3.12.2004
Monaro wins prestigious "Jeremy" award

The Vauxhall Monaro has won the prestigious "Jeremy" award in the category of "Best Muscle Car". The "Jeremy" awards are named after Britain's best-known motoring critic, Jeremy Clarkson, and are handed out to U.K. motoring magazine Top Gear Magazine's favorite cars of the year.

Clarkson said he'd fallen in love with the car and had been "bowled over" by the big V8's character and 382bhp performance. The January issue of the magazine goes on to say "full throttle brings movie-style noise, a kind of unreal 'braaap' that sounds like all the best cars from when you were seven. And it brings the kind of speed that most cars this size have oily dreams about."

Clarkson isn't the car's only fan, though: All of the 5.7-litre coupés sold out within just three months of going on sale in the U.K. earlier this year.