![]() Back when the EH 179 introduced horsepower to Holden (er, that'd be 115 electrifying ponies), the US of A was on the cusp of muscle-car mania and the domestic performance cars of choice were massive, eight-cylinder, 'full-size' sedans and hardtops with equally large engine capacities. You can't accuse us of doing stuff by halves.įerchrissakes, we still seem to have a love affair with big, home-grown rear-drive sedans, albeit on a much smaller scale than we used to, and there's not a suburban street out there that doesn't rumble to the sound of a V8 at least once in a while, even if it's coming from a Land Rover Discovery.īut to truly understand the meaning of 'large', you need to look to that once-great city in the far north of America - Detroit, Michigan - and then add 25 percent. The oversized prawn, the big merino, Coffs Harbour's mammoth banana, the Great Sandy Desert, Mal Meninga, Barry Hall. Down here in Australia, we love our 'big' things.
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