Vauxhall Viva: car review | Martin Love
by Martin Love from Technology | The Guardian on (#S7VM)
Vauxhall's new Viva is fun, full of life and aimed at first-time motorists. But is it just too good for them?
Price: 7,995
Engine: 1-litre three-cylinder, 75bhp
0-60mph: 13.1 seconds
MPG: 62.8
Top speed: 106mph
Remember your first car? Mine was an orange Renault 5. Moss grew in its window sills and rust spread from the corner of its grille like a nasty outbreak of a cold sore. It had no heating, no stereo and we'd have had no chance of surviving a crash. But we loved it. My wife actually wept when it was finally towed to that great scrapyard in the sky.
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