If you baulk at the asking price of the Vauxhall-badged version you see here, the Maloo VXR8 LSA, perhaps remembering its significance as one of the last of a line will go some way towards ...

It might make no sense, but we hope Vauxhall sells every one. The Vauxhall VXR8 Maloo is named after the Aboriginal word for ‘thunder’, and it certainly creates a storm on the high street.

Vauxhall has already used high-displacement American V8s to create some very unique factory hot rods – namely the 552bhp VXR8 Bathurst S saloon and two-seater Maloo pick-up ‘ute’.