TIL: replacing #headlight bulb on #Opel / #Vauxhall #Corsa C is a cursed job, requires lowering whole entire bumper to get the headlight unit out and then the ambient temperature sensor needs to be put back into the bumper..
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@byteseu just stop importing American cars! Slap tariffs on them. Buy more British and European and Asian instead of Ford, Tesla and Vauxhall GM. Let Americans drive American cars. We’ll drive everything else. Trump is just doing Brexit on a bigger scale. Look what Brexit did for the UK. The US economy will tank as a result. Just like Britain is today. #usa #trump #tariffs #uk #EU #Ford #tesla #swasticar #vauxhall #generalmotors
@byteseu just stop importing American cars! Slap tariffs on them. Buy more British and European and Asian instead of Ford, Tesla and Vauxhall GM. Let Americans drive American cars. We’ll drive everything else. Trump is just doing Brexit on a bigger scale. Look what Brexit did for the UK. The US economy will tank as a result. Just like Britain is today. #usa #trump #tariffs #uk #EU #Ford #tesla #swasticar #vauxhall #generalmotors
An original ink illustration of a Vauxhall Tigra done by yours truly and available for you to enjoy!
Funky Vauxhall in the print shop: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/168921047
Funky Vauxhall in the website shop: https://www.angyl.co.uk/shop/p/vauxhall-tigra-original-art
Didn't get a lot of eyeballs on this one, which is a shame, because I reckon it's one of the better pieces I've done.
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Excellent from Unite's Ben Norton..
"Vauxhall closed its Luton car plant in 2000 under the previous Labour government. Labour cannot fail Luton again. The problems of the car industry – like oil or steel – are complex, but the government’s “north star” must be securing green jobs, pushing back on profiteers and refusing to abandon industrial workers to the waiting far right. As goes Luton, so goes the UK"
#EVs #Luton #Vauxhall #FarRight #Labour #Stellantis #UKPolitics
Novara Media · Luton’s Auto Workers Are Being Abandoned to the Far RightIn November Vauxhall announced the closure of its van plant in Luton, home of Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate. As the government dithers, the far right is waiting in the wings, write Unite officers Lewis Norton and Ben Norman.
My wife was advised to start looking for her next #motability car much earlier than usual - so we've been to visit 4 car dealers in #leicester today.
Three of the four had no disabled parking places available for their customers.
Vauxhall & MG had cones preventing access to the disabled spaces.
Renault had no parking spaces for anyone - the only obvious disabled space had a demonstrator car parked in it.
Hyundai passed the test (and were extremely welcoming & helpful).
I think this shows how they view not only their disabled customers, but all customers.
It's a disgrace.
More next week.
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I've mostly always driven #superminis and am regularly on the road late at night - whilst I've noticed other drivers take more chances if I'm in something like the shed of an #Opel / #Vauxhall #Corsa we use as a fleet car, I rarely get bother in the #VWPolo - but I suspect many they see a brown man who looks younger than he is, think "he's probably got a knife in the door card" and their paranoia is the only thing stopping any conflict..
Yesterday’s Vauxhall Ampera provoked quite a bit of discussion (thank you to Paul and Theo for telling us about their ownership experiences and further explaining how the powertrain works), so today I thought I’d post about its very close sister, the Chevrolet Volt. This is my own Volt, which unfortunately not the real thing but a nice 1:18 model given to journalists on the UK press launch. Volts were sold in Europe alongside the Ampera.
Today, one of the last GM-era Vauxhalls, the Ampera, a slightly modified sister car to the first-generation Chevrolet Volt. The Ampera is hard to classify. It has a petrol engine and an electric motor and is often described as a plug-in hybrid, but it mostly drives like a fully electric car with a range extender, even though IIRC in some circumstances the ICE drives the wheels directly. Pretty good for 2011. Picture taken: British Motor Museum, 2024.
Today, a fabulously obscure Vauxhall - in fact, I didn’t realise these existed until I saw this example at The Great British Car Journey in 2023. And if you think it’s just another second-generation Astra, you’re wrong! Meet the Vauxhall Belmont estate. In the UK, second-generation Astra saloons were called Belmonts instead. What I didn’t realise - small numbers of the poshest estates like this one were badged as Belmonts rather than Astras too.
Today, another white Vauxhall Astra GTE - but this one is the second-generation model introduced in 1984, a sister to the Opel Kadett E. The Mk2 Astra was very similar to yesterday’s Mk1 under the skin but but got a new, more rounded aero look in the (jelly) mould of the Ford Sierra and the C3 Audi 100. Sales received a boost with the arrival of the 16-valve ‘red top’ engine in 1988. Photographed at the British Motor Museum in January 2024.
It’s Astra day again today. Or at least it is if you are an aficionado of Vauxhalls rather than Opels - the German sister of these first-generation Vauxhall Astras was still badged as a Kadett. A few weeks ago @MarSolRivas mentioned something about the Russian authorities putting more powerful Astra engines in their Lada Nivas and I promised to post some sporty Astras. This is the GTE, introduced 1983, a rival to the VW Golf GTI. Snapped: British Motor Museum.
No, I haven’t posted the same car two days in a row - this is the original Vauxhall Astra, a smaller but slightly older sister to yesterday’s second-gen Cavalier. The two cars have a strong family resemblance, accentuated by the examples in yesterday’s and today’s photos featuring the same terracotta colour, which was popular in the UK. A rebadged Opel Kadett D. The Opel would later take up the Astra name too. Snapped at The Great British Car Journey
We’re back on the Cavalier again today, with this second-generation model at The Great British Car Journey in Derbyshire. For most of its 1982-1988 production span this car was up against the Ford Sierra - and did very well, thanks to a combination of handsome design, a switch to front wheel drive, and strong new OHC engines. Basically an Ascona.My dad had one of these when they first came out and it was pretty good.
When I posted about the Vauxhall Victor, a few people mentioned the Cavalier. Launched in 1975, this was based on the second-generation Opel Ascona but borrowed its sloping nose from the Manta coupé. While the Cavalier wasn’t as big as the Victor, it presented an attractive alternative for Vauxhall buyers and probably contributed to the Victor fading away, itself to be replaced by an adapted Opel model, the Carlton. Snapped: British Motor Museum
When is a Vauxhall not a Vauxhall? When it's a Bedford. Bedford was the commercial vehicle brand of GM in the UK for many decades, and was also applied to small vans based on Vauxhall cars, or purpose-built vans like this, the CA produced for most of the 1950s and 1960s. Bedford lorries also formed the backbone of the British Army's fleet during the Second World War and for decades afterwards. Snapped at the British Motor Museum, 2024
Today, the return of Vauxhall bonnet flutes! This is the fifth and final generation of the Victor, the 1972 FE. This was a sister of the Opel Rekord D. The two cars shared much under the skin but many elements were different, with the FE’s overhead-cam engines and rack and pinion steering being on paper more advanced than the Opel alternatives. But the FE was replaced by the Carlton, a slightly restyled Rekord E. Snapped: British Motor Museum, 2024.
Today, we’re back at The Great British Car Journey in Derbyshire, this time to admire the sleek, handsome lines of the 1967-1972 FD model, which represented the fourth generation of Vauxhall Victor. This car was an innovator, with pioneering features such as a new belt-driven OHC engine and a bonded windscreen. Competitors had leaf rear springs - this had coils. Less advanced: base cars only got a three-speed gearbox. Still lovely, though.
Today, we’re moving on to Vauxhall’s FC Victor, produced between 1963 and 1967. Despite its boxier appearance, the FC was the first Victor with curved side glass. Like the FB from yesterday, it was also available as a sporty VX 4/90 model, or as here, at the The Great British Car Journey in Derbyshire, an estate. Sorry for the odd angles on the photos - the brilliant TGBCJ has packed so many interesting cars into its display space. Well worth a visit!
