If you can stomach an older car i'd suggest going for the HSV brand rather than the Vauxhall.

We had one - the very one that Clarkson tried out in one of his videos actually - and from memory HSV did the GTS which was a 5.7 300bhp jobbie and the GTSR which was the supercharged version. The other half had an obsession with Bathurst and the whole Holden vs Ford racing thing they have in Aus.

It IS a lovely car - everywhere we went in our GTS we got serious looks. It's large, loud and brash. Without a doubt, the most comfortable car i've ever driven, we went to Brugges and Cologne a few times in it and arrived fresh as a daisy. Great big leather seats It does drink petrol in a semi serious fashion if you've got a heavy right foot but it sounds lovely! The general dash and buttons were a bit cheap and nasty and there's a fair bit of hard plastic but we decided we could live with that.

They were

 

With other brands making a 2nd division (Toyota-Lexus, Honda-Acura, Nissan-Infinity) why couldn't Vaux bring out another badge.

2 good Vaux, the Monaro and the VX220. Neither of which are really Vaux.

 

They simply buy other brands-that's their business model I suppose.

 

Vauxhall Monaro?

Evo took one on the autobahn and only manage 165 ish, I doubt it's got anything like the claimed BHP or most of it's lost through a crap gearbox.

Over grown Vectra

M5 any day