The History of Vauxhall: Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In part 2, Brendan Coogan continues to look into Vauxhall's history. He also drives the VX220.
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This video just shows how the British can spin facts in their favor.
The last complete vehicle devolped by Vauxhall was the original Viva.
Vauxhall has just been a marketing division selling rebadged Opel's or models from other GM divisions for decades.
I owned two 1965 Cresta’s. Great cars, that in Australia the GMH Holden couldn’t compete with. So they stopped selling them. This story has glossed over the 6 cylinder Velox’s and Cresta’s with hardly a mention. But they were the mainstay of a large family car for the fifties and sixties.
and the Victors
Grew up with a '58 or so Victor Estate, then a neighbour had a Velox. Came to Canada & friends Dad had a Cresta 4 door with the Bar Graph Speedo. Shame they didn't even get a mention as I would have thought they were an important part of Vauxhall history.
I had an old boyfriend who had the VX220. I loved driving that around. You just had to be careful when you came across speed humps lol. The power of the VX was instant and exciting verging almost on the erotic. It had such a unique feel to it. I’ve also driven the lotus Elise and I preferred the VX and the calibra
Bummer
the vx was always rated the better car over the lotus by reviewers
This was a very interesting video. As a kid I was very familiar with Vauxhall saloons, even here in Canada. Ma had a 58 Velox (positively dreadful). A neighbour had a 59 Victor Super. Another neighbour had a Viva, and a cousin had a 60-something Velox. The 59 was the best of the bunch and was on the road well into the 1980s before it died of terminal rust. Ma's 58 managed to last all the way to 66. It was scrapped before it got a flat tire, because the rust was so terrible there was no way to change a tire!
And what about the Ventora, Victor, Firenza, Royale and even Ranger ? And the one we had .. the VX4/90 ?
the VX220 weighs 1000kg no mention: all of them GM since 1925 and Vauxhall is a badge swap Opel since mid 1970s. A truly Royal tradition: remember George V's badge swap in July 1917?
Did I hear 'Vectra'? Surely one to mention as a model used by taxis as well as fleets, and me as well - my 1.9 diesel saloon has done 240,000 without much going wrong and still gives 56mpg. Thought the details of Zafira were interesting.
4:36 wait haha go back first he said it produces 130 off bhp which is wrong it produces 145bhp and then he said its alright because it weighs less than 400kg hahahahaha less than 400kg? wow make that 875kg lol someone needs to read his script next time
Yep, it's laughably bad. Full of mistakes in Pt1 as well - called a Viva a Victor, talked about a "Fiarenza". WTF?
Hes a fookin idiot. Hes talking about the VX 220 145bhp n/a then added a turbo 200bhp changed name to Speedster then tuned to 220bhp. It weighed 930kg. 0-62 in 4.7 top speed 150mph. Flying machine. Z20LET engine and F23 Getrag box. Love the engine and the box, i got them in my car. engine can be played with in sooo many ways, excellent engine to work on.
If there was a definition of carbores in the dictionary, there would be a screenshot of these comments 😂
I had a 3.3 Ventora back in the late 70’s
they brought out a turbo charged VX 220 that made 200bhp. also in 2004 tuned them again to 220bhp and named them Speedster. Z20LET engines.......grrrrrreeeaaatttt alongside the F23 gearbox.
I used to work for 2 different Vauxhall dealers in the 1970’s. Where is the Victor and Cresta in this? They were very stylish cars. The Cavaliers were Holden Commodore’s in Oz
What about Vauxhall’s Corsa and nova
What about them??? 😃
1:34
I owned a great OPEL Manta Coupe Holden based on them Ron N Z
My brother had the lotus Carlton. It was a fantastic car and really really shifted but was very comfortable. After then he went to a calibra
what a fall
Should've kept the Carlton lol £100.000 now most likely
I love my 2.6 V6 omega,I prefer my E34 for quality but the omega is superb
No mention of the senator?
Did I miss the word "Victor"? The best selling Vauxhall of the 50's!
Saw a few 101's and that was it. What a huge disappointment !!
I totally agree VauxhallVictorMan. He's missed the most exciting Vauxhalls. The 101 is an absolute classic (only shown when talking about the Viva), as is the one in your graphic, and possibly the most famous and most beautifull of all Vauxhalls is surely the Cresta PA. I only watched the video to see what he had to say about those. He skipped over the most exciting period, the 60s, consequently I haven't watched this video.
no mention of the velour either ?@@richardarcher3435
When I Google 'Vauxhall Velour' I get car floor mats. Do you mean the Velox? I think that was just a cheaper version of the Cresta.
Yes Richard exactly that, sorry its my spell checker . I learnt to drive in a victor fb with column change and later owned a victor 101, my father owned a velox just like the black one in the showroom that never got a mention in this video.
he called the viva a victor in the first half around 9 mins in :D
I've had 2. Buying a Vauxhall is like buying a toaster. Nothing to get excited about.
The Ferrous Fisherman What would you consider exciting then?
is the same with british crap cars...lol
Bullshit, you've obviously never driven a Vauxhall Senator 24V. The Millennium Falcon of of the motoring world. The fastest toaster you've ever heard of !!
Looking back at the vx220 it was way ahead of its time in way of looks
Think it would look up to date today to be honest
Tell you What though it does not weigh 400kg like he said😂
He didn't say anything about the tie up with Opel. The Vauxhall Cavalier was a rebadged Opel Ascona, and the coupe version was the Opel Manta. Now with the sale of Opel/ Vauxhall to PSA it looks like Vauxhall's days are numbered.
I wonder what will become of Vauxhall after Brexit. I'd be interested to see what they'd come up with if they started designing their own cars again instead of just rebadging Opels, but I doubt that will ever happen.
@@plottwist1733 yeah but what if they become rehashed peugeots that might be a bad thing
@@raycroal That would be bad. Very bad.
@@plottwist1733 PSA is not stupid!
Opel & Vauxhall are making money again.
Vauxhalls are RHD Opels.
I have a gutt feeling that PSA will concentrate their RHD PSA car production in the UK.
► Holden hits 'emergency stop' on Commodore and Equinox production lines | AutoExpert John Cadogan
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Published on Oct 21, 2018
★ Big Butts - Dave Buttner, keeper of the poisoned chalice
(and by that I mean: boss of Holden) - has instructed the Frogs and
the Mexwegians henceforth to cease production of the new shitbox
Commodore and Equinox respectively.
It’s been revealed that thousands of these unwanted shitheaps are
piling up in ‘Strayan paddocks, inconveniently, out of public sight.
Aussie consumers don’t want them - a bitter pill for Holden management.
This flaccid attitude in the market - they just can’t get it up - is
mainly because Holden recently betrayed Australians by accepting more
than a quarter of a billion dollars from us in taxpayer-funded bailout,
agreeing to keep manufacturing here for quote “at least a decade” and
then bending us all over, so inelegantly, and keeping the damn money.
In fact they sent $150 million of it back to Detroit, under the table,
where it doesn’t even recirculate through the Arse-trailerian economy.
Thanks a lot for that
Big Butts told Toby Hagon, writing for that ancient history exhibit
in the museum labelled Wheels Magazine that sales were flatlining and:
“...the tap hadn’t been turned off, so the production’s still coming
towards us, and that horrified me as an old planner.”
Apparently the factory’s been told to stop building cars until 2019.
That’s gotta hurt.
Big Butts added:
“We’re trying to get back to a reasonable stock carry level by the
end of the year, so we can get into the new year in a healthy position.”
If you walk into a Holden dealer - and I still don’t recommend that,
but if you do - and you don’t walk out with a massive discount, you’ve
just been played.
Holden is still clearing 2017 stock. It’s the last quarter of 2018.
There is a 10-month stock backlog.
That’s not a problem; it’s a disaster. More than anything else, this
shows you just how bad the backlog has become.
It’s ‘see it from space’ bad.
September 2017 Commodore sales (the last real Commodore): 2547 units.
September 2018 (the first fake Commodore): 672.
So, if you’re ordering optimistically on the basis of 2017 sales and
selling on the basis of 2018 sales, you’d need a rather large paddock.
Mr Hagon’s History Channel report alleges there are -quote “thousands”
of overstocked cars, out there. So a charitable person might suggest
that Mr Buttner’s objective
- to get the machine under control by New Year - is ambitious.
An uncharitable person, unwilling to give those arseholes the benefit
of the doubt, might suggest this is bullshit. What is ‘thousands’?
Is it 5,000? 4,000? 10,000?
Let’s assume it’s only 4,000. There could easily be twice as many
shit-heaps piling up, but let’s be generous. 3,000 shit-heap Fake-Frog
Commodores and 1000 likewise nauseating Equinoxes - just for the sake of argument.
Holden sold just under 700 Commodores last month, [September 2018]
and just over 250 Equinox. So a 4,000-unit backlog would be four
months worth of each. And that’s if it’s only 4,000 cars.
So that’s mid-February 2019
- if they’re lucky and things don’t get worse.
They have to convince the dealers to buy the friggin’ things.
And then they have to find 4,000 idiots who don’t factor resale
value into the ownership equation.
It’d want to be an epic discount up front to offset that
- because things clearly are not getting better at Holden.
Nova saloon or coupe? Thought it was just a basic boxy hatchback? I always wanted a white Nova saloon as a kid and used to say I wanted one when I learnt to drive, never had one tho
Gena F I learned to drive in a 1.5 TD Nova in ‘95. Think it was on a K plate. Loved that car
GTE! Car thiefs christmas come early.
there was a saloon
No mention that Vauxhall basically became Opel in the UK?
holmbjerg no Vauxhall is uk Opel is Europe dumb
@@louisbeerreviews8964 💯👍
Both of them are under General Motor.
@@bascranmurali5462
Not anymore, now they're owned by the French PSA group ( Peugeot/Citroen), and have basically become badge engineered Peugeots. Once they close Ellesmere Port and move production back to France due to Brexit, there won't be any Vauxhalls at all. A total tragedy.
Crappy history lesson as it didn't show every model, no Cresta's from the 40's 50's and 60's, no Victor's of the 50's and 60's and then they took credit for Opel cars which are built in Germany
Wich is now VAUXHALL and wich is OPEL???
Funny how the British still call Opel cars British cars. I mean how can you call a German badge swap Opel British ?
If ever I want to buy a cheap and cheerful car always go for a Vauxhall
By the way Clare is my wife. I am Steve
Cheers Steve
I had a Vauxhall Astra 2.0CDTI SRI Sports Tourer 2013 was much better than my Vxl Cavalier 1.6L 92K.
while the 60ies were the lean years for Vauxhal their equivalents in Europe broke records used as affortable family cars taxis company fleet of stationwagons etc
I ❤️ u Vauxhall 🥲✊ 🇬🇧
Vauxhall is essentially Holden is essentially Chevrolet and not to mention Buick, Pontiac ect ect ect
You got it all wrong, Vauxhall was Vauxhall and ither GM brands rebadged them as their's like the Viva which was sold in Australia as a Vauxhall Viva until the next model which vecame a Holden HB Torana and from there nearly all Holden's built were reworked Vauxhall from 1965 to 1979 and after that it was a mixture of Vauxhall's and Opel's when Holden released the 1978 VB Commodore which was a 1973 Opel and then changed back to using a Vauxhall in 1987 and releasing it in 1988 as a VN Commodore, Holden in the mid 90's revamped the Vauxhall and sold it as a VT Commodore 1997, a VX in 2001, VY in 2002 and last model of that body tge VZ til 2006. The next 2 models were supposed to have been Aussie designed as i haven't seen any Opel's that look close until they started using the Opel Insignia as the all New Holden Commodore which aren't a bad looking vehicle but sales here aren't doing well since GM USA shut the factory down in 2016 and as for all other rebadged Vauxhall's were sold as other GM brands like Chevrolet but have never seen any with Pontiac or Buick badges only rebadged as Chevrolet in Canada and the US and possibly South America
@@getz051 still makes it a Holden
@@v8valiant68 no never been a Holden, it's a Vauxhall, it may be a GM product, it is not made in Australia, it is made in England at the Vauxhall Factory, they were exported to Australia and then trucked ti Holden's Factory to have all badges, airbag and air con gas changed to meet Australian Standards and a Holden Compiance Plates added then sent to dealers as a Holden which it will never be as there is no such thing as a Holden, it's only a badge now which is used on the German GM, Opel Insignia, all Vauxhalls were and still are Vauxhall's and the last Vauxhall's to be badged a Holden were the British Built Vauxhall Calibra and Vauxhall Astra of the early 90's anything after that were all Opel's and Daewoo's which are Korean and German GM not US, Australian or English
Separate parts catalogues do exist for both HB Toranas & HB Viva's ( Envoy Epic's - Canada ), these catalogues don't count for anything now.
Three quarters of the UK CKD HB kit would have contributed to Holdens little hb in 4 cylinder form, whilst Pruneau went on to develop the LC ( 69-71 ) & LJ ( 72 - 74 ) in swb form.
In New Zealand, you could either buy CBU if you wealthy enough to import, or for the masses you had to wait for a CKD model as you could only buy them with overseas funds, remember post ww2.😎👍👌
Since PSA Groupe took it over, and now Stellantis, it's just Peugeot Citroen bits with a Vauxhall badge slapped on.
Nah the current Vauxhall range doesn't appeal to me, I prefer the previous GM model range of Vauxhall's, they offered a wide choice and lots of innovation that the current range just does not.
Talks about the Lotus Carlton whilst showing us the Vectra. Oops.
i always wondered why vx called there VX220 so and not a vx130.
The heading says the " history of Vauxhall."", But what about the Wyvern, Velox, and Cresta Type E from the 1950s; The Cresta and Velox PA from the late 1950s to early 1960s: The Cresta PB 2.6 & 3.3 from 1964 to 66; The F Victor; The FB, & FC victors through Most of the 1960s, The FD victors, VX4/90 and Ventora: the FE Victor. VX4/90, Ventora, through the 1970s.
There was also no mention of the Viva GT, or Firenza models either.
It seems that these were ignored by this item, as were the other post and pre war models.
There was also no mention of where the name Vauxhall originated ( the Vauxhall Iron works), or that the company was bought by General Motors in the 1020s.
If you entitle an item as being "The history" of a subject, surely it should include the COMPLETE history, not just a selection of it?
err, watch part 1 mate !!!
Your so right, I don't think that the presenter ( or Vauxhall ) have any idea just how many territories that they exported to, or the alternate names they were branded under.😎👌👍
Vauxhall Nova - 98 thefts per 10,000 in the 80s vehicles now thats staggering lol.
When is the Volkswagen Cavalier coming out?
Between the two halfs, we are treated to an advert for Peugot
Seems fair, Philip. Opel/Vauxhall are owned by Peugeot.
@Philip Croft
Between the two halfs, ???
You suck at the English Language.
People born in the Middle East speak and understand better English than you.
Buy a dictionary and a pile if books and undertake an extensive reading course.
And don't waste your time replying until 5 years from now until you have passed your English exam and you have mastered the language.
I don''t have time until then.
The word is HALVES you dim Witt .
At 0:18 he is off to a bad start. The Chevette did not replace the Viva. The Viva continued alongside the Chevette until it was replaced by the Astra.
And then it gets worse! He says the Cavalier was one of the most succesful cars of the 1970s. The next sentence starts with "After the lean years of the 70s", accompanied by pictures from the 1960s.
No mention of the Thatcher years, as least so far.😎
Zafira?
Gsi 👍
I am confused. Chevette and Cavalier are American cars. Have I been deceived , in that both were Vauxhall cars rebadged to Chevrolet and assembled in US?
We just glossing over Vauxhall’s 1980’s heyday?
no mention of the mk2 cavalier the car that saved vauxhall from going bust in the 1980's
400 Kg? Bollocks!
He forgot to mention that Vauxhall in the 80s were the most stolen car in the uk. Astras,Belmonts,Cavaliers so easy to steal. Snap the ignition barrel off with a pipe and just turn the black plastic thing with screwdriver ....simple. Thank god there better now cause ive got one.
Ah...the Belmont. I knew he'd missed out some classic Vauxhalls, but the Belmont wasn't one of them. Are there any left in 2019 ?
HC's were so easily broken into, HB / GT even easier.😎
@@vernonmatthews181 Easy bud. Pull plastic off around steering wheel then left with ignition barrel sticking out. Put scaffold pipe (around 12 inches)around it and snap it. Then use any flat edge screwdriver and away you go.
What about the Vectra?
No mention of the Victor
no mention of the royale.. the ventora..
now you're talking these are the vauxhalls i love the viscount and royale coupe or a monza ,cavaliear mk1 hatch i loved the early eighties opel senator i think that might be a royale saloon but not sure
niceeeee
Is this Reverend Bob?
You claim the Chevette was Britain's first hatchback???
UTTER RUBBUSH!!!
The Austin Maxi came out in 1969
Word across the pond is that GM is selling both Vauxhall and Opel. I smell Tata...again.
400kg??? haha as is!
+p4cks yeah its 875kg lol
The Astra was rebadged as a Holden Astra in Australia and it was a load of rubbish here.
The Nova was sold as a Holden Nova here and the car was rubbish. Not to mention it was a Toyota AE92 Corolla but with a GM motor in it that was pure rubbish.
And the Zafira was sold here as a Holden Zafira and I dont think there is one of them left on the road. They all fell apart or rusted to bits
Rubbish :)))))
Yeh????? 400 kgs?????.My Suzuki X7 in 1981 wasnt much lighter than that????I think he meant 1000kgs
+clare martin yeah its 875kg he didnt read his script haha
Your old X7 weighed 322lbs (146kg) so quite a bit lighter
I got to the Meri a.. and lost all interest enough ..
The Viva was a piece of shit,other cars had oil changes with the viva you had to drop the engine which i did on many occasions. You could pick them up cheap because everyone hated them.
The 80s and early 90s were the years for all cars then after that it seems to have went backwards
I WISHD ID HAD SOME DAY VAUXHALL CAVALIER.
My dad owned a beautiful 1600gls Cavalier Sports Hatch, BTO 929T
This guy talks a load of bollocks. I was on the assembly line at Vauxhall in Ellesmere Port, from 1969 to 1976. The HC was not replaced in 1975. It went onto 1979.
yeah you got w reg ones
In New Zealand, when the Magnum ceased production in 1977, we ceased importing CKD HC units ( Viva's) at the same time, whilst in the UK they continued till 79.
Only the Chevette / CF / CF2 continued.
😎👌👍
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Vinröd inuti 6 cylindrar bensin registrerad ffr999
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Acmop telleus RUclips Sweden .
well, sorry Vauxhall but until you learn how to build a gearbox, ill not be buying another.
In New Zealand, Fords out of Thailand have BIG problems.😎
Fuckin scrap. All of em
I'm not a fan either. The only one that grew on me was the face lifted MkIII Cavalier 2.5 V6.
i can't come to terms with his ears..
Vauxhalls are horrible...just horrible..the styling is only marginally less ugly than Fords of the era, but they are vile to drive and they always have the steering wheel off centre to the left..Everyone I've driven from the 90's onwards has the steering wheel off centre..then there's the sheer tedium of driving them..So boring...The Vectra was a pig..
simon lloyd and the drivers of them are always utter shit as well, they’re still as bad today
Firstly even top gear said that Vauxhall don't make ugly cars and in reliability Ford is utter shit, just search it on google, vauxhall came fourth in the Telegraph's top 20 brands for reliability
Nearly as bad as your punctuation 😂😂😂
At one point Vauxhall had a terrible reputation for rusting.
Oh dear you may trigger my OCD lol I'll have to go outside to check my steering wheel in the omega,,😳
I hate Opel
Mini Boys I agree vhaxhalls better
Just swap the badges. That is the only difference.
You’re in the wrong place then bud arnt ya, go n toss off your SU’s on your 1275.