Worst rehash ever?

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Eighteeteewhy

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7,259 posts

167 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Vauxhall Viva



Theres nothing worth saying about this car.


marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Eighteeteewhy said:
Vauxhall Viva



Theres nothing worth saying about this car.
Not a Vauxhall fan at all, but whats the difference between this and any other small car like these?







All crushingly dull.

moustache

292 posts

110 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Bland bland boring boring.

I hate Vauxhalls especially and see no reason anyone would buy one. That new Viva is a car for elderly people who have given up on life.

texaxile

3,289 posts

149 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Some stuff just can't be unseen. horrid.

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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This thread is now about 60's and 70's Vauxhalls.








moustache

292 posts

110 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Good work sir, some lovely metal there. Suppose I really ought to have said why would anyone buy a modern Vauxhall.


marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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No one has answered my question yet. It just looks like any other boring, crap tedious, car. Pretty much like the other three pictured underneath it. Yes I now admit it's a bit smaller that those cars but so what they all look generically dull.

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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moustache said:
Good work sir, some lovely metal there. Suppose I really ought to have said why would anyone buy a modern Vauxhall.
I'm sure plenty of people have bad memories about some of these cars too, however I love the idea of one.

My Dad had a Ventora 3.3 FD and I love the idea of it. I'm trying to convince him to get a Chevette saloon and either find a 2.3 slant 4 or put a redtop in it. Either that or a Viva HB and do the same haha.

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

136 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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alspeed

297 posts

205 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Don't see the issue ....the original standard Viva's were bland, underpowered and unloved by anyone under 50, so nothing's really changed wink

daytona365

1,773 posts

163 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Isn't it funny how bland underpowered rust buckets suddenly become precious 'icons' worth thousands with the passing of 30/40 years ? Witness those escorts, only the ones tuned to within an inch of their lives for rallying deserve any real collector status. Imo.

marmitemania

1,566 posts

141 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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I had a Chevette as my first car and I remember it as a great little car. My Gramp also had a VX/490 FE and that was a beast. The last generation Senators were also very nice cars.

ED209

5,740 posts

243 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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reminds me of the hyundai i20 which is also shown in this thread.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Blayney said:
the Vauxhall Shove-it?

need some very rosy specs to look back fondly at that

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Hugo a Gogo said:
Blayney said:
the Vauxhall Shove-it?

need some very rosy specs to look back fondly at that
This is my point. To you it is a POS. To me it is a time machine to an era that I only see the good things from. There is a Chevette Saloon in hearing aid beige going around Swansea that sounds fantastic and looks great (to me) and I just like the idea of having something like that.

V88Dicky

7,302 posts

182 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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moustache said:
Good work sir, some lovely metal there. Suppose I really ought to have said why would anyone buy a modern Vauxhall.
Because 570bhp wink


Timfy

318 posts

118 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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Just a rebadged new/next generation Chevrolet Spark.

Another effort to rebadge the ste end of the GM range to try and make it seem desirable. Like when everybody laughed at Daewoos so they dropped the badge and stuck the (then) slightly better sounding Chevrolet name on them. Now Chevrolets have a reputation for being a bit ste so they're ditching the brand and expanding the slightly better sounding Vauxhall name on the really cheap stuff.

I wonder how bad a car has to be before it's bad enough to be "improved" by turning into a Vauxhall...

Edited by Timfy on Monday 6th July 21:52

alspeed

297 posts

205 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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moustache said:
Good work sir, some lovely metal there. Suppose I really ought to have said why would anyone buy a modern Vauxhall.
I can guarantee it won't have been' lovely metal' for long......biggrin

RedWhiteMonkey

6,806 posts

181 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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V88Dicky said:
Because 570bhp wink
That didn't really start life as a Vauxhall though, did it?

xRIEx

8,180 posts

147 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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kapiteinlangzaam said:
V88Dicky said:
moustache said:
Good work sir, some lovely metal there. Suppose I really ought to have said why would anyone buy a modern Vauxhall.
Because 570bhp wink
Not a Vauxhall.

If I take a Merc badge and pin it on a Lada, it doesnt make it a Merc....
Does Daimler AG own Lada? News to me.