Day 6 – 21/22 February 2017

Yes I skipped another day. Boo hoo.

So I have been busy studying for the past few days whilst the young Branckens are doing school. I quite enjoy it. Luckily with doing home-schooling for eight years of my schooling career, I learned to work in various places. Heck, now I even blog anywhere. I once blogged whilst walking when my mother was shopping in IKEA. (Think it was Little Aston + Big Heart = Lots of Fun)

It has been quite a few days since I said anything about cars, so here goes…

New Zealand has cool cars. In the five-odd days since we’ve been here, I have seen some really cool cars. On one day, I saw three different Nissan R33 GT-Rs and a relatively stock Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII. Along with that, all the Chevrolets in this country – and I imagine Australia as well – are Holdens. Plus, I bought a magazine called NZV8 that is like our Speed & Sound, but all the custom cars in it has V8s. In this NZV8, there is a brand new Holden Commodore HSV GTS-R. It has 435KW and 740NM from a Chevrolet 6.2L Supercharged LSA engine that you find in the Camaro ZL1. The example in the magazine is orange with matt-black accents and it looks positively menacing. There is also a more track-focused version called the Holden Commodore HSV GTS-R W1 that has various changes made to it in order for it to accommodate the LS9 engine from the Corvette ZR1. This one produces 470KW, but just like all American V8 motors, it can easily be upgraded.

The price for this is quite a bit high. The W1 version is NZ$190k (R1.8m) and the ‘normal’ GTS-R is NZ$130k (R1.25m). But both come with manual transmissions in cars as and more powerful as than many supercars. But unlike most supercars, you get to scare the s*** out of three people at once.