Vauxhall Cascada... any good?

[OJ80]

As seen on the Telegraph website this morning...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/car-manufactur...

Looks pretty good to my eyes, and surely it'll undercut BMW/Audi/Merc.



Edited because I don't know how to do a link... Thanks civicduty

Edited by OJ80 on Thursday 18th October 09:08

[LuS1fer]

Link no work.

[civicduty]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/car-manufactur...

[LuS1fer]

That does look good, in fairness. Wonder what it looks like with the roof up.

[KrazyIvan]

I must be looking at a different article to you guys, cos the pics I see look like some one cut the top of a fresh turd.

[civicduty]

LuS1fer said:

That does look good, in fairness. Wonder what it looks like with the roof up.

Click Left/Right on the picture in the article and see what you can find

[LuS1fer]

civicduty said:

Click Left/Right on the picture in the article and see what you can find

Ooh, all this modern tech eh.

Looks fantastic, if you ask me, and notwithstanding the masterfully insightful critique the poster above blessed us with .

It looks exactly like what BMW think they could have achieved with their fat and bloated 6 series but this is actually pretty and rather elegant - IMHO. Historically, the last Vauxhalls I liked were in the early 70s and 80s so this marks a watershed for Vauxhall and me.

Massively better than the rump-heavy folding steel roof monstrosities you see chuffing round.

[tyrrell]

Looks alright to me looks like a good effort

[PumpkinSteve]

Am I being stupid or is it really just a convertible Astra? Because it looks like one from the inside, and it looks like one from the outside

[Mighty Flex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6QDNC4jPs

[eldar]

Doesn't look particularly attractive or offensive, just characterless. And no price. I suspect starting at 21k

[Tahiti]

Looks OK to me. The hood up shots look pretty good.

[daftandyboy555]

Actually looks quite nice!

But seriously... 1.6 Turbo Petrol???

It's bound to be a heavy old ship?

[HustleRussell]

daftandyboy- where have you been for the last two years or so? Ford are putting 1.0Ts in Focusses you know!

[Skodaku]

LuS1fer said:

Ooh, all this modern tech eh.

Looks fantastic, if you ask me, and notwithstanding the masterfully insightful critique the poster above blessed us with .

It looks exactly like what BMW think they could have achieved with their fat and bloated 6 series but this is actually pretty and rather elegant - IMHO. Historically, the last Vauxhalls I liked were in the early 70s and 80s so this marks a watershed for Vauxhall and me.

Massively better than the rump-heavy folding steel roof monstrosities you see chuffing round.

The last Vauxhall I really liked, and owned, was from 1984. Cavalier SRi. 5-door hatch, two-tone paint; Red over Charcoal, lovely Recaro seats, big, (for then), low-profile tyres and a whopping 115bhp from it's non-turbo 1.8 engine. Quite some family car for it's day and took us all over Europe in comfort. Parked in a small Danish town one day and came back to the car to find half a dozen folks round the car - all wanting to know what it was and saying how much they liked it. Denmark, one of the countries where the English language is spoken with more clarity than here in the U.K.

[sam vr6]

It's a vauxhall, of course it isn't any good :L

[H100S]

Saw it in the flesh today and it is stunning.

[renorti]

who would really want an Astra cabrio?

[H100S]

renorti said:

who would really want an Astra cabrio?

It isn't a Astra.

[Robb F]

I like it