hmm ahh NOW the v8s are americanand made of a few american parts but the first ones were made and desingned in australia dude.
and i will say this as they are the most commen cars on the roads of oz, the tuning of them is very far advanced they are getting (some of them) around the 800hp mark on daily drivers.
there is a couple that are making over 1000kws of power at the wheels have a look at this site he is the premier tuner for wa commodores
http://www.marksworkshop.com.au/
obviosly as they are so commen and we have a vehicle specific race for them.
ozzy is at the forefront of tuneing for these cars (and yes we do use some american parts) but there is more and more stuff being made here in oz, like the G8 which was built and desined here in australia as the VE commodore which won awards for best car in some catogroys.
but this is a well known fact that those dumb ozzys are at the forefront of this vehicles tunning capabilitys.
that is why GM america bought the rights to relaese the GTO and the G8 in the states ozzies arent just beer guzzling, shrimp on a barbie, sheila rooting idiots it seems!.
no they are in fact a bunch of mondern day muscle car heros of which the rest of the world is envious of whatch top gear or any vehicle reveiw of the commodres and you will see them against much high value cars just thumping them in every way.
by no means are these cars subltle nor are they that sexy but they are brutal and they are fast and they are big burnout making machines the fact that im pointing out is that while the V8s now come from the staes aswell as oz the first big v8 version of the car is an all ozzy desined Holden engine not a gm america engine