14 Facts About Holden Monaro

Holden Monaro is a rear-wheel drive coupe manufactured by General Motors Holden in Australia from 1968 to 1975 and later reintroduced from 2001 to 2005.

Three generations of the Monaro coupe have been produced, the first covering the HK, HT, and HG series from 1968 to 1971, the second covering the HQ and HJ series from 1971 to 1975, and the third covering the V2 and VZ series from 2001 to 2005.

Third generation Holden Monaro coupe was manufactured not only for domestic Australian consumption but for export as variously a Chevrolet Lumina, Vauxhall Holden Monaro, or Pontiac GTO badged vehicle.

In early 1969, the HK Holden Monaro range was awarded Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 1968.

HT Holden Monaro can be distinguished from the HK by the adoption of plastic grilles, two section taillights separated by a blacked out panel, a round speedometer instead of "strip" style allowing for bringing the tachometer into the main instrument cluster instead of on the floor console, rubber front suspension bushes instead of the HK's sintered bronze, and larger taillights where the turn indicators wrapped around the now slightly undercut edges.

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Holden Monaro had a limited number of HJ coupe panel sets in 1975 and a decision was made to do something special with them.

However, in July 2005, Holden announced that production of the current generation VZ Monaro CV8 would soon be coming to an end and this led to the run of a special edition model called the CV8-Z, of which 1,605 units were ultimately made.

Holden Monaro CV8-Z was produced to farewell the legendary Monaro name, much like what had been done with the LE coupe back in 1976.

Holden Monaro described the modern Monaro program as "pure emotion" and that his Monaro will be kept next to his 1976 Chevrolet Corvette.

Holden Monaro was used as a basis for various concept cars and was used by several different brands, HSV in Australia, Chevrolet in the Middle East, Pontiac in America and Vauxhall Motors in the United Kingdom.

Complaints from American consumers about the Pontiac GTO's bland design led to the addition of twin hood scoops in 2005 with the VZ series Holden Monaro to recall the later muscle-car variants of the late 1960s' models; the hood scoops vent in cool air to the engine bay but do not directly feed the engine.

Holden Monaro was sold in the United Kingdom as the Vauxhall Holden Monaro where it won Top Gear magazine's best muscle car award in 2004.

Holden Monaro four-seater convertible, codenamed Marilyn, was a fully operational one-off concept car, it was never intended to reach production.

Much to the displeasure of V8 Supercars event organisers, Garth Tander drove a lap of the Mt Panorama circuit in the rain, as part of Holden Monaro Motorsport's buying track time to promote the 'rival' 24 Hour race event.