Holden Clubman and Streamliner MS8 are Designed to Thrill Australian Sports Car Fans
The retro school of thought is in full swing, and currently, there are no better examples than Holden's pair of MS8 sportsters.
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| Talk about a blast from the past, Holden's new MS8 sportsters are super retro. (Photo: Holden) |
In case you're not aware of Holden, it's the Australian General Motors division responsible for the new Pontiac GTO muscle car. But where the GTO is large, and resultantly heavy, the MS8 cars are as lightweight as possible.
Holden is about as un-GM as any car company could be, producing overwhelming performance cars to rival the best from Europe since the '60s. So it comes as no surprise that the automaker is about to produce what most car companies would only consider concepts.
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| Despite their looks, these cars aren't concepts, but actual massively powerful production sports cars. (Photo: Holden) |
The two massively powerful V8 sports cars are built in a partnership with Elfin, a firm synonymous with the race track. The idea of these cars is quite simple: to provide the thrill of open cockpit racing in a style that breaks with the conventional idea that a racing car has to look modern.
These Holden factory-created machines are the ultimate alternative to Caterham, Westfield and Ariel, boutique carmakers that make turn-key versions of the Lotus Super 7.
Of the two models the first MS8 is the Clubman, similar in concept to that famous Lotus 7. The second is the Streamliner, which has the look of an old world Le Mans prototype racer.