Holden has solved one of the Australian automotive industry’s long-standing mysteries by confirming the existence of a convertible Monaro coupe.
But the one-off vehicle, built by contractors TWR Engineering and Edscha in Europe two years ago, will never reach production.
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With an aggressive new body kit the TE50 certainly has striking looks. By stroking the Windsor V8 to a capacity of 5.6 litres the T-Series vehicles have become real performance cars that deliver power and torque figures to match their rivals. Matched with sharp handling and a good level of standard equipment, the TE50 is quite an impressive package.
By the close of 1980, Lotus were effectively building three different models of Esprit, with distinct chassis designs and body moulds – the Domestic (i.e. UK) S2.2, the Export S2.2, and the dry-sump Turbo Esprit. Introduced in April 1981, the Turbo Esprit and S3 (Series 3) Esprits marked a necessary consolidation: both new models had a common chassis, inheriting much of the configuration of the Essex cars, whilst body production was based on a single common set of moulds.
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The Esprit V8 used Lotus’ self developed type 918 3.5 L twin turbo engine, in front of the same Renault transmission as before. Derek Bell developed an uprated gearbox that overcomes a lot of the gearbox problems with a much thicker single piece input shaft Power was up to 355 bhp (265 kW), however the capability of the 918 engine was limited by the fragility of the Renault transmission. Zero to sixty miles per hour came in under 5 seconds. Some examples of the engine are noted however to suffer from a leaking cylinder liner problem.
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2005 Perth All Ford Day at Bassendean Oval
30 October 2005
Perth, Western Australia
Perth Auto Salon 2004 at the Burswood Dome Perth Western Australia
