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Title: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: Andy H on 02 July 2015, 22:13:11
Really?

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/cars/viva/overview.html (http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/cars/viva/overview.html)
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 July 2015, 22:17:42
Quote from: Andy H on 02 July 2015, 22:13:11
Really?

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/cars/viva/overview.html (http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vehicles/vauxhall-range/cars/viva/overview.html)
Rebadged Agila more like... ::)
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: Diamond Black Geezer on 03 July 2015, 10:15:32
It's the replacement for the Agila, intended to sit below both Adam and Corsa in the range, as a no-nonsense very ordinary, basically boring car to be bought by people with no imaginations, in a way. Alternatively, if you want reliability, space, economy, and easy driving etc, and put style, speed, sportiness and the like lower down on your list, then it's a perfectly good car.

I think their logic is that a large proportion of the customers are of the generation that remember/owned the original, so maybe an element of nostalgia?
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: 4x4 on 03 July 2015, 16:02:27
My first car was a 1300 viva hc,had lots of fun in it,and the new viva well
















Nothing like the old viva,seems like vx are getting desperate on new model name so reviving the old ones,look out for the new manta,cavalier,chevette and carlton lol  ;D
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: EMD on 03 July 2015, 16:54:03
Prefer the old viva and the plastic interior smell , modern micro cars today have no style at all  :(

Went on many a sea side trip in one like this  :)

(http://images.carpictures.cc/photo/m/00022449_Exfordy_Parked_Vauxhall_Viva_Vauxhall.jpg)
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 03 July 2015, 17:30:09
Did they drop a 2.3 litre lump in that body and call it a Magnum 357?... :)
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: the alarming man on 03 July 2015, 17:39:42
dunno but they did with the chevette ;D :y
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: Nick W on 03 July 2015, 17:42:55
Quote from: 4x4 on 03 July 2015, 16:02:27


Nothing like the old viva,seems like vx are getting desperate on new model name so reviving the old ones,look out for the new manta,cavalier,chevette and carlton lol  ;D

It's everything like the old Viva; a small,  cheap Vauxhall based on existing conventional mechanical bits.

It doesn'tlook like the old Viva because things have changed over the last fifty years !
Title: Re: Just like the old viva but completely different
Post by: wolseleywedge on 03 July 2015, 20:14:04
Had a look at one the other day, think it might do nicely for my better half at some point.  She likes tiny city cars with eco friendly engines, no tax, easy / cheap to fix and it seems to fit the bill.