[OT] Prius bashing

[Doctor Drivel]

Gosh!

[Doctor Drivel]

Please stop telling lies.

[Bob Mannix]

Now, now!

0-62MPH in 10.9 seconds on full power (latest model, Toyota figures). Hardly a snail and hardly "very well indeed". Just sort of ... average really (but accelerating like that would blow your economy figures). Beats the diesel Galaxy by 0.3s

0-6MPH, now we're talking - might beat a push bike (and a Ferrari, to be fair). That's electrics for you.

[Doctor Drivel]

It is very well indeed. Accelerating hard blows all economy figure in all cars. Gosh!

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "dennis@home" saying something like:

Kept them busy enough on 13.

[John Rumm]

Don't you believe Toyota then? It is there in their glossy brochure,

0-60 in over ten seconds. Not too shabby, but by no means "very well", just "nothing special", or "unexciting" would be closer to the truth.

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , The Natural Philosopher writes

Chevette?

[John Rumm]

Na, the shoveit was an Astra sized car. Cresta perhaps.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yup. That's the boyki!

[The Natural Philosopher]

No.. the one that was almost an Opel Manta, but with 4 doors.. Cresta was earlier. I thought it *was* the chevette..

Not the omega, but close...

The last sort of 1.6-2 liter RWD that vauxhall did ...

Lets think. The cresta was yonks old, as was the Victor then there was the viva and the Chevette and then the Astra in the smaller sizes. The Chevette was the Opel Kadett IMMSMW..

Ah, Look in Wiki.

The first cavaliers WERE RWD Opel Asconas. That the one. MkI Cavalier.

Then they went FWD with an alarmingly well selling car The MKII Cavalier.

[John Rumm]

axle thing. Or its bigger brother..the one before the cavalier..

Yup, you are right, I just realised that by "the one before the cavalier" he meant in terms of model range, rather than production dates. Cresta was cav sized but predated it by a few years.

[Julian]

It was the 'VX' model, they did a 4/90 and a VX1800 IIRC. Looked just like a large Viva and rusted away before your eyes just like the Viva!

[Julian]

[djc]

John Rumm wrote: >

Cresta, the last of the really ugly ones, (though thereafter was not a great improvement). As a child c1960 I remember a really ugly one across the road - Velox? - somehow the association of Vauxhall and ugly rust heap persists in my mind to this day.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Vauxhall Victor.

Or its its slightly more useful form. the BEDFORD CA MK2.

Column shift, and sliding doors...

[Roger]

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In the 50s and early 60s the Cresta was the deluxe edition of the Velox and would have looked much the same externally. I don't know exactly when then Velox name was dropped but it was probably somewhere around

1965.

[gymratz]

I would have said the Victor. with the VX4/90 being the bigger brother again!

:¬)

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[Roger]

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I don't know about the later models but the first VX4/90 was in a Victor body shell and was I think badged as a Victor.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The Cresta was the large Vauxhall model of the day. The Victor would have been closer to the Cavalier.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The VX4/90 was simply a slightly more powerful Victor. But basically the same car.