Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Holden Monaro is an automobile that was produced by GM Holden Ltd, an Australian subsidiary of General Motors, between 1968 and 1977 and between 2001 and 2005. Since 1968, three generations of the Monaro have been produced. Named after the Monaro region in New South Wales (although pronounced differently), the Monaro was introduced in July 1968 as a two-door pillarless hardtop coupe available in three models: the basic Monaro coupe, Monaro ''GTS'' coupe and Monaro ''GTS 327'' coupe. The GTS versions had "full instrumentation" which included a tachometer mounted on the centre console. This proved to be a bad location as the drivers knee would obstruct the view and it often rattled (Spotlight on Holden Monaro Page 6-7). The cars could be ordered with a choice of six cylinder engines of 161 cubic inches (2,638.3 cm3) capacity (base only) or two versionsof 186 cubic inches (3,048.0 cm3) capacity (GTS with the uprated 186S only), or a 307 cubic inches (5,030.8 cm3) capacity Chevrolet-sourced V8. The exclusive ''GTS 327'' model was powered by the 250 bhp (186 kW) Chevrolet 327 cubic inches (5,358.6 cm3) V8.