this year, spelling the death of locally developed rear-drive performance cars Down Under – and in the UK. The Vauxhall VXR8 GTS-R will be the last ...

Vauxhall now reserved the Firenza name for the 2.3-litre High Performance “Droopsnoot” model, which remained in production until 1975. In August 1971 the cheaper Firenzas had a 1,256cc rather ...

Vauxhall has created the fastest pickup in all the UK with the Maloo LSA getting a VXR8 GTS-based supercharged V8 engine under the hood. That supercharged V8 is a 6.2L engine making 536PS, which ...